Everywhere you turn these days, folks are popping up with their own internet radio stations and podcasts. One group in Berlin, Backyard Radio, is taking things to another level…

Backyard Radio snatches the radio from tv towers and broadcasting agencies and instead of showering down on the city, the radio waves beam out of the districts and neighborhoods. A liberalization of the law allows everybody to run a tiny radio transmitter covering the own block and everyone who passionately cares about her neighborhood adopts the medium and populates the ether – laptop-workers, street artists, urbanists, ipod-kids, handicraft enthusiasts and precarious hedonists alike. Not a decadent experiment in self-reference and individualism, Backyard Radio maintains a collective channel: This is the place where the sounds of the different neighborhoods hit each other. Have you booted your node?

The map pictured above shows all stations that are currently broadcasting in and around Berlin.
(via PSFK)