Due to disastrous technical difficulties the live recording of this week’s show was lost. Instead, here is one from the archives: April 2, 2009 Geoff Dougherty is the founding editor of ChiTownDailyNews, a locally-focused news website employing professional journalists working with over 100 volunteer reporters to cover Chicago news not reported in the major mainstream […]

Environmental Encroachment is a Chicago-based marching band that bills itself as a magic circus band. The unit is a group of free-thinking musicians who are out there not just talking about reclaiming the streets for art and culture, but doing it. EE is on its way to a gathering of like-minded bands in Somerville, MA […]

My pal John Anderson of DIYmedia.net joins this week to talk over FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announcing two new network neutrality principles and the whole Commission endorsing low-power FM. Download/Podcast mediageek 24 September 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090924.mp3[/mp3]

My June 18 interview with radio industry veteran and the man behind InsideMusicMedia.com, Jerry Del Colliano, seems to be a favorite. This is no doubt due to Jerry’s unflinching observations on how the nation’s largest radio groups missed the boat on the internet generation while they were busy playing Monopoly with radio stations. So this […]

This week we listen to part two of my interview with Douglas Rushkoff, author of the new book Life Inc., How the World Became a Corporation and How We Can Take It Back. We discuss the importance and vitality of everyday independent and collective action, and the joy of grassroots, bottom up media. Download/Podcast: mediageek […]

Douglas Rushkoff is an author and grassroots media maker who recently published the new book Life, Inc. In the book Rushkoff explores how our corporate-dominated life came to be, looking to the corporation’s origins in the Renaissance and its path to modern hegemony. All the while Rushkoff contends that this path wasn’t inevitable, but is […]

Communication Workers of America release a study on broadband speed state-by-state, and CWA vice-president Annie Hill tells us the scores and what they mean. Also, the FCC announces a wide-ranging inquiry into wireless communications technology innovation and competition. Podcast/Download: mediageek 27 August 2009 broadcast quality mp3 Listen Now: [mp3]http://www.mediageek.net/sound/2009/mg20090827.mp3[/mp3]

Tim Hwang is a researcher with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and he recently co-authored a short research report examining the new FCC commissioners for the Pelican Group. In the report, titled “Uncertain Futures,” Hwang and co-author Erikk Hokenson look focus particularly on the two new commissioners, Republican Meredith Atwell Baker and Democrat […]

The Illinois Citizens Utility Board looks out for consumers’ rights when dealing with utility companies, including both telephone and cell phone companies. CUB’s communications director, Jim Chilsen, joins to explain more about how everyone can save money on land-line and cell phone bills by looking out for unnecessary charges and services. Podcast/Download: mediageek 13 August […]

Recently Apple’s iPhone app store came under scrutiny again when news surfaced that the new Google Voice application had been blocked. Though no reason has been specified by Apple, there are strong suspicions that the company is attempting to prevent competition from AT&T’s voice service and other businesses that Google Voice might pose a challenge […]