About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
NetNewsWire has been working overtime this week (just like me) and there’s less than 500mb empty space remaining on my 40gb 3G iPod. According to iTunes, that’s 35.1 days of audio entertainment. More than a month – without repeating. Contrast that to the few minutes we had the radio on this morning, back-to-back commercials. As …
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“When you turn the radio back on, you don’t get to finish the Green Day song.” – Jen, this weekend.
This weekend the Upper Midwest got dumped on. My hometown received 19″ of snow in a single day. Jen and I were driving home in it. It was awful. Bad. During the drive, we had no idea if conditions were getting better or worse. Just as Mark Ramsey restates, radio has the power to provide …
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First off, I never contributed millions (or even thousands) to public radio. A couple hundred bucks here and there. And I know a couple people employed by the Minnesota Public Radio. Heck, I even helped them usability test their site a while back. Kinda fun sitting on the other side of the desk. That said, …
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Stern finally moves to satellite radio on Monday and I was reminded in the Neal Justin’s The New Golden Age of Radio. Problem is….satellite radio is boring (coincidently, Sterns departure makes the FM dial even more boring). Removing the regional limits of the FM dial is something Clear Channel has already been doing for years. …
When I started podcasting a year ago I was questioning Public Radio’s role in my life. The news and regular programs were no longer satisfying. Then they started the Current – kept me supporting them for a couple months. Then, it started to sound more like more of the same and hey, look, interesting stuff …
Long ago, broadcast radio gave up with introducing their audience to new music. I first became aware of it sometime during the summer of 1996 [1] , I’m sure the tipping point occured long before then. Between Cumulus Media president/CEO Lew Dickey, Jr. promoting the talk radio proliferation on the FM dial, my conversation about …
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Noah Lamson, New Media Director at ABC Radio in Minneapolis and I grab lunch at Diamonds Coffee Shoppe. He’s publishing feeds for 92KQRS, Drive105, and 93X and we discuss the interesting relationship between broadcast radio and podcasting. If you stop by Diamonds, try the grilled cheese with bacon & tomato. Very tasty. Listen to Broadcast …
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Two years after their first demo, Dave and Huna got a real, over-the-air, AM call-in talk radio show on March 6, 2005. They tell you what it was like and how to do it. More Stuff: AM 1500 “The Next Big Thing” Dave’s posts on the experience at doodledee.com “yes, i’ll be imagining all of …
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