Several months ago I spoke with radio reporter Jon Kalish, who was working on a story about Lou Curtiss and his collection and the GRAMMY Foundation-funded digital preservation project that we’ve been a partner in. Well, Jon emailed me recently to let me know that the story was finally going to air [...]]]> Happy New Year!

Several months ago I spoke with radio reporter Jon Kalish, who was working on a story about Lou Curtiss and his collection and the GRAMMY Foundation-funded digital preservation project that we’ve been a partner in. Well, Jon emailed me recently to let me know that the story was finally going to air on The California Report, produced by San Francisco public radio station KQED.

Listen to the story here: http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201012171630/e

As a fan of typography, layout and letterforms, I suppose I was easily drawn in.  But I have to say that the Wordle interpretation of our RSS feed does a fair job of capturing what the [...]]]> Searching for some online ethnographic audiovisual archives to report on in the EAR (report forthcoming), I stumbled across Wordle.

As a fan of typography, layout and letterforms, I suppose I was easily drawn in.  But I have to say that the Wordle interpretation of our RSS feed does a fair job of capturing what the EAR is all about: