Jason Kottke points to a fascinating article from the Sunday Times Magazine about the underground world of London pirate radio, and the ways in which it is leveraging new technologies like mobile telephony to interact with its audience with a speed and intimacy that traditional radio can’t match. They have to, since what they do is very much illegal and their transmissions are always being hunted — both by cops who want to bust them for breaking broadcast regulations, and by competitors who want to shut down anyone they perceive as a threat. The result is a kind of Darwinian primordial ooze in which desperate youth entranced with dreams of bling-bling and a culture awash in wireless, lo-fi consumer technology combine and mix in all sorts of interesting ways.

Jason Kottke points to a fascinating article from the Sunday Times Magazine about the underground world of London pirate radio, and the ways in which it is leveraging new technologies like mobile telephony to interact with its audience with a speed and intimacy that traditional radio can’t match. They have to, since what they [...]