#broadcasting
Dear #developer,
I’m reaching out to you to offer you an #opportunity to make you and your #projects better known.
#Unitoo (unitoo.it/en), in 2019 started a #radio (radio.unitoo.it) dedicated to #FOSS and #CreativeCommon #music.
I’d love for you to join them and contribute to some content.
You’ll be entitled to a 3 minutes free #audio recording, to #promote your #code #repository and a chance to discover new #opportunities in the #world of #Software #Development.
A looped #broadcasting of such content/media will be scheduled to grant everyone the chance to promote their #work.
At first a recording in #English would be preferable to reach a wider #audience.
How to join? Send them an email with the following:
- #voice recording
- a #title
- #Author’s name
- a brief #summary of your project
- #link to the code repository in question at radio dot unitoo dot it and they’ll handle the rest.
This is just the #beginning.
They have #planned a #series of #podcast that can feature your project.
We believe FOSS is severely lacking in #visibility and want to #change that by providing a stage for you all to perform on. Your #contribution is greatly appreciated.
Happy #HackListening!
WhatsApp launches Channels feature for broadcast messages, long after Telegram, but plans to monetise it
Seems the broadcast feature will work very similarly to Telegram’s broadcast channels in that an unlimited number of users can subscribe, but communication is broadcast one-way without any replies or comments from subscribers.
This is very useful for especially government, disaster management, news services, etc where millions of users can potentially tune-in, unlike with groups. Broadcast channels are also easier to manage as there is no moderation required.
But the differences come in with WhatsApp wanting to monetise these channels, and also limit them so that individuals are not able to use them. On Telegram’s side, they have always been free, and even individuals could just create one and get going with them.
So WhatsApp continues to try keeping up with Telegram, but they always seem to be two steps or more behind with so many features. Yet we do know that the best features, the best security (I’m speaking broader than Telegram), most interoperable protocols, have never featured in the mass users’ choice of what they use (just think VHS vs Betamax).
If corporates want to ever escape the ongoing squeeze of money out of them, they need to think open networks, interoperability, etc.
See https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/08/whatsapp-launches-channels-feature-for-broadcast-messages/
#Blog, #broadcasting, #technology, #whatsapp
Oh.... the ink barely dried on the stories about Licht's war on truth-telling journalists at CNN...
Bye bye... Don't let the door hit you on the way out! Go play w/Elon in his #Muskville sandbox full of #GQP and other conspiricists.
Chris Licht Fired at CNN After Programming Blunders, Staff Revolt
CNN chief executive Chris Licht, who faced growing public criticism and declining staff morale following several programming blunders and his own disparaging comments about the network’s journalism, was fired Wednesday, capping one of the shortest tenures for a CEO at the cable network.
It was a swift fall for the veteran television producer and a blow to stability at one of the largest news organizations in the world. Licht, 51, had barely been on the job for a year. He departed under pressure from his boss and patron, David Zaslav, chief executive of new parent company Warner Bros. Discovery who had charged him with moving CNN toward more centrist reporting and commentary.
A person with knowledge of Zaslav’s thinking said he lost confidence in Licht over time, following a series of missteps and “self-inflicted wounds.”
Licht had triggered negative headlines and internal backlash last month for his decision to broadcast a live “town hall” featuring Donald Trump that reeled out of control as the former president’s falsehoods and insults drew cheers from an audience stacked with GOP fans. Yet he was also struggling with the larger problem of failing to turn around CNN’s cratering ratings. His most high-profile programming decision — a revamped morning show — was a ratings disaster that culminated with the firing of longtime anchor Don Lemon.
Alternative full story (not paywalled): from the horse's... mouth (CNN) -
CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht is out after a brief and tumultuous tenure
#ChrisLicht #CNN #mediajobs #media #disinformation #news #CableNews #broadcasting
SBS butchered my movie, and there’s nothing I can do about it ~ opinion piece by director/writer Julia Leigh (SMH )
"With the change in government the barbarians have left the building. Let’s now restore integrity to the broadcaster."
#Australia #movies #broadcasting
Here is the entire farewell from #Brian Williams
Brian Williams - NBC/MSNBC veteran anchor retires: His Farewell and Hopes
Aside from his being an institution for many (retiring, not dead!) this is an exceptionally poignant reflection on where we are as a nation, at this moment, and how important it is to remember what we have been and stood for... Humbly noting how "we" is he, his crew, and all of us "woke" to reality....
I posted a brief excerptI saw posted but this is the whole (3-minute) farewell as, like Lina Wertmuller's adventurers, are Swept Away...
#BrianWilliams #anchorman #media #broadcasting #television #journalism
Julian Assange ~ The Price of Truth (banned documentary)
https://rumble.com/vl5x32-julian-assange-banned-documentary.html
'This was a highly professional #documentary put together by the #German #broadcasting documentary channel. It ran for several days and collected 450k views before Youtube took it down. It was also recently removed from a premium Vimeo account as well.'
#julianassange #assange #thepriceoftruth #banned #wikileaks #journalism #whistleblowers #freespeech #political #refugee #johnshipton #manning #garzon #hrafnsson #deloire #dropthecharges #freeassange #weareallassange #truth #truthteller #droptheappeal #enoughisenough
Depuis la fuite des données #twitch, je vois passer plein de soutiens pour #owncast, sa version #libre et #décentralisée
Owncast is a self-hosted #livevideo and #webchat server for use with existing popular #broadcasting software
#vidéo #streaming #livestream
Fairness Reconsidered: Receiving Public as a Commons
The conceit of the Fairness Doctrine was that broadcast spectrum was a commons, and a limited public resource, arbitrarily allocated to a given (usually private) party. The right came with the obligation to manage this common resource in the public interest. The doctrine went through a few iterations before arriving at the "Fairness Doctrine" formula in 1949, notably the Mayflower Decision (1941). There is similar history, though often arriving at different policies, elsewhere, notably the heavy reliance on government-owned or -controlled broadcasting through much of what was otherwise free Europe: the BBC, Germany, France, etc., much of that strongly informed by the rise of fascism and Nazi German in the 1920s and 1930s. (The US had its own fascist / populist demagogues, notably Father Charles Edward Coughlin and Joseph McCarthy.)
This past week's On the Media podcast has a good introduction to the Fairness Doctrine, in the context of Fox News and why the F.D. itself is inadequate to address Fox. (Hint: Cable subscribers.)
The past 5, 10, 20 years or whatever timeframe you care to throw at it, of experience in the online world suggest that treating digital media over (mostly) private infrastructure as strictly private ... has some pronounced failure modes, to use technical understatement.
I haven't seen others making this argument yet, though I suspect some are, but my view is, roughly, that public mindshare is itself a commons, and should be held and managed in the public interest. There's a point at which reach or penetration themselves become exploitation of a public resource, and concern over the impacts of such reach are legitimate public concerns.
If you look at the fundamentals of information theory, there are three (or four) major components:
Sender -> Channel -> Receiver
You could also add noise, encoding, and decoding.
The Fairness Doctrine concerned channel.
Both free-speech and classic censorship matters, concerns sender (and to at least some extent, channel).
The new doctrine I'm suggesting covers the receiver, and specifically the general public as a general message recipient.
One could argue that disinformation, fake news, propaganda, and distraction are forms of intentionally introduced noise, and I'm sure there are elements concerning encoding and decoding which might be similarly considered.
Again, I'm not aware of anyone else offering a similar view, but it seems to me that our traditional models of speech, publishing, broadcasting, censorship, and responsibility are failing us here.
#FairnessDoctrine #FCC #Broadcasting #DigitalMedia #Media #OnTheMedia #Commons #Audience #InformationTheory
LINUX ICECAST HELP
Can anyone assist in providing some instruction on how to stream OUT TO an icecast server on Linux. The "Internet DJ Console" has proven a confusing mess, I get an odd result from ReaCast saying it's successfully connected to the server when attempting to use Reaper but then it's obvious no connection is actually occurring. I AM able to successfully connect when using the MIXXX software but using Auxillary Ins on the MIXXX software isn't ideal.
#Linux #Icecast #Icecast2 #Audio #Streaming #Broadcasting #OSS
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