Random Articles

• The Next Standard in Public Radio When I started podcasting a year ago I was questioning Public Radio’s role in my life. The news and regular programs were no longer satisfying. Then they started the Current - kept me supporting them for a couple months. Then, it started to sound more like more of the same and hey, look, interesting stuff
• Podcasts Can’t Help, Radio Can, But Often Doesn’t. This weekend the Upper Midwest got dumped on. My hometown received 19″ of snow in a single day. Jen and I were driving home in it. It was awful. Bad. During the drive, we had no idea if conditions were getting better or worse. Just as Mark Ramsey restates, radio has the power to provide
• If Radio Changed Would Anyone Hear It? “If radio featured significantly less advertising, would that keep listeners away from their CD’s and iPods and satellite radios and TV’s and video games? Indeed, would that make the radio industry a healthier one?” - Mark Ramsey, Mercury Radio Research. These days, after more than 5 minutes of broadcast radio, I need to turn it off
• Gillmor Gang & WSJ vs Hugh MacLeod & Dave Winer Jason Calcanis says, “With three or four ad slots you’re gonna do a $3 to $10 RPM…So, if you can do 500,000 pages a month…you can make $1,500 to $5,000 a month.” Gillmor Gang says Hugh MacLeod should sell his cartoons as an advertising-delivery channel. “But journalists seem to have a problem getting their head around it.
• If It Weren’t For The Customers “I believe media companies are afraid of interacting with their audiences, because they (mistakenly) believe that their audiences are made up of people just like them — resentful, mean spirited, backbiting, hostile egomaniacs with inferiority complexes who, if given the opportunity, will spout their opinions without regard or respect for anyone but themselves.” - Terry