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This photo is somewhere near the Arizona / New Mexico border. It was fitting to see a sign for Grants Road, since I had been listening to @grantpotter playing a set of road tunes for me on ds106radio. It was epic, and carried me clear from east of Holbrook AZ into Albuquerque NM. It’s just a small example of how generous a spirit Grant is, he deserves more than a road, even more than a town, heck they name a new Canadian province for him. Thanks!

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by peasap This weekend marks the one year anniversary of the launch of what has been to me, one of the best shared online experiences in my 20+ years here– ds106 radio. This web radio station was started with a tweet by Jim Groom, that has gone millions of miles since then, thanks to the genius of Grant Potter (the story here). I’ve mulled over what I wanted to give the birthday box, and I kept going back to one song I always reach for, because it is fun, it’s about radio, and it transports me back to the 19080s when I first saw this wild stuff called MTV- Wall of Voodoo’s Mexican Radio: I wondered if I could play the song and maybe recast the lyrics, I was pleased to find an easy set of guitar tabs, and I set down [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It was a grey, rainy, snowy, wintery day up here in the Arizona mountains. In the afternoon I decided to pull out the little mini turntable and listen to for the first time, some of the old 78s I brought home from my Mom’s house. I had ever heard these before, but played them live for ds106 radio (note, a first segment where I was trying my Zoom H2 as a mic produced ugly white noise, thanks @easegill for letting me know). I recall seeing these records on the shelves in the basement of the home I grew up in Baltimore, but am not sure if they were my parents, or more likely my grandparents. Regardless, the 78s are old; they have significant heft. Each disk has one song per side (78 rpms go fast) and they certainly have that [...]

cc licensed ( BY SD ) flickr photo shared by Matt Biddulph I missed this live act, but apparently Jim Groom has been jetting across the US and broadcasting to ds106 radio. The FAA has no clue. Nigel (@easgill) posted a clip of this to SoundCloud and it was whispering to me– “REMIX REMIX REMIX”. So added to this is a bit of what I like as the back beat of radio, Wall of Voodoo’s Mexican Radio, a bit of James Bond ordering drinks after the BAVA ORDERS A COKE (edgy), and the OTR Radio Public Service announcement on Freedom. All of this mixed, edited, and tickled in Audacity. Jim Groom Aircasting on the ds106 radio by cogdog Let’s hope the plane lands safely despite this interference, and this does not happen ds106 Radio. Freedom. #4life.

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by rakkadeer I was locked into my spy mode, but had responded to DrGarcia’s call for audio clips to support the recent Schwartz Institute Seminar on DIY Radio : I was already on the run from the city and could not attend the session; sadly I heard my audio volume was a bit on the low side to use, so I wanted to make sure I was heard (I boosted the levels, sorry for not checking it GNA). ds106 radio from CogDog The archives of the full session are available DIY Web Radio, Part 1 of 2 from BLSCI on Vimeo. DIY Web Radio, Part 2 of 2 from BLSCI on Vimeo. Curse the search for the Center of the Internet, I missed an amazing session!

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Do not take this boyish innocent smile lightly- Tom Woodward is a force of creative and sarcastic genius. It was yet another highlight to have spent tim with Tom in person a few clicks back, and to get to visit with him and his family in Richmond. Until then, I had skyped with Tom when he provided his Amazing Story of Openness for my 2009 Open Ed presentation and probably the most over the top presentation done in Second Life, when he and Jim Groom did The Revolution will Be Syndicated, with extra zombies. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog While at Tom’s house, we broke out the StoryBox and did a 20 minute bit of live broadcasting on ds106 radio. ds106 radio with Tom Woodward Don;t take this all literally- Tom has a great wry [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You had to be there. Well, I am glad I was there. GNA Garcia and Jim Groom here are having too much fun doing a improv version of Mikhail Gershovich’s radio conversations with his mom. Or maybe we had too much fun watching. As part of yesterday’s antics here in Fredericksburg, we ran a “telethon” (yes, in “quotes”) in support of ds106 radio. One of the most fun ideas was asking our folks to share audio files of parodies of more or less ourselves, other web radion DJs. We collected over 20 of these, an hours worth of fun if you have been listening at all this year. Hands down, the most popular subject was Scottlo (“I am on The Skype”). I’ve archived a set of these on my site (and will upload to the auto DJ) at http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/ds106radio-djs/. I’m [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by giulia.forsythe If you dig ds106 radio, then join us tomorrow, October 2, a group of us are running a telethon to support the effort. While it is free form radio, truth be known that Grant Potter has been paying for the technical infrastructure since it launched in January 2011. Tomorrow’s event will ask people to either donate whatever they can, be it money or just some things like doing a special show or making some art (damnnit). The point is just to show our appreciation for the community ds106 has become. The point is to show how much you dig it. Hands down, being part of this group of friends who talk, play, and meet up on the internet radio waves has been the most exciting technology and social thing I have seen in my career. It’s real, folks. [...]

Lots of people seem to have gotten a start on ds106 radio broadcasting using Nicecast on Mac OSX and my first guide to niceasting. Since then, I’ve been modifying my method a bit, so it seemed time to update. As always, your first point of entry into anything related to ds106 radio is the shared doc at http://bit.ly/radio4life which covers info about the radio, how to listen, and how to broadcast. The setup I described the first tome around works well for the scenario of wanting to slide between your voice and audio from an application, e.g. DJing music from iTunes. This would not work, however, if you wanted to use say 2 audio apps, or if you wanted to do, say a Skype call-in show (which has been tutorialized elsewhere using SoundFlower, and/or audio mixing apps. There always seems to be a lot of audi source switching to do [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I landed today in Falls Church, VA, at the invite of George Brett, a long time internet colleague who I finally met for the first time in February at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference. He urged me to visit him, so I did– I am. He and his wife and daughter offered me the same open warm hospitality I have gotten everywhere on the trip. After a fabulous pork medallion dinner, I got to show off the StoryBox but the real prize was having George do his first ds106 radio show. He had fun with his old time music he played via his iPad: cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog He was part of the internet scene going back to the early 1980s, and was around many of the early wizards — as he quipped: I shoveled [...]