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Thursday, April 18, 2002

Prepping for the radio show tomorrow. The internet and computers certainly have changed the way I do my show-prep.

Besides the obvious information sources utilizing syndication protocols like RSS that are neatly aggregated and organized with my california army knife, there's an ironic part of my routine.

I'm fortunate to have cut a deal where I select the music played on the show, about 18 songs over a two hour period. Since I'm only on once a week (prime-time friday) I like have the luxury of really focusing on the choices.

The main thread is 80's, but we'll just as easily play a 60's oldie, top40 hit from today or an independant artist who only sells through her site. The station is number two nationally and number 1 in upper demographics..yeehah, love that radio speak. anyway....

So I compile a list of songs in my outliner, cutting and pasting, moving songs up and down in the show's format until it feels right.

Now comes the fun part, I fire up Morpheus and feed my playlist into the machine that browses the ContentSpace known as the GNUtella network. (memo to self, use army knife to automate this process)

Once they're all downloaded onto my local drive I load them into iTunes on my Mac and create a playlist that I then burn onto two identical 80 minute CDs. I need two copies so we can 'ping pong' between two playback machines when on the air.

I can't imagine what I'd do if I had to either search through a humungous collection of CDs at home (which I don't have) or have to go to the government public broadcasting archives, which is in Hilversum, 30 minutes from Amsterdam. In fact, if the song I'm looking for isn't available through Morpheus, it doesn't get played on the show.

Here's the kicker, the station pays several millions per year to the dutch versions of ASCAP and BMI, so in this case, not being 'out there' on the net in digital form results in missed revenue to it's creators and/or rights owner(s).

Just thought I'd point that out.
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Since the inception of curry.com and for that matter it's predecessors MeTaVerse.com and mtv.com, I've never really cared much about the style or look of my weblog. In fact, I've probably missed out on many offers of help just because I'm too deep into the writing or distribution or development. Or maybe 'cause I'm flying the chopper, but the point is I need help and finally realize it. I'm suffering from bad templatage! My weblog gets pretty decent traffic(Usernum 1014), I'd like to barter a credit link for a new template design. Must work with Radio UserLand
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Busy today! Checking out a location this morning for a new restraunt idea I'm interested in, around noon I fly to Rotterdam to check out the AHOY stadium for the Reflex of the 80's concert I'll be hosting (Radio/TV/Live) for BNN. Pix and updates later this afternoon!
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