Have people heard about the Big Giant Head fee increases for internet radio?
A recent change to the structure of royalty payments for streaming audio broadcasts will surely kill online streaming as we know it, unless something changes, and soon.
Pandora founder Tim Westergren writes, "Internet radio is hostage to a blatantly discriminatory double standard that was written into the federal statute governing webcasting several years ago, following an intensive lobbying effort by the RIAA. We need to redress this, and create a more level playing field - one that of course rewards musicians for their work, and one that also understands the business realities, and benefits of online radio."
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Some people think that most internet radio stations will just stop doing streaming audio if this stands.
Yeah. Thankfully, some big guns like NPR are fighting it. [link]
Since I suddenly have a surfeit of space, I've been going a little crazy with the downloading. I was wondering--what podcasts/vodcasts do you guys subscribe to? Doing some savvy browsing around iTunes has brought up a lot of stuff I really dig, like the World Cafe Live and some americana/alt-country podcasts. What about ya'll?
NPR Health & Science, Talk of the Nation Science Friday, This American Life.
TAL
Out of the Past: Invesigating Film Noir
The Writer's Almanac - Garrison Keillor (5 mins a day)
Aside from the ones already mentioned, I like:
The Sound of Young America-- particularly good if you are interested in comedy or hip hip
Jordan Jesse GO! -- a talk show from the people behind TSOYA above
The Hollywood Saloon-- for the most ridiculous kind of nerdliness about film, like two-hour paeans to Shane Black and equally lengthy disquisitions on the 30 different versions of Star Wars.
Filmspotting, actually far less trainspotting-y about movies
Project Runway podcast
NOVA ScienceNOW
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
Excellent list, guys. I picked up more than a few of those. For what it's worth, here's what I've subscribed to:
-60 Second Science
-78 Notes to Self: A Tarot Journal
-Alan Watts Podcast
-Americana Roots
-Ancient & Medieval History
-A Prairie Home Companion
-Bad Astronomy
-Democracy Now
-Discovery Channel Video Podcast
-Entourage (HBO)
-Epicurious: Food and Drink
-Epicurious: Inside the CIA
-The Best of Philosophy Talk
-Flyin' Shoes Americana Radio
-Food Philosophy
-Hardcore-Troubadours.com Podcast
-KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic
-Mountan Folk
-NASACast Video
-National Geographic Video Shorts
-NBC Meet the Press (they pull the full episode up, which I think is pretty cool)
-NOVA Vodcast
-NPR Intelligence Squared
-NPR World Cafe Words and Music
-Not Your Usual Bollocks UK Music
-Oxford University Old English Lecture
-PopSci
-Raising Cane Bluegrass
-Real Time with Bill Maher (again they put the full episode up, thanks HBO)
-Rome (HBO, I think)
-Science Friday
-Strategic Economics (Game Theory Lectures)
-The Austin Connection
-The Blues File at WXPN
-The Economist
-The History Network
-The Merlin Show
-The National Archives Podcast
-The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe
-The Sound of Young America (I love this one too, bon bon)
-This American Life
-Miami Ink's Tattoo Talk (essentially defunct now)
-Tractorgrease Radio
-Travel with Rick Steves
-WGBH Classical Performance
-World Cafe Live
I really wish that CNN offered Anderson Cooper 360 and MSNB offered the full Countdown with Keith Olbermann instead of the highlights show the put up, but I guess you can't have everything. I also listen to Slate Explainer, the NYT Ethicist, The Onion Radio News, and the NBC Nightly News vodcast, as well as one or two other things I can't remember because they aren't on the ipod right now.
I dropped that Alan Watts one pretty fast. I like and respect the guy, but his delivery was of the snooze.
