Comments on: Open Source Radio (WGBH)

By: spiralbound.net

spiralbound.net — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 12:41:54 +0000

Open Source Radio

last week I listened to “Open Source” on NPR for the first time and I must say, I tuned in with a great deal of anticipation and excitement! “Open Source” is a radio show that uses blogs and internet sources as fodder, bringing…

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:01:12 +0000

Ennis, I thought the interview went pretty well. Lydon and crew are doing lots of just in time assembly in the creation of a CAS, and that was interesting to watch. Hopefully lots of listeners will start creating or preserving their archives and in that event, we did our jobs. Thanks, Grant

Jason, great pleasure to meet you and to share a studio with you. I thought you did a fine job and that together we made a credible showing for the idea. I hope we can stay in touch. Thanks again. Grant

By: Jason Scott

Jason Scott — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 00:59:58 +0000

Poor Mr. Lydon (who I adore) barely got a word in edgewise because he booked me, the Nuclear Option of guests; I’m an unstoppable talker, enough that people who know me have to use a series of increasingly-frantic hand and eye gestures to let me know I’ve taken the audience to a special, faraway place.

Grant and I were given plenty of room to talk and to interact, and in fact Mr. Lydon was surprised that this was the first time we’ve met. (Hopefully it won’t be the last time?)

It was a great evening.

By: Ennis

Ennis — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 23:38:20 +0000

And did Chris actually stop talking long enough for his guests to say something interesting to each other? That was my frustration with the Connection – he liked the sound of his own voice so much that he crowded out the people who actually knew something. Even though he had founded the show, it got much better after he left.