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  • Eating Cheap in San Jose

    One of the problems with conferences is that they’re usually held in business hotels which often aren’t too close to anything but crappy chain restaurants. And the restaurants in the hotels are overpriced and mediocre, at best. Streaming Media West is at the San Jose Convetion Center, which at least is downtown, so there are…

  • Live At Streaming Media West

    I don’t talk too much about my day job here, but some of you may have gleaned that I work in media production at the University of Illinois. I’d say my specialty is digital production and streaming. I’m lucky enough to have my bosses send me to the Streaming Media West conference in San Jose,…

  • Welcome to the new mediageek

    I’ve taken the big plunge and moved from Moveable Type to WordPress. I did so on the advice of other bloggers I respect (and who are more software savvy than I), and because WordPress is a free open source project. Moveable Type was unfortunately also getting a little creaky for me in terms of problems…

  • The Future Home of Mediageek

    Mediageek will soon be making the transition to WordPress. The mediageek.net domain is the staging area for the change, which is expected to happen seamlessly within the next two weeks. If you’re here looking for the mediageek blog, go to mediageek.org

  • News Headlines from the Oct. 14 Radioshow

    These are the news headlines as read on the Oct. 14 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Clear Channel Purging Payola?; Conservative Former FCCer Out At CPB; Communications Unions Banding Together

  • Opening Night: Hersh, Klein, Goodman and Sanders

    Tonight was the opening night for the short Media Consolidation conference here at the U of I, with Seymour Hersh giving the keynote. Drew wrote a nice, concise summary of Hersh’s talk at BeTheMediaBlog, and Andrew has already posted the audio. Rep. Bernie sanders gave a rousing speech, unafraid to utter words like “working class”…

  • Mediageek Radioshow News Headlines for Feb. 25, 2005

    These are the media news headlines as read on the Feb. 25 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Court Questions FCC’s Broadcast Flag Rules; Grokster goes to Warshington; Groups Advocate Community Networks; McCain Targets TV Ownership Loopholes; Clear Channel ‘IndieÂ’ Station Threatened by New Ownership Rule; Broadcasters To Challenge Indecency Rules. Click MORE to read these…

  • Growing a Monste Monopolyr: SBC in Talks To Buy AT&T

    SBC is the Clear Channel of telecomm. Starting out as one of the regional bells after the AT&T breakup, SBC is now one of the predominant telecomm companies in the US, especially after swallowing up Ameritech a few years ago. And SBC is not just Clear Channelish in size, but in tactics, too. Back when…

  • mediageek radioshow headlines for 1-7-05

    These are the headlines as read on the January 7, 2005 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Clear Channel CEO Awarded for Distinguished Service; Groups Say Clear Channel is Biased, anti-Localism; Indecency Legislation Reintroduced; Powell Says No Indecency Regs for Satellite; Stern Reveals Restrictions

  • Battle of the Spoiled Brats: Howard Stern v. Mikey Powell

    This morning FCC Chair Michael Powell was the guest on San Francisco radio station KGO’s morning program when Howard Stern made a surprise call-in to grill Powell over his many indecency fines. I listened to the call, and while Stern took Powell to task for likely being appointed chair due to nepotism, I think his…