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Month: October 2003

  • Be the Media! Blog

    The Be the Media! Blog is now up and running. It’s a group weblog of indy-minded Be the Media! conference participants. As soon as the domain name propagates DNS, it’ll be available at it’s new domain — http://www.bethemediablog.net — but as of right now, it’s not working, so use the link at the beginning of…

  • Reform the Media and BE the Media

    In just about a week, Madison, WI will become a hotspot for media reformers and media independents. First, Madtown will host the National Conference on Media Reform, put on by Robert McChesney’s Free Press organization. That conference is loaded with luminaries of the left and other folks who’ve recently made a name for themselves battling…

  • Radio Show Updates: Radio Free Brattleboro and Brent Ritzl interviews

    While the poor radio show page remains neglected, the archive of mediageek radio shows keeps getting updated nonetheless. Listen in to these two interesting programs, conducted in the midst of WEFT‘s annual Fall pledge drive: 10/10/03 – Interview with Brent Ritzl, publisher of Zine Guide and Tail Spins, about indy publishing and communicating with youth…

  • Free Speech Radio News Reports on San Francisco Liberation Radio Raid

    The Oct. 21 edition of Free Speech Radio News carried a story on the FCC raid of San Francisco Liberation Radio last week. You can listen to the show on-line. There’s also a half-hour interview with a SFLR volunteer that aired on Freak Radio Santa Cruz last Friday. You can listen to that in mp3…

  • Poor, poor broadcasters might have to endure complaints at FCC localism hearings… Especially when they advocate running over bicyclists

    The FCC held one of its media localism hearings (about a year too late, I’ll add) in Charlotte, NC yesterday. The Raliegh News Observer ran a story in anticipation of the hearing, with the headline, “Broadcaster wary of bias at hearing.” That broadcaster, Rick Jackson, president of the N.C. Association of Broadcasters, explained his wariness…

  • Fellow WEFTie and IP-geek Quoted in Village Voice

    My pal, J.B. Nicholson-Owens, got quoted in a Village Voice article about how intellectual property activists are pushing Howard Dean to take a stance against such atrocities as the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and the Sony Bono Copyright extension. J. posted a comment to Larry Lessig’s blog when Dean was guest-blogger back in July and…

  • San Francisco Chronicle Reports on SF Liberation Radio Raid

    The Chronicle’s report is surprisingly fair and gives plenty of space to SFLR volunteers and listeners. Perhaps that’s because the FCC declined to comment, giving up its opportunity to smear SFLR. Still, there’s few details about the raid itself, nor the force and tactics used. John at DIYmedia.net reports that the federal marshalls used a…

  • San Francisco Liberation Radio Raided by FCC

    I was speaking with a volunteer from Radio Free Brattleboro, arranging an interview for Friday’s radioshow, when she asked if I had heard about San Francisco Liberation Radio getting shut down — and I hadn’t. She didn’t have any more details, so right after talking with her I went to San Francisco IMC, which has…

  • Why So Quiet? Another Emusic Tidbit

    Aside from the blogosphere, there’s an amazing silence in the tech press about the Emusic acquisition. I find that awfully curious given the amount of press the troubles of the music industry garners on a daily basis, including the recent roll-out of Napster 2.0 and the forthcoming iTunes for PC. I really must ask, why…

  • A Little More Info on the Emusic Sale

    Now that it’s several days after the Emusic sale announcement, their servers have been jammed, and getting any mp3s downloaded has been a challenge. Just like me, it appears that current Emusic subscribers are busy hoarding all the mp3s they can before the new limits kick in. Of course, that also clogs the Emusic bandwidth……