Radio Garden

http://radio.garden By bringing distant voices close, radio connects people and places. Radio Garden allows listeners to explore processes of broadcasting and hearing identities across the entire globe. From its very beginning, radio signals have crossed borders. Radio makers and listeners have imagined both connecting with distant cultures, as well as re-connecting with people from ‘home’ from thousands of miles away – or using local community radio to make and enrich new homes.

December 13, 2016 · 1 min · Aaron

On Aging Content - The Long Process of Conversion

We bought our first house in June 2001 and moved to our new home in January 2013. In that 12 years (plus the five years in apartments) we've create a crap ton of content. That content is in the form of home video and movies on VCR tapes, photographs, negatives and all of the digital files stored on CDs, DVDs, and hard drives. I realized that some of that content is on aging media (VCR tapes and IDE hard drives) and needs to be moved to newer storage to prevent inaccessibility. We all have a responsibility of archiving that content so that our future selves and generations have access to it for historical and entertainment purposes. We all must become archivists. ...

April 14, 2014 · 3 min · Aaron