Category: the grassroots

Brad Johnson is a former Clear Channel radio engineer, a driving force behind Partytown on-line radio and a public access TV programmer in his hometown of Modesto, CA. He’s raised a bit of ruckus by showing on his public access TV show a clip of Clear Channel shock-jock Bubba the Love Sponge slaughtering a live…

Local wireless Internet efforts were profiled in yesterday’s Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette. The story covers a company offering high-speed connections via microwave, along with our local grassroots free wireless Internet group.

We see them all the time: posters, flyers, pamphlets, catalogs. But how much notice do we take? Often, they only require a few moments attention, and yet so much about a time and place is communicated. And unlike our tradition conception of the mass media and press, the production of these forms of printed communication…

Wired News reports on efforts to set up an Internet connection to California treesitters so that they can communicate via a weblog to the outside world. This project sounds like one that Anarchogeek has reported on. He’s even got pictures of the treesit network.

Zoe Mitchell, a media activist (and finishing student), has completed a thesis entitled “A Critique of Consensus Process,” that she has also posted to the DC IMC, where she has been a volunteer. In her introduction she notes that one of her motivations for writing the piece comes from her experiences in consensus processes at…

The Washington Post’s Magazine Reader stumbles upon Zine Guide and gets all aflutter about ‘zines: “Zine Guide makes my heart swell with patriotic pride. It makes me want to wave the flag. It gives me warm, fuzzy feelings about my fellow Americans, who are, it reveals, a delightfully diverse, eccentric, quirky, cranky, compulsive, obsessive and…

In the spirit of making sure information gets spread around, click more below to read the “banned Mitnick chapter.” It’s an interesting read. And if you believe his narrative at all, it depicts an hysterical media driving an irrational, illegal and outrageous persecution of someone who caused very little real harm. Mirror it yourself, e-mail…

2600 notes that the “banned Mitnick chapter” — from ex-celebrity hacker Kevin Mitnick’s new book — has been released onto a Yahoo discussion group. … It always lifts my spirits to see some banned, censored or edited-out text released onto the wilds of the Internet. Secrets only benefit the secretive and privileged minority. …

These publications were featured during the ‘zines segment on today’s mediageek radio show: M@B Comics: New issue posted – “What are We Waiting For?” 28 Pages Loving Bound with Twine, Issue #5 Available for $2 from Christoph Meyer, PO Box 106, Danville, OH 43014 Fish with Legs, Issue #7 Available for $1 from Eric Lyden,…

Wired News reports that Russians, including journalists, have been using blogs at LiveJournal.com to report news that won’t make it through the increasingly censored mainstream Russian media. In the most recent case, an dancer held hostage by the Chechen rebels used his cell phone to send messages to the outside which were posted on a…