OK - it's a picture of Jarvis Cocker. So what's it doing here? Let me explain...There are obviously lots of excellent things on Radio 4. But there's also a fair amount of dreary rambling too.
If you want to catch up with good stuff you may have missed/didn't even know was on, you could try Speechification, a blog about Radio 4 set up by some mildly geeky/techie blokes from the UK net scene.
Now I know this sounds like the deeply wrong outcome of some misguided effort at logical reasoning, as in:
- All geeky/techie blokes keep blogs
- All geeky/techie blokes like Radio 4
- Therefore, all geeky/techie blokes will eventually end up blogging about Radio 4
The good thing is that Speechification doesn't just link to the Listen Again service, which only retains shows for a week after transmission. Instead, it provides links to downloadable MP3s of shows from much longer ago. So, back in January, Jarvis Cocker did an interesting two part series on zines and alternative media. If you missed it, thanks to Speechification, you can still download and listen.
There are lots of other interesting things/links buried in the back pages - so it's worth looking round on the blog. The people behind it have also set up Watchification, which sets out to do something similar for BBC TV shows.
(By the way, the pic come from a Seattle magazine, The Stranger, via Google, but it's all over the net).
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