Month: September 2001
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Mainstream Media Blackout? Turn to Indymedia for News of DC Peace Rallies
Mainstream Media Blackout? Turn to Indymedia for News of DC Peace Rallies Meant to post this earlier… More than 10,000 people are on the streets of DC this weekend demonstrating for a peaceful response to the Sept. 11 attacks, and if you rely on the mainstream media you’d barely know it. Journalistic stalwarts like the…
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For the DIY Files: New Soundblaster Card
For the DIY Files: New Soundblaster Card Tom’s Hardware Guide does their usual excellent job at reviewing anything computer-related, this time they look at the new top-of-the-line SoundBlaster sound card, the Audigy EX. From their review it seems like this card offers near-pro-quality for less than $300. Including optical digital I/O and even firewire, this…
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A Denial Implies There’s Something to Deny
A Denial Implies There’s Something to Deny I can’t resist this one: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld told a news conference that he doesn’t intend to mislead the press. “I donÂ’t believe itÂ’s ever happened that I have lied to the press, and I donÂ’t intend to start now,” he said. However, doesn’t his apparent need to…
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A Retraction: pirateradio @ About.com staying put
A Retraction: pirateradio @ About.com staying put To mangle Mark Twain: “rumors of its death are premature.” It appears that the news that Phlegm’s PirateRadio Extravaganza was being axed by About.com was all a big misunderstanding due to someone at About sending the site editor the wrong e-mail — ooops. Phlegm himself clears it up…
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A Real Loss: PirateRadio Site at About.com Shut Down.
A Real Loss: PirateRadio Site at About.com Shut Down. I first read an unconfirmed report of this yesterday at the Free Radio Network, but I didn’t want to post anything here without getting some kind of confirmation from John Anderson, the guy who ran the site. I sent an e-mail to address at about.com, but…
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CNet has another article on
CNet has another article on wireless community freenets. This article pretty much treads the same old ground as other articles. Again, we hear the grumbling of ISPs and would-be wireless providers over the potential loss of revenue that hasn’t yet been shown to even exist. Nonetheless, the idea intrigues me, and I sure wish I…
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File Sharing, Info-Anarchy and Indymedia
File Sharing, Info-Anarchy and Indymedia I found the site infoarnarchy.org when I stumbled on a post outlining “the current state of file sharing.” It’s a good overview of software tools that need to exist, not for the violation of copyright and sharing mp3s, but because there should be no centralized control over information sharing. Information…
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I sent an e-mail response
I sent an e-mail response to Poynter.org with roughly the same critique of their article on radio and Sept. 11 as in my last blog entry. I get the feeling that they don’t get so many responses, since probably not more than an hour after I sent it I got an e-mail back from them…
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Radio’s Role in Disaster Coverage?
Radio’s Role in Disaster Coverage? This article from Poynter.org briefly covers the role of radio in informing and connecting people in the aftermath of last week’s disasters. Unfortunately it’s kind of shallow, focusing on radio’s roles in providing first news to many people and some radio stations’ fundraising efforts. While these aspects are undoubtably important,…
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Stepped Up Defenses Means the
Stepped Up Defenses Means the Military Wants the Spectrum As ZDNews reports, the future of so-called third generation wireless data devices (3G) is looking grimmer after the attacks on NYC and DC, since the military will likely pressure the FCC for more spectrum space for defense purposes. This is nothing new, of course, since the…