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  • Boulder Free Radio Keeping It Going

    Monk, one of the chief organizers behind Boulder Free Radio (KBFR), maintains a blog where he occasionally posts tasty tidbits about how the station runs and what they’re up to. Last week Monk posted a rundown of the setup the station uses to stay a step ahead of the FCC, leveraging wireless Internet and a…

  • Radioshow Archive Now up to Date

    The mediageek radioshow archive is now up to date, including last Friday’s program — so download away! I want to point out that I am experimenting with using the Internet Archive’s FreeCache to help speed up downloading the recent broadcast quality files and some of the more popular programs, like Amy Goodman’s talk from April.…

  • On Today’s Radioshow: Anarchist Magazine Fifth Estate

    On today’s mediageek radioshow we’ll air an interview with Sunfrog, a member of the editorial collective at Fifth Estate, a quarterly magazine about anarchist thought and practice. The mediageek radioshow airs Fridays at 5:30 PM on community radio WEFT FM 90.1 in Champaign, IL. The shows are archived here after airing. I’m quite behind in…

  • Are CD Players Obsolete?

    In our hyper-technologized culture, obsolescence is a pretty relative, subjective term. The average person on the street would tell you that the 8-track tape medium is obsolete, even though there is a strong subcommunity of users and enthusiasts, and an unknown number of players that soldier along in cars, trucks, garages and dens around the…

  • Michael Powell Blogs? Not quite.

    The blogosphere is a buzz that FCC Don Michael Powell has started a blog with the stated purpose “to hear from the tech community directly and to try to get beyond the traditional inside the Beltway Washington world where lobbyists filter the techies. I am looking forward to an open, transparent and meritocracy-based communication—attributes that…

  • Crossroads Infoshop in Kansas City

    Congratulations to the Crossroads Infoshop collective in Kansas City for getting their space open, and for a successful opening gala last Friday night. Every community should have at least one infoshop or similar type of community space that serves both as a place to gather and a place to find and disseminate information. I can’t…

  • Seattle Times Columnist Says “Rein in FCC”

    Once it a while it’s nice to see a well-informed column in a major US newspaper that takes the FCC to task for its media ownership stupidity, like this one by the Seattle Times’ Kay McFadden: “Red, white and blue in the face: We must rein in FCC.” The onely detraction is that it’s an…

  • Some Press for Radio Free Urbana, an Experiment in Collective Community Radio

    As I’ve mentioned once or twice before, the Urbana-Champaign IMC is working to get a new licensed low-power FM stations off the ground here, called WRFU, or Radio Free Urbana. The license was granted to the Socialist Forum of Champaign County, which is a non-sectarian advocacy organization, largely due to the efforts of Mike Lehman,…

  • Housekeeping

    Finally updated the basic template for the main page here, along with a new logo, taken from the cover of the new mediageek zine #2 (which now has its own page). I also cleaned out the blogroll on the right-hand column, pruning out the dead links, the apparently-abandoned sites, or the sites that no longer…

  • Now Out: Mediageek Zine #2

    It made its debut at the Allied Media Conference, where a lucky 16 or so got their hands on the first copies, and now it’s available to everyone: mediageek zine #2. This new issue contains the following articles: Zining on the Cheap, by Low Hug Editrix Aj Michel – Chock full of hints and tips…