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Monday October 23, 2006
Listening in 
| | I stopped by PRX way too briefly today here in Cambridge. I hope I get back again soon. |
| | Meanwhile, it as great to finally get a little hang time with Jake Shapiro, and to see some of what they're up to. |
| | Including this timely number: |
Last rights
Archi texture
| | ...much of the bold art-deco grandeur of the buildings that line New York's early-twentieth-century boulevards -- from the Grand Concourse in the Bronx to Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn -- is but two-dimensional. The backs of most such buildings are stark, sheer cliffs of exposed brick lacking any pretence of decoration. Their only adornments are the zig-zag patterns of wrought-iron fire escapes mandated by New York City building codes and the geometric regularity of orderly rows of identical windows that peer onto dank concrete-paved courtyards. |
| | Still, the rear walls and courtyards of New York apartment houses have a melancholy beauty of their own: subtle shades of brown, beige, and gray, and an angular, rhythmic, Mondrian-like aesthetic best viewed from the windows of subway cars rattling along the Jerome Avenue or Pelham Park elevated lines or the grade-level tracks of the IND line traversing Brooklyn from Prospect Park to Brighton Beach. |
Casting about
| | Here's a podcast I did with the MSN folks in Copenhagen a couple weeks ago at New Media Days. I know it looks all microsofty on the surface, but it was actually a wide-ranging conversation about all kinds of stuff. |
Search me
| | Lotta good stuff coming along in this "space". Stay tuned... |
Howard, Siriusly
| | Dave wonders why Howard Stern doesn't have a podcast. The reason is that Howard is a commecial broadcaster in the literal meaning of the word. He sells his 'casts, as live streams, to Sirius Satellite Radio customers — as one channel (actually two) among the rest of the Sirius lineup. |
| | Given the fact that Howard also sells Howard TV on a pay-per-view basis, I think the chance that he'd give away podcasts is pretty low. There's a better chance that he'd sell them to subscribers. Not exactly Podcasting As We Know it. |
| | That said, Howard is one reason I subscribe to Sirius. Even though I believe satellite radio is a bad bet in the long run. The medium-run has barely begun. |
| | By the way, you can listen to Sirius free on the Web right now, and through Thursday. |
Dayzed
| | It's actually Tuesday, but since my blog is still on Copenhagen time or something, it's Wednesday on the blog here. |
| | Anyway, I was busy today. Or yesterday. Whatever this is. Or was. Might make up for it today. Or tomorrow. |
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