Alexis Madrigal, for The Atlantic, with a smashing observation on the “Radiolab effect:”

Radiolab is actually post-blog and post-livestream. It’s not aping the oratory of old or the raggedness of the new. It’s a hybrid that takes lessons from the past, recent and deep.

This is the Radiolab effect extended: expect less pretension to authority, greater understanding of one’s nodeness, but greater respect for the production culture of the pre-web era.

This is what I believe I heard when Johannes, almost 18 months ago, first explained why they chose their name for their company. And this is a direction I like the web going – a kind of Jarvis meeting Keen, thesis-antithesis-synthesis thingamajig.

With all the chatter of blogging being dead, anyway, I have high hopes for what there is to come.