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  • Christian Science Monitor: Pass McCain Bill for More LPFM

    The Christian Science Monitor editorializes in favor of John McCain’s new bill that would undo the Congressional mandate that currently limits the number of low-power FM stations. The Monitor even cites the MITRE report, which found that LPFM presents absolutely no interference threat to full-power stations, leading the Monitor to conclude: “This only confirms that…

  • On Today’s Mediageek Radioshow: Micropower Radio and Call-Ins

    On today’s mediageek radioshow, which airs 5:30 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM Champaign, IL, my friend John Anderson from DIYmedia.net will be on to discuss recent happenings in the micropower radio world — especially some of the legal strategies being employed by stations actively challenging the FCC in court. We’ll be taking calls and e-mails…

  • Time to Change the Blogger?

    Moveable Type, the software that runs this weblog, recently changed its license to a pay model. MT was never open source, but it’s always been good, reliable code with openness to developers. But now that it’s gone pay, and especially increased the license fee for having multiple users on a shared server, I’m contemplating a…

  • McCain Tries to Restore LPFM

    Yesterday Sen. McCain made good on an earlier promise to submit a bill to restore LPFM to the FCC’s original 2000 standards. The bill cites the FCC’s Mitre report, which soundly falsified the NAB’s contention that LPFM poses an interference threat to full-power stations, as justification for reversing Congress’ evisceration of LPFM back in 2000,…

  • A Forgotten Anniversary

    Mediachannel’s Danny Schechter reminds us that today is the one-year anniversary of the FCC’s decision to further loosen media ownership regulations. He observes that the mainstream media “seems more obsessed with self-censorship than self-regulation” — to whit: Conservative groups seized that Super Bowl moment to flood Congress with more than 200,000 emails demanding that something…

  • Allied Media Conference

    In just a few weeks I will be making my third trek to the Allied Media Conference in Bowling Green, OH, happening June 18 – 20. This event, which started as the Underground Publishing Conference, is an amazing meeting of the minds of independent media that keeps growing and improving this year. I’m really excited…

  • Stupid Tech: PlusDeck2, PC-based Cassette Deck

    Electronic Music 411 reviews the PlusDeck2, which is a cassette tape deck that plugs into a PC’s empty drive bay in order to digitize analog cassettes, and also spit PC audio back out to cassette. As someone who still owns hundreds of audio cassettes, I can see the value of having a device that makes…

  • Rebel Video: Free Radio Austin and TV Piquetera

    Demand Media is a community video portal where folks can submit links to independently produced video available on the ‘net, especially videos with an underground, radical bent. A pointer to a documentary of the Free Radio Austin bust, which happened back in 2000, was just posted (the video resides at Indybay). I saw the raw…

  • Friday’s Radioshow On-Line: Interview with Skidmark Bob and V-Man from Freak Radio Santa Cruz

    Last Friday’s radioshow was a lot of fun. First, because Bob and V-Man are articulate, true independent media die-hards and both of them do some great radio on FRSC. Second, because it was the mediageek radioshow’s first joint simulcast — Bob and V-Man were in the studio at Freak Radio broadcasting their end of the…

  • Back and Blogging

    I was away for a week in Toronto, which is a very cool town, and while I was gone the sysadmin for the mediageek’s server upgraded perl and other things, which kind of broke Moveable Type in interesting ways for a few days more — hence the lack of postings. Thanks to very responsive help…