Month: May 2005
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Gearing Up for the Media Reform Orgy
This week there is a one-day pre-conference of sorts to the National Conference for Media Reform: Can Freedom of the Press Survive Media Consolidation? Several big-name speakers will be here, like Seymour Hersh–giving the Tuesday evening keynote–and Danny Goldberg, the new president of Air America. Also in attendance will be several left media luminaries who…
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Appeals Court Smacks Down Broadcast Flag
Rather unexpectedly, today the DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the FCC’s Broadcast Flag, which would have required all digital TV receivers to implement copyright protections invokeable by content producers and broadcasters. In a unanimous decision, the three judge panel simply said the FCC has no authority issue such a regulation: The broadcast flag…
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On the Next Mediageek Radioshow: Shawn Ewald of the A-Infos Radio Project
I just finished an interview about an hour ago with Shawn Ewald, the programmer and one of the volunteers behind the A-Infos Radio Project, which has been archiving and serving up radically independent radio content for an amazing nine years. Shawn just opened up the source code for the software behind the Project, which I…
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Cassette Geek
The always informative WFMU’s Beware of the Blog led me to Project C-90, a Russian on-line museum of blank audiocassettes. FMU’s Kenzo says: I didn’t THINK this would get me so excited, until I stumbled onto images like the one at the right, sending me back to forgotten early childhood memories of making little home…