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Audio from Amy Goodman’s benefit talk for WEFT last Friday is now on-line, along with the archive of last Friday’s radioshow, on which Ms. Goodman was a guest.

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman is on a 65 city book tour in support of The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them. My station, community radio WEFT, is hosting her this Friday and so she will also be a guest on this Friday’s radioshow. It seems…

On today’s mediageek we’re going into the archives to play a talk given by microradio pioneer Mbanna Kantako of Human Rights Radio at the University of Illinois, Springfield, in Feb. 1998. This talk originally aired on the predessor program to mediageek, Radio Free Conscience. With all the activity going on in free radio it’s important…

As it happens every so often, traffic to the site today is nearly triple the average, mostly due to people doing websearches regarding Bubba the Love Sponge’s firing and Clear Channel yanking Howard Stern off six whole stations. To those of you encountering mediageek for the first time: welcome. If you came here thirsty for…

The mediageek radioshow archive was just updated with the last two programs: Jan. 23 – Feature interview with Radio Free Brattleboro’s Sara Longsmith, regarding the letter the station recently received from the US Atty General’s office. John Anderson from DIYmedia.net provides some analysis. Jan. 30 – Interview with two volunteers from the new Big Muddy…

Unfortunately, for the moment I’ve had to turn off comments here on mediageek due to getting deluged with hundreds of spam comments in the last week. These spam comment have links to all sorts of spam sites — casinos, online drugs, penis enlargers — in the hope of duping google into raising the ranking of…

I’ve been advised that there’s a review of the mediageek ‘zine in the new issue of Zine World (#20), A Reader’s Guide to the Underground Press. (Which I haven’t yet seen). Even when there’s not a mediageek zine review, Zine World is probably the best overall reference guide to zines. The hundreds of reviews are…

I just overhauled the mediageek radioshow archives and turned them into a blog. The old archives page was static html, and having to manually edit and upload that page each week I think was keeping me from getting done weekly. The ease of posting to a blog I hope will help me keep the archives…

No excuses, really. Let me make it up to y’all by jumping back on the blogwagon. (Don’t want to end up a fucked blog). At least I updated the radioshow page — up to date to Dec. 12, at least.

First, the obligatory apologies for the protracted Thanksgiving-related absence from the blog. I was back home in Jersey for the holiday, and enjoyed listening to a little bit of freeform favorite WFMU and Pacifica’s WBAI. The latter was a bit surreal as I tuned in to hear what sounded like a DJ’s last show, leaving…