This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls talk with Tony Zeoli about Netmix and the Radio Station WordPress plugin. The story starts with the Netmix startup, one of the first places doing Internet music in the 1990s. That business did well enough to get bought out just before the Dot Com bubble burst in 2000. Today, Tony runs the Radio Station plugin, which is all about putting a station’s show schedule on a WordPress site.
In the process, the trio covers Internet radio history, the licensing complications around radio and streaming, the state of local radio, and more. Is there a long term future for radio? Does Creative Commons solve the licensing mess? Is AI going to start eating radio, too? All this and more!
– wordpress.org/plugins/radio-station
– radiostation.pro
– netmix.com
– tonyzeoli.com
– avlhms.com
– linkedin.com/in/tonyzeoli
Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right in the Hackaday Discord? Next week we’re interviewing Matt Ray of the Opencost project.
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If you’d rather read along, here’s the transcript for this week’s episode.
