Archive for June, 2005
Sunday, June 26th, 2005
Tá mír ag Imeallach ag meabhrú ar an seans go dtosnóidh Radio na Gaeltachta (RnaG) le podcasts. Tá fógra ag an stáisiún ag rá:Táthar ag obair i láthair na huaire ar chóras nua do chomhaid fuaime chláracha RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta.. Nílim fein cinnte gur podcasting a mbeidh ann - ...
Posted in Online communication | 1 Comment »
Sunday, June 26th, 2005
From today's ZNet commentary:Now, however, I get confused looks, pained questions, and heads shaking quietly in disbelief and disappointment. Don't the American people know, I am asked, again and again. Explain please, they persist, how, after the publication of pictures from Abu Ghraib, Bush got re-elected? Don't the American people ...
Posted in International Affairs | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 25th, 2005
The Italian case against U.S. agents who carried out an 'extraordinary rendition' of an Eygptian man from that country (to Eygpt) is receiving a lot of coverage today (including earlier on NPR's All Things Considered Weekend Edition). The essence of the story, from Jeanne d'Arc at This Modern World, is ...
Posted in International Affairs | Comments Off on Italians bring case against CIA officers over abuction, ‘rendition’ of Eygptian
Saturday, June 25th, 2005
This is bizarre. The U.S. copyright office is proposing that the compsulory right of artists to record covers (subject to a non-discriminatory fee) be abolished. The record companies are opposing the move - so for once they're seeing the problems with decreasing options to build on prior art, since their ...
Posted in Intellectual property issues | Comments Off on Removing the right to cover?
Saturday, June 25th, 2005
Via Clancy I came across word of an article by Robert Spoo in the Yale Law Review that argues that Ulysses is out of copyright in the United States. The core of the argument seems to be that since Joyce and the publishers of Ulysses did not comply with the ...
Posted in Intellectual property issues | Comments Off on Ulysses out of copyright?
Friday, June 24th, 2005
The Competition Directorate ("DG Competition in EU-speak) has announced that it
Posted in Media regulation | Comments Off on EU to focus on competition in new media, telecoms, in 2005
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Flirt FM, the Galway student radio station where I got my first radio experience, has launched a call for tenders to run a strategic review of the station and help develop a five-year plan for the station. I include the call below.
Posted in Flirt FM | Comments Off on Flirt FM to do strategic review
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
The EU Parliament has finally voted to reform the salary scale and expenses system for MEPs. Up to now MEPs have had salaries equivalent to those of national representatives in their countries, which has meant extremely wide variances in pay levels. In order, in part, to alleviate this MEPs have ...
Posted in Income and poverty | Comments Off on EU Parliament salaries reformed
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
The role of the RTÉ Authority, as the management body of RTÉ and the buffer between RTÉ and government, is an important one. In the early 1970s the government removed the authority members en masse when they refused to follow government directions (and broadcast an interview with the then Chief-of-Staff ...
Posted in Public Service Media | Comments Off on No RTE Authority in place for last month
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Word today that there's going to be movement on the European software patents issue in early July. The European Parliament will vote on the second reading of the directive sometime between fifth and seventh July. FFII, who have been running much of the campaign against the patents, claim that lobbying ...
Posted in Intellectual property issues | Comments Off on Software patent decision shortly