I wonder how long it will be before people are radio blogging. It can't take too long before the audio world really meets the world of self-publishing. What I mean is that the barrier of publishing a magazine used to be printing but now it has been dropped to a baseline of free. At the moment there are still a lot of barriers to being a radio DJ but there are also huge problems with the radio DJs spinning their music online. The first problem is that the selection is pretty bad from the items that I have found. I listen to Microsoft's free radio station because it is easily configured and if you don't like the song you can move to the next one. I like the station Alternative Rock but the music seems to repeat forever and never gets really good. It seems like a start for what I would like out of an online music listening experience.

I would consider making lots of mixes but then I need to tote them everywhere. What I'd like is to be both a consumer of people like me's tastes/mixes as well as a publisher. I'd like to create my own radio station with playlists. I'm sure that the legal issues are a big pain here but they tend to fade once people start to do a behavior that favors someone else making bucks. I wouldn't care if Microsoft or whatever other big evil corporation wanted to place advertisements into the music or if they needed to protect the music in some way to force people to license and purchase it.

I just think that we could do better if everyone had access to the big library and could create their own play-lists that they could share with the world. It could even get cool by putting extra features into people's personal blogs to set the mood for a specific entry or throughout the blog by allowing someone to press play as they listen to the blog. If you are going to enter into someone elses world you may as well be immersed in it. I found one site that had some of it started at radioblogclub.com. They don't seem to have the legal issues tackled and just allow you to broadcast your MP3 collection. It's cool but maybe not the best solution. It would be better if Apple, Microsoft, Google, Clear Channel, Virgin, or some other big boy let me stream from their collection.

Right now I am listening to a song by Radio Bliss. It is a band of someone who works at ChannelWave. I don't think you can get their CD anywhere but from the band members. It would be great to let other people hear it while they read this. It probably won't happen for quite a while but I think radio blogging is coming. It would suddenly go "pop" like Hello and Flikr and suddenly all the bloggers would be scrambling to add radio playlists to set the mood on their blog.