radio
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Twos Day
One small test I wanted to know when the transmitter site for Denver radio station KHOW/630 (above), which I shot from an airplane in 2018, was built. So I asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Three had the answer, sourcing this report by Scott Fybush from January 2018. (Answer:1979.) The AI that found nothing was Continue reading
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Tryday
MVP thoughts I nominate Tyrese Haliburton for MVP. He hasn't played at all this year, because he's out with a hamstring injury he suffered when the Pacers (our Indiana home team) were neck-and-neck with the OKC Thunder in the final championship game. This season, without Haliburton, the Pacers are among the league's worst. Why? No Continue reading
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Midweekend
And now we are hear Our vacationing crew likes The Rippingtons, so I played some of their music through CarPlay on the rental car’s dashboard while sitting in the Lihue Costco parking lot. The above came up. How to enjoy bad but not worse weather Dig the webcam at Poipu beach, on the south side Continue reading
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Fried Day
It’s all about making The Inention Economy happen. Dave Lockie: We Get to Decide What the A in AI Stands For. This follows The Intent Stack: A New Design Space for Human-AI Collaboration. Also dig Intent-Driven Commerce: What E-commerce Can Learn from AI Agents and DeFi. Dialing out Cumulus Media, one of the three big owners of commercial radio Continue reading
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Love
Happy Valentines Life My favorite line from the musical Les Misérables is “To love another person is to see the face of God.” My wife and I have been living that truth since not long after we met, thirty-six years ago. Towers I love to look at them, know what they’re for, and (many decades Continue reading
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Watts Up
Book them now 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 Continue reading
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Dues Day
Currently I have three of them. Do you have a principle? I hadn’t thought about that before reading Justin Mikolay‘s Inventing on Principle: A Distillation of Bret Victor’s Extraordinary Talk About How To Live Your Life. And that’s just one of many things that have been written about Bret Victor, a guy about whom I knew Continue reading
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Department of Collections
Gruntles First, I hate liquid glass, with its water-stain lettering and deeply cropped and rounded window and icon corners (which give you fewer pixels to click on and harder corners to grab and pull.) I’ll say more about it after the holidays. Meanwhile, if you’re with me, this will help. Second, I continue to insist Continue reading
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A Wrong Road
An English Ford Consul, such as the one above, was the worst car I’ve ever owned. I got it after rolling my parents’ ’63 VW bug in the summer of ’66. I did that on a backroad outside of Greensboro, North Carolina, when I was about to turn nineteen and trying to get my grades Continue reading
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Hey look
Cluetrain is in an Epstein file, as are the names of its authors, mine misspelled. A cool space launch from Vandenberg is scheduled for Sunday at 9:02pm. That's an hour when it's likely to leave a "jellyfish" exhaust where sunlight hits it while it's night below. I just appended an update what I wrote about Continue reading
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The End of Radio as We Knew It
Over the past couple of decades, I’ve written a lot about what is happening to radio in our Digital Age. See here and here. Or, if you want to read just one post, look here. In this post, I’m adding some of the latest studies on the topic. Here is Pew from 2023. Here is Continue reading
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Well, that didn’t work
I had a whole post that disappeared. This is where it would have been. The categories give a little away. Live and re-learn. Continue reading
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On the frontier of caring
Adopt a Station is a way to compensate for the funding lost to US public radio stations when the CPB shut down. No state is more dependent on public radio, or hurt by lost CPB funding, than Alaska. Here is a table of all the stations there, with graphs showing how much lost funding they Continue reading
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New Life for LIVE
Colbert’s cancellation looks political, but it’s not. The show was a ratings winner, but a money loser. And the ratings for all of late night, like all of live TV, have been in decline for decades, along with the question, “What’s on?” We live in the Age of Optionality now. Watch or listen to whatever Continue reading
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The Eagle in the Coal Mine
Public broadcasting is the strongest form of broadcasting that’s still left. One reason is that it’s the only form of broadcasting for which its consumers are also its customers. Yes, not all those customers pay, but the market is there. If you donate to public radio or television stations, or to public radio programs and Continue reading
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Thursday, 17 July 2025
An incomplete waste of time. New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes. No shit. Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models is a scientific paper by four authors from Princeton and two from UC Berkeley. A pull-quote: "While previous work has explored large language model (LLM) hallucination and sycophancy, we Continue reading
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Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Want a weather show? Look at this: Bet it’s about liability and arbitration. T-Mobile just texted me this: T-Mobile: We’ve updated our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Notices. Get the details and learn about your options in the Privacy Dashboard at secure.t-mobile.com/terms I can’t log on, and doing the password reset thing is a PITA, so I Continue reading
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Wednesday , 9 July 2025
Not that you'll listen. Thank this guy for keeping AM radios in new Ford cars. Another small step away from the open Web. On a radio show sponsored by a podcast of another show, the announcement said the sponsoring show was available on "your favorite podcast app," rather than the usual "wherever you get your Continue reading
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Tuesday, 8 July, 2025
Book burning in our time. Two places to look for what's happened to science and other do-gooding programs since government research programs that smelled woke got defunded: Columbia Law School's Silencing Science Tracker, and this piece by RealKM. Some clues. Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy, The Cluetrain Manifesto says. (In its 7th of 85 theses.) A corollary might Continue reading
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Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
I was overheard to have said… Doc Searls on Reloading the Intention Economy: Your Data, Your AI, Your Terms, by Nico Fara, of The Immergence podcast. Just some perspective. I just removed this from a post I’ve been writing: Walt Whitman put the profundity of human life in a kind of perspective when he said, “and I Continue reading