cookin’/relaxin’: Text the radio, watch it grow

Tristan Ferne on the realtime SMS “cloud” visualization he created for BBC Radio 1. “DJs and producers have a “text console” web application which they can use to view the incoming messages and either respond to them on air or select messages to publish

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NPR : Remembering the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

Heard this story on the way into work this morning. Hard to believe the city rebounded from the devastation shown in the photographs! To think that Telegraph Hill was once a working class neighborhood! Hah!

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I Can Feel the Music (David A. Mellis)

Pair of radios that let one explore the radio spectrum by way of touch. I especially like “I Can Feel the Music 1″ as it resists or accelerates the turning of the tuning wheel as one navigates the slopes, peaks and valleys of radio signal strength.

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Pen Jilette: There Is No God

Part of NPR’s series “This I Believe”

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“Blueslike” by One for All

Some damn tasty sextet playing. Heard the cut “We’ll be together again” on KCSM. Jim Rotundi (trumpet), Eric Alexander (tenor) especially caught my ear.

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Eigen Radio

Many radio stations statistically analyzed for greatest entropy, and then distilled into one

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Quirks and Quarks Archives

MP3 archives of great CBC Science and Tech show. Good iPod fodder for the commute to work.

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Thinking Allowed

Quirky radio program from BBC4. Shows on things like “studying queues.” If only it weren’t realplayer…

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KCRW show “Final Curtain” profiles celebrities and persons of note who have died in the last week.

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