MGP2006: Democracy & Independence -- Sharing News & Politics in a Connected World

AUDIO: Barry Parr and Lisa Williams talk about their "placeblogs" on two coasts

At the Citizen Media Summit in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 5, 2006, Barry Parr, of Coastsider in Montera, Calif., and Lisa Williams of H20town.info in Watertown, Mass., talked about their respective "placeblogs." 

LISTEN TO THEIR TALKS:
Download jlab-parr-williams-10-05-06.mp3  (27.6MB, 1 hr., 29 secs.)

AUDIO: WAMC, Albany, N.Y; WMUA-Amherst interviews with Bill Densmore

The National Public Radio affliate for Albany, N.Y., WAMC -- 90.3 -- interviewed Bill Densmore by phone for a segment of its weekly news roundup aired at 9 p.m. on Friday, June 30, 2006. Here's  a link to the MP3 of the interview, which lasted about 10 minutes:

Download mgp-wamc-2006-06-30.mp3

In addition, Francesca Rheannon, who hosts the independently produced "Writer's Voice" interview program on WMUA-Amherst and Valley Free Radio in Northampton, Mass., pre-taped a 20-minute interview with Bill Densmore on June 15, 2006, two weeks before the MGP2006 summit. In it, Densmore talks about why he's pursuing the project, why journalism is in trouble, why it's important to reach out to main-stream media and what might happen if two or three telecoms control all the "presses" in the United States.

Download media-giraffe-WMUA-06-15-2006-Amherst.mp3

AUDIO: Network Neutrality: Who controls the pipes

Cable and phone giants want to create tiers of service for delivering content on the Internet, upsetting the concept of  "network neutrality." Legal, technical and first-amendment experts discussed the issue at the Media Giraffe Project summit, June 29, 2006 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Co-speakers (in order on the podcast):

• Bill Densmore, director, The Media Giraffe Project
• David Eisenberg, fellow, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, former telecommunications researcher, Bell Laboratories
• Josh Silver, executive director, FreePress.net
• Casey Lide, Baller Herbst Law Group (represents municipalities)
• Larry Bloch, founder, Radio Free Brattleboro
• FOLLOWED BY Q-AND-A

To listen to the streaming Podcast, click on the right-facing carot on Hipcast bar below. Or you can download an MP3 audio file by clicking HERE (57 mins / 13.7MB).