Commentary at last

TADA! So I have not done a commentary yet and I figured this would be a good thing to look at. Its basically how now the radio has shifted towards the internet its an article I stumbled across. it is sort of a sort article that does not capture what I want to say but it is okay. It is weird to think how everything has now shifted to the internet. We now have the radio and TV shows that can be visible on a computer and on the internet more specifically. For me it sparks the curiosity of what will happen after the internet. The internet has combined many different elements of memory and old forms of communication into an all encompassing thing. Internet has given the option to never have any information lost. Everything has been able to be saved in one form or another. So enjoy this short blurb about the convergence between radio and the internet.

Convergence between radio and the Internet

Radio content transmitted via the Internet

In North America and Europe, many, if not most radio stations, stream their programming over the Internet. Radio-Locator, a website that lists radio stations on the Internet and links to 2,500 audio radio stations in 133 countries all over the world. Many stations merely extend their reach, using the Internet to make their programs available to geographically distant listeners, but some are using the interactive capabilities to produce value added services to their listeners. More recently, independent producers and radio stations have discovered podcasting, which enables people to download programs to their MP3 players.

Internet content transmitted via the radio

The UNESCO-supported Kothmale Internet Project in Sri Lanka is one of the best-known examples of a radio station adopting the role of a gateway or community intermediary between its listeners and the Internet. Located within Kothmale Community Radio, a semi-autonomous radio station located in an agricultural region, the Internet project has two main components: a community telecentre with a dedicated line, and Radio Browsing, a daily two-hour radio program in which broadcasters take the Internet to the community by surfing the web in search of answers to listener queries. By sifting through the Internet’s terabytes of data, Radio Browsing finds information that is useful to the communities and then interprets it, making useful information meaningful.

Sources: Bruce Girard: Internet, Radio & Network Extension. A.K. Mahan & W.H. Melody (eds.): Stimulating Investment in Network Development: Roles for Regulators. WDR Montevideo 2005 and http://www.radio-locator.com/