Doc Searls' nickname is the fossil remnant of "Doctor Dave," the handle  he used on the air at WDBS in Durham, NC back in '70s. In a state of less decay is his urge to find last few Real Radio stations — music stations whose authenticity is betrayed by just two qualities: 1) the disc jockeys actually pick their own music; 2) the station and the listeners clearly love each other.
His gold standard for years has been KPIG, at 107-oink-5 in Freedom, CA, the perfectly-named crossroads town that sits deep in the Santa Cruz-Salinas-Monterey market on the California Coast. KPIG's format has been describecd as "mutant cowboy rock & roll," which seems as good a label as any. The station is directly descended from the wild and legendary KFAT, which enjoyed an advantage with which KPIG remains unblessed: a signal with enormous reach. But small as it is, KPIG was the first commercial station to broadcast on the Web. So sample the goods. Click on the logo above. The stereo stream is wonderful.
Don Norman calls Microsoft a "conversational gravity well." Drop the subject into a conversation and it sucks everything around it into a black hole. Finding nonpartisan commentary on Judge Jackson's recent Findings of Fact isn't easy. But at the risk of falling into the pit ourselves, here are three artfully conversational and objective accounts of the trial and its outcome.
First is Joseph Nocera's trial diary, chronicled in Fortune. Nocera is perhaps the best business chronicler of our time, doing for business what Jeffrey Toobin does for law.
Second is Jerry Pournelle's response to the findings, in Byte.com.
Third is Microsoft's own Slate, which has an excellent dialog between two law professors — Johnathan Zittrain and George L. Priest. Highly recommended.
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