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• Notes from Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 Talk at Macalester Bob Garfield’s Chaos Scenario 2.0 presentation on Monday night felt like the opposite of the Blind Men and the Elephant. He’s just one of the many people from different angles, proclaiming that Advertising is dying and it’ll kill media as we know it. “That horrible crashing sound you hear is a gravy train derailing.” - Jeff
• Notes from the MPR Ethics in Online Journalism I’m at the MPR, MNSPJ event on ethics in online journalism1 with the esteemed Dan Gillmor. Greg and Erica are live-blogging. “Most are not…and a few are.” - Dan Gillmor “It’s not about ‘or’, it’s about ‘and.” - Dan Gillmor Again, it’s hard for newspapers to correct themselves. Apologies aren’t news. Who do you trust? As I mentioned in
• Garrick is at MPR’s The Loop Tonight I’ll be in the audience of tonight’s recording of MPR’s The Loop: Digital Divisions. Hopefully I’ll see some you there as well. My notes and thoughts from the event: All the chairs are filled. A good cross-section of Minnesotans. Far more diverse in age, background, and ethnicity than the last time I was here at MPR HQ. They made
• 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
• Another Reason I Can’t Support Minnesota Public Radio First off, I never contributed millions (or even thousands) to public radio. A couple hundred bucks here and there. And I know a couple people employed by the Minnesota Public Radio. Heck, I even helped them usability test their site a while back. Kinda fun sitting on the other side of the desk. That said, I