Joined PRX: May 18, 2005

Open Source is a conversation, four times a week on the radio and any time you like on the blog. We designed the show to invert the traditional relationship between broadcast and the web: we aren't a public radio show with a web community, we're a web community that produces a daily hour of radio.

Conversations are happening everywhere on the web, and they're not just about computers or Star Trek. They're about God and the world, people taking pictures and and comparing notes of what they see around them. It's why we chose to run our website as a blog; a blog functions naturally as a conversation, asking for input and correction and responding in turn. Broadcast media can't just be a bullhorn anymore; it has to be an invitation, or it misses out on some of the best stuff happening around it.