Month: August 2002

CBS Marketwatch writer Chris Plummer says that “business media is failing its audience,” by not being sufficiently critical or investigative. I say, “no shit, Sherlock.” Of course, as a business writer himself, Plummer dances around the root cause, while still identifying many symptoms of the illness: “Business journalists have always been bedeviled by an inescapable…

John Anderson, of diymedia.net, notes that FCC Chief Commissioner Michael Powell has “outlined four goals he wants to see the FCC work toward when it comes to managing spectrum,” where #2 is to move a system of “market controlled” regulation. John says that reading that almost made him lose his lunch, and I’d agree with…

RaiseTheFist Editor To Be Indicted From the Infoshop.org News Kiosk: “Federal prosecutors are indicting Sherman Austin, 19 year old founder / webmaster of Raise the Fist (http://www.RaisetheFist.com), an anarchist independent media / direct action network. Sherman is being charged with 2 felony violations of the following: 18 U.S.C. 842 (p)(2)(A): DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION RELATING TO…

RIP: Beta Yeah, and you thought it was dead ten years ago. It’s actually amazing that Beta held on until now, given that it has had little support aside from Sony for the last fifteen years. Even it’s professional-grade brethen, Betacam, it’s slowly being phased out by Sony, in favor of digital formats. Though Betacam…

70 Million File Sharers? Time To Build More Prisons! Following up from yesterday’s News.com article, Wired News reports that “The government is preparing a national crackdown on file traders that would crush the rogue swapping networks in the same manner hackers were pushed underground 12 years ago…. Washington lawmakers have been crafting bills that would…

Infoshop’s News Kiosk has discovered that the Italian newsmagazine Panorama has identified anarchist and Indymedia websites as aids to terrorists, including Infoshop.org and Indymedia.org. Chuck0 sizes things up pretty accurately: “This article would be pretty amusing, if it wasn’t for the long history of the media’s practice of defaming, lying, and misrepresenting radical groups. It…

And when thinking becomes illegal, all but the stupid will become criminals… News.com reports that the Dept. of Justice is prepared to begin prosecuting people using peer-to-peer networks to swap copyrighted material, like music, movies and software. Apparently, the DOJ intends to use a little-known law called the NET Act, that says ” it is…

Aj “Low Hug” Michel now has a blog — A Low Hug ‘Blog. Listen to her latest zine review segment on the radio show — it’s all about mini-comix!

Court Decides To Listen to Citizens in ReplayTV Case Per ZDNet News: ” U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper granted permission to combine a copyright lawsuit filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of the device owners and one filed by consumer electronics manufacturer Sonicblue, maker of ReplayTV….according to the judge’s ruling, the question…

Zine & Comix Info for the 8-16-02 edition of the mediageek radio show My guest A.j. Michel reviewed a pile of mini-comix and zines on the mediageek radio show. Click here for a page full of info and examples on these publications.