by Brant Huddleston | Apr 26, 2013 | By Brant, Interactive Radio, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM
As readers of my blog already know, I resigned from IBM in 2000 to start a business around a concept I called “Wireless Interactive Radio,” or WIR. You can read the full story of my entrepreneurial venture in another post, but the basic idea of WIR was...
by Brant Huddleston | Mar 23, 2013 | By Brant, Interactive Radio, Mobile Tourism
Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) or HearPlanet. These opinions are strictly my own and published here to stimulate open discussion. Yesterday I reviewed a new tour platform called HearPlanet. I...
by Brant Huddleston | Oct 16, 2012 | By Brant, Interactive Radio
Kayla, a college student, no longer listens to traditional radio, preferring instead to use a smartphone to listen to her favorite Pandora stations. Because she does not pay for Pandora’s premium ad-free service, she knows they will play an occasional...
by Brant Huddleston | Sep 26, 2012 | By Brant, Interactive Radio, Riding the Dancing Elephant: My Years with IBM, Technology
The year was 1999. The song was “Sunburst” by guitarist Andrew York of the LA Guitar Quartet. I was driving, listening to my local NPR station. Before the song finished playing I was ready to buy it, but I knew neither the title nor the artist. It took...
by Brant Huddleston | Sep 1, 2012 | By Brant, Interactive Radio
5 AM. My wife is waking up to the clock/radio. She stumbles into the bathroom and closes the door. I want to sleep some more, but she leaves the radio playing so she can hear the weather, which she never does because she is in the bathroom with the door shut. I...
by Brant Huddleston | Aug 28, 2012 | By Brant, Interactive Radio
It is the fall of 1972, and I am a high school student in Northern Virginia. My father has given me a Heathkit tube radio he built in the 1950’s, and I use it to tune in 102.3 — one of the few “underground” FM stations playing progressive,...
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