Open Source Media

There are a lot of complaints on Daily Kos about the lousy media. Big Duh. Here are three extraordinary ways of gaining access (listen to the audios for remarkably coherent explanations). [Update]More after the flip.

From On the Media for June 3, 2005 for audio and transcripts:

#1 "Press Potlatch
At any given hour, the BBC's website is the most visited news site in the world. So it was quite a surprise when the organization announced last month that it's relinquishing some control of its online content in order to harness some of the energy of internet innovation. The only condition of the new arrangement is that content sharers explain their intentions. Tom Loosemore, co-creator of Backstage BBC, tells Bob why it's better to share."

From Wired:

"America's entertainment industry is committing slow, spectacular suicide, while one of Europe's biggest broadcasters -- the BBC -- is rushing headlong to the future, embracing innovation rather than fighting it.

Unlike Hollywood, the BBC is eager and willing to work with a burgeoning group of content providers whose interests are aligned with its own: its audience."

Or you can go here with your ideas (transcript and/or audio available):

#2 "Feedback Loop"

"Last month, Infinity Broadcasting gave its listeners control of the airwaves, at least on one money-losing AM station in San Francisco. It renamed the station KYOU, and switched its format to amateur-submitted podcasts. KYOU calls it "open source" radio. Meantime, in another part of the broadcast universe, Christopher Lydon is giving voice to his own version of open source radio. He joins Brooke to explain the vision behind his new  #3 public radio show."

From Wired:

"Infinity plans to convert San Francisco's 1550 KYCY, an AM station, to listener-submitted content. The station, previously devoted to a
talk-radio format, will be renamed KYOURadio.

Infinity, one of the country's largest radio operators with more than 183 stations around the country, will invite do-it-yourselfers to upload
digital audio files for broadcast consideration by way of the KYOURadio.com we
bsite."