Archive | August, 2001

I just stumbled on Res Magazine, “the Future of Filmmaking.” It covers the burgeoning world of digital video based filmmaking, and seems fairly interesting. After perusing a few of the articles they have on-line it seems that the magazine has a more professional focus, profiling already-successful actors, directors and producers who are working in DV, […]

A Loss to the Pirate Radio World: Kirk Trummel, RIP. Kirk Trummel worked in and wrote about the shortwave pirate radio scene for years, co-authoring the “Pirate Radio Survival Guide.” I personally enjoyed his writing, comments and advice that he published on the Free Radio Network. Kirk died on Aug. 15 from terminal pancreatic cancer […]

Food for thought: MIT’s Technology Review has this article on “Taming the Web,” that deconstructs the myth that “information wants to be free,” by critically examining the assumptions about the Internet which underlie it, but, in fact, may not be as iron clad as popularly believed: Nonetheless, the claim that the Internet is ungovernable by […]

I know I toot the horn of the Indymedia movement frequently here, but I still want to recommend that you check out the IMC Radio Network site if you’re looking for links and pointers to good independent radio reporting and programming. The site has an especially good and well annotated set of links to grassroots […]

Russian Gov’t Retakes Control of Media According to the RFE/RL Newswire, “Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on 13 August a decree reestablishing federal government control over all of the Russia’s broadcasting and relay stations for television and radio signals by consolidating them under the management of a single government corporation.” Defending the decree, the Russian […]