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Month: February 2003

  • FCC Finally Announces Location for Public Hearing on Media Ownership & Mad Scientists Plan To Present Their Evidence

    For the record, in case you plan on being in the Richmond, VA area for the one and only FCC sponsored public hearing on media ownership, here’s the details: “As announced on January 23, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a one-day field hearing on Thursday, February 27, 2003, in Richmond, Virginia, to facilitate…

  • Help Fix the DMCA

    My co-host on last Friday’s show contributed this news headline with a URL too-long to hear, remember and write down. So, here’s the headline and URL in question: Ever bought a copy-protected “CD” and found that it doesn’t play in a device like your car stereo or computer? Ever bought a foreign DVD only to…

  • FCC Commish Copps To Hold 2 New Public Forums, Chairman Powell Prefers the Internet

    Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps continues his quest to get more public input on the issue of media ownership rules. On Wednesday he announced two more public hearings to be held in March at the University of Washington in Seattle and at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. After Copps made his announcement, FCC Chair…

  • Wireless Internet

    News.com is running a weeklong series on Wi-Fi networking, with today’s first article on how cities are implementing wi-fi networks to entice people to be and work in their downtowns. I’ve got wireless at home, and love it. I use a first generation Apple Airport that I bought used and I get good reception throughout…

  • Catching Up On the Radio Show

    OK, so there have been no publicly posted mediageek radio show updates since the new year. This is due both to recording problems at the radio station, digitizing problems at home and my desire to reorganize the radio show page to make it a little easier to navigate — so as not to have 2…