The Madison, WI Indymedia Center is up and running in a temporary physical space to cover the U.S. Conference of Mayors in that city. This is the smallest city the conference has ever been held in and protestors, activists and all sorts of other people have shown up to show the mayors what’s on their […]
Archive | June, 2002
And speaking of About.com, Wired
And speaking of About.com, Wired News reports that a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the company by former guides (aka page editors) who claim that the company unfairly reduced the page-view counts based upon which they were paid, and also has kept content up long after guides have resigned, in violation of their copyrights […]
John Anderson, formerly of the
John Anderson, formerly of the Pirate Radio Page at About.com, is back on-line with his new site, DIYmedia.net. He’s got some low-power FM news and is working on getting his library of useful information and news archive up at the new site.
Keep Current with Non-commercial Broadcasting
Keep Current with Non-commercial Broadcasting — Current Online, the web component of the public radio journal, has added a weblog to their front page (it’s in the right-hand column). I’ve found Current to be a good resource for keeping current with non-comm broadcasting trends and news and I think the weblog is a very useful […]
Enormous radio conglomerate Infinity Communications
Enormous radio conglomerate Infinity Communications was slapped with an indecency fine by the FCC today for airing completely moronic garbage sexualizing young and teenage girls. I tend to be of two mind regarding indecency regulations, since they can be (ab)used to silence unpopular speech that gets labeled indecent because it offends those in power. But […]