Author Archives: Steve Mays

I wanna be a DJ or a cowboy

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You know how when you cut down the rain forest you destroy the natural habitat of some exotic wild animals and they become extinct? Say goodbye the Spotted American DJ. It’s all there in an excellent (and depressing) story by Clay Barbour in The Virginian-Pilot:

10 companies control two-thirds of the country’s listeners and ad revenue; two of them – Clear Channel and Infinity Broadcasting – own more than 40 percent of all stations.

Edison Research found that as many as 75 percent of 12- to 24-year-olds were listening to online radio, with nearly half of them using their phones to do so while in the car. Essentially, if you are younger than a certain age, you don’t listen to terrestrial radio anymore.

Many of you have ready my nostalgic ramblings about my dozen years as a small town radio DJ in the 70s. (sigh) Really glad I got to ride the range before all the media sod busters arrived.

Scott Adams: The Age of Magic

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“Imagine walking to a crosswalk and doing the “halt” hand motion in the direction of traffic. Your ring and your watch can tell by their orientation to each other that you have formed that gesture and so they send a “pedestrian waiting” message to the street light. The lights change for you and you cross. It will feel like magic. Or point at something in a vending machine and your watch and ring can detect which item you selected, charge your credit card, and send a code to release the item. To an observer it will seem that you pointed at an item and magic released it.”