Month: October 2004
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Bummer: Indyblogs is down
File this under: don’t miss it until it’s gone. Rabble’s Indyblogs is an aggregator of syndication feeds from bloggers who are associated with Indymedia. Over the six months or so that it’s been around, it’s become one of my favorite websites, giving me great one-stop-shopping for a pile of great blogs written by smart indymedia…
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(i)Pirate Radio — It’s not cool until hipster yuppies are doing it
Back in June the blogosphere was alive with the discovery that a cheapo Part 15 FM transmitter for the iPod could be hacked to broadcast a little further than the typical fifteen or twenty feet. Of course, this wasn’t news to anyone familiar with low-power FM and micropower broadcasting, since these cheap little transmitters have…
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Millipower Radio Revolt in Minneapolis
Wired News covers the Radio Re-Volt project at Minneapolis’ Walker Art Center. Right now the Center is conducting workshops where participants build very small transmitters into boxes or other fun objects, like toy trucks or stuffed animals. Even though Wired mistakenly calls them “single-watt” transmitters, these are pretty much legal low-power transmitters, putting out only…
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FBI Seizes Global Indymedia Servers
According to U-C IMC, on Tuesday, Oct. 5, the FBI seized the hard drives from servers hosted by Rackspace which have the websites for several IMCs, including Uruguay, UK and Western Massachussetts. An e-mail from Rackspace says they received no rationale from the FBI, although “the request originated with the Swiss police.” Apparently the situation…
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Freak Radio Santa Cruz Shut Raided and Shut Down
On Wednesday, Sept, 29, Federal Marshals aiding the Federal Communications Commission raided and shut down long-standing free radio station, Freak Radio Santa Cruz. As word of the raid spread around 150 listeners and supporters came to the station to protest the raid and express solidarity. There’s good coverage of the raid in a feature at…