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Here's an mp3 audio file of actor Tim Robbin's address to the National Association of Broadcasters convention. In the speech, he decries the current state of discourse in the media.

media celebrity broadcast
april 2008 by McChris

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Ad Age: Media Work Force Sinks to 15-Year Low

This comes as no shock in light of my media jobs, but it's nice to have the validation.

jobs media economics advertising
february 2008 by McChris

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10 Zen Monkeys: Venezuela: Dispatch from a Surrealist Autocracy

This personal essay explains Hugo Chavez's history with the media and his current efforts to control it.

TV politics media Venezuela
june 2007 by McChris

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City Journal: The Media Cornucopia by Adam D. Thierer

This essay argues that the diversity of media available today negates any worries about media consolidation.

media blog politicaleconomy
april 2007 by McChris

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Four Eyed Monsters: “Humanity Lobotomy”

You should watch this video that compiles clips to make a case for networkneutrality. The most interesting part is how the Final Cut file is available for download.

networkneutrality video FCC media
february 2007 by McChris

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The Museum of Lost Interaction... Exhibits

This art project depicts fictitious obsolete technologies. It's pretty slick, but I have to say that there are plenty of old forgotten technologies that are just as weird.

media telecom art
february 2007 by McChris

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From Power to Authority in Communications Research

I haven't had a chance to read all of this, but this looks like a really interesting critical history of the communication discipline.

academic history power media
february 2007 by McChris

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RIAA Identifies 12 Piracy “Hot Spot” Cities

"Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, San Diego, and San Francisco – are all “hot spots” of music theft, with significant piracy problems from the manufacturer level all the way down to t

austin media intellectualproperty
january 2007 by McChris

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Pure Data

Pure Data "was created to explore ideas of how to further refine the Max paradigm with the core ideas of allowing data to be treated in a more open-ended way and opening it up to applications outside of audio and MIDI, such as graphics and video."

media music opensource geek
january 2007 by McChris

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Foreign Policy: Think Again: Rupert Murdoch

This article argues that Murdoch and News Corp. aren't as powerful as the highly capitalized tech titans.

business media myspace
january 2007 by McChris

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Reuters: User-generated Content Good for Old Media

"Traditional media companies are ideally placed to benefit from the explosion of user-generated content and should see it as an opportunity and not a threat even though the potential revenue is limited, a report says."

Web2.0 UGC media business
january 2007 by McChris

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Me, ‘Person of the Year’? No thanks

Siva Vaidhyanathan responds to Time's choice of "you" as person of the year.

Web2.0 media
december 2006 by McChris

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The Center for Public Integrity: Media Tracker

Punch in your Zip code, and this little Web app will show you a map of broadcast facilities in your area, and what interests own what media properties.

media map politicaleconomy broadcast
november 2006 by McChris

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Songbird Media Player

Cross-platform ,Mozilla-based media player that seemingly supports every media file out there. This looks promising, but it's only up to version 0.2.

music media OSX opensource
november 2006 by McChris

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Prof. Jenkins goes to Washington

Henry Jenkins' testimony before congress in the wake of the Columbine shootings.

youth publicpolicy media
november 2006 by McChris

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It all changed: a breakdown by industry and how to win

Steve Safran of Lost Remote discusses the impact the convergence of broadcast media and the web will have on various media industry segments.

TVontheWeb broadcast business media TV radio
september 2006 by McChris

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Vanity Fair: Help the Warmongers Help Themselves

A gag cover to put on issues of conservative opinion journal The Weekly Standard. It's interesting to see a mainstream publication engage in culture-jamming like this.

prank hack media politics magazine
september 2006 by McChris

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Clear Channel asks for changes in station ownership rules

The conglomerate wants to own up to twelve stations in the largest US markets, citing competition from sattelite radio and digital music players. I'm not sure this radio ownership issue even matters any more.

radio FCC publicpolicy media business
september 2006 by McChris

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When Media Ownership Means Life and Death

DIYmedia discusses the role of national and pirate media in the current uprising in Oaxaca.

Oaxaca Mexico anarchism media elections
august 2006 by McChris

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Language Log: Israelis killed, Lebanese die

This sure seems like how during the Hurricane Katrina aftermath whites "salvaged" and blacks "looted."

war race media
august 2006 by McChris

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The Cult of Pitchfork: How former record-store clerks and obsessive music nerds turned a Web site into a hit machine

This Austin Chronicle feature on the hipster music site reveals the early origins of the site and discusses its influence on the indie rock world.

music media indierock records reception
august 2006 by McChris

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Condé Nast Buys Wired News for $25 Mil.

It struck me as goofy when Wired News was spun off from the magazine. I hope the two outlets develop a shared editorial direction.

media magazine business
july 2006 by McChris

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Analysis: Rocketboom jumps the snark

Amanda Congdon may not have had a controlling stake in Rocketboom, but she was certainly the draw. Pushing her out of the project was a dumb, dumb idea.

TVontheWeb media news authorship
july 2006 by McChris

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Defending Markos And the Discourse Revolution

Juan Cole's take on the political establishment's increasingly strident criticism of blogs like Daily Kos. There's not that much new here, but it's worth reading nonetheless.

blog politics power media
june 2006 by McChris

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eboy XV » FTN_CommunicationCity_06t.png

eboy isometric pixel illustration of a "communication city" done for Fortune magazine. I would buy a print of this if it were available, but I guess I'll have to pick up the issue instead.

geek media art
may 2006 by McChris

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Internet Archive: Details: Media Burn

I was looking around for this for a presentation tomorrow, and, sweet sassy molassy, Ant Farm's groundbreaking video Media Burn is available on the Internet Archive.

history media TV video art archive
may 2006 by McChris

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The Great Failure of Wikipedia

Transcript of a speech with very insightful criticisms of Wikipedia.

design media Web2.0 wikipedia
april 2006 by McChris

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Internet Video Services Primed for Explosive Growth

Market research firm IDC expects Internet video to to grow to be a $1.7 billion business by 2010. That actually sounds a little low.

media video business TVontheWeb
april 2006 by McChris

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Web2.0 List, Web 2.0 Site

Via, O'Reilly Radar, an index of Web 2.0 companies and projects

ajax blog media business opensource Web2.0
april 2006 by McChris

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Forrester podcasting report - just 1% use podcasts

A Forrester research report says only a slim percentage of Internet users listen to podcasts. This doesn't surprise me in the least. I'm certainly an Internet power user, and I've never listened to one. Maybe if I had an iPod, I would.

podcasting media
april 2006 by McChris

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Death to User-Generated Content?

I'd like to write more about this later, but I've never liked the term "User-Generated Content" either.

citizensmedia Web2.0 co-optation business media
april 2006 by McChris

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Clooney Takes Aim at 'Gawker Stalker' Site

George Clooney plans to crapflood Gawker to make it's celebrity sightings useless. Interesting instance of a breakdown of trust on the semantic Web. :)

blog surveillance media celebrity
april 2006 by McChris

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Wisconsin Wise Guys Plot TV Takeover

"Ex-Onion writers shake up A tired comedy landscape"

TV media humor
march 2006 by McChris

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Lawrence Lessig: openDRM

Lessig on Sun Microsystem's effort to create an open DRM standard that would allow for fair-use. Like Lessig, I'm not crazy about this idea, but if we have to live with DRM, we should at least have an open standard.

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The Institute for the Future of the Book

project to reform the peer review process.

academic media newmedia education
march 2006 by McChris

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Netscape.com To Be Relaunched As a Digg-Like Site

Weblog Inc's Jason Calcanis is turning the AOL property into what Kevin Kelly calls a "consensus Web filter."

Web2.0 business media
march 2006 by McChris

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Your Tax Dollars, Analyzing Cartoon Butts

Rundown of FCC decency enforcement actions by the FCC

media TV FCC regulation
march 2006 by McChris

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Oh No Robot comics search

transcriptions of comics for Web search.

comics searchengine media
march 2006 by McChris

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Project Steev: "Urban" Definitions of Indymedia

Steev on how Indymedia is perceived by Urban Dicitionary users. Apparently, they find it anti-semitic.

indymedia citizensmedia media politics
march 2006 by McChris

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Let's put this headline in amber...

Josh Marshall's take on Cheney's shooting

politics media
february 2006 by McChris

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Twilight of the Blogs - Are they over as a business? By Daniel Gross
blog media business
february 2006 by McChris

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Just a Reminder...

Dan Gillmor's take on the media coverage of the Cheney shooting.

media politics
february 2006 by McChris

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Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet

Will "customary historic use" replace fair use in new IP legislation?

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Frames that bother me

LiveJournal entry with a nice analysis of the protests incited by a Danish cartoon.

media globalization race
february 2006 by McChris

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The Ultimate War Sim

right-wing critique of war simulations that raises many good points.

politics thereal gaming media
february 2006 by McChris

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TIME.com: How Reality TV Fakes It

I'm sure it's not news to anyone that reality shows are edited to create better stories, but it's interesting to see the issue treated in the mainstream media.

TV media thereal
february 2006 by McChris

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