links for 2009-05-28

The 2009 Digital Content NewFront will take place during Internet Week NYC, on June 3rd, 2009. Watch live at http://www.digitalcontentnewfront.com/live/

The Heritage Radio Network is a cutting edge internet-based radio station designed to protect and advance our country’s rich cultural roots in the form of interviews, reflections, musings and ramblings from America’s leading farmers, food mavericks, filmmakers, artists and tastemakers. The live radio shows are then uploaded onto heritageradionetwork.com where content is archived into audio bits and pieces and searchable by keywords or phrases. This is an unprecedented venue for future historians who want to research their past, our present.

Patrick Martins, who started the network, called it “an audio archive of the how-to movement.” It began webcasting in April, with shows like “Urban Foragers” (a wide-ranging discussion hosted by Zakary Pelaccio and Jori Jayne Emde), and “Greenhorn Radio” (where Severine von Tscharner Fleming discusses issues important to first-time farmers).

“You want to hear people’s voices who are at the cutting edge of the green revolution, or the food revolution, or whatever you want to call it,” said Mr. Martins. “We wanted to make that place were people like Zakary Pelaccio can go so that the world doesn’t just know him through his food, but through his brilliant ideas.”

Francois Baird is cochairman of Baird's CMC, the international communication management consultancy conducting the study, "A Conversation behind Closed Doors," in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.