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Back from a tiring day at the Nercomp conference. And look, I’m listed as a session convener for the Online Graduate Application talk.

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In this month’s Wired magazine, the article The Resurrection of Indie Radio offers some good news for fans of good old radio. Clear Channel, the company who probably killed good old radio, is starting to re-introduce local programming in some markets. And for these shows the DJ s actually pick the music and play their own stuff — imagine that! The future promise is HD Radio, which promises both better signal quality AND more radio stations over the same bandwidth. You will need to buy a new type of radio to receive these broadcasts, but at least your old radio will continue to work, although limited to the old broadcast band.

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"They encourage not the cultivation of taste, but the numbing repetition of fetish. And they contribute to what might be called “egocasting,” the thoroughly personalized and extremely narrow pursuit of one’s personal taste. In thrall to our own little technologically constructed worlds, we are, ironically, finding it increasingly difficult to appreciate genuine individuality."

So writes in Christine Rosen in The Age of Egocasting from The New Atlantis. Read the rest of this entry »