Paul catches up with a boatload of media news, including what’s going on at the FCC with media ownership and indecency, a look at some simmering telecomm mergers and more.
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Jake Sexton is a fiercely independent blogger and podcaster who takes the mainstream media to taske every day on his blog, and every week on his radioshow. As part of our effort to talk to regular folks busy making their own media, Paul interviews Jake about his projects, and about the state of media in Jake’s hometown of San Diego, CA.
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Paul catches up with the news of our media environment, including the recent release of documents relating to the US government’s seizure of Indymedia servers last year and the FCC’s approval of LPFM licenses for Calvary Chapel churches.
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The MP3 files have been fixed due to a problem just discovered — the feature interview was muted. If you’ve downloaded any of the MP3s of this program, you will want to re-download them. My apologies for the problem.
Odeo is a new web-based podcasting application that allows users to easily find and listen to podcasts, as well as produce their own audio, just using a browser. Paul talks to Evan Henshaw-Plath, a developer for Odeo, about this new web service and its implications for more democratic media production.
We also listen to an interview with Bob Ugly of Free Radio San Diego, a three-year-old unlicensed community radio station that was shut down by the FCC on July 21. That interview comes to us courtesy of the V-Man at Free Radio Santa Cruz.
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This week we continue our conversation with Evan Henshaw-Plath, a developer for the on-line podcasting application Odeo.com. Evan has an extensive independent media resume, and we talk about the relationship between podcasting and independent media, and the role of innovation.
We also listen to an interview with filmmaker Michael Lahey, who discusses his documentary on pirate radio in Tuscon, AZ, Making Waves.
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