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Early bird tickets are on sale for the 42nd IIW, which began on a Gillmor Gang podcast the last day of 2004. In my biased but correct opinion, IIW is the most leveraged tech conference on Earth. This one will happen on April 28th to 30th, Tuesday to Thursday. But for the full experience, block out the whole week, so you can catch VRM Day on Monday the 27th, and the Agentic Internet Workshop on Friday, May 1. All will be at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley.
MyTerms will be a wide weave (not just one thread) of conversation through all three events, each of which are open space: no keynotes, no panels, no booths. It’s all about breakouts gathered around work and conversation toward outcomes.
Song du jour
Time Loves a Hero, by Little Feat, which is incorrectly still absent from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. I may never go there anyway, but Little Feat’s absence is reason enough to avoid the place.
Assholes
Remembering when radio was radio
Nice write-up on one of the greatest radio stations ever: WQDR/94.7 in Raleigh, during its album rock era, which ran from 1971 to 1984, as I recall. My own involvement (as a creative director for the station’s ad agency) ran from ’78 to ’83 or so. (Hard to nail the dates down, because many good friends worked there and we all hung out a lot.
As a side thing, it’s worth noting that the big FM stations in that part of the country have a lot of range. When hung out there, WQDR was 100,000 watts on a 1200 foot tower, wth a signal that stretched from Winston-Salem to Greenville. On a hot summer morning, you could get them from the mountains to the beach. Earlier, when WRAL/101.5 was a thousand feet up the WRAL/5 tower, it was 250,000 watts and bragged about being audible “from Hatteras to Hickory.” Later, it dropped to 100,000 watts at close to 2000 feet, on the new WRAL/5 tower, which was dropped by ice in 1989. Both WRAL and WQDR are close to the top of the replacement tower today, when most of us aren’t listening to radio on radios anymore. We’re getting streams and podcasts on our phones. Only some of that comes from radio stations, and most radio stations lack local talent and programming. Telle est la mort.
Which always creeped me out, but he has a case
Don Marti is a (somewhat provisionally, but still actually) fan of rewarded interest.
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