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Tuesday, May 3, 2005
Be a dead head. Don't give it. 
Overhead
| | In Docworld Global Mapping Project, Gary turner says I'm quietly engaged in a one man global mapping project to rival the big corps and government agencies. |
| | Close. If you check here, here or here... or ... shoot, I can't find it... but somewhere back there a couple months ago I suggested that we (airplane out-the-window shooters) put together a book of shots from airplane windows. |
| | I didn't think it made practical sense at the time. Now, thanks to Flickr, and its sets/tags/groups feature, I do. |
| | Here are just a few of the many sets of aerial photos I've already posted, because it's so damn easy. |
The bucks start here
Taking the fork
| | what is being offered is "broadcasting" not podcasting. |
| | Now that the air has cleared, and we can see that there are two distinct approaches, one which is a revisit of an old medium (radio), and the other a continuation of the new (podcasting) |
| | I'd like to add a couple things. |
| | First, Adam is a radio guy. He was a radio guy before he was a TV guy, a celeb guy, a pilot guy, a pod guy or any of the many other kinds of guys he (and we all) are. I know what it's like to be a radio guy, because I'm one too. |
| | What I do here on the blog is a kind of radio. At some level, it's a way to sublimate my lifelong interest in doing radio. When I get around to podcasting (which I will, eventually), I'll be a radio guy, talkin' at ya. Won't be able to help it. |
| | We don't need no steenkin' transmitters! Adam's Daily Source Code intro still says. But, truth be told, we radio guys do need transmitters. We're not being Real Radio Guys unless we've got one. |
| | That's why it makes complete sense for Adam to go on Sirius. Even if the show can't be broadcast (or podcast) on the Net, thanks to the nasty-ass restrictions the RIAA led the Copyright Office to impose on the infant Internet broadcasting industry a few years back. |
| | Second, what Adam will be doing at Sirius, and what Howard Stern will be doing as well, is restoring radio to what it used to be, and should have been, all along. But it's not podcasting. It's new life for an old sphere. |
| | Third, what podcasting is doing is Something New and very different. I like Dave's expression of a "corner turn." Craig Burton used to use the term "knife-edge rollover" for a similar kind of change. Podcasting is a whole new system, a whole new class of activity. It may be like radio, but we make a mistake if we understand it in terms of radio. |
| | Think of it instead as a new life form that's native to the Net. That some of it can be leveraged, or harvested, for the radiosphere, fine. But understand that the pioneers here are blazing new trails, opening new frontiers. Not restoring old burned-out cities. |
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