Guest appearance on community radio KAOS

Broadband, consolidation and neutrality are my subjects this evening on Olympia’s community radio station KAOS. In order of their attribution on the show, here are the links to my sources from tonight’s 30 minutes.
Broadband money begins to flow from Broadband Breakfast
The Killer App of 1900 by Glenn Fleishman on Publicola, Seattle’s News Elixir
Research shows doubts [...]

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Call your Senators! LPFM expansion has never been closer

Big news from Prometheus Radio… Time to call your Senators! UPDATE: Free Press has an easy way to email your Senators to tell them to vote in support of community radio.
The Local Community Radio Act passed the House of Representatives Wednesday evening with a resounding voice vote and now moves to the Senate. The bill [...]

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America’s regression, Consolidation, Wars

TOP 4
America’s regression by Glenn Greenwald
Liberal Dems take aim at war funding
‘The war is in Pakistan right now‘ says Jeremy Scahill
Editors reporting to sales managers at Dallas newspaper
AMERICA’S BIGGEST CABLE CO. WANTS MORE POWER
Why the FCC should stop Comcast NBC from PC World
Commissioner Copps on merger: ‘They face a steep climb with me‘
Congress to scrutinize [...]

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Stop the Comcast NBC merger!

Click here to go to the Free Press action page. Click here to read more first.

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News reading from Tuesday

Clear Channel’s frightening plans for 2010
Promoting broadband diversity within the law by Mark Lloyd
Libraries dying for bandwidth from Ars Technica
Cable companies’ big Internet swindle from Free Press
EU overcomes final hurdle for overhaul of telecom rules
Defining open mobile from Telephony Online
Why AT&T can’t win its ‘map for that’ battle with Verizon
Jackson Sun editor goofs on citizen [...]

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November 10th news headlines

Google bringing free WiFi to 47 U.S. airports, $ for charity
Dirty truth about rural broadband from Free Press
Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater approved payoffs of Iraqi officials
New evidence of Pharma’s sweetheart deal from New Republic
Google says Rupert Murdoch can go ahead and take off stories
Dalai Lama sticks his thumb in the Dragon’s eye
Blaming the workers by Dave [...]

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Saturday Afternoon Reading

Secret plan to undermine US dollar by Robert Fisk
Roundup: Kerry-Boxer climate bill reactions from Grist
Roundup: Patriot Act vote reactions from EFF
Obama stalls telecom immunity lobbying records FOIA, “inter-agency” says DOJ

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Monday Night News

Free Press supports FCC in case against Comcast
Cloud computing: IBM corporate email undercuts Google
Local radio is a grassroots effort for California LPFM
America’s PR revolution: Outraged denial by David Sirota

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Friday morning

Millions spent by lobby firms to oppose health care reform
Pawlenty hands stimulus funds to telecom industry from Minn. Independent
GE apparently ready to sell NBC Universal to Comcast
Media Minutes: Product placement on TV shows from Free Press

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Save the News event energizes Denver

Reclaim the Media published my report on the IWantMyRocky.com and Free Press event in Denver last week. It was cool.
Read all about it by clicking HERE.

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Lessig on Colbert

Lawrence Lessig, author of Remix, told viewers of the Colbert Report on Thursday to remix their interview, after Colbert suggested viewers should not take pieces of their conversation and drop cool beats behind them. I haven’t figured out how to get Comedy Central videos to embed, so here’s the link to the interview.
This is a [...]

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DTV article in Boise Weekly

Check out my feature on the transition to digital television signals from today’s Boise Weekly HERE.
I took this flashy photo of a DTV poster at Boise’s downtown post office.

Thanks to Peter Morrill at Idaho Public Television, Loris Taylor at Native Public Media, Megan Tady at Free Press and Nathaniel Hoffman at Boise Weekly for helping [...]

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Digital Crossroads- Radio and Records

Download or listen to today’s 30-minute Digital Crossroads HERE. If you are short on time, but want to know what’s happening , you can also listen to a shorter segment (7:30) highlighting the Local Community Radio Act and ongoing webcasting royalty disputes HERE.
Today’s Digital Crossroads includes headlines covering: minority representation lawsuits against Arbitron, a study [...]

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Digital Crossroads is back!

Digital Crossroads is back. Hosted by Radioactive Gavin with headlines, clips and original interviews focusing on community media, grassroots activists and government officials.
LISTEN to or DOWNLOAD the pilot.
Pilot features interviews from the 2008 Free Press Conference on media reform. Dennis Moynihan of Democracy Now! and Free Speech TV. Joe Torres of Free Press. Sam Husseini [...]

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In Minneapolis… Day 2

The second day, Friday, I was up pretty early helping out with Free Speech TV. I ran sound in their amazing and fancy satellite truck. The opening speakers represented a solid mix of viewpoints, with Yolanda Hippensteele, Josh Silver and Robert McChesney (all of Free Press) introducing Adriene Maree Brown from Ruckus Society (who was [...]

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In Minneapolis… DAY 1

The first day, Thursday, I spent quality travel time with Karen Toering of Reclaim the Media and Angela Ballantyne of UW Communication Studies. We arrived at the airport early in the morning, before the storms started kicking up.
Then I caught up with Nathan James of Media and Democracy Coalition, who is live-blogging the conference. I’m [...]

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Free Press Media Reform Conference

Craig Aaron, Communications Director of Free Press, was a guest on my radio show Friday May 30th.
LISTEN HERE to the interview on its own. Or LISTEN HERE to the interview within the context of the entire show, which focused more broadly on international press freedom.
Time flies when two verbose media activists get chattin’… Craig and [...]

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