Month: February 2001

Slight Site Updates: I’ve updated the site a little this weekend. The audio archive is now up to date, and the broken links for the articles page are fixed. I also added a new commentaries page. Right now this contains some of the longer commentary posts I’ve made to the news page, so you don’t…

The Washington Post asks the question, “Is Online Journalism On Its Way Out?” The basis for their question is the recent spate of layoffs at ‘zines like Salon (a personal favorite), and the near-universal lack of profits at big name, big-media sites like Microsoft’s Slate, CNN.com, Disney/ABC’s Go network, etc. But I think the author…

Yikes! Napster offers the music industry $1 billion to settle! I just read this now on CNN.com, which posted it a little more than an hour ago — this is the link to the story. All I have to say is that $1 billion is a shitload of money, and it depresses me to think…

Sunday’s show is now available for listening on-line. My guest was Jay Sand, an independent journalist who has been working in the global Indpendent Media Center movement, including the IMCs in D.C. and in Philadelphia, his home base. I met Jay (and roped him into an interview) because he stopped by the Urbana-Champaign IMC on…

Report from FAIR: How Power Shapes the News Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has relieased their first ever report on the interaction of commercial and political power and news agencies, with a focus on detailing incidents in which financial or political power exerted control over things that were or were not reported. In many cases…

Post-Napster Peer-to-Peer: Wired News today has a couple of reports (article one – article two) from the O’Reilly Peer-to-Peer Conference being held in San Francisco. Translating geek into English, Peer-to-Peer is a type of computer networking that allows file sharing between any two computers on a network, where typically information only flows between client computers…

Independent Media where it’s really needed:I meant to post this a couple of days ago (but forgot!)… Indymedia Chiapas has now set up shop, providing coverage to this embattled Mexican state. According to their site: “Indymedia Chiapas (IMC~C) inaugurates its website on Feb 9th 2001, exactly six years after Zedillo betrayed his word to uphold…

Jason Pankoke, of Micro-Film fame wrote a follow-up to his previous ‘zine article for the C-U Octopus. His new article checks in on the local zine scene based upon the “zine caucus” I wrote about on the 6th. Since the Octopus site is down, Jason sent me the article to post on mediageek. Click here…

Independent Music? Two sort of related items here. First, by now everyone should have heard about the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision against Napster, allowing it to continue operating but ordering that a lower court modify its injunction against the service. The result being that it’s likely that lower court will force Napster to…

I tried to post this the other day, but blogger wasn’t cooperating: And more on new FCC Chair Michael Powell… Feed features a commentary by Clay Shirky proclaiming that the FCC under his tenure will catalyze the greatest change in our media landscape since the Depression.” Shirky predicts conflict between Powell and cultural conservatives who…