I’ve listened to a lot of radio documentaries, but I’ve never heard one that concludes “within a hair’s breadth of 1 minute.” Then I noticed this call-for-content item on the free103point9 newsroom blog: Your radio documentary can be on any theme and told in any format, so long as it is audio only. It should be […]
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Roll over Boothoven! inside turntable.fm’s bot revolution
I spent some time in Hong Kong and Japan in July, and when I came back, a minor revolution had taken place at my favorite turntable.fm room: Classical of Any Kind (or COAK as the regulars call it). I guess you could call it a BOT revolution. The name of the BOT is called “boothoven[bot].” The […]
Some John Cage on FM in the garden
Despite the east coast heat, I wish I’d been at the Suffolk Street Community Garden on the Lower East Side of New York on Sunday. There free103point9 revved up a couple of FM transmitters and treated the locals to a performance titled “Habits of Imagination,” an “outdoor public installation/performance using live broadcast radio and audience interaction […]
How much community radio content can you find on the Internet Archives?
My friend and noted radio historian Jesse Walker e-mailed me the other day. “Just found out that there’s a ton of back issues of the WBAI and KPFK folios posted at archive.org,” Walker wrote. “Did you know this?” He was referring to the Internet Archives, of course. I think I did know, but then I […]
The top three Change.org radio related petitions
As Change.org Ben Rattray founder told the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart on Monday, the web service has been around for about five years. The site lets you launch your own petition, asking a government, or a company, or some other entity to do (or stop doing) something. Here are the top three radio related Change.org […]