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Author: Paul

  • Distributor Death Takes Down Another Indie Mag

    After publishing 80 issues, the great independent culture and politics magazine Punk Planet has announced its closing. According to a front-page post on PP’s website by Daniel Sinker there are several factors contributing to its demise, “bad distribution deals, disappearing advertisers, and a decreasing audience of subscribers.” The bankruptcy of major distributors is a problem…

  • The Rise of Community Radio in India

    Community radio is very new to India, only recently legalized by the government. It shows a lot of promise, but there are also potential problems. Jaggi Singh and Emmanuel Madan are producing a series of radio programs exploring the rise of this new community media in India for CKUT in Montreal. Jaggi and Emmanuel were…

  • Hello Great Barrington

    Just learned of another new affiliate to the radio show. Berkshire Community Radio, WBCR-LP 97.7 FM in Great Barrington, MA, has been carrying the program, bringing the number of broadcast affiliates to 12. Not bad, considering my main means of promotion is just this website. If you work with a non-profit, non-commercial, community or public…

  • Vivoleum…. is made out of… PEOPLE!

    The Yes Men struck again. This time, Big Oil was their target, hitting GO-EXPO, Canada’s largest oil conference, at Stampede Park in Calgary, Alberta today. Posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC) representatives, they presented their plan for what to do with all the human casualties that will result from the energy policies of…

  • Real’s New Survival Technique is Stream Ripping and Fair Use

    I have no idea how I missed the big announcement at the end of May that Real’s next media player will feature the ability to record media streams in a whole host of formats — most notably, YouTube’s Flash video content. (As a tangent, the way I found out is kind of interesting — it’s…

  • The Early Days of Web Radio

    Jose at Arcane Radio Trivia briefly traces the beginning of internet radio, which is now nearly 14 years old (older than DVDs, in fact). However, I do have one addendum/correction. Jose says that KPIG was the first commercial station to broadcast on the web, starting in 1995. But there was a station here in ‘geek-land,…

  • 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,…