Category: the grassroots

Friday’s mediageek radio show is now on-line. It features an interview with Pablo De Ocampo, the director of the Independent Publishing Resource Center, along with the usual media news headlines. Listen in mp3 or ogg vorbis: Broadcast quality mp3 (64 kbps – 13 MB) Low -bandwidth mp3 (16 kbps – 4 MB) Broadcast quality Ogg…

Low-power FM radio crusader Don Schellhardt has the newest installment of his column series “Amendment One” up over at DIYmedia.net. The topic is the “LPFM Summer,” urging all supporters to take two steps: “The 2 steps are: (1) writing or Faxing the Washington offices of your 1 U.S. Representative and 2 U.S. Senators, during a…

It only took a Freedom of Information Act request and the subtle threat of filing suit to bring it to light, but the FCC finally released the Mitre report on low-power FM interference issues. The report was mandated by Congress as part of the Radio Broadcasting Preservation Act of 2000 which gutted the rollout of…

Wired News has an article about how independent and community media activists are using the net to distribute programming. What’s interesting to me is that the focus is not just on streaming video, but also on using the net to distribute video from producers to public access TV stations. The video group at the Urbana-Champaign…

Aj Michel, the “zine queen” (or, “zine lady, according to WEFT’s station manager) from the mediageek radioshow, has the newest edition of her ‘zine Low Hug assembled and ready for shipping: Castoff Culture: a guide to noteworthy books, films, LPs, musicians, television shows and more overlooked and ignored by the mainstream! Fifteen different contributors! Over…

If you can get free for the weekend of June 13-15, then you owe it to yourself to go to the Allied Media Conference, put on by the good folks over at Clamor Magazine, in Bowling Green, Ohio. The AMC is an expansion of the Underground Publishing Conference, which last year celebrated its fourth year.…

I thought this was kind of interesting and curious. The China Daily newspaper published an article today on Pacifica entitled “Rebel radio station makes ‘antiwar’ waves on air.” A little investigation turns up a similar story on the Islam Online website, only rewritten some and titled “Pacifica Makes Comeback As Anti-war Radio.” This version says…

I’ve not been blogging the last few days because I’ve been saturated with other indie media work. I just finished a video document of the big (by Champaign-Urbana standards) anti-war protest that took place last Thursday and basically took over the streets of the University of Illinois campus, which is central to the twin city…

I’m excited for April this year, because the Urbana-Champaign IMC has a load of truly indy film and video events going on. The U-C IMC’s Video group has been the most fun I’ve had at IMC in some time, and we decided to throw a mini film-festival in April, that just coincidentally happens at the…

Last Monday the Washington Post ran a sympathetic and fair profile on Amy Goodman, the tireless host of Pacifica Radio’s daily news program Democracy Now. Then she appeared on PBS’s Charlie Rose program on Wednesday, but I missed it due to be pre-empted locally. The transcript is available on the Democracy Now website, where you…