Just bonded with the barista about how great Bowie's Low is as Sound and Vision played on the speakers. And that is what life is about

This sounded so right over low-power FM radio

Raumklang Music

And Sleep Forever, by [basementgrrr]

from the album Hurt

The new Green Day album is good

We made it all the way to our second episode 🎉

Not only are we using less cash than before but the word "cash" is also appearing less frequently in text

Like most music, classical is also best listened to moderately loud

'My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours that you haven't even started wondering about yet.'

"The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound" Let's all take a wild guess as to how this story ends

Rest of World

How Spotify helped turn Afrobeats into a global phenomenon

The Swedish music giant is pushing to make Africa’s biggest sound the world’s favorite sound.

Yo @Man Like Kweks you did it again 🔥

Wavlake

SPC • Man Like Kweks

Play, boost, and more on Wavlake ⚡️🎵

This is such a great chat between @PhantomPowerMedia and @Man Like Kweks They talk hip-hop, education, Tanzania... and so much more. Worth a listen

Fountain

Phantom Power Artist Hour • Episode 5 - Man Like Kweks • Listen on Fountain

If you've only been around V4V & NOSTR for just a week, you've definitely seen Man Like Kweks. He is an educator, entrepreneur, Bitcoiner and Rappe...

There have been a lot of NIP proposals for sharing multimedia but none have really caught on. Can we figure out a way to change this so we improve multimedia interop between clients? I wonder if it makes sense to piggyback on the Open Graph protocol that’s already widely adopted and standardized. It’s in HTML but seems like it’d be relatively trivial to convert the standard tags to more Nostr-friendly JSON

Sometimes you eat the bear... and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you

I used to work in public radio, where every few months we would launch a big, on-air pledge drive to raise money to keep the station running. These drives would usually last about two weeks and completely disrupted the usual programming people were used to. We’d cut in every hour for a few minutes here and there for a “pledge break”, during which we’d ask listeners for money. It was a whole production: there were daily goals, matching donations from big supporters, giveaways, prize drawings for iPads… all in the name of supporting what we were doing. These pledge drives were hugely successful. Granted, the station was a good one, we produced a lot of great programming, and we operated in a large market. But even though these pledge drives worked, we all knew how annoying it was for listeners. We would even say things on-air like, “We know these can be a drag but it’s how we make the shows you love, so if you love this station, give us a call!” One year, a manager came up with the idea to try and shorten the drives by raising money ahead of time. So, in the weeks leading up to the drive, we started running brief messages asking listeners to donate early, with the incentive that they could collectively shorten the length of the drive by doing so. We sold the idea like it was a reward. And it worked! Sort of. But it would only shave a couple days off in the end. Hearing these early value for value podcasters ask their listeners to send them some sats if they value a show is so reminiscent of the public radio funding model — which is promising because that model has been working incredibly well for decades. The messaging on these podcasts is almost identical in nature and tone to what we'd do at my old radio station (and what continues to happen today). The big difference is that these mini-breaks where hosts ask for money can be just a small part of every episode, like a reminder, and do not need to be as intrusive or disruptive as a full-on fundraiser. That’s a huge improvement in listener experience. And I think spread out over time, the earnings potential is at least as good as, if not better than, what’s possible with the traditional model. This can work. The concept is not new. It’s just the implementation that’s a bit different. Once people get comfortable with it, there’s no looking back. What’s exciting is it’s still just the very beginning, and we’re seeing some amazing results already. Waiting for the day when my old station adopts value for value and can give up the pledge drives… give it time.