Sorry to be relatively silent in this space of late. It’s been a doozer of a couple weeks since my return and today, when I finally could let up and start to catch up, I woke up with a sore throat. Everyone around me seems to have gotten sick lately, so I can’t blame a …
Author Archives: Jonathan Sterne
Twenty-Four
Carrie’s up 15-3-3. For those who missed the original post, go here.
Advice: Name the Podcast
Well, the time has come to give the podcast a name so that we can finish with the revisions of the blog. The problem, naturally, is that I’m not yet sure about the concept. Or rather, I was sure at first but now it’s evolved. The original concept (and still the core) was a monthly …
Testing 2-3-4
Destiny’s Rentschler: Rock Like You Here’s another post, same song, to see if this time it shows up correctly as a podcast. Just for fun, I’m posting the full document path this time: Destiny’s Rentschler — Rock Like You Please let me know if it shows up (especially Nick!).
Radio
At various times in my life, I have been involved in creating radio and writing about radio. I love to do both. I believe in radio. And yet I have never been all that much for listening to radio. The first time I was on National Public Radio (US), in the fall of 2002, I …
Two More Weeks of Twenty-Four
Carrie leads 13-3-3. It is starting to be a blowout.
Happiness Theory
Steven Rubio links to a Pew Foundation Study on happiness in America. Among other things, it suggests that there’s a connection between wealth (or income anyway) and reporting of happiness. Here’s the methodological issue — are people who report that they’re happy actually happy? This is a classic problem of social survey analysis based on …