Month: May 2009
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Jackbooted FCC Thugs Violating the Fourth Amendment? Hardly.
The dramatic image of jackbooted FCC agents breaking down doors and chasing down unlicensed broadcasters is an imagine that has often been exploited by the more romantic elements of the pirate community, but one that really doesn’t match up to reality. Now we have a short article on Wired’s Threat Level blog that takes a…
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Some Great Radioshows Coming Up
On Friday I recorded a phone interview with Jerry Del Colliano who is furiously documenting the death throes of commercial radio at his blog, Inside Music Media. However, that’s a shallow characterization of what Jerry is up to. As you’ll hear on the June 11 mediageek radioshow, Jerry has been way ahead of the curve…
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On This Week’s Radioshow: German Experimental Radio
I’m excited this week to have as my guest Daniel Gilfillan, an associate professor of German studies and information literacy at Arizona State University, and author of the new book Pieces of Sound: German Experimental Radio. What’s interesting about this topic is how early German radio enthusiasts, scholars and producers sought to make that medium…
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My blog hates twitter so much
Like a new too cool for school stepbrother that it just wants to punch so hard. Now the blog won’t even let me post more than 140 characters