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New Hi-MD Will Allow Uploads
According to minidisc.org — the best source for minidisc related news and info — Sony’s reps at the Consumer Electronics Show say that the new Hi-MD format will allow for uploading audio from minidisc to PC. As best as I can tell this is only for audio recorded with an MD recorder — like audio…
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Sony Announces New Hi-Capacity Minidisc – Might Be Just The Tool Mediageeks Have Been Waiting For
I generally don’t dedicate much space to product announcements here on mediageek, largely because so many of them are bogus PR devices, and because the treadmill of constant product upgrade is unnecessarily wasteful. But once in while a little news comes along that I think is good for independent media folks, and this is one…
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Polls Missing Cell Phone Users…. and a LOT More
An article in the Arizona Republic examines how greater cell-phone use may be skewing political poll results, since pollsters are barred from calling cell phones, due to FCC rules against auto-calling cells and calling people who have to pay for the call. The article identifies young adults as the demographic most missed, since they’re thought…
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Gee, Sorry for the Protracted Absence… But, Hey There’s a Radio Show Update
No excuses, really. Let me make it up to y’all by jumping back on the blogwagon. (Don’t want to end up a fucked blog). At least I updated the radioshow page — up to date to Dec. 12, at least.
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City of Brattleboro Votes in Supports Radio Free Brattleboro
I’m still getting through by week-long backlog of e-mail, and here’s a piece of news I want to make sure doesn’t slip by: The city government of Brattleboro, Vermont has come out in support of the cityÂ’s own local unlicensed radio station, Radio Free Brattleboro, known as RFB. In a 4 to 1 vote, on…
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Back and Home Sick, Watching TV
First, the obligatory apologies for the protracted Thanksgiving-related absence from the blog. I was back home in Jersey for the holiday, and enjoyed listening to a little bit of freeform favorite WFMU and Pacifica’s WBAI. The latter was a bit surreal as I tuned in to hear what sounded like a DJ’s last show, leaving…
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What’s Going on around the FTAA in Miami — You Won’t Find Much in the Mainstream Press
Yesterday I spent some time at the U-C IMC helping to do phone interviews with our reporters on the streets in Miami, and then posting updates to the U-C IMC website. I arrived at the IMC just before the police made a major and violent offensive against peaceful protestors gathered a few blocks away from…
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In Bed With Power: Mainstream Reporters Embedded With Miami Police
A sure indicator that the US police state sees itself as waging war on its own citizens — the Miami Police have taken a page from Bush’s war propaganda book and invited reporters to be embedded with the cops while they force back, pepper spray and beat anti-FTAA protestors. According to Miami’s WPLG-TV and the…
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Turn to Independent Media for What’s Really Going on in Miami at the FTAA
In case you weren’t aware, I want to point out that there will be thousands of people on the streets of Downtown Miami this week to protest the Free Trade Area of the Americas Summit, beginning Thursday. The FTAA is an attempt to bring NAFTA style so-called “free trade” to the entire western hemisphere. A…
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Radioshow archives update: Live Report from Media Reform Conferences; Indymedia Reporters Going To Miami
The radioshow page is now fully up to date with all the show archives that are available on-line. Now up are the following shows: Nov. 7: Live report from the National Conference on Media Reform and the Be the Media! Conference, from mediageek host Paul Riismandel and John Anderson, of DIYmedia.net. Nov. 14: The FTAA…