Radio Survivor, a news blog about radio’s present, past, and uncertain future, published a detailed article and interview on Radius by Paul Riismandel titled “Radius: An On-Air Exhibition Space for Transmission Art in Chicago”.
2Sadie Benning, Peggy Ahwesh and the PXL-2000.
I remember seeing the Pixelvision when I was a teenager. It was nestled in next to the Commodore 64s in the Toys R Us computer and electronics section. But I couldn’t spring for its $100 price tag on my minimum-wage budget.
I forgot about it until I saw the Pixelvision sequence in Linklater’s “Slacker.” By then it was too late to find one easily, and too early to eBay one.
It wouldn’t be until 2001 that I would actually own my own camcorder. It is largely passé, if not obsolete, now. But way more hifi than the Pixelvision that I still kind of want.
My co-host Jenny Benevento just quit her job and went to Disney World. Listen to our podcast to find out why and get some inspiration to quit phoning it in and take control.
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Digital marketer Mitch Joel says that podcasting is about to be resurrected, and cites 5 podcasts that aid the cause.
We’re not sure it ever died. Just not everything lives up to tech industry hype right away.
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This weekend, we noticed a decent amount of traffic coming to our article The Street Kids of San Francisco from the domain ranprieur.com. We decided to investigate this mystery site and boy were we glad we did. We found a site full of fascinating essays by Ran Prieur, an advocate of…
5 “turning ourselves into miniature entrepreneurs only allows commercial values to infiltrate spaces that were previously free of them.” The American Scholar: @FranzKafka - William Deresiewicz
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I was such a minidisc fan from 1997 - 2007. Best way to record digital audio without lugging around a PC, or spending more than a grand. Sure, you could find fault with the fidelity of Sony’s ATRAC compression, but to my ears it always beat out MP3. Most of Sony’s players had seriously good headphone amps that still rival iPhones, iPods and most smartphones out there.
Alas, in the end it was hard to argue with 2, 8, 16 or more gigabytes of music in your pocket, compared with carrying around a pile of small discs, each with just 74 - 320 minutes of music on it. Once Zoom introduced their H2 portable digital audio recorder, that was the day that I left poor old minidisc for good.
There’s a whole lot of Casiotone SKs up in this here @NetworkAwesome show.
