Came across this very nice post today.
That’s the way you build meaningful and lasting communities. One listener at a time.
While we’ve had a fantastic launch, knowing that people are settling on UtahFM as a part of their media diet is what’s heartening. While I’m a graphing and data visualization nut, it doesn’t mean that I really care all that much about what the raw number of connected listeners is.
What really thrills me about the Internet and about new media specifically is that people are empowered to select just what they want to hear and they can hear it from anywhere. It still amazes me when I notice that somebody is listening to the stream from Hawaii, or from Japan. I suspect it’s the same feeling that Hertz or Marconi must have had when they fired up old spark-gap transmitters for the first time — the feeling that a very small transmission was about to make a very, very big difference.
