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WGBH and public radio’s future
@robpatrob (Robert Paterson) asks (responding to this tweet and this post) “Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between ...
WGBH/WCRB go the way of WNYC/WQXR
The longest thread in the history of this blog belongs to Why WQXR is better off as a public radio station, which I posted on July 26, and ...
Underground news
Three days ago Jonathan MacDonald witnessed an altercation in the London Underground at the Holborn Station, between — as Jonathan ...
Urban radio moves into white space
There’s something new on the FM dial in Boston. You might think of it as a kind of urban renewal. Grass roots, up through the ...
Apple control freakiness
Apple has the best taste in the world. It also has the tightest sphincter. This isn’t much of a problem as long as they keep it in ...
The best thing on radio, right now
– is All A Capella, on WERS/88.9 in Boston. Listen here. Or on the Public Radio Tuner. Or on WERS own iPhone app. Or iTunes ...
Evening Beer Notes
I’m bummed that I’m drinking a beer on the deck here in Santa Barbara while Dave is in Cambridge. Would have enjoyed having ...
A capella wonderful
Whatever else you’re doing, tune right now to WERS. If you’re not in Boston, here’s the online stream. The show is All ...
Getting rained out in a brainstorm
In a meeting yesterday, somebody on the IRC shared a link to “Bregman divergences in the (m×k)-partitioning problem”, from ...
Flying smarter
The more I fly, the more useful, or at least interesting, the NOAA’s AviationWeather.gov service becomes. At any given moment it has ...
Earth to Obama…
[Note... Not sure what's wrong here, but the last few sentences of this post aren't appearing, and somehow the next post is screwed up too. ...
Smoke screening
Sitting in a bar raised above the gambling floor at the MGM Grand, killing some fizzy water on ice while clearing time for my room to be ...
Painstream media
This is so pathetic…
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That was my first, and perhaps only, successful video embed. Not my style, but I had to give it a try.













