Radio Adaptations

Have always been a big fan of Public Radios. Like the npr and the pri. In my opinion, its public radios, public television broadcasters and public libraries that facilitate true information awareness. The cable and private channels are too shallow and have failed miserably in using this powerful mass medium.

As we enter into the "Participation Age", the tools and "information abstractions" over the web, also need to scale to provide a platform for such community conversations. "Web 1.0" had already shown how "radio" can be propogated regardless of distance over the internet. This also reminds me of thrills and struggles during our childhood days while listening to Pop music via Radio Ceylon & BBC. Remember, how most of the time it would just be a futile exercise with just noise reception inspite of additional antennas, self-made boosters and tuner knob experiments.

But, nostalgia aside, we surmounted those distance barriers easily few years back when most radio became available online. Now we have leap-frogged one more step further with "Web 2.0". Enter "Open source radio". The first radio station to get all its programming from podcasts. Time to reset a preferred channel on my "Car Radio" to AM 1550 KYCY.

And Boy, am I eager to listen to all the "starry" crap from each of you. Can't Wait !!