Tonight’s #ds106 radio broadcast was a breathless romp through brilliant hours of freeform online broadcasting. Programs are starting to take shape with submissions coming in with sequence and program names within file names – ex: kickitover_01_lostinthesupermarket.mp3, kickitover_02_eattherich.mp3
Did you miss a show? Well, this is no DVR, this is no iPod, you can’t skip tracks … it’s a Happening.
Never fear if you missed a program – schedules will emerge and shows will rotate – bringing a mix of freeform and thematic programming. I was at work when Up On The Sun from @noiseprofessor hit the tubes and was cranking his show in my office, loving his program when I got a DM saying that he was going live from his mobile with Papaya Broadcaster. He went live to #ds106 radio after his show to say hello … voices of #ds106 live and in yer Tubes … something I hope we hear a whole lot more of in the coming weeks.
Accidentally nuked Jim’s comment – here is the retrieved text:
“Grant,
That moment gave me goosebumbs, we really don;t know what is happening here. The technical setup of this whole thing is is the ideal vision of an online class, and event a happening, whatever. sharing, rocking, and creating for the airwaves. scorm, gradebooks, your god damned assessment, it all seems so counterintuitive to the real idea of this, the virtual touch, the “unmet friend” as Gardner notes. And when NoiseProfessor talked to us, and Jabiz live broadcasted from Indonesia, I knew this whole thing had reached a level of beauty, a romantic vision of thought driven radio that exercises like an organism, and becomes on point of contact, but one that goes to the veins like heroine with the mellifluous sounds of our distributed expression. it is poetry through and through and it is time to stop treating this like a class, if we ever did, and start recognizing it as an alternative, a possibility.
You have engineered and are currently managing something extraordinary, you are about as locked right now as an artist can be. Here’s to you, and everyone else out there making this all possible.”
Man oh man is it fun to a) create an audio experience, b) hear it broadcasted, and c) say hello live. I was loving it when the Robert the custodian walked in to collect my trash, right as I started going live with Papaya. Thanks for all your hard work setting things up – it’s working like a charm. ELECTRIC!