Public Radio International, known to many in the US as a partner to National Public Radio, has taken the term ‘open source’ to a new level in its global radio programming.
The organization, possibly best known for its show The World, which brings an international flavor of news and features to the US,launched a new talk show format online in July.
Talk shows have long already been successful largely based on audience participation - PRI tapped the open source philosophy by leveraging the community of listeners to truly drive content and improve show quality. This has been done through a live Internet radio show, podcast and user community-based blog combo.
As we have discussed before - the BBC has started down a similar road as well (though not using the same methods, yet).
I find it fascinating that the momentum of open source is now trickling outside of technology spheres and impacting our everyday language and life. More importantly, this may be returning to the original philosophy of open source from years ago- an open and free exchange of knowledge and ideas (without needing to pay for a support contract).
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July 28th, 2005 at 11:53 am
And how about an open source beer? ;)
http://www.voresoel.dk/main.php?id=70
July 28th, 2005 at 11:35 pm
Now that is an open source project I would like to volunteer in a quality assurance role!
July 29th, 2005 at 12:21 am
In other fields too like biology, there has been a push to make information free and available. I remember seeing an article a month or so ago on NIH moving to make a large chemical database open to the public. It would be nice if more fields like medicine, etc, also would move towards this direction. Problem i believe however is funding– not many companies want to fund research that will not give them any returns.
July 29th, 2005 at 1:03 am
And them polite Canucks have an Open Cola: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCola
That’s rather cool to hear of a new direction for radio, especially after the bribery revealed.
There’s also an effort for Open Source TV. It’s a touch anarchistic, but still intelligent.
http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle4565.html
http://www.hyperreal.org/~mpesce/fbm.html
July 29th, 2005 at 4:37 am
or even open source warfare:
http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2004/09/bazaar_dynamics.html
November 16th, 2006 at 9:21 am
Is this message little enough to be one of… lost idea