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mediageek status report I don’t think I’ve done one of these before, so this is the first. Two items of business to cover: First, I am going to be changing hosting of mediageek in the next few weeks. I’m moving to a locally based community web-hosting server. This is a nascent service that the Urbana…

Have a blog? Then you should meet up with other bloggers in your area. I think I’ll meet with the local (Champaign-Urbana, IL) bloggers — there’s three of us so far — just as long as the meeting doesn’t happen at Applebee’s, which is one of the three locations available to vote on. So, if…

R.I.P. Gene Kan, open source file-sharing pioneer. Read about him on Wired News and boingboing.

Washington policy watcher Declan McCullagh tallies up the possible action of communications bills sitting in front of Congress and surmises that not much is likely to happen. Amongst the more pernicious bills, McCullough reports that “House Majority Leader Dick Armey has flatly said that Hollings’ idea of forcibly implanting copy-protection in electronic devices has zero…

News.com: “Net radio raises a pirate flag…” “The Streamer technology works a little like Gnutella or other file-swapping services that don’t rely on central servers. A stream of music would be relayed through a daisy-chain of listeners and PC relay points across the Net, so that the original broadcast point would be difficult–though not impossible–to…

Congressional Symposium on Corporate Control of the Media From a press release by Rep. Bernie Sanders: Congressman Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Congressman Sherrod Brown (D-OH) will hold a symposium on “Corporate Control of the Media” in Washington, DC, featuring three of the country’s leading experts on the issue. Robert McChesney, author of “Rich Media, Poor…

Indymedia.nl Slapped by Netherlands Court The Register reports that

Northern Illinois University’s radio station, WKDI, has been shut down by the school’s Student Association, over accusations of financial mismanagement and untallied debt.

Well, the Bookmobile project visit was fun, but unfortunately marred by the moronic overreaction of a downtown business and local police, who apparently find the idea of a trailer full of books parked downtown to be far too challenging to the normal order of things. I wrote an article on the Urbana IMC site about…

More on why radio sucks. I stumbled on this article on CNN that takes a quick look at the slide in listener satisfaction with radio and it’s fall from the experimental and artistic heyday of the late 60s and early 70s. At the end it looks to the new satellite services like XM as a…