Search Engine hosted by Jesse Brown
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There's a lesson here, I'm just trying to figure out what it is.
Radio and TV shows are being cancelled all over the world. Newspapers lucky enough to still exist (for now) are cutting columns, features, entire sections and even days of the week.
Most of these media properties have bigger audiences than Search Engine, and many of them are just as good as Search Engine at what they do, or better.
So why am I still here?
Search Engine's resilience mirrors the beat that it covers: like the Internet, the show is scalable, portable, and cheap. I can produce it with a team of professional journalists and engineers in state-of-the-art studios, or I can produce it in my bedroom.
(Currrently, I produce it in my bedroom).
The only thing Search Engine absolutely needs to survive is its audience, who happen to also be its producers. As long as people still listen, still send in stories, still correct my every inaccuracy and grammatical error, and still count on the show to cover the most interesting and ignored beat out there, then there can be a Search Engine podcast.
Of course, it helps to also get paid. Thanks TVO!
Search Engine episode #1 by Jesse Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at tvo.org.
Its nice to see you still have a job. I am a huge fan of the show and by what I gather from the length and format of the first show you will be going back to the old way of doing things which I like.
Maybe you could get back the best of craigslist column?
Well I could keep rambling on but I won't.
later
posted by Netsquash on 24 May 2009 at 7:16 PM
Search Engine is by far one of the most interesting and inspirational shows I've listened to in my life. I will continue to recommend your journalistic reports. They are very informative and relevant to issues that relate to my generation and what the current structure is incompatible with.
I honestly believe that some of the issues you report about ,that nobody else even thinks about, are important to the future of our world. And that through understanding we can be an even bigger influence using these modern tools.
Thank you for doing this and continuing on with the passion that makes this show worth the time of it's listeners and helps us be better informed, better thinking citizens.
Sincerely, Steven Koshin
posted by Steven Koshin on 27 May 2009 at 9:22 PM
Hey, just let you know I'm so glad you brought the "search Engine" back to me. Keep up all the good works, Jesse! I enjoyed every episode of "Search Engine"...widely eye-opening issues and were creatively covered ......in Jesse's way! I guess I should say "Thanks a lot " to YOU as well.
posted by Be Cool on 29 May 2009 at 2:52 PM
Congratulations on being picked up by TVO! In your first "cockroach" episode Cory Doctorow seemed bewildered by the fact that public broadcasters were not offering more of their media under a Creative Commons license. He argued that because public broadcasters are using taxpayer's money to produce media that that media should be available, at no cost, to the public to do with it what they want. Valid argument...in theory. A Creative Commons license works if you own all the rights to the media. As soon as you involve third party rights holders (unions, performers, certain interviewees, stock media suppliers, etc.) things get sticky. Sure, you can negotiate with third party rights holders to secure an agreement to allow a Creative Commons license for distribution. However, clearing those rights will, in many cases, be cost prohibitive to the production. Those third party rights holders operate under a different business model than TVO. Keep up the great work. I look forward to future programs. Cheers.
posted by mdk on 31 May 2009 at 2:20 PM
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Wow -- that brought back fond memories. To this day I can't see Luba Goy doing comedy with the RCAF without remembering her discussing computers in the 80's. Her and Billy Van who was (nearly all characters from) The Hilarious House of Frightenstein which was another favourite from around that same time.
Ooga Booga.
Now --Bits and Bytes is a series I'd like to find on DVD and watch again as an adult. Might finally get me off my *** and hook my C-64 and Amiga equipment to my current computer to make backups of my floppies and all that work that is decaying.
Computer software and data doesn't ever expire from copyright -- the media just becomes impossible to read!
posted by Russell McOrmond on 20 May 2009 at 4:59 PM