Author: Paul
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Catching Up with the Radioshow: The Yes Men Spoof Halliburton, Bringing Transmitters to Central America, Musicians Support Internet Freedom
If you don’t normally listen to the mediageek radioshow, you should consider checking out the last two programs. Yesterday my guests were Bill Taylor and Adrienne Bauer from the Primary Communications Project, talking about their plans to bring a 1 kilowatt AM radio transmitter to the Lenca people of Honduras. I also played part of…
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Moby and Rep. Ed Markey’s Press Conference to Save the Internet
Moveon.org is hosting a video from Thursday’s SaveTheInternet press conference featuring Moby and Rep. Ed Markey.
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Making Waves on Free Speech TV
Micheal Lahey’s well-done documentary about pirate radio in Tuscon, AZ, Making Waves, is airing this month on Free Speech TV. It airs tonight at 9 PM EDT, and seems to be in regular rotation in the schedule right now. Free Speech TV is on all Dish Network satellite TV packages, and some of its programming…
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From Today’s Radioshow: Primary Communications Project
My guests for today’s radioshow were Bill Taylor and Adrienne Bauer from the Primary Communications Project, which works to bring communications technology to indigenous communities in Centarl America. Bill and Adrienne recently returned from Honduras where they are working with Radio Lenca and the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras to build…
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Growing the Movement To Save the Internet with Moby, REM and Others
An unsuprising coalition of musicians has come together under the banner of Artists and Musicians for Internet Freedom to support network neutrality legislation. Strangely, the group doesn’t have a website yet, though REM’s website has an announcement about it, and explains the issue rather succinctly: Net Neutrality is the long-held principle that all online speech…
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Chicago Protest Against AT&T’s Anti-Net-Neutrality Campaign, May 24
Just received word from Mitchell at Chicago Media Action that they’re planning a protest against AT&T as part of a national Day of Media Outrage: In response to dreadful proposed media-related legislation now working its way through Congress, Chicago Media Action, along with organizers in Boston and New York City (and a number of other…
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Telco Scare Mongering: High-Bandwidth Video Will Clog the Pipes
A story about the looming threat of high-bandwidth video on the internet, authored by AP technology writer Peter Svensson, has been making the rounds of the blogosphere today. In it, a Verizon lobbyist claims that “The plain truth is that today’s access and backbone networks simply do not have the capacity to deliver all that…
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Broadcast Industry Journal on Jon Stewart Mocking Nexstar’s Duane Lammers Critique
Somewhat belatedly, Broadcasting and Cable picks up on the Daily Show taking aim at WTWO’s weather attack ads and Nexstar’s Duane Lammers (by the way, it’s pronounced “lamers,” as in “lame” – “ers”).
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Mark Hosler: Creative Commons is “the Sierra Club of Intellectual Property, Negativland is more like Earth Firsters.”
There’s a nice short video interview with Mark Hosler of Negativland at Minnesota Stories talking about the Creative Commons approach to copyright and what he sees as problems with it. Actually, it’s more of a Hosler monologue than an interview, but pretty concise and informative nonetheless. I didn’t know this, but apparently Negativland helped come…
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The SurvivaBall Solution for Global Warming, on Today’s Mediageek Radioshow
On Tuesday a forward-thinking engineer from Halliburton presented the company’s newest invention to help solve the problems associated with global warming, the SurvivaBall: “The SurvivaBall is designed to protect the corporate manager no matter what Mother Nature throws his or her way,” said Fred Wolf, a Halliburton representative who spoke today at the Catastrophic Loss…