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Mischke Online Radio
Posted on March 18th, 2009 No commentsThis was a wonderful project to work on. Local celebrity Tom Mischke signed with our Minneapolis paper (citypages.com) and is now hosting a 2 hour program daily online. Tom like it because no FCC regulations.
Tom Mischke, former KSTP radio personality, is now streaming his show from his house in St. Paul, MN for City Pages. He found the closet off of his main office the best place for setting up the sound booth. Mischke Lights up a cigar, Because he can.
Shortly after getting fired by KSTP, radio rebel T.D. Mischke threw out his entire music collection and half his wardrobe. After 17 years of broadcasting, it was time for a change.
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VVM @ SXSW Part 1
Posted on March 18th, 2009 No comments
Alltop CEO Guy Kawasaki gave a shout out to L.A. Weekly, the Village Voice and SF Weekly right before his March 17 SxSW keynote with Wired editor Chris Anderson regarding Anderson’s upcoming book, Free. In Kawasaki’s pre-keynote video interview above with Viddler.com, the interviewer (referring to Clay Shirky’s treatise) asked Kawasaki how the concept of “free” applies to newspapers which she refers to as “essentially dead.” Kawasaki said favorably of the Village Voice Media papers:
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The Daily’s are Drying Up
Posted on March 16th, 2009 No commentsUSA Today notices that San Francisco, Miami, Minneapolis or Cleveland may soon be without a daily newspaper. This is sad because then they’ll have to read USA Today. There’s always the fine Village Voice Media products in three of those cities. [USA Today]