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Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by yesbabyyes »

SiVal wrote: post #34
studiopuckey wrote: post #12

Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.

I love this thing you've made. I've been exploring the world with radio since long before the WWW was invented. I used to carry a shortwave radio with me wherever I traveled back in the 1970s and 80s. I would lie there in the dark in Japan listening to the broadcasts out of North Korean screeching about the "Great Leader" (Kim Il-sung) or in Thailand listening to the Khmer Rouge (whom I couldn't understand, but I kne…

Not the only one - I agree. Actually I think Clarke's third law is wrong (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic):

Technology is magic. The reason why many people get uncomfortable when speaking of magic is that they think it's something otherworldly, and thus non-existent.

But magic is what we do, it's just a mystery for those who don't know the incantations and methods. That goes for technology as well as rhetoric, or medicine, or politics or what have you.

We even call it magical but it's somehow OK only if we don't really mean it. :-D

Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

SiVal wrote: post #34
studiopuckey wrote: post #12

Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.

I love this thing you've made. I've been exploring the world with radio since long before the WWW was invented. I used to carry a shortwave radio with me wherever I traveled back in the 1970s and 80s. I would lie there in the dark in Japan listening to the broadcasts out of North Korean screeching about the "Great Leader" (Kim Il-sung) or in Thailand listening to the Khmer Rouge (whom I couldn't understand, but I kne…

I'm with you - I can remember copying a tape of french punk music from my high school language teacher and how I found it so fascinating that there was this whole other music and cultural thing happening that I'd probably never have access to and now I click on this globe and it pops right up.

I also want to add what a terrific user experience this site provides. It's "technically" no different than a list of radio stations from around the world, but the presentation definitely makes it seem magical.

The next step will be AR/VR where I can hold a globe in the palm of my hand and spin and poke at it to get radio stations.

Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by mdrzn »

briandear wrote: post #24
handedness wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On the contrary, I think adding political boundaries would remove some of the power of the concept.

Make it toggle. Then you can be magical or practical.

I'd like to have an overlay with borders and city names.

Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by zerohp »

jejones3141 wrote: post #7

As it appears to me (running Chrome on Linux) it's really hard to go looking for a particular location, since it's just dots on a solid blue browser tab. Is that by design? (Also, it shows stations in Madrid, Spain at a spot that I think is a bit west of Ames, Iowa.)

There is a small town named Madrid just southwest of Ames, Iowa.

Re: Radio Garden – Listen to world radio by navigating an interactive globe

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Post by faitswulff »

studiopuckey wrote: post #12

Developer here. We weren't exactly expecting this to become as popular as it did.. Just survived being #1 on Reddit – sheesh. It seems our non-profit Bing maps key was revoked.. Switched to Arcgis imagery instead for now. Too bad, the Bing imagery was really great.

I actually like the Arcgis imagery better. It's easier to tell at a glance where I am in the world. Then again, I don't know if it was fully functioning when I saw the Bing imagery.
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