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Author: Paul

  • More Publicity for Pirate DJ Johnny Silver

    Last week I posted about DJ Johnny Silver and his Iron Action Radio, about which two highly dramatized short films have been made and posted to the web. His public visibility in home town Nyack, NY has gone up a notch with a local newspaper profile of the man and his station. Frankly, it makes…

  • Boulder Free Radio Shut Down

    As of yet I have scant details, but according to a post on the blog run by KBFR’s founder, Monk, the station was shut down by the FCC on the 11th: The station was shut down, again, yesterday in the late afternoon. One year, to the day (Jan 11th) from the last FCC visit. Apparently…

  • Minidiscasting (or, MDcast)

    Gerd Stodiek has put out the first minidiscast, or MDcast if you will. Of course, in essence, there’s no difference between an MDcast and a podcast — it’s just more of an assertion that you can download podcasts to your NetMD enabled minidisc recorder (connecting to PC by USB) about as easily as you can…

  • mediageek radioshow headlines for 1-7-05

    These are the headlines as read on the January 7, 2005 edition of the mediageek radioshow: Clear Channel CEO Awarded for Distinguished Service; Groups Say Clear Channel is Biased, anti-Localism; Indecency Legislation Reintroduced; Powell Says No Indecency Regs for Satellite; Stern Reveals Restrictions

  • Podcast Modifications

    Based on a number of comments from folks who download the radioshow as a podcast, I’ve made a few changes: Only one file is specified in the feed. This week I’m trying out a 32kbps mp3 as a compromise bitrate between 64k and 16k, so it’s not too big, but not too compromised in quality.…

  • Dramatizing and Publicizing Pirate Radio — Risky?

    I was reading the alt.radio.pirate newsgroup when I came across a post from DJ Johnny Silver, who is aparently the man behind Iron Action Radio in Nyack, NY. The post is promoting the “second film about the Infamous DJ Johnny Silver,” which “is based on when the FCC came knocking at the door to shut…

  • Video Compression Comparison

    Doom9.net has recently completed another in its ongoing series of video compression codec comparisons. Doom9’s primary focus is on backing up video DVDs, whether that means copying them to DVD-R, or further compressing them so that a full movie will fit on one or more CD-Rs. Because of this focus, the primary concern is with…

  • Utah Philips Supports Freak Radio

    On Dec. 10 folk troubador Utah Philips performed a benefit concert for Free Radio Santa Cruz. The Bay Area Metroactive published a nice story on Philips and his support for the station. You can see pictures from the event at Santa Cruz IMC.

  • Prometheus ‘Zine

    The other day I recieved the new edition of Prometheus Radio Project’s newsletter Prometheus Delivered in the mail. Although they call it a newsletter, it more resembles a ‘zine to me, with a simple photocopied layout. There’s good stuff inside, including a story on how a LPFM in Idaho Springs, CO kept the town informed…

  • Review of MZ-NH1, Sony’s Top Hi-MD Recorder

    I just posted to Epinions a pretty long review of my MZ-NH1 Hi-MD recorder that I’ve mentioned here recently. I like this recorder a lot, especially for its ability to upload audio you’ve recorded directly to your PC. At $329, it’s pretty pricey, but there also isn’t any other device out there that is as…