Archive for October, 2005
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
One of the first emails I sent to my friends back in Ireland after arriving in Urbana dealt, in part, with the wonderfully diverse radio station that is WEFT. Although I mentioned in particular the Grateful Dead hour, as an example of the eclectic programming, I could just as easily ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2005
Harold Pinter is the 2005 Nobel laureate in literature. As Wikipedia notes:Pinter opposed the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 Invasion of Iraq. In 2005 he announced that he was retiring from writing plays to dedicate himself to political campaigning. Pinter is an avowed critic of the Iraq war and ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
Paul has the announcement on Media Geek - the first meeting (for this year) of our reading group on participatory media will be this Thursday, 7pm, in the meeting room at the back of Guiliani's. We'll start with some excerpts from Downing's Radical Media. All are welcome, and we'll be ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2005
Surveillance camera atop the "Freedom Museum"Originally uploaded by smith.I spent a long weekend in Chicago at AoIR. Generally good fun, meeting old friends and new, and having those conversations where everything becomes an object of possible academic critique. I spent much of my time volunteering and talking with ...
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Friday, October 7th, 2005
The BCI has completed their review of their policy on derogations from news and current affairs requirements. They have decided to keep the form of derogations the same - only allowing derogations from the 20% news/C.A. requirement for broadcasts from 1-7am - and to clarify the criteria which will influence ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Fionse has a very interesting piece about Irish language podcasting on their site. It seems that irish langauge material, by virtue of its particular niche, may be where the most pressure will come for podcasting by RTÉ - I know it was a large part of my interest in chasing ...
Posted in Public Service Media | Comments Off on Irish broadcasters to podcast?
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Earlier this year I provided a brief report of my complaint to the Irish Labour Party. It's been a long and eventful summer since then. On 16th September, after a round or two of correspondence, I reconfirmed my complaint and made another formal submission by email.
This morning, 4th October, I ...
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
When I started using my current iTunes track as an AIM 'available' message - in response to seeing various people use it for messages such as going for grocerie soon. Wanna join me? - one of my friends pointed me towards this essay.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
WRFU will be holding a fundraising benefit this Thursday at Cowboy Monkey. Should be good fun. I'd be there if I weren't due to be in Chicago preparing for my presentation at the AoIR.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Just recently I'd been reading about, and telling others about, the use of the phrase and a pony, when making wish lists. And then I come across this piece, about a documentary on the inside story of Kerry's presidential campaign:It is marked with bizarre moments such as when Loftus rants ...
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