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Info on the ‘zines featured on today’s mediageek radio show: Food Geek #4 and The Assassin and the Whiner: Send $1 plus stamps to Carrie McNinch, PO Box 481051, Los Angeles, CA 90048 The Hungover Gourment, send $2 to P.O. Box 5531, Lutherville, MD 21095-5531 Hyperventilate #10, Lisa McKinley, 4616 Greenwood Place #1, Los Angeles,…

Want Unfiltered News from Palestine? Turn to Indymedia. Even if the mainstream media like CNN and the BBC have been kicked out by the Israeli military, there are people in the occupied territories, and they can and will be journalists. Because it’s necessary. Go to http://jerusalem.indymedia.org — it will make you sad and angry. (thanks…

A cool tool for Internet-researchers (as in people for whom the Internet is their object of study, not necessarily people who use the Internet to do research): Nethistory, “the most comprehensive directory of links (160+ and counting) to information about the history of the Internet, World Wide Web, Usenet, as well as related concepts such…

A revelation on independent content on the ‘net (?). While surfing about, I found this interview with G. Beato on Kottke.org. Beato is a veteran of the dead but beloved Suck, and currently authors Cooking with Bigfoot, an online, animated cooking show featuring “an aggressively bisexual, substance-abusing Sasquatch”. While discussing the decision of whether to…

And then the government’s mouthpiece is forced to admit the truth about the assassination our fair use rights. Dan Gilmour reports: “I’ve just come from the federal courthouse in San Jose, where government prosecutors essentially admitted that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans meaningful “fair use” rights for digitally produced content. You can thank Congress…

For those of us worried about copyright and fair use, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is running a weblog keeping tabs on the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group which is, “an obscure group of Hollywood studios and technology companies that are negotiating a “consensus” for any gadget or code that can touch the studios’ product. Once they’re…

Speaking of radio consolidation… Broadcasting and Cable has a feature article on “The Charlottesville question; FCC takes big step toward deciding how much radio concentration is too much.”

Broadcast Industry Asks FCC to Keep Ownership Limits(!?) According to the Hollywood Reporter, the president of the National Association of Broadcasters has joined the president of two other broadcast companies in sending a letter urging the FCC to retain rules that limit a single company to having enough TV stations to reach 35% of the…

The Radical Librarian pointed me to First Monday — a peer-reviewed academic Internet journal — which has a paper on the Indymedia movement entitled “Independent Media Centers: Cyper-Subversion and the Alternative Press”. I haven’t had a chance to read it yet (I’m working on a paper of my own), but I’ll comment on it when…

I just stumbled on to Peter Suber’s Free Online Scholarship newsletter, which covers “How the Internet is Transforming Scholarly Research and Publication.” Although aimed at scholars and researchers, a quick perusal of the archives indicate to me that it would be of interest and use to anyone concerns about freedom of speech and civil liberties…