shortwave and polaroids

Last year I made a post about John Peel and my encounter with shortwave radio in the days before the Web. Shortwave is still around (although I need a radio) and has not yet entirely made it to the status of dead media.

See the International Herald Tribune for this article on the status of shortwave today. Will the Web ever follow down this route? 

Meanwhile in the New York Times, news of Polaroid’s abandonment of the instant photograph.

 

 

 

Last year I made a post about John Peel and my encounter with shortwave radio in the days before the Web. Shortwave is still around (although I need a radio) and has not yet entirely made it to the status of dead media.

See the International Herald Tribune for this article on the status of shortwave today. Will the Web ever follow down this route? 

Meanwhile in the New York Times, news of Polaroid’s abandonment of the instant photograph.