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• So, You Want to Be a Public Radio Star? I had a great conversation with Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson this weekend at MinneBar, we started talking about the early days of podcasting and how Tim and I both saw podcasting as a farm league for broadcast radio in general - and public radio in particular. The problem is by the time those institutions
• Quoted in APM’s ‘The Pork Wars on YouTube’ As part of APM’s Public Insight Journalism program, I was interviewed as about the use of sites like YouTube for political issues (vs. campaigns) - specifically in the context of the recent tennis match between animal rights groups vs farm industry groups. Here’s the bit of my interview they used on-air and online. “Garrick Van Buren is
• Drive 105 Repo’d. Replaced with Love The last hold-out in the Twin Cities commercial ‘alternative’ radio dial succumbed to Love today. “Every mini-van driving soccer mom with a 15 year old will be pleased as punch when she turns on her radio and hears this festival of shit pouring forth from her speakers.” - Sornie Two choices remain; The Current, or some mythical
• Reflecting on Last Nights New Media Ethics Forum After a decent night’s sleep, here’s my thoughts on last night’s MPR talk. It was originally an email, so some things might read a little weird. First off, I’d like to thank MPR (et al) for bringing all of us together. I alway enjoy our time together. I think very highly of Dan Gillmor (and his
• 35.1 Days vs ‘Back to the Music in 60 Seconds’ NetNewsWire has been working overtime this week (just like me) and there’s less than 500mb empty space remaining on my 40gb 3G iPod. According to iTunes, that’s 35.1 days of audio entertainment. More than a month - without repeating. Contrast that to the few minutes we had the radio on this morning, back-to-back commercials. As I