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theradius: Radio Survivor, a news blog about radio’s present,...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:34:15 -0400

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”.

A Shimmering Analog Memory: Artists' films in Pixelvision

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:40:00 -0400

A Shimmering Analog Memory: Artists' films in Pixelvision:

Sadie 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...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:01:20 -0500

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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Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:10:16 -0500

Podcasting resurrected? We didn't know it died.

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 00:02:21 -0500

Podcasting resurrected? We didn't know it died.:

radiosurvivor:

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.

Priceonomics Blog: The Essential Ran Prieur

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:59:52 -0500

Priceonomics Blog: The Essential Ran Prieur:

priceonomics:

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…

"If anything, turning ourselves into miniature entrepreneurs only allows commercial values to..."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:32:01 -0500

“If anything, turning ourselves into miniature entrepreneurs only allows commercial values to infiltrate spaces that were previously free of them. All of a sudden, people I thought were my friends are trying to sell me shit. In any case, the rhetoric of authenticity is just a more insidious form of commercialism. David Foster Wallace saw this long before there was a Web: how, in an age when everybody’s hip to the pitch, the pitch simply disguises itself as an anti-pitch. Authenticity my ass; the pitch abides.”

- “turning ourselves into miniature entrepreneurs only allows commercial values to infiltrate spaces that were previously free of them.” The American Scholar: @FranzKafka - William Deresiewicz

cyruspireh: playing an instrument is a revolutionary act…

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:30:47 -0500

cyruspireh: playing an instrument is a revolutionary act…

Boo! Sony ends production of all minidisc players

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:13:06 -0500

Boo! Sony ends production of all minidisc players:

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...

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:59:20 -0500

There’s a whole lot of Casiotone SKs up in this here @NetworkAwesome show.

Classical music will endure as a niche radio market, says Midge Woolsey, exiting WQXR - NY Daily News

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:18:47 -0500

Classical music will endure as a niche radio market, says Midge Woolsey, exiting WQXR - NY Daily News:

jordanrandallsmith:

I think that words matter, and that we shouldn’t publicly call this “survival”. We should be talking about what it means to thrive. In fairness to classical music, the entire industry has changed greatly over the last 13 years.

Panasonic Pro Video: DVX100 10th Anniversary - Panasonic Super Meeting

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:13:20 -0500

Panasonic Pro Video: DVX100 10th Anniversary - Panasonic Super Meeting:

panasonicprovideo:

We recently held an event in Tokyo called Panasonic Super Meeting, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the release of the DVX100. We held the event to mark ten years of DVX100 cameras in action, and invited around 500 people, largely users of the camera, to join us. In addition to sharing…

Priceonomics Blog: Starting a Bike Shop

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:11:21 -0500

Priceonomics Blog: Starting a Bike Shop:

priceonomics:

“Let’s start with a distinction that should be obvious but is often overlooked: not every newly founded company is a startup. Millions of companies are started every year in the US. Only a tiny fraction are startups.”

- Paul Graham, Startup=Growth

Tech startups are hard. Building a…

touch this hand that plays musical instruments… by...

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 16:58:12 -0500

touch this hand that plays musical instruments… by @cyruspireh

theradius: Radius announces a new re-broadcast partnership with...

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:44:48 -0500

theradius:

Radius announces a new re-broadcast partnership with NUMBERS.FM. NUMBERS.FM is a new (media) online radio station for experimental musics, snd, audio arts, and other uncategorizable sonic events.

The NUMBERS.FM program broadcasts the first Monday of every month at 8:03pm CST on NUMBERS.FM. The program includes an introduction of the episode’s original broadcast context, followed by a re-broadcast of a previous Radius episode.

Visit the program schedule here.

Listen to the NUMBERS.FM online stream on iTunes and Windows Media Player.

CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE: Stop Fetishizing Failure.

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:43:34 -0500

CREATIVE INTELLIGENCE: Stop Fetishizing Failure.:

creativeintelligencebook:

At the HarvardXDesign conference — a great event for the B-School— I was on a panel that did a crit on two teams from across Harvard that were the best of 9 teams competing in the challenge of How Would You Redesign Education in America. Kickstarter’s Charles Adler, IIt Institute of Design’s…

jakefogelnest: “Please don’t play My Sharona again” - my cat

Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:39:17 -0500

jakefogelnest:

“Please don’t play My Sharona again” - my cat

Laserdiscs! @jakefogelnest! Laserdiscs! jakefogelnest: From the...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:59:55 -0500

Laserdiscs! @jakefogelnest! Laserdiscs!

jakefogelnest:

From the latest episode of THE FOGELNEST FILES, Buzzfeed’s Louis Peitzman and I discuss laserdiscs! Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes.

White caddy. Red dress. July the 22nd. ART.

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:14:12 -0500

White caddy. Red dress. July the 22nd. ART.

R. U. Cyberpunk? (if yes, you will have a minidisc player)

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:18:06 -0500

R. U. Cyberpunk?

(if yes, you will have a minidisc player)