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This short piece was produced for a session at the 2006 Third Coast Festival. Brenden Greely of Open Source gave a talk on the potential of bloggers as subjects, fixers, and correspondents in radio stories.
He asked me to apply his blogging theory by selecting an arbitrary industry (I chose the world of zippers) and to then find a blogger(s) who could talk about this place in an interesting way.
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This short piece was produced for a session at the 2006 Third Coast Festival. Brenden Greely of Open Source gave a talk on the potential of bloggers as subjects, fixers, and correspondents in radio stories. He asked me to apply his blogging theory by selecting an arbitrary industry (I chose the world of zippers) and to then find a blogger(s) who could talk about this place in an interesting way.
