Mr. Powell Gives Pounds of Love to the Broadcast Cartel Yes, there’s a 900 lb. gorilla staring at me from the corner — as I reported on last week’s radio show (but not on the blog),
Archive | September, 2002
Sony Says “Uh, maybe?” to Mindisc-to-PC Uploads
Sony Says “Uh, maybe?” to Mindisc-to-PC Uploads Sony has replied to the on-line petition sponsored by minidisc.org asking that their netMD recorders allow users to upload to computers audio recorded on their MD recorders in addition to being able to download audio to MD from their computers. It seems like this one-way transfer is in […]
Civil Liberties, Libertarians and Anarchists — Unlikely Bedfellows?
Wired mag has a nice profile on Copyright warrior lawyer Larry Lessig that’s a bit deeper and more probing than most I’ve read of him. Although he’s plowing a very important route for the future of civil liberties, I don’t think he’s the big rebel that more perfunctory press accounts paint him to be. Rather, […]
Back In the Champaign Crib
Back In the Champaign Crib I posted a couple of articles to Indymedia sites (Seattle, Madison and Urbana-Champaign) while in Seattle to keep those not in the middle of the action updated. I linked to one of them in passing, but didn’t make them explicit — so here are the stories: Negativland Uses Mosquito Fleet […]

Almost Home from Seattle
Almost Home from Seattle After about 30 hours of driving I’m in Madison, WI getting ready to head back to Champaign. I think the conference was mostly successful, though what excited me most was seeing the mosquito fleet go into action. According to a post on Seattle IMC from one of the mosquito helpers, there […]