Posts tagged “Public Radio”
Flipboard does audio, and why segmentation matters
Today, Flipboard added audio playback controls and a new Audio category to its app: The section is searchable but comes with recommended SoundCloud users, as well as popular shows from NPR (National Public Radio) and PRI (Public Radio International). I’ve played with the new Flipboard for a while, and it’s yet another example of why segmentation matters, and how for public [...]
Ira Glass on how the internet has changed public radio
After a summer squatting at The Fifth Column, Jesse Brown now has a proper blog over at TVO, and in the first episode of this season’s Search Engine he interviews his radio hero (and mine) Ira Glass about how the internet has changed public radio: If you’re a public radio geek, it’s really worth a [...]
Three easy ways CBC Radio can start making some money online, right now
Over at Now Daily, Susan G. Cole outlines Six steps to save the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She concludes by asking “Any other ideas?” I have a couple, specifically geared towards making money for CBC Radio, which faces a planned cut of $14.4-million from its budget, as part of a plan to make up a $171-million [...]
Adam Davidson explains the explainer
Via Robert Paterson’s weblog, a great video of NPR’s Adam Davidson, explaining how they approached the incredibly complicated subject of the housing crisis for This American Life’s The Giant Pool of Money and the Planet Money podcast: As you’ll see in the video, Davidson thinks that journalists are too reluctant to acknowledge their own ignorance [...]
Video: Ira Glass at the Gel Conference
It’s about surprise and humour. It’s a bit of Storytelling 101 (event leads to event leads to event leads to universal truth). But it’s mostly about craft, and if you tell stories, it’s totally worth 32 minutes of your time. From 2007, here’s Ira Glass at the Gel Conference: Present again is Ira’s familiar “taking [...]
“You are sombody that needs pledge drive justice”
Via the latest This American Life newsletter, some very, very funny pledge drive spots from Ira Glass. Click to listen: Megan.mp3 Paul.mp3 Kathleen.mp3 Though they’re funny, I don’t think these as effective as Ira’s twice-yearly, straight-up, arithmetic-based podcast promos.