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  • On the Next Mediageek Radioshow: Shawn Ewald of the A-Infos Radio Project

    I just finished an interview about an hour ago with Shawn Ewald, the programmer and one of the volunteers behind the A-Infos Radio Project, which has been archiving and serving up radically independent radio content for an amazing nine years. Shawn just opened up the source code for the software behind the Project, which I…

  • Googled for Rush Limbaugh Blowjob

    I was trying to figure out why this blog keeps getting referrals from people searching for some combination of “Rush Limbaugh” and “blowjob.” First, why would someone search for that disturbing mental imagine? And, second, why does Google direct them here? Somehow the news passed by me, but apparently ol’ Rushie used the BJ-word on…

  • Why So Quiet — Pledge to WEFT!

    Work work has been consuming most of my energies this week, leaving me with little brain power left to ponder media. Lucky for me, the work is interesting. I’m coordinating a live mulit-camera video webcast out of a campus theater that has shit-ass networking. I think it will work, but it’s taken lots of thinking…

  • Recent Radio Shows Online: Howard Feld on Translator Trafficking; Stephen Dunifer Discusses Free Radio Camp and Unlicensed TV

    The last two mediageek radio shows are both on-line and definitely worth a listen if you’ve been following the FM translator trafficking scandal, or interested in free radio and TV. mediageek 3-25-05: Free Radio Workshops on Tour On this program we talk with Stephen Dunifer, of Free Radio Berkeley, about their upcoming Radio Camps, offering…

  • Friday’s Radioshow On-line: Christian Broadcasters Trafficking in Low-Power Translator Stations

    My pal John Anderson was our guest on the show this past Friday again, since he’s been doing a lot of the digging into Calvary Chapel, Edgewater Broadcasting, their various associates/aliases and the exchange of FM translator station licenses. The program is now posted for download, streaming and podcasting. On the program, I neglected to…

  • Response to Virtual Reality Show

    On the Feb. 11 edition of the radioshow, we featured an interview with virtual reality programmer Dave Zielinski. Willam Rogers has posted a response to the interview on his blog Teleonomy: The interview stuck too closely to the mode of “virtual reality” (VR) as an immersive and/or responsive sensory experience, specifically directed at human eyes…

  • Recent Radio Shows for Download: FOX TV Station License Challenge; 5th Birthday of LPFM; 8th Annual Homelessness Marathon

    In case you don’t check the radioshow page every week, here’s the last few shows you might have missed. Remember, they’re all available for download in low bitrate and high bitrate MP3 and ogg vorbis. There’s also a podcast feed. mediageek 1-28-05: Former Fox TV Reporters Challenge Tampa Station License We talk to investigative reporters…

  • 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.…

  • Sorry for Mediageek Outage

    Some of you may have noticed that mediageek was out Thursday through Monday. This was the result of the commercial DSL line that feeds the mediageek server being cut abruptly. Mediageek is hosted on a community server that got DSL from a local ISP, which is basically a reseller of SBC DSL. The local ISP…

  • Interviewing Yes Men for Dec. 24 RadioShow

    In about half an hour Drew and I will be calling over to England to interview Mike Bonanno of the Yes Men, who recently pulled off a brilliant prank wherein they impersonated Dow Chemical representatives to the BBC, telling the network that Dow would be taking responsibility for the Bhopal chemical disaster 20 years ago.…