I wanted to share this announcement from Jonathan Mosen. It’s hard to beat
free, and the material should prove quite interesting to some of us.
From: Jonathan Mosen
Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2014 6:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Mosen Consulting Announcement] My New,Free eBook on Founding and
Directing ACB Radio
Hi everybody.
Americans have just concluded thanksgiving celebrations. We have no equivalent
holiday in New Zealand, but I love it. Numerous studies have shown the many
mental and physical health benefits of gratitude.
To say “thank you” to everyone who was a part of a special time of frenetic
innovation and fun, I’ve produced a free eBook which I’d like to give to the
community.
If you’re curious about early Internet radio, and one of the catalysts for so
many blind people becoming involved in it, I hope you’ll enjoy my new, free
eBook. It’s called “On-air, Online”, and it chronicles my memories of founding
and directing ACB Radio.
The best way for me to describe the book is to include its Introduction in this
post.
As a technology buff with a history degree, it’s no wonder I’m a fan of
technology history. I believe it’s important to both chronicle and celebrate
where we’ve come from, and how we got here. People who create new services, or
apply technology in new ways, are often too busy getting on with it at the time
to realise that they’re making history. But when the work is done, there’s time
to share how things happened, why things were done a particular way, and why
things turned out as they did.
15 years ago to the day of this book’s publication, I got home from a fish and
chip lunch in time to press the button to launch ACB Radio, the Internet radio
service operated by the American Council of the Blind. It is still operational
today, a real testimony to the commitment of ACB to the service, and to all who
have worked on it. My congratulations to all those currently involved in ACB
Radio on such a great milestone. You can feel justifiably proud.
I always intended to write an account at some point that chronicles my memories
of that exciting, pioneering time in blindness and Internet streaming
technology. 15 years seems like about the right time to do it. The memories
aren’t too faded with the passing of time, but enough time has passed that I
can reflect candidly on things. Enough distance now exists that I’m probably as
objective about matters as I’m ever likely to be.
In conducting my research for this book, I’ve referred to written and audio
records, but they are far from complete. There will be some omissions, and
there’ll inevitably be errors. These are due to my middle-aged brain, and so
much happening when I was in the thick of it.
If you remember those early days of ACB Radio as a listener, were one of the
amazing team members who became household names in the online blind community,
or you’re just interested in Internet broadcasting when it was much lower
fidelity and far more “seat-of-the-pants” than it is now, I hope you enjoy my
recollections.
“On-air, Online” also features a foreword kindly written by the person who
shared all the highs and lows with me, my then wife Amanda Gough.
The book is available for free, in ePub and PDF format, from the Mosen
Consulting Store.
You’re welcome to pick up some of my other offerings while there, if you feel
so inclined.
Happy reading.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
http://Mosen.org
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