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Thursday, June 23, 2005
Re-Refiguring it out 
| | Note: this is a re-post of this. Screwed up the link last time. Bonus: Top level. |
Not even if you say so
| | Snappy thinks ya'll are an "audience" and that blogs are a "network." |
The pod that refreshes
| | I skipped over the Tod 'cast on the trip up because the audio on the guest side was clippy (if that's the term; not sure) beyond the threshold of annoyance. But this time I found his insights too compelling, so I listened all the way through: from Gilroy to King City. One point he made stands out like bull in a bathroom: the limited spectrum of radio required regulation. Think about that. Who wants to regulate the Net? Those who either have, or want, in Steve Ballmer's immortal words, to get in the middle of an intersection and charge rent. |
| | I've never been a fan of Audible.com. Always seemed too silo'd to me. But Don Katz proved to be an exceptionally insightful, articulate and knowlegeable guy. He's been around, and really knows his shit. What's more, he and his company have survived and thrived and continue to adapt to a rapidly changing marketplace. His best guesses about the future are alone worth the price of admission (your time, and whatever you want to put in the IT Conversations tip jar). |
Restoring digital darkness to downtown Orlando
| | The real issue is how you build a community or a project around it. If you don't do that, it's almost guaranteed to fail. |
| | Actual bottom line was $1800/month. Doesn't that seem a bit high? |
Torrential
Certainly more random
| | The no-barrier-to-entry of weblogs, podcasts, and videoblogs has caused an explosion in self-publishing. All produced independent of CPB funding. From this public is "created by the public" angle KYOU - a Clear Channel AM station - may actually be more public than NPR. |
| | I listened to KYOUradio (real call letters: KYCY) more than to any other station while driving back and forth to the City the last two days for Supernova. It's weird, with seemingly random podcasts, some quite old. I heard a Geekcast with "news" of the Adobe-Macromedia deal, which wend down in April. (Must have been this podcast here.) Some of the music was amazing, some awful. Nothing new there. Just different. And very refreshing, actually. |
| | They still carry a number of those financial shows you hear on other stations at the top of the AM dial, where they can't seem to find anything else to do with the frequency and the airtime. Tony tells me these are on the way out, which is good; and that the people at the station are trying to do right by podcasting. So I'm glad to give them the benefit of plenty of doubt. |
| | One thing beyond doubt is the signal: it's small. Specifically, it's absent in the South Bay at night, due to a big dent in the signal to the Southeast from the station's 3-tower transmitter in Belmont. Go here and scroll down to see the signal pattern. Nearly all 10,000 watts go Northwest from the Belmont transmitter toward San Francisco. The daytime pattern is similar, but with shallower nulls, so the signal gets around the whole Bay. |
| | Here's a full list of granted and dismissed applications. There are a lot of them. Here are the two current licenses (one day, one night), and current applications (form January 2004) for changes: moving to Campbell (next to San Jose) as the city of license, raising power to 12,000 watts by day and 16,000 watts at night. They would add one tower to the three currently used by KLOK/1170 in San Jose. Not as ambitious as the plan for the Milpitas dump, and a severe loss of signal in San Francisco and the North Bay. The KLOK site is far inland, and can't take advantage of the sea water near the other site. Sea water is the ideal ground for AM waves. |
| | Okay, enough of that. Time to sleep before I drive back to Santa Barbara. |
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