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Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
As I've been working on course design for a class I'll be teaching this Fall ("Be the Media" - a first year seminar here at Cazenovia), I've been thinking about the centrality of strong content to media production. The media production skills I'll be teaching to my students are facilitative, ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
Great session this afternoon on governance in community media, but my laptop was low on juice so I didn't get to blog during it. A nice range of talks by Laura Stein, Natalie Fenton, and others. This is a conference where I feel at home (and swamped by the range ...
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Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
That's the implication of this report from RTDNA/Hofstra University. And a significantly larger portion seem to not be wholly digital in their capture/production process.
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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
The AFL-CIO has come out in favour of the Performance Rights Act, which would introduce performance royalty fees for broadcasters in the United States.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
There's been a spate of interesting articles in the past few days, about scams operated by and through Farmville (and similar applications), and now Facebook clamping down on groups that 'sell' fans to those wishing to increase their numbers.
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Joe Feria-Galicia has done awesome coverage of the recent GEO events, and he has created an MP3 with his raw audio:MP3
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Sunday, November 15th, 2009
My old grad union (still feels funny to frame it that way) is going on strike in the morning, after they failed to reach agreement with the University of Illinois. The sticking point in the end turned out to be tuition waivers - the University wanted the right to remove ...
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
My ICR colleague Andrew Kennis has a fairly comprehensive overview of the US healthcare situation at Al Jazeera.net, drawing in part on an interview with Wendell Potter, but with far more facts and figures, from a range of sources, drawn together. A good primer for those who've been out of ...
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Wednesday, October 7th, 2009
From RadioWorld:
"There are a total of 30,473 licensed U.S. broadcast stations. That’s as of June 30, according to the Federal Communications Commission.
Of that total, 14,355 are radio stations, breaking down as 4,789 AMs, 6,460 FM commercial and 3,106 FM non-commercial. Another 858 LPFMs are counted separately."
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Sunday, September 20th, 2009
The Green Party urge changes to NAMA legislation.
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