Love or hate the majors (or Linkin Park), one of its own, Mike Shimoda, is supporting Creative Commons licensing with a Fort Minor remix contest. Fort Minor is Shimoda’s side project signed to Warner Brothers. The Creative Commons licensing concept is intended to be a more open-ended means of distribution. Learn more about Creative Commons [...]
Riseup.net provides a variety of free email and list services to the progressive community. If you have the means, the collective is certainly worth supporting. Here’s its latest appeal:
The people behind riseup.net consist of about ten active collective members and volunteers at any given time. Unfortunately, we work on riseup.net in the small bits of [...]
“I am looking for knowledgeable individuals to help me create audiofiles on the Mexican Revolution. Yes the audio podcasts would benefitthe members of this group, but more importantly they would be madeavailable to the whole Mexican/Chicano/Indigenous community. Pleasehelp me get the message out to the people in audio format.
“I’m the moderator of the “not for [...]
‘Eve teasing’ is slang for street harassment of women in India. The Blank Noise Project is an campaign to draw attention to online sexual harassment aimed against women in India. The site features testimonies and more. By all means, give these accounts a read and learn how you can help.
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Arbitron’s adoption of PPM, regarded by many radio professionals to be far more accurate than the company’s old diaries, could make major waves, as could Clear Channel’s attempt to launch its own PPM-style service. Since this piece came out a day or so ago, RadioOne, which runs the Box (97.9) and Majic 102 (among others), [...]
A network of women journalists in Africa has launched a new Web site, [...]
For those interested in editing MP3 files, this new tool might be of some interest. Non-destructive and free.
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Just a heads-up that, starting March Program Director’s Report, I will be taking email and instant messages (via Yahoo Messenger and AIM) along with calls. In addition, I’ll be airing the first batch of listener comments from the KPFT Comment Line. Jayn (our intern) and I tried to pare the comment line segment to one [...]
Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in P.R. Campaign
By MICHAEL BARBARO
New York Times
Published: March 7, 2006
It was the kind of pro-Wal-Mart comment the giant retailer might write itself. And, in fact, it did.
Several sentences in Mr. Pickrell’s Jan. 20 posting — and others from different days — are identical to those written by an employee at one of [...]
Philly strikes a deal with EarthLink that also serves social programs and the economically disadvantaged. Internet radio stations can certainly get a boost from this too.
Philly, Earthlink Wi-Fi deal to pay for computers, training
by Deborah Yao, Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia Mayor John Street said Wednesday that the city has signed agreements with Earthlink to own, [...]
Pakistani bloggers are appealing for help after the nation’s government banned all blogspot blogs. Access to view or blog from blogspot is now blocked in Pakistan. Blogspot.com in a Google-owned free blogging service, and Pakistani bloggers say the government is seeking to censor the widespread anti-American sentiment that is cresting amid recent Bush Administration failures. [...]
More on podcasting, following up on yesterday’s post. This comes from Current:
Listeners eat up podcasts so pubradio adds lots more
Originally published in Current, Feb. 21, 2006
By Mike Janssen
NPR launched the third phase of its podcast project Feb. 7 [2006], expanding a broad collaborative effort that regularly puts pubradio titles among the [...]
Given all the media discussion about podcasting, this American Journalism Review piece on news podcasting offers a unique angle to a growing area.
iPod, You Pod, We All Pod
Eager to lure news consumers, media outlets are experimenting with news-on-demand podcasts. They’re fun, fresh—and often unpolished
By Deborah Potter
The “ABC News Shuffle” sounds like something the network’s executives [...]
Google appears to be jumping toward radio. Check this out:
Google to Acquire Dmarc Broadcasting
Mountain View, CA - Jan 17, 2006 - Google has agreed to acquire Dmarc Broadcasting. Google plans to integrate Dmarc technology into the Google Ad Words platform to create a new radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.
Dmarc has stated that its [...]
One of the more common programmer questions has to do with minidisc recorders. I highly recommend Radio College for an exhaustive primer on gear, radio craft, etc. If you’re a complete newbie, and even if you are experienced and could always soak up more knowledge, that site will be a real boon to you.The kind [...]
Clear Channel is supporting this item. Hmmmm! The actual product website is here.
‘iRadio’ to Crowd Radio in the Dash
Clear Channel Plans to Participate as a Program Vendor to New Motorola Service
by Leslie Stimson
Move over, iPod; Motorola plans to ship its second “iRadio” device to stores by the end of the quarter.
Radio World reported on the [...]
For you hardcore audiophiles, a new audio Wiki.
Speaking of nice audio, the volunteer MD packs are equipped with Sony MZ-R37s and Shure VP64s. Speaking from experience, I highly recommend the VP64s. I joke that I will be laid to rest with mine. Great microphone, with a sleek look to boot.
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