internet - Radio station Shanghai (under construction)


Today I started to do some long overdue cleaning and that always develops into a dangerous mental state: new brilliant ideas pop up, to distract myself from that boring process of cleaning things. That is some important background when I share this email I have sent just now to my colleagues in Shanghai:
"For some time I have been discussing with some of you ways to start an internet-based podcasting station on Chinese, maybe even Asian affairs. While podcasting is definitely party of the new media hype, partly caused by Adam Curry, who on Friday started a daily four-hour radio show at the satellite broadcasting station Sirius, based on podcasts only. There are serious rumors in the market that the now technically still rather troublesome ways of publishing podcasts will improve very soon. Also ways to record interviews for example by using skypeare going to improve dramatically in the coming months. What I want to try is to get a few people together, first here in Shanghai and later possible elsewhere in China/Asia to brainstorm about the idea. Since it is not a way to make money very fast - although I do not want to exclude the possibility - it will in the beginning be based on the enthusiasm for making radio by a few people and expand from there."
The plan is to have dinner next Sunday evening in Shanghai and see where it begins (or ends). Give me a shout, in Shanghai when you want to join the dinner, or outside when you are interested.

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