Month: August 2005
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Preserving Ephemera: Home Movies & Educational Video
Yesterday was Home Movie Day, and I missed it. I was catching up on some blog reading today and found this post about it at Stay Free! Daily, which directed me to a longer article that appeared in the last issue of Stay Free! magazine. The idea behind Home Movie Day is to embrace the…
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Low-Light Digicam Lust
In the last few years I’ve really come to enjoy still photography. I’ve been doing video for close to twenty years, and professionally for almost twelve, and yet until a few years ago never really messed with still cameras, much to many people’s suprise. I took up photography to some extent to help improve my…
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The Pirate on the Hudson Is Still Going
I just got an email from DJ Johnny Silver of Iron Action Radio. You may recall that I first posted about Nyack NY’s radio pirate back in January, when he was publicizing two dramatized videos about himself and his station. He says he’s finishing up the “3rd part in the series of films based on…
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More on TeleSur
Kari Lydersen files a nice article for Infoshop.org on the premiere of TeleSur a new Latin American TV news channel: Spanish-language TV both in the US and in many Latin American countries is perhaps best known for its sensational, sex- and drama-soaked telenovelas (soap operas) and variety shows, soccer games and news segments heavy on…
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FCC Chair Hires Bible-Thumper as “Special Advisor”
According to Mediaweek, FCC Chair Kevin Martin is preparing his forces for a major assault on broadcast indecency, including action on as many as 50 different complaints. As part of that, he’s hired on right-wing Christian anti-pornography activist to be a special advisor in the FCCÂ’s Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis. The new…
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What to fix? LPFM or Translators?
John has some dirt on what’s going on behind the scenes in Congress with regard to restoring LPFM: [Rep. Louise] Slaughter has learned about the translator speculation and trafficking scheme that threatens to eat up space for new LPFM stations, and she’s pissed. So pissed, in fact, that she wants to include language in her…
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New, Improved Minidisc Software
SonicStage is the software that Sony provides for downloading and uploading audio from its Hi-MD minidisc recorders (and just download to its MDLP recorders). SonicStage has been much maligned for being clunky, slow, and for the digital rights management which limited how many times an MP3 could be downloaded to minidiscs and how many times…
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Another FCC Hit in San Diego
Just two weeks after Free Radio San Diego was busted, Jake alerts me that the FCC just sent a warning letter to the operators of 106.9 FM in San Diego, which rebroadcasts the internet station Radioactive San Diego, where Jake does his Lying Media Bastards program. According to SD IMC, the letter delivered yesterday demands…
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New FCC Commissioners Soon, or Wishful Thinking?
Any deregulatory initiative at the FCC is effectively blocked up right now because the Republicans do not enjoy their typical majority under a Republican executive because a new commissioner has not yet been appointed to replace former chair Michael Powell. A new commissioner also needs to replace Kathleen Abernathy, whose term has expired but may…
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Make Your Own Audio Cables and Save $$$
It’s not that hard and you can make ones that rival the $30 ones at your big box electronic store. I have to admit that I don’t do it so much, but being reminded of the basic steps gives me inspiration to quit paying $10 a pop everytime I need new A/V cables (which is…