It’s up at the Public Radio Exchange. We hope that public radio stations across the country will download the program and air it on their stations, since the issue of “Net Neutrality” has gained more widespread attention over the past month.
David blogs, “Here’s the part that I think people will find most amusing: Powell and Hundt are so far apart on several key issues that they’ve never had a conversation. They’ve never even appeared at the same conference, to the knowledge of anybody I know. (Readers, here’s your chance to show you’re smarter than us writers!)”.
Thanks to David for his work on the project and on an excellent conference! And many thanks to Joe Craven for allowing us to use music from his record.
Today, thousands in cities across the country from New York to San Francisco to Chicago to Boston joined in protest against the major telephone companies. These companies are spending one million dollars a day lobbying Congress to re-write the nation’s telecommunications laws–while press reports reveal that these same companies provided the calling records of tens of millions of Americans to the U.S. government.
Here in Boston, a statewide coalition held a rally and press conference at the Massachusetts State House joining in the nationwide day of protests.
After having survived a 72 hour work week in preparation for our Berkman Center co-sponsored conference this weekend at Harvard Law School, Beyond Broadcast 2006 was a great success! Over 300 attendees from across the country and abroad were in attendance to discuss the future of participatory media beyond traditional broadcasting. The conference was made possible through an exciting collaboration of organizers and sponsors including:
During the two days (May 12 & 13), commerical, public, and community broadcasters rubbed shoulders bloggers, podcasters, and videobloggers to discuss and debate the role of public media in a digital media landscape. One where MySpace, YouTube, Ourmedia, and Internet Archive (to name a few) are changing the way people participate with media and communicate with one another in a global society.
A number of the conference organizers blogged the Day 1 sessions at the Beyond Broadcast blog:
* Pat Aufderheide blogged the opening keynote with Pete Boyle from Duke Law School on the policy and legal questions facing open media in a participatory culture.
For a full list of other sessions and high order bits blogged, visit Beyond Broadcast and follow the left column titled “Read” and follow the the link on the bottom to previous posts. I’ll have to spend some time here myself!
I spent most of my time during the conference (when not worried about the audio, video, and wi-fi not working) uploading some amazing interviews conducted by my co-worker Amanda Michel and Daniel Krawcyk of Digital Bicycle and POSM, during both days of the conference. Visit AudioBerkman to download the podcasts of their conversations with Nolan Bowie, John Lester, Jamie Biggar, Jay Dedman and others. Thank you Amanda and Daniel!
I did find some time to snap a few photos and capture part of Charlie Nesson’s closing remarks on Day 1.
I’ve been running around like a crazy person at the Berkman Center this week, working with so many great people on all the final details for the Beyond Broadcast conference taking place at the Harvard Law School, this Friday and Saturday.
Jeff did an amazing job working overtime on the poster design (pictured here on the left) and putting together the program book for the conference. Thanks, Jeff!
I printed the name tags for the conference this evening and I was blown away by all of the amazing people coming to the conference.
The schedule for the conference is here and if you’re not able to make it (registration closed today) there are still many ways to participate in the conference. The video webstream will go live on Friday morning at 8:30 and the link will be made available at the conference website. There is also a question tool there to use to add your thoughts and vote on questions from others. If you find interesting links related to the conference topics, tag your del.icio.us links with beyondbroadcast and they’ll show up on the front page of the site.
There’s a room in Second Life, a virtual Ames Courtroom (the room where the conference is being held at Harvard Law School) that will also be webstreaming the conference.
So, if you can’t make it. Join us online and check back after the conference for audio, video, and more multimedia from the conference.
I was interviewed today by Hiram Scott of the Boston Neighborhood Producers Group about bills in Congress threatening access to Community Media and the Internet. We also discussed ways that people can get involved and take action now to ensure that Congress protects the public interest in communications policy making.
This interview was aired live on May 7, 2006 on WRBB 104.9 FM at Northeastern University in Boston, MA.
Click here to watch a short video with Hiram Scott (above).
Click here to view more pictures from the interview inside the WRBB studio.
Hiram Scott and I (above) at WRBB 104.9 FM in Boston.
For more information about the issues discussed in the program, and to learn how you can get involved, visit SaveAccess.org and SaveTheInternet.com and take action today!
This is my first official “videoblog” post. What’s that?
Well, It’s only fitting that I should videoblog Steve Garfield videoblogging, of course (. . .or, duh). So, here’s a video of Steve talking about videoblogging at the Podcast Academy last weekend at BU.
He rudely interrupted a very important conversation of videobloggers, talking about whatever videobloggers talk about. Click here to watch.
Now, here’s Steve’s version from his podium at the conference. Are they the same? Could they be different? Hmmm. . .You decide.
Visit Steve’s blog to watch his presentation at the Podcast Academy.
Watch other podcasts from the conference at the Podcast Academy archive.
David Isenberg and I finished an hour long radio show today that we’ve been working on over the past month, titled “Four Voices from Freedom to Connect“.
Now, here’s 