Month: August 2004
-
NYC IMC Subpoenaed for Server Logs Over Posts of Publicly Available Information
Thanks to Kellan, Rabble, Jebba, and U-C IMC, I’ve learned that the Secret Service has opened an investigation into lists of 2200 RNC delegates that were posted to the NYC IMC newswire. In a statement posted to their website, the NYC IMC collective writes: NYC Indymedia believes that this investigation is wholly without merit, and…
-
Pirate Radio Covering RNC Protests
Sue Carpenter, author of 40 Watts from Nowhere, files an article for the LA Times on the decentralized network of pirate stations that will carry the audio webstreams out of NYC: Beginning today, RNC protesters plan to use wireless phones to call in live, in-the-trenches reports that will be streamed over the Internet and picked…
-
Video from the Community Wireless Summit
We’ve got the opening and closing plenary videos on-line from last weekend’s National Summit on Community Wireless Networks. Both plenaries were great. In particular, Harold Feld, associate director of the Media Access Project, gave a call to the audience to spend 5 minutes a day to protect and enlarge wireless networking spectrum, during the opening.…
-
Press for the Community Wireless Summit
The AP ran a story on this weekend’s Summit that got picked up by USA Today. What’s kind of nice about this sort of “event journalism” is that reporters and editors don’t typically feed the need to go dig up an opposing viewpoint in order to justify their supposed objectivity. Thus the AP article doesn’t…
-
End of the Wireless Summit
The National Summit on Community Wireless Networks ended a few hours ago, on a high, but tired note. This was one of the best conferences I’ve been to, from the standpoint that everyone attending is smart, experienced and has valuable thoughts to share. For those of you who couldn’t make it, there will be audio…
-
People’s Guide to the RNC
A shipment of this nicely illustrated full-color map, handbook and directory arrived at our IMC this week. It is unbelievably chock full of very useful information like what to do if arrested, lists of cheap eats and public toilets, hints for getting around, an event calendar, and much more. A lot of care and organization…
-
Local Press for Community Wireless Summit
Today the Champaign-Urbana paper The News-Gazette covered this coming Friday’s National Summit for Community Wireless Networks. I’m glad one of the most exciting elements for me made it into the article: The network also could be used as a community “intranet” for a variety of localized purposes, from broadcasting school plays and communications among emergency…
-
On This Friday’s Radioshow: Community Wireless Summit
Sascha Meinrath, from the Champaign-Urbana Community Wireless Network, and Ben Scott, of Free Press, will be our guests to talk about the upcoming 2004 National Summit on Community Wireless Networks, being held here in Champaign-Urbana on Aug. 20-22. We’ll discuss what the goals of the conference are, who will be there, and what the role…
-
Fair Coverage of RNC Protest Tactics
Considering it’s generally more liberal than radical, Salon has a surprisingly fair look at the protest organizing going on NYC in anticipation of the RNC. It reports an expectation of 250,000 protestors in the city — I hope that turns out to be true. Rather than dismissing or chiding protestors who will engage in direct…
-
What Makes Independent Media Tick?
Political journalist Kirsten Anderberg rounded up a small array of independent media makers for some Q & A on what motivates them, and what they think can be done to improve the state of independent and alternative media. My pal Aj’s zine gets mad props from one of the interviewees: 1. What are your three…