Open Source Radio 25 May 2005 Sharlet: One of the smartest voices in radio is launching a new public radio show -- an experiment of sorts -- on May 30, and The Revealer is delighted to be a part of its first week of programming (I'll be a guest on June 2nd). The voice belongs to Chris Lydon, the former host of the The Connection, and the program will be called Open Source. It'll debut on Boston's WGBH as well as public radio stations in Seattle and Salt Lake City, and we predict it'll grow quickly from that base. My favorite radio producer, David Miller, will be working on the show. Listen to some of Dave's stuff on NPR: "Politics and the Prayer Group"; "Finding Love, Late in Life" (no religion; lots of sex). Dave has nice things to say about me, too, on Open Source's blog -- which, as part of the experiment, will be part of the show. A lot of shows use blogs now, but Lydon will be posting his topics and his guests well in advance, so that listeners can actually help shape the show rather than just respond. "Open Source will not be a show about blogs," explains Lydon. "It will use blogs to be a show about the world." And Lydon goes into more depth about the Open Source idea here, naming as ancestors -- as proto-bloggers -- Tom Paine, I.F. Stone, and Emerson.
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