Inifinty Radio is turning an SF talk-radio station into a station that will broadcast podcasts of selected listeners. An excerpt from Jay Rosen at http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/ The Migration "While people in the old press pack up, and tell stories about giants they knew in the era when... they are also asking each other: where headed? As in: How are your people planning to make it across?" Plus: Podcasted radio is here; Infinity goes open source in SF. The instant literature on what Jeff Jarvis has been calling the tipping point continues to grow. Kevin Roderick at LA Observed headlined his post: Critical Mass. It has been pointed out that tipping point talk is cheap. But Infinity Broadcasting actually tipped over today. It went from radio by professional broadcasters to radio by open source podcasters-- at one station. Starting right away. On May 16, Infinity Broadcasting's KYCY-AM in San Francisco will drop its talk-radio format and switch to broadcasting its listeners' own podcasts. It'll also stream those podcasts from the domain KYOURADIO.com Open Source Radio. Beginning today, listeners will be able to upload their podcasts of varying lengths for free at KYOURADIO.com, where podcasts will be chosen by the broadcaster. Infinity Broadcasting says that the pod programming will be determined by listener interests and feedback, and evaluated on a daily basis. That's according to Vin Crosbie in Poynter's E-media blog. According to management at the "flipped" station: KYOURADIO is the first radio station in the world to get all of its programming from podcasts. Everyday we'll feature new, innovative and cutting edge programs produced by people like you. Your original thoughts and sounds will be broadcast in San Francisco on the revolutionary 1550 KYCY-AM and streamed worldwide at KYOURADIO.com. If that can happen one day, anything can happen the next. People in journalism know this. They are packing their things for the big digital migration-- metaphor by Murdoch. They're recalling what they loved about the long newspaper era. And they're telling each other stories about the new land and what life will be like. "Working at a major metropolitan newspaper these days can feel a bit like working for the East German Politburo, circa 1988," jokes Andrés Martinez, editorial page editor of the Los Angeles Times, in today's pages. "It's a good gig with great benefits, and people seek you out at cocktail parties, but you have this sense that your days are numbered."
