I’ve never enjoyed listening to music on the radio very much. What they play is never the kind of thing I like, and besides, its like listening to someone else’s playlist. I do, however, enjoy talk radio. There are some interesting people and discussions, there is some commentary on current events, and then some public opinion. Talk radio has been providing this kind of open discussion for years. Blogs and social networks have been great to develop this kind of thing online, but radio is where some of this started. Will the Internet doom radio the way it is newspapers?
Recently some of the radio shows I listen to have been offering Twitter feeds of their topics, and even providing on the air interaction with twitter users. Sometimes I have considered sharing my opinion during a radio show, but I’m not a big fan of the phone. In this same context, however, Twitter is almost the exact equivalent of a phone call. Radio shows typically accept a short statement from a call in user, and then the host replies. Isn’t this basically what Twitter is?
There is a lot of interesting ways to connect the offline world to the online. I think Twitter makes a great companion to radio talk shows, and it will allow them to stay relevant as more people start looking to the Internet for their information and social opinion.
Tags: Social
Created on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
