Re: Hello Barrett Brown
Subject: Re: Hello Barrett Brown
From: Chris Stroffolino <chris.stroffolino@gmail.com>
Date: 5/20/11, 19:20
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>

Barrett---

Here's the questionnaire. It may not be your interest at all, and of course you could answer ANONYMOUSly--
but I am very curious if people in there 20s even feel it as a loss, or something worth fighting for--
The "everywhere and nowhere" of the internet just doesn't feel like an adequate replacement---
but I'm willing to be convinced.

Chris

Radio Questions:

When do you remember first listening to music on the radio? 
How old were you?  Was it love at first sound-bite?
Was it a commercial station or a “college’ or “community station?”

As you got older, did radio become more important or less
important to you?

Do you feel there was a clear point when radio was dead to you,
at least as a source of new music?

If you’re a musician, or DJ (or run a record label or store, etc), do you still feel the radio can still be a viable outlet?

Do you think the internet can ever come close to doing what radio at its best could do?

Given the recent corporate attacks on the last vestige of independent music radio
(the recent shut-down of KUSF and WRVU to name but two), do you think there’s any way non-corporate music radio could be saved?

If you were offered a license for a commercial AM (or even FM) radio station tomorrow, what would you do?

On May 11, 2011, at 9:33 PM, Barrett Brown wrote:

Chris-

Thanks for getting in touch. A well-crafted YouTube video would be extraordinarily useful in bringing attention to this matter. I suppose you could set our conversations with HBGary CEO Aaron Barr and Booz Allen Hamilton VP William Wansley to music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VENYttckfwM, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1yyHeO3nLQ) and otherwise present some aspect of our investigation in a way that would attract attention. This is where we compile our info: http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Main_Page, and some of us meet here to collaborate on research: http://www.vokle.com/series/10261-operation-metal-gear.

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Chris Stroffolino <chris.stroffolino@gmail.com> wrote:

David Berman forwarded me your email.
Our ideas are largely compatible; I don't know if I can help
(I'm not very internet savvy, but I'm an idea person, could write songs
or create videos etc; try to get the word out to the (alas too docile flakey apathetic or stoned) local music scene--
(but there's got to be somewhere a few others "out there")--
 let me know if there's anything i could do to help.

Thanks,

Chris Stroffolino



--
Regards,

Barrett Brown
512-560-2302