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Month: May 2007

  • Free Radio Olympia Off the Air

    The long-standing unlicensed station Free Radio Olympia is off the air as of May 22 in order to avoid a probable raid from the FCC. However, they are maintaining their internet stream at their website. Here’s the story according to an email sent to FRO allies: Free Radio Olympia ceased transmitting its signal over the…

  • Two New Radio Show Affiliates

    I’m glad to hear from new two new affiliates carrying the mediageek radioshow. WVEW-LP Brattleboro Community Radio in Vermont is the licensed low-power successor to unlicensed Free Radio Brattleboro, and they’re carrying the show Fridays at 10 AM. On the upcoming June 8 edition of the show I’ll be airing an interview with Larry Bloch,…

  • Pirate Radio USA To Be Freed upon the ‘Net

    The free radio documentary Pirate Radio USA is scheduled to be released for free, without DRM tomorrow at its distributor’s website, B-Side Entertainment. Correction [2007.05.30]: It’s not free to download, but darn close at just $2.99 — without DRM hassles! Available now. I think this is a great move for the filmmakers, DJ Her and…

  • Compact Digital Cameras in Low Light – How Good?

    I don’t blog too much about photography, though maybe I should. It’s become one of my main hobbies over the last five years or so, really helping me improve my sense for composition, which has carried over into my professional video work. I hate to use flash on compact digicams because it always looks harsh,…

  • SM East: Microsoft’s Bid To Beat Flash at the Plug-In Game

    This morning’s keynote was Microsoft’s Sean Alexander giving a peek under the hood of its new Silverlight platform which offers a bi-platform (MacOS & Windows) browser plug-in rich media player that looks an awful lot like Flash. He also showed off MS’s new production suite offering design and authoring tools that look a lot like…

  • Spring in New York: Streaming Media East

    I’m in NYC for the Streaming Media East conference. I’ve gone to the last two West coast conferences, so this is the first East I’m attending. One of my goals in attending is to speak with other educators in the streaming/online media field, but also make the educational sector more understandable to other sectors of…

  • Microcinema Pitfalls

    I’ve been a bit more tuned in to microcinema lately as a result of talking more with my old pal Jason Pankoke from Micro-Film magazine and reading his new Champaign local microcinema ‘zine, C-U Confidential. (Listen to Jason’s recent appearance on the radioshow.) However, my enthusiasm for radically independent film and video is still tempered…

  • Dispatch from Oaxaca: Breaking the Communication Blockade

    I received the following email from George Salzman yesterday: Oaxaca, 3 May 2007 Friends, I fully endorse this call for support of popular radio in Oaxaca from Tonee Mello, who initiated the Oaxaca Study-Action Group with me in December 2005. Here’s Tonee’s message: Subject: [oaxacastudyactiongroup] APPEAL From: Tonee Mello Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 17:02:55…

  • Cast off

    Ok, I have to be honest. The cast didn’t just come off, it’s been almost two weeks. But I’m just getting back up to speed and limbering my wrist back up so that I can get back into the blogging swing. I don’t remember it taking so long for my wrist to get back to…