I’m thrilled to see that Reclaim Hosting still runs the DS106 Radio Summer Camp as a light, low threshold way to gather online about as far from a wall of zoom faces as you can get. It was 12 hours of programming you could just spin the dial to over to https://listen.reclaimed.tech/summer-camp and tune in.
Being this week is a camping vacation, I missed nearly all of it, but I was happy to join in with Maren Deepwell for a free form campfire social hour of just blabbing about summer, camping, dogs, not AI, storytelling, needling Jim Groom. We had the ds06 radio time honored tradition of technology “futzing” (mic issues) which there is a place where making mistakes with the tech is laudable. Thanks Mark Corbett Wilson for being at the campfire to assure me my mic was working!
It’s warming to note that the pulse of DS106 Radio remains steady, some 15 years after Jim Groom blurted out somewhere that what DS206 needed was a radio station and Grant Potter went off and built one. It’s low key and about the opposite of viral/trending as one can get, but has a regular group of participants. It’s a lesson of the internet being more of a place for niches and wonder than just groping constantly for attention. Stay small!
It’s funny as from the featured image used here of one of those curious things happen from sharing a flickr photo of an old multiband radio that my Dad owned, not only AM and FM but also frequencies we could tune into police and shortwave (?) maybe. It was the radio that went on every family trip to the beach in Ocean City, Maryland.
I posted this in 2011 when my sisters and I had to empty our Mom’s house after she passed away (Dad went 10 years earlier). I did not keep the radio just took a photo. For some reason it gets quite a few views, near the top of my flickr photos. I sometimes log into pixsy, a reverse image serivce that tracks reuses of flickr photos, just to see where my old photos have travelled. According to them, Dad’s Radio has been used on 869 web sites, woah.
Most of the use of pixsy seems to be to go after illegal use of one’s photos, but I only use it to see where they have been reused. So it was nice to see Dad’s radio atop a story on Paradima Radio (90.2 FM!) a Spanish radio station’s web site
So my photo is one still licensed CC BY which means legally I could chomp after Paradigma Radio for not attributing me. I could wage law suits. But why? What do I gain? I’d rather just enjoy that still the internet an be amazing enough to be seeing my Dad’s old radio sit atop a Spanish language web site. I don’t need money or glory from my photos. I just like sharing them and knowing the are sometimes of use to others. Sometimes you find where and it feels like an Amazing Story.
Old radios and internet radio stations, still living on the web that seems so problematic to other folks. Take a break and just be amazed.
Featured Image: Dad’s Radio flickr photo by cogdogblog shared under a Creative Commons (BY 2.0) license (see I attribute myself even though I do not have to by license rules, any idea why?).
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