Expect Resistance & Library Autonomous Zone

Project Censored 2005 - Top 25 Censored Stories

#1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy

#2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Holds Corporations Accountable

#3: Bush Administration Censors Science

#4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians

#5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources

#6: The Sale of Electoral Politics

#7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments

#8: Cheney’s Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy

#9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11

#10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits

#11: The Media Can Legally Lie

#12: The Destabilization of Haiti

#13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron’s Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall

#14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies

#15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses

#16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens

#17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization

#18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies

#19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming the World’s Supermarket

#20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN

#21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs

#22: Censoring Iraq

#23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America

#24: Reinstating the Draft

#25: Wal-Mart Brings Inequality and Low Prices to the World

Free Press News : FCC media rules remain in limbo

Consumer activists, backed by smaller and independent media concerns, challenged the rules and won. A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled in June 2004 that the FCC had failed to justify its overhaul of the media regulations. It ordered the agency to reconsider the rules, which were stayed. The deadline to appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court was originally set for Dec. 3. But the latest extension to the case eliminates any chance that it could be argued in late winter and decided before the court adjourns at the end of June, said Harold Feld, associate director of Media Access Project, a Washington-based public interest law firm that challenged the FCC rules.

Podcasting is DIY radio for programmers and listeners alike. Will it save us from corporate radio? Or further isolate us inside our own miniature media worlds?
BY DAN KENNEDY. The Boston Phoenix,
January 3, 2005.

Thanks to MediaCitizen

Regret The Error

Here’s the first BOTM for 2005: Regret The Error. this site “reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications, and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in North American media.”

BBC - Radio 4 - Publish or Be Damned

Open access in the news!

Lawrence Lessig

Stewart Brand, author of The Media Lab and The Clock of the Long Now wrote about
Lawrence Lessig’s 1999 book, Code and other laws of cyberspace this way:
“Lawrence Lessig is a James Madison of our time, crafting the lineaments of a well-tempered cyberspace. This book is a primer of “running code” for digital civilization. Like Madison, Lessig is a model of balance, judgement, ingenuity, and persuasive argument.”
Now, Lessig is undertaking an innovative update of the book. Making the text of the first edition available under a Creative Commons open access license and inviting colloboration through a wiki.

Beginning in February, we’ll be posting Version 1 of Code to a Wiki. “Chapter Captains” will then supervise updates and corrections. Depending upon the progress, sometime near June, I will take the product and edit and rewrite it to produce Code, v2. The Wiki will stay live forever (under a Creative Commons license). The edited book will be published in the fall. I have donated my advance for Code, v2 to Creative Commons. All royalties beyond the advance will be donated as well.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Podcasts bring DIY radio to the web

“Podcasting” is the prototype for distributing sound files automatically. It’s pirate radio without breaking the law. It’s the next step in information distribution.
This article gives a good, non-technical overview and background. Today you can listen to mom and pop radio; tomorrow, congressional hearings, city council meetings, universtity lectures….