Very sad news, everybody. Avid KBOO supporter and volunteer, Rachel Studer, passed away March 26 of this year.

Rachel's memorial will be at St. Andrews Catholic Church, 806 NE Alberta, Portland, OR 97211, on May 12th at 11 am. There will be a reception following at noon. All KBOO people are invited.

We at KBOO would like to pay tribute to former KBOO program host John Talley, who died on Sunday, March 25th. John was the longtime host of the show “Indian World” which aired on KBOO from 1975 until a few years ago, when John retired from the show because of health issues.

Indian World, the first Indian program in the Portland area, featured coverage of Native activities and interests with music, news, interviews, legends, poetry and a calendar of events.

Many of us will always remember a moving segment of Indian World in which John would call out the names of the Native American tribes. John himself was Mohawk, born in New York State.

Hi all -

KBOO's community got a couple nice pieces of press lately.

Calo utho aura nrtya! (Let's get up and dance!), January 26, 2012 in the Portland Tribune -- a story about DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid, who air Tuesday nights from 10 to midnight.

And,

In case you missed it: Outside In's films from Portland homeless youth available online, February 1, 2012 in the Oregonian - with this mention:

Hi all -

I have not been modeling good blogging skills, I know. So with the new year, I've resolved to write more frequently... and have those entries be shorter. We'll see how this goes.

New Office Hours!

Yes, I have new office hours. I am now here from 11am to 2:30 pm on weekdays KBOO time. So if you'd like to drop in, I should be a little bit easier to find. And if you'd like to make an appointment or share your thoughts, you can do that at web@kboo.org.

New Ads!

Yes, we finally have advertisements. It's pretty exciting.

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?

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!

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.

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.