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May 12, 2006
Radio Open Source: A Blog with a Radio Show
Notes from the talk by Brendan Greeley, Radio Open Source
Radio Open Source is a blog with a radio show. We want to have the blog come first - bring people in through the blog and use that to produce the radio show. Mary McGrath and Chris Lydon started the show Connections in the mid-90s, and used a lot of bulletin boards. The Internet was a major tool, but not the primary driver; now they're using Radio Open Source.
Blogs are the new talk radio; they're used for making decisions. Blogs have motion. Talk to many early bloggers and they'll say they were sick of yelling at some broadcaster on the TV and instead wanted to broadcast their own ideas. Blogs have motion - one post after another in rapid succession, also like broadcasting.
Open Source looks like a blog, using a common three-column layout. Without having to tell people, we wanted them to feel that they could use the site in blog-like ways. You can leave your mark. We act like a blog, using permalinks, technorati tags; we read blogs and encourage people to blog. We don't ask for links -we ask for opinions.
tag: beyondbroadcast
Posted by acarvin at May 12, 2006 3:11 PM
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