Month: August 2003
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RFPI In Talks To Stay Put
Back on July 21, Radio For Peace Int’l, a global community shortwave broadcaster in Costa Rica, was surrounded by guards and threatened with eviction by its landlord, the UN chartered University for Peace. As I reported on last Friday’s radioshow, although they station and the University agreed to sitting down for talks on Aug. 11,…
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Friday’s Mediageek Radio Show: Portland Independent Publishing Resource Center
Friday’s mediageek radio show is now on-line. It features an interview with Pablo De Ocampo, the director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center, along with the usual media news headlines. Listen in mp3 or ogg vorbis: Broadcast quality mp3 (64 kbps – 13 MB) Low -bandwidth mp3 (16 kbps – 4 MB) Broadcast quality Ogg…
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Documenting Indymedia – The Personal
Rabble is answering questions about his involvement in Indymedia for someone’s thesis and posting his answers on his Anarchogeek blog. He’s keeping his answers necessarily brief, though comprehensive enough to be enlightening for the casual reader, like me. He’s only 3 questions in (out of 18), but already I think posting his answers on his…
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An LPFM Summer
Low-power FM radio crusader Don Schellhardt has the newest installment of his column series “Amendment One” up over at DIYmedia.net. The topic is the “LPFM Summer,” urging all supporters to take two steps: “The 2 steps are: (1) writing or Faxing the Washington offices of your 1 U.S. Representative and 2 U.S. Senators, during a…
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The Geek Is Back from the Porland Zine Symposium
I’m back in Champaign and had a good time in Portland, even considering it was a 2.5 day train ride to and back. The Zine Symposium was cool — I suspect it’s become more successful and popular than the organizers dreamed. Like similar conferences I’ve been to, the individual workshop sessions are kind of hit…