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Mapping the Territory

http://www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/web/

Barton & Barton meet Baudrillard. It's not really what I expected from a hypermedia map, but the colonial metaphor seems interesting.

The Precarious Place of Internet Radio

This week Congress entered the fight to save Internet radio.

http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0100/t.5809.html

Usually the words "commercial" and "radio" in close proximity leave something close the taste of sweaty garbage in my mouth.

That's assuming the conversation's surrounding a station with an uber tight loop of less than inventive, already over-played tunes--a station's that's licking the fingers of the corporate machines which fuel it.

Internet commercial radio is, in some forms, arguably a different beast.

Take pandora.com for instance.

For the yet-to-be-converted, it's a God in the "box" that, better than I've heard any iPod produce thus far, divinely (and sometimes with a bit of strict displine) selects ecclectic songs that follow musical progressions.

Dilligently prune your station and it might bring forth as opaque an epistemic progression that, personally, I've never experienced from another medium.

In its technology, it's a horse of a radically different color.

So, for the pleasure gained from pandora, for all the other similar and developing technologies, for the progress of audio and online technology in general, let's hope that the two Democratic House members will be successful.