Category: the grassroots

On this Friday’s radioshow–airing at 5:30 PM on WEFT 90.1 FM in Champaign IL, and archived here by Monday night–we’ll listen to an interview Drew did with Mike Bonnano of the Yes Men last week. Drew and Mike talk about the recent Dow Chemical hoax as well as the history and philosophy of the Yes…

Free Radio Berkeley just announced their 2005 workshop schedule, which includes their low-power television session. While this may be the start of a new pirate TV movement in the US, pirate TV has been alive in Italy for several years and was used in Eastern Europe during Soviet times. Demand Media directed me to a…

My friend Brent MacDonald is a World Fellow for PBS’ Frontline and traveled to Guatemala earlier this year “to uncover the history of a village that was caught in the crossfire of Guatemala’s civil war.” A series of six short documentary videos are now at the Frontline/World Fellows website. Brent was one of the founding…

Jason Scott has an interesting critique of Wikipedia, from the standpoint of a contributor. He isn’t criticizing the wiki method, per se, so much as this particular institution of the method. And unlike many other critiques of Wikipedia I’ve read, he isn’t questioning the credibility of the content, but how content is manipulated and deleted…

Free Radio Berkeley recently announced that they have designed and developed “low power VHF and UHF transmitters by the creative use of off-the-shelf technology.” They have planned workshops to teach people how to build and operate these transmitters. There’s a short video demonstrating a basic setup posted to Indybay. I think it’s a cool idea…

File this under: don’t miss it until it’s gone. Rabble’s Indyblogs is an aggregator of syndication feeds from bloggers who are associated with Indymedia. Over the six months or so that it’s been around, it’s become one of my favorite websites, giving me great one-stop-shopping for a pile of great blogs written by smart indymedia…

Now this is a reason to go to San Diego in early October — The National Association of Broadcasters is holding its annual Radio Show convention in San Diego on Oct. 6 – 9. The San Diego IMC along with Free Radio San Diego and other local organizations is hosting Media EmergenC, an independent media…

We’ve got the opening and closing plenary videos on-line from last weekend’s National Summit on Community Wireless Networks. Both plenaries were great. In particular, Harold Feld, associate director of the Media Access Project, gave a call to the audience to spend 5 minutes a day to protect and enlarge wireless networking spectrum, during the opening.…

The AP ran a story on this weekend’s Summit that got picked up by USA Today. What’s kind of nice about this sort of “event journalism” is that reporters and editors don’t typically feed the need to go dig up an opposing viewpoint in order to justify their supposed objectivity. Thus the AP article doesn’t…

The National Summit on Community Wireless Networks ended a few hours ago, on a high, but tired note. This was one of the best conferences I’ve been to, from the standpoint that everyone attending is smart, experienced and has valuable thoughts to share. For those of you who couldn’t make it, there will be audio…