On NPR today: 'On the Media'

I just came home from lunch in San Francisco when my 6-year-old ran up to me and said, "Dad, you were on the radio!" Ah, the lure and power of big media. Will it still hold true when Bobby is my age? I'm not so sure.

I did a quick interview at KQED's studios on Wednesday with Bob Garfield of NPR's On the Media about "Darknet," and it just aired. (The fact that I've been on the show a couple of times aside, I think it consistently ranks as one of the best-done programs on the creative destruction happening in the media world today.)

Here's the streaming mp3 of the program (I think you need Real to hear it), and a description of the segment from their website:

For every move that media industries have taken to protect their copyrights, there has been an equal and opposite countermove by consumers. In Darknet: Hollywood's War Against the Digital Generation, J.D. Lasica explores the realm in which so-called pirates operate - slicing, dicing, and sharing media to their hearts' content. Lasica talks to Bob about how Hollywood is driving consumers further into the shadows and under the radar.

I was glad to see that they used a mash-up that I'd sent them of rx's My Name Is Rx, a remix of George W. Bush's speeches and presidental debate verbiage set to the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. (Download it here.)

By coincidence, I was just coming back from lunch with ... Bob Garfield, who's in town to give the keynote at a marketing conference Monday, and Brendan Greeley, who's working with Christopher Lydon on open-source radio (and is in Berkeley this weekend to see his girlfriend). We wound up having brunch at Santorini, a new Greek restaurant near Union Square.

By further coincidence, Brendan was also on On the Media today (though he was interviewed by someone else). So natch, we chatted about blogging, podcasting, the future of media, advertising models, the remix revolution, why people go to blogging conferences, Jeff Jarvis's new job, and lots more, between gyros and moussaka and lots of caffeine.

Great to finally meet Bob G. (pictured above) in person (had I known Google Images would be so barren of photos, I would have brought my camera). And I'll be working with Brendan in the coming months to create a resource on Ourmedia for podcasters to learn about what they can and can't do under the law.