The Death of Radio

Sometimes John Dvorak is a little snarky, but he' right on here regarding the sad state of regular radio broadcasting. Long live satellite radio and podcasting!

Although this is the second post in a few weeks about terrestrial radio, it's one thing that I have given up as of January 2006. It's gone, out of my life and not at all forgotten. That industry is in a slow demise. Poor babies.

The Demise of Radio

This blog post over at Newsome.org reminds me why I haven't listened to a lick of terrestrial radio in about nine months. Way (way) too many annoying ads, boring playlists and sappy deejays and a complete waste of my time. Buy XM or Sirius and take control of your listening. I had XM until recently but plugged in the Sirius One (I love this thing!) and will *never* go back to terrestrial, commercialized ClearChannel radio. With iPod integration, gigs of music at your fingertips and with satellite radio on the playing field, radio can't -- and will not -- survive unless they are able to stuff 51 minutes of ads per hour into the programming. I am sure that will really drive people to the radio then (chuckle). It's called "market disruption", ClearChannel -- look into it, innovate a little (HD Radio is bleh, boring -- no added value) -- then call me back.

Over and out.

Lawmaker wants to shoot Madonna into space - Sep 14, 2006

For crying out loud -- with all else happening in the world, some goofy Russians are -- well, trying to get into the news with cheap parlor tricks I guess.

National TV debut...of sorts

Well, after folks at AOL (one of the companies I contract with) telling me that Ask.com was running national television ads featuring a quote from yours truly, I finally saw that spot on TV today while chewing through an episode of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central. I tried to catch the ad during the recent U.S. Open, but alas, it was hard for me to watch tennis this year with so much else going on, so I missed it on prime-time.

The full-page New York Times ad that came out at the end of July featured my quote as well alongside Walt Mossberg from the Wall Street Journal, so it was kind of cool -- make that *very*, super-like cool -- to see my quote in a national television commercial. The link to the commercial I grabbed from my DVR is below in Windows Media format if you want to take a peek (3.9MB).

Download the Ask.com commercial

How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger - WikiHow

Someone who just doesn't get it...for the most part.

Remembering 9/11

Although I was safe in the Midwest the morning of 9/11/01, nobody alive at that moment in time will ever forget what transpired on that day here in the good 'ole USA. To that, please take a moment of silence today to remember those lives and those still living that were forever affected by this terrible trajedy five years ago today. Peace all.