A Multnomah County Library Booklist for KBOO Listeners

Many thanks to Multnomah County Librarian Steve Casburn

Hello! Welcome to the newly scrubbed clean KBOO.fm.

Our website is now safe again for you to visit, enjoy and make donations to KBOO.

What happened?

Whether or not you were able to attend our Strategic Planning Public Meeting, we really need your feedback on where KBOO should be headed for the next 40+ years.

Please take our survey and let us know what you think.

photo, Survey Point 3, by Zoppola

Wanting to enhance and improve your skills in working with the KBOO website? Are you an active volunteer? Then these trainings might be for you! All trainings are from 7-8:30 PM.

• Radio and the Digital Age: Social Media - Monday, 4/18
• Finding graphics for your web postings - Wednesday, 4/27
• Writing for the web - Monday, 5/2

Sign up by the Receptionist's Desk!

Artist Kevin Fitzpatrick and volunteers paint a 40ftx17ft mural on the station front at KBOO Community Radio in Portland, OR. Music by 'Yeah Great Fine'. Video filming by Leah Brown and Kevin Fitzpatrick. Video editing by Stephen Kane, with help by MJ Woodis. Thank you to the entire KBOO board of directors and volunteers.

Kevin has a great staff photo with links to more mural photos.

Kevin's YouTube site has more KBOO mural videos.

Facebook! It's the internet site we love... and love to hate.

Part of that is how little control you have when you're doing just about anything.

If you are trying to publicize your show (hey, if you aren't, why not?), there are a couple of rules of thumb that will make it a better experience.

Start by uploading a Schedule Episode on kboo.fm with a photo, and a good description of what will be happening on your show. Sell the sizzle!

Okay!

Magically (or something) it will end up on the website's front page. But I've gotten ahead of myself...

What is Copyright?

Copyright allows you to own the things (writing, music, photography, etc) that you create. If you create it, you own it. That allows you to reproduce it, to make & distribute copies, to create derivative works, and to display or perform the work publically.

You can give up your copyright by licensing a copyleft or Creative Commons license. Or, if you work for a business and you are paid to create content, in some cases, you no longer hold a copyright to your own work.

Now, wait, how do you refer to copyrighted pieces? Fair use!

The Attributor Blog provides a good guideline to fair use:

We are very sorry to announce the passing of two KBOO volunteers: Lloyde Livingstone and Marty Soehrman.

Lloyde Livingstone, the co-founder of KBOO, has died. She came to Portland as a teenager, entering Lincoln High School as a junior. By the next year, she won the competition to be Lincoln's Rose Festival princess. She went on to be chosen the queen of Rosaria that year, 1946.

In 1964 she learned that the owner of Portland's only classical music station was going to abandon the format in favor of "easy listening". She couldn't abide by that, and said so in a letter to the daily newspaper.

For background information: Wikipedia: 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

News sources:

Japanese media (mostly) in English

(background courtesy of Wikipedia: Media of Japan):

I'd like to welcome to KBOO a familiar face -- Tom Hood, our interim Chief Engineer.

In a lot of ways, Tom has been at KBOO since the beginning, but being "new" means he's bringing in some new ideas.

He is quick to talk about his goals: making the engineering department inclusive, bringing in people who have some KBOO institutional memory, and ensuring that KBOO has high-quality audio.

Tom has a long and storied history with radio, and with KBOO. His grandmother, Ina Hood, was a KEX & KOIN radio personality until 1927. His uncle, William Hood, was a session man in Hollywood responsible for the jazz-influenced horn arrangement on Steely Dan's Aja. His aunt, sculptor Julie MacDonald, lived with hyenas ... and Charlie Parker, for 6 of the last 7 years of his life. His father, audio preservationist Ernie Hood, was one of KBOO's founders.