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Analyzing AOL/Time-Warner — Profits and “Success” Aren’t the Real Story The On-Line Journalism Review’s senior editor J.D. Lasica has written a fairly lengthy analysis of AOL/Time-Warner and its impact on journalism, especially for millions of people for whom the AOL start screen is their first welcome to the Internet every day. Lasica rightly points out…

DIY Is Key To Enlivening the Forgotten and Missed Places Detroit’s Metro Times profiles — with only a tiny bit of condescension — a new Detroit anarchist bookstore / infoshop called Idle Kids (via NewPages weblog — check out their ‘Zine Rack). This is the type of project I like to hear about, especially coming…

Working Assets Radio’s Laura Flanders — previously of FAIR — details the threats to small independent publishers in her most recent column. Market power = extortion power; nothing less, nothing more.

In my referrer logs I found reclaimthemedia.org, which is the home of the Cascadia Media Alliance. The site’s an organizing point for the Community Media Conference in Seattle, Sept 9-14. It looks like the site is just getting off the ground, but there are already some good articles that I’ll have to read.

Explaining the Stakes of Media Consolidation & Deregulation Neil Hickey, editor at large of the Columbia Journalism Review, does a little question-and-answer style overview of the issues involved in media ownership regulation. For the most part he makes things clear and honestly confronts reality, such as in these answers: Q: If this subject is so…

Copyright Office Rejects CARP The Register of Copyrights and the Librarian of Congress have apparently seen what was obvious to most rational people — that the arbitrated agreement for the royalties to be paid by webcasters to the recording industry are absurd. They have released an order rejecting the agreement. Wired news has coverage, as…

Napster is resurrected: “Two days after Napster closed its doors when a potential sale fell through, the company accepted a buyout offer from the Bertelsmann media conglomerate”

Wired News logs the brief history of Napster in “The Day the Music Died.” At the same time one of my favorite filesharing programs, WinMX, just released the new “milestone” version 3, which adds, amongst many features, multi-source downloading. This type of downloading means that you can get different parts of a file in question…

Napster is dead. But filesharing lives on and on. Previously in mediageek: Digital Media Distribution: Is the Honeymoon Over? 10/10/01 The End of Peer-to-Peer? 4/5/01 Independent Music? 2/13/01

Anita, of Low Hug fame, gave me a couple of issues of TapeOp magazine–which I discovered only by picking up the compilation volume The Book About Creative Music Recording–and, like the book, I’m enjoying the hell out it. It’s just chock full of great ideas and advice for the DIY recordist, whether you’re using a…