Thank You Sundowners Each and All!

Last Saturday Kenny Lee & The Sundowners played a benefit at the Legion for Goldendale's Community Radio Volunteers in their efforts to get the rest of the equipment KVGD-LP needs to go live with 100 watts at 100.1 on the 98620 radio dial.

The guys did a great show at no charge to the radio group so all the proceeds went to the cause.

For those of you who have never heard these guys do their blues here's a play list of their album Outlaw that is embedible and allowing downloads.

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<param name="movie" value="http://www.thunderpawrecords.com/promo/KennyLee/res/jw_player.swf?playlist=bottom&displayheight=0&thumbsinplaylist=false&file=http://www.thunderpawrecords.com/promo/KennyLee/code/xspf.php" />
<embed src="http://www.thunderpawrecords.com/promo/KennyLee/res/jw_player.swf?playlist=bottom&displayheight=0&thumbsinplaylist=false&file=http://www.thunderpawrecords.com/promo/KennyLee/code/xspf.php" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="300" height="160"></embed>
</object>

If you can't see the embed as a widget here's a link to the play list it references:
http://www.thunderpawrecords.com/promo/KennyLee/

Just click on the title to start playing & click again to stop. Right-clicking the green 'MP3' tag by the title will let you "save as" to download that song. Here that code is embedded in a web page as a widget in HTML instead of BBCode.

Once again, Thank you Kenny & The Sundowners not only for helping raise some cash for a worthy cause, but also for setting a most excellent example of guys working cooperatively with others to make things a little better for one little town even if they don't all live there.

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Here's a screencap from kvgd.info


You, too, can donate to KVGD-LP through their GoFundMe page.


Posted on 21 Jun, 13:05 - Category: Activism
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FM98620LP

Things are becoming more interesting since three of the most wonderful ladies in the universe (well, in this world, anyway) decided Goldendale needed a community FM station. They did quite a bit of social networking to gather the thoughts of people in the community about that idea & what they would like to have it do for them. Then they rounded up a small posse of supporters, and applied to Uncle Charlie for a low power FM station license.

While the app may be in, and the FCC is known to take months, this bunch is not sitting around twiddling their thumbs and simply waiting for a letter announcing the magic number that puts them on the dial along with the three mystical letters that go after the K. Workshops are being organized on writing for radio, processing audio media, program production, and project planning.

GorgeLink has enthusiastically granted them a sub-domain at with a dotProject install for projects planning, requiring one SQL data base and a lot of study & hands-on to learn what the best uses it will be for the group now and in the future.

In addition are a collection of flat-file applications that need no databases and are therefore easily portable once the group gets their own domain based on their call letters assigned by the FCC. There is a FlatPress powered blog, a public wiki that is open access, and a planning wiki that, like the dotProject install, is accessible by community radio volunteers only. There are also some Opentape "muxtape" type playlists going, allowing members to upload content and organize audio flow among the audio elements listed, for program or podcast planning purposes.

(Sadly Opentape relies heavily on mootools, which has recently been updated, breaking playback functions in the playlist due to code deprecations. But the group is carrying on using the Opentape app as a planning tool and as a way to share content since what is uploaded by one can be downloaded by the rest. Being OpenSource, I expect this app will be upgraded soon. If not I'll do my best to get it fixed myself as soon as I learn to be a programmer, or find a programmer to trade skills with).

Ekone Creative Services is 100% behind these efforts, and is honored to announce that on Saturday, January 18, I will be kicking off the first workshop, which is to be held at the local library to get the aforementioned posse all up to the same speed on the aforementioned web applications installed in the aforementioned sub-domain and assess the needs of the group for further training on media production methodologies.

Having their own space in the cloud gives the group a platform to podcast from while they await the day Uncle Charlie issues their license to broadcast at 100 whopping watts to their fellow townies. I expect a few pods of the "this is what you might be hearing on Community FM if we had that license now" theme to be on the immediate horizon.

Posted on 8 Jan, 24:51 - Category: Activism
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the ows sub-domain is occupied

The news engine has been replaced at ows.ettruck.com with an applications for librarians and An Open Educational Resource Library has launched with a few collections.

The first collection in the library is the contents of one of my favorite files on Torrence, our little torrent server, which has, essentially, all the high-school textbooks anyone would need to pass a GED test. The California Free Digital Textbook Initiative Collection

Fifteen textbooks are included covering Algebra II, Calculus, Geometry, Trigonometry, Biology/Life Sciences, Chemistry, and Earth Sciences. One Biology textbook was excluded because the publisher did not include an acceptable license.

Now anyone can grab the bits they need as they need them and not have to toss toss away the big chunks that were not needed from the torrent file.

And the physics books are included in our little Open Educational Resource Library!


The torrent file physics textbook contents are not included in the torrent version of the archive, they are available here.

There is also a multi-media collection called Greetings From the Land of the Good Spirit! And The Puppy Linux Collection is there to cover software and Operating Systems as Open Educational Resources, too.

The site is Open Access but less prone to scripted spamming than pligg, mediawiki, and phpbb engines have been for us in the past.

There was an upload limit of 30M to mellow around, leading to other plug-ins to explore, and more on the way to implementation. The files are uploaded, I just have to go let the Omeka engine know they are there and begin filling in the meta data and processing the forms.

Some of these textbooks are HUGE PDF files. The Life Sciences PDF is almost 200M! Earth Science 135M! Geometry 100M! The rest are way more reasonable. Trig=89M! Biology=74M! Chemistry=52M!

It's going to be fun to see how it goes.


Posted on 2 Jun, 8:41 - Category: Activism
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Operation Sons of 1984 nodes 2 + 3 Activating

Carl has green lighted a hosting at the ettruck domain. We now have a mediawiki AND a pligg powered OWS News site!

An Occupy Wall Street Media Wiki will hopefully be a useful tool for all Occupation Patriots.

OWS News could be a good resource if they need those kind of internets.

We hope they find this shit useful because it's all we got. Can't send 'em no cash and it's so far to carry. And that's why Operation Sons of 1984 was implemented - just to do what we can with what we got left and give what we can from what we have left to give. Just like everybody else.



Posted on 2 Oct, 9:09 - Category: Activism
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Operation Sons of 1984

"Open your eyes and see / the world I couldn't change for you
Reach out your hand and take / the world that will belong to you"
~ Todd Rundgren, 'Sons Of 1984'


Operation Sons of 1984
was a project to build a An Occupy Wallstreet Wiki to honor and show solidarity with Occupy Wallstreet and those involved by giving up some space and and bandwidth for everyone at Liberty Square to post notes on a 'wall' that had only one user (which was nobody and everybody = 1user + 1wall), just post and go!

Is that anon enough?

Just in case you all can find it useful.

I can still see the great panorama of hate / Being cleansed by our loving hands
~ Todd Rundgren, 'Sons of 1984'



Posted on 1 Oct, 3:05 - Category: Activism
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