Hi you X-Changers,

micz flor schrieb:
> 
> hi frank,
> 
> i unfortunately didn't ahe the time to come to the netradiodays myself (i
> am working on Crash Media and Revolting in london and manchester - URL see
> sig), but being an active member of convex tv. i would be very happy if you
> could send me a CD-ROM as well (i will certianly pay for the costs).
> 
> >CD-copies will be ten marks each including media, I will do them on
> >Tuesday.
> 
> all the best,
> 
> Micz Flor [micz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> 
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Public lecture by Frank Fremerey
held on 10 June 1998 at
WMF Resopal Bar, Berlin, Germany

copyright 1998 by 
HOME - HochschulMediennetz Deutschland
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Preliminary message

Innovating in Germany means to be ready to have your ass kicked.
Important message for those who want to try it.


1


Pay for content! - a provocation


Ideas are free and are there all the time, but not everyone is able to
grasp them and it requires a lot of hard work to express them
adequately.

That's why you can not copyright ideas, but you can copyright their
manifestations as there are e.g. works of art, music, journalism and
others, subsummized as content.

I said that not everybody has the talent to grasp ideas. Because talents
are gifts from whatever entity you consider fitting into your cultural
and ideological background, their basic expressions are still free.

Adequate, elaborated expressions on the other hand require the author to
put a significant piece of lifetime into his work.

If you later profit from the elaboration by having a customized way to
consume the idea, it should be OK for you to pay the author, if he or
she wants or - more commonly - *needs* to be paid. Money has always been
frozen lifetime and you pay with yours to receive parts of other
people's lifetime in the form of a breadroll, a book, a website or a
lecture.

To demonstrate what I mean in practical terms I ask you now to open your
purses and pay a symbolic penny for the rest of my lecture.


2


Senders, listeners and rebroadcasters - painting a background for Iradio


During my voluntary work I learned, that there are several types of
people doing radio:

The most commonly found is the one, who trys to attract an audience as
large as possible to sell it to advertisers later. Let's call him the
>>seducer<<. 

The >>seducer's followers<< are those who consider radio to be a means
of making a living, basically. What both of them have in common is that
they also could sell cars or breadrolls instead.

On the other end of the spectrum there is the one who gets satisfaction
just out of broadcasting, independent of the fact that there is possibly
no audience at all. Let's call him the >>masturbator<<. I think to
broadcast just for the fun of it is just a waste of electricity and
bandwidth, but, like masturbation, not a waste of time for the
performer. On the internet, the bandwidth consumed without listeners is
very small and the electricity wasted is also marginal compared to a FM
or especially shortwave station (provided there are no listeners). Some
masturbators are followers of seducers: just tune into some local
morning shows.

Then there is the one conveying a message. Lets call him >>messenger<<.
The message might be important or not, might interest others or not,
might be elaborated or rather simple in its presentation. Still, the
>>messenger<< has to send it out and will send it out, even if he himself has to pay for it.

As internet-radio and the internet in general is in its infancy state
still, it is not the >>seducer's<< medium yet, but it is a perfect
medium for >>masturbators<< and >>messengers<<, although the
>>masturbator<< might lose his satisfaction if he broadcasts for hours and the server-log says: NO LISTENERS - those were the good old days, when the rates came out long after the broadcast was finished.

The internet is a means for the >>messengers<<, a place for free speech,
a global "speaker's corner". Let your voice be heard on the net. 

Besides these motivations for broadcasting at all and the differing
relationships of senders to their audiences, there are important
differences in the relationship of senders to authors, to ideas and to
their manifestations:

Let's start with the radio inside our heads: most of us have a
continuous stream inside our heads. By identifying with parts of it, we
use to constitute what is commonly known as our thoughts. But in fact,
it is nothing but an unconscious remix of things we have heard, read and
seen,
ideas we grasped from whichever source we might have access to and the
echoes of this all.

A thought in my sense can only be the basic or elaborated expression of
an original idea or the conscious remixing of the manifestations of
ideas we can remember the source of.

As a parallel movement to the radio inside our heads we can see the
radio outside. There are senders who transmit their original thoughts,
others do conscious or unconscious remixing of manifestations of ideas.


3


Internet and Airwaves - guided public discussion

[linearity and non-linearity]
[who owns the net?]
[Internet is telephone-conferece AND broadcast-medium not only one of
them]


4


15 DAB Commandments - presentation

Probably you have not read the 15 DAB Commandments yet, although I would
have appreciated you to do it. They are a conscious remix from many
sources, some ideas I was given to grasp, a little Media-Theory in a
very condensed form. One of the aims of the 15 DAB Commandments is to
describe a method of distributing internet-radio to non-computing
devices, but this is only a very small part of it. You can also read
them as the description of the push-media-concept long before push-media
existed or a way of running an online-service over the airwaves with a
telephone-line as the requesting channel. You can also see them from a
philosophical point of view and call them a concept for the final
implementation of democracy in the very sense of the word.

I will try to give you an idea of some of these aspects, although I
would rather appreciate to discuss the 15 DAB Commandments with an
audience who has read the source-code before we as a group try to
compile it to our practical lives.


5


On the black-board:

[What do you need for listening to Iradio today?]
[Why you will not need any of these things in the future]
[What's the difference between Iradio and Old-Times-Radio?]
[audio-archives]
[Which topics should be discussed?]
[Which languages should be used?]
[The 50 US$ Iradio-handy]
[human and technical interface-technology between databases and
listeners]


6


reading the 15 DAB-Commandments to the public. You can find the English
language-version at: http://afrika.net/aepol2.htm

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