Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound. You could even say that hearing is movement detection. So what makes a speaker travel back and forth at just the right rate and distance, and how does that make sound?
How speakers make sound - Animagraffs
How speakers make sound - Animagraffs
Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound. You could even say that hearing is movement detection. So what makes a speaker travel back and forth at just the right rate and distance, and how does that make sound?
Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound. You could even say that hearing is movement detection. So what makes a speaker travel back and forth at just the right rate and distance, and how does that make sound?
The new radio stars: welcome to the podcast age | The Verge
PODCASTS ARE A DECADE OLD, BUT THEY'RE JUST STARTING TO MAKE NOISE
The new radio stars: welcome to the podcast age | The Verge
Alex Blumberg in real life sounds just like Alex Blumberg on the radio.
If you've ever listened to This American Life, the massively popular weekly radio show, or Planet Money, NPR's excellent economy-explaining podcast, you know Alex Blumberg's voice. I certainly did. Today, as he stands in front of the laptop he's perched on a wooden chair atop a long table (a brilliant hack of a standing desk), it's hard not to close my eyes and just listen.
That is, of course, exactly what Blumberg is hoping for. Here in the brand-new offices of Gimlet Media, on the fifth floor of a downtown Brooklyn co-working building, amid piles of old furniture and terrifying art, Blumberg and his colleagues are attempting to build a big business out of podcasts. They've been chronicling their adventures in — what else? — a podcast, called StartUp. It offers an intimate, funny, and occasionally deeply awkward look at what it takes to start a company. The podcast quickly became popular, and so did Gimlet: Blumberg and his co-founder Matt Lieber raised $1.5 million in venture capital, hired a team, and honed their pitch. That pitch, in a nutshell: we're entering a golden age of audio, the first since we all sat around radio cabinets and listened to The War of the Worlds. The future of radio is here.
Podcasts aren't new, of course. Even the term has been around for a decade or so, and now feels hilariously dated. (What is a pod anymore? Or, for that matter, a cast?) They have traditionally been thought of as two people sitting at a table with microphones, chatting aimlessly about… whatever. ESPN, for one, has built a huge podcast network on the shoulders of Bill Simmons chatting with his friends on The BS Report and its many other shows focused deeply on a single topic or a single host. Yet Gimlet Media and others are betting that there's room for more. More production, more storytelling, more narrative. So far, it seems like they're right.
Read more about Serial, Apps & modern listening activities at The Verge:The new radio stars: welcome to the podcast age | The Verge
29 Things Only People Who Work In Public Radio Will Understand
29 Things Only People Who Work In Public Radio Will Understand
2. You never know who is going to walk by your desk on a given day.
A woman with a heritage breed chicken on her shoulder just walked by my studio. #publicradiolife @WBUR
Anyone.
3. You get defensive when people complain about the pledge drive.
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Let’s be real: Stations need the dough and people need the tote bags.
After all, that’s the money you need for that equipment upgrade you’ve been waiting for!
4. You’ve spent time trying to get your hair just right only to end up with headphone hair.
7. You have been peer pressured into joining a CSA.
Community (Radio) Supported Agriculture
9. You’ve worked really hard on a story only to hear this from an editor.
And it breaks your heart a little.
10. You’ve had to remind people that public radio is more than just “This American Life” and “Fresh Air.”
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But that doesn’t stop you from being inspired by them.
12. You’ve said “explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten” to someone with a Ph.D./Nobel Prize.
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Trade secrets.
15. You ask for a pronouncer for even the most simple names, just to make sure.
20th Century Fox / Via becomegorgeous.com
Anne [AN as in “pan”] Hathaway [HATH-uh-way]
16. You’ve looked at one of these for so long you thought your brain would turn to mush.
17. You revel in the fashion of your workplace.
It’s the outfit version of having “a face for radio.”
18. You’re sick of explaining to people the difference between NPR and local public radio.
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20. It never gets old to hear the famous voices of radio just chatting about their lunch.
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21. And you know that no matter what it sounds like on air, curse words are everywhere.
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24. You know how many heroes are behind the scenes making things “sing.”
Have you hugged an engineer today?
26. And although you have to deal with it, cell phone tape makes you a little sad.
27. You’ve accepted the fact that your hard work helps some people fall asleep.
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But it also brings them back to their days riding around in the back seat with their parents.
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