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Mosquitos Are Ruling Seattle’s Airwaves The “Mosquito Fleet” of unlicensed low-power FM radio stations are in full effect durnig the second day of the Reclaim the Media conference. There are between 6 and 13 stations on the air throughout the city at any given time, broadcasting at power levels of between 4 and 150 watts.…

Listen in to Reclaim the Media Seattle IMC’s Studio X will be broadcasting their on-line stream throughout the conference, where guest DJs will bring their own voices, music and programming. You can listen in at Seattle IMC. Many of the Mosquito Fleet low-power FM stations will be broadcasting this feed at different times throughout the…

Live from Seattle and Reclaim the Media! I arrived in Seattle yesterday evening along with my traveling partner, John Anderson of DIYmedia.net, after a not-too-bad 2000 mile trek from Madison, WI. Constant scanning through the AM and FM dials only proved how pervasive cookie-cutter, automated radio formats have become, even in small western cities. And…

Reclaim the Media with mediageek The Reclaim the Media conference, which is coincident with the NAB’s Radio Show in Seattle, is really shaping up and looking good. The conference happens Sept. 10 – 15. The schedule is now posted, and there’s lots of cool shit going on. The kick-off event is “Surrealist Subversions” with my…

It’s not quite media-related, but Salon’s Scott Rosenberg has on his blog a very cogent and concise deconstruction of right-wing, pro-Administration pundits’ tossing about of the term “appeasement” at those who express doubts about or outright oppose going to war, with “terrorists,” with Iraq, with the “Axis of Evile”: “An ‘appeasement’ policy depends on the…

This kinda scares the shit out of me. And, it also kinda just confirms my darker suspicions about my fellow ‘mericans. The AP reports: “Support for the First Amendment has eroded significantly since Sept. 11 and nearly half of Americans now think the constitutional amendment on free speech goes too far in the rights it…

CBS Marketwatch writer Chris Plummer says that “business media is failing its audience,” by not being sufficiently critical or investigative. I say, “no shit, Sherlock.” Of course, as a business writer himself, Plummer dances around the root cause, while still identifying many symptoms of the illness: “Business journalists have always been bedeviled by an inescapable…

John Anderson, of diymedia.net, notes that FCC Chief Commissioner Michael Powell has “outlined four goals he wants to see the FCC work toward when it comes to managing spectrum,” where #2 is to move a system of “market controlled” regulation. John says that reading that almost made him lose his lunch, and I’d agree with…

RaiseTheFist Editor To Be Indicted From the Infoshop.org News Kiosk: “Federal prosecutors are indicting Sherman Austin, 19 year old founder / webmaster of Raise the Fist (http://www.RaisetheFist.com), an anarchist independent media / direct action network. Sherman is being charged with 2 felony violations of the following: 18 U.S.C. 842 (p)(2)(A): DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO…

RIP: Beta Yeah, and you thought it was dead ten years ago. It’s actually amazing that Beta held on until now, given that it has had little support aside from Sony for the last fifteen years. Even it’s professional-grade brethen, Betacam, it’s slowly being phased out by Sony, in favor of digital formats. Though Betacam…