Author: Paul

So, I don’t have any major thoughts today, but I am enjoying the hell out of Rice University’s college radio station KTRU. Very nice and eclectic mix of indie rock, avant garde experimental, and everything else, along with a very good fidelty at 64kbps Real Audio. Definitely the way college radio is supposed to be–specifically,…

Matt Welch at the Online Journalism Review pays a lengthy homage to Suck.com, which also functions well as a sort of best-of compilation.

For the Video Geeks: Extremetech has an exhaustive “overview and analysis” of the MPEG-4 video codec, along with comparison to other major video codecs including Real Video and Windows Media Video. I recommend it for anyone moderately familiar with the ins an outs of digital video and streaming. I also reviewed their sample clips encoded…

Shameless, self-promotion. Proving that Champaign-Urbana are two small towns, I’m quoted in yesterday’s edition of our local paper, the News-Gazette. The article is “Two new newspapers plan to start publishing,” which focuses on the Urbana Indymedia Center’s plan to publish a newspaper–a project I’ve been involved in and so am quoted on. The other newspaper…

Cheap(er) DIY Video: Dazzle Hollywood DV Bridge Digital Post Production has a review of this little box that digitizes analog video (from your VHS, 8mm or Hi-8 VCR or camcorder) and outputs it to DV (firewire, iLink). It’s intended to be used with computers that have a DV interface, like most Macs, so you don’t…

Wired News reports on the FBI dropping its order for Seattle IMC’s web server logs.

Police Violence in Sweden; Indymedia Reports from the Scene The European Union Summit is underway right now in Gothenberg Sweden, and beginning this morning Swedish police have been attacking protestors and the convergence center set up in Gothenberg. Early reports indicate that the attacks were unrpovoked and that the protestors were entirely non-violent before the…

Indymedia Kicks Ass Seattle IMC announced today that the government has dropped its court order to obtain its web server log records, listing the IP addresses of all contributors and readers during the weekend of the Summit of the Americas, April 20-22. The delivery of the court order on April 21 caused a stir throughout…

Another quick LPAM link: the Ionospheric Messenger #6 has some nice info. It’s part of the Mediumwave Alliance website, which appears to be mostly abandoned since 1998 or so, but has useful stuff nonetheless.

FM Too Crowded? Unlicensed FM too risky? Try Low-power AM Breefree has assembled the start of a low-power AM broadcasting site. The rules for legal unlicensed broadcasting (Part 15) are somewhat more relaxed for the AM dial than FM. This makes it potentially easier to run a station that reaches a decent audience without the…