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  • My Hi-MD Almost Here, but May Not Be All That’s Promised

    I just received word from Minidisco that my long-pre-ordered new Hi-MD recorder is just about ready to ship. I bought the top-of-the-line MZ-NH1 because it has a docking port, good battery, and I want to really leverage it for audio production. Hi-MD was first announced back in January, with the promise of units to arrive…

  • Radio and Reference Against the RNC

    Organizing against the Republican National Convention in New York City at the end of the month is going full-steam, and from my outsider’s persepctive, the planning seems to be very together. One of the most interesting and innovative efforts is Radical Reference, in which a team of radical librarians around the country will help answer…

  • On Friday’s Mediageek: Public Access TV

    Mark you calendars, I’m trying to post show topics ahead of time! On this forthcoming Friday’s edition of the mediageek radioshow, we’ll be talking to Greg Boozell, who is a member of the Urbana Public TV Commission, which oversees public access TV in Champaign-Urbana, and who is also the technology director for Chicago Access Network…

  • Last Friday’s Radioshow Now On-Line: Report-back from DNC

    Last Friday’s radio show, featuring an IMC report-back from the DNC, is now on-line at the radioshow page.

  • Liberal TV Network (not owned by Al Gore)?

    Wired News reports on a group of “progressive media activists” who are joining forces to create a new TV network, supposedly bolstered by the success of Michael Moore’s Farenheit 911. I don’t know too much about the participants, except for author and journalist Greg Palast. One thing that looks good is that the group seems…

  • On Today’s Mediageek Radio Show: Report Back from DNC

    Two Urbana-Champaign IMC volunteers traveled to Boston this week to report on the protest activity surrounding the Democratic National Convention, and the overwhelming police repression of that activity. The U-C IMC’s radical zine librarian Adam Davis just arrived back in town and will join us in the studio live. Sarah Lazare is still on the…

  • Bringing the National to the Local

    I’m really pleased that my local community radio station, WEFT, had decided to run alternative Democratic National Convetion coverage from Pacifica. But what pleases me more is that WEFT’s Programming Committee [PC] decided to add a local call-in show to the mix. Rather than just have listeners call and talk to hosts, Kimberlie Kranich, the…

  • LPFM Bill Passes Senate Commerce Committee

    Early reports say that the Senate Commerce Committe passed the bill to restore low-power FM by voice vote this morning. Strangely, the Committee also passed an amendment excepting the state of New Jersey, submitted by Sen. Lautenberg, apparently because the Senator believes Jersey is more susceptible to interference problems because it is the most densely…

  • Senate Commerce Committe To Vote on Restoring LPFM

    Tomorrow is a big day for the future of low-power FM, when the Senate Commerce Committee votes on Chairman Sen. McCain’s bill to restore spacing requirements to the original level set by the FCC back in 2000, when the Commission originally approved low-power FM. If ultimately passed by Congress and signed into law, the bill…

  • First Review for Zine #2

    NeuFutur puts in the first review for mediageek zine #2. I believe I traded zines with one of the guys behind the NeuFutur zine at the Allied Media Conference last June.