Sticher, Inc

Sticher is a great little program, available online or as an i-phone app. In a nutshell, it acts like an aggregator for radio content, similar to Google news format. The smart part is it then can recommend other radio content based on a Pandora/Amazon recommendations system.

So if you like the BBC news, it will serve up NPR Market Watch or other relevant radio content. The ease of use is great, but more importantly the service reminds you how powerful radio can be as a medium. Radio has, somewhat deservedly in the US, got a bad rap. Certainly, the medium made so much cash for so long it got lazy. Sticher is a smart move to make the medium relevant and enjoyable again.