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Month: April 2008

  • FCC Net Neutrality Hearing Lineup Announced

    The FCC finally announced the lineup for the hearing on Network Management at Stanford University tomorrow, and it looks pretty good, including: Lawrence Lessig, C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Rick Carnes, President, Songwriters Guild of America; Jean Prewitt, President and Chief Executive Officer, Independent Film & Television Alliance;…

  • UNESCO and AMARC on the Oxacan Community Journalist Murders

    AMARC, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, clarifies the circumstances surrounding the murder of community radio journalists Felicitas Martínez Sánchez and Teresa Bautista Merino in the Mexican state of Oaxaca: [They] were accompanied by Faustino Vázquez Martínez, Cristina Martínez Flores and two minors on their way to their community, after having participated in a…

  • Academic Research on Community Radio

    Andrew points out that the new issue of the academic journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture is dedicated to community radio. As we discussed on the March 23 radioshow, Andrew is writing his doctoral dissertation on how new media technologies are affecting community radio.

  • Round Two on Comcast, Net Neutrality & the FCC

    As we talked about extensively on the radioshow, the FCC’s last attempt at holding a hearing on network management and ISPs was somewhat thwarted by Comcast hiring disinterested seat warmers to take up valuable space that otherwise would have gone to interested members of the public. So the Commission is taking another stab at holding…

  • Two young women journalists attacked and killed in Oaxaca

    Unfortunately, there is more bad news from Oaxaca, as reported by Reporters Without Borders. The two young women killed were working for a community radio station serving an indigenous population. Reporters Without Borders is deeply shocked by the fatal shooting on 7 April in Putla de Guerrero, in the southern state of Oaxaca, of Teresa…

  • Not dead, not sleeping

    A day job can be a catalyst or a killer for a blog. A catalyst if that day job provides ‘net access and lots of desk time. A killer when… well, there isn’t so much sit time. As I mentioned nearly two months ago, I have moved to Chicago from the much smaller burgh of…