Posts tagged “Radio”
Short Ukulele story on Big City, Small World
This past weekend Big City, Small World aired a short radio piece I produced about the Corktown Ukulele Jam: MP3 download
If you make stuff online, listen to this
If you do creative work that lives online, you owe it to yourself to listen to this episode of Jesse Thorn’s excellent The Sound of Young America. It’s a panel discussion with Jesse, Merlin Mann (of 43Folders.com), Mike and Matt Chapman (of HomestarRunner.com), and Jeff Olsen (of Adult Swim). Go ahead. Listen: It’s 55 minutes [...]
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.
When local public radio fails
Peter Rukavina writes about CBC Radio’s poor local coverage of the blizzard that hit PEI (and much of Atlantic Canada) on New Year’s Day: There was a scatterling of local-like news from Halifax on the hours, but otherwise CBC Radio choose to go national for the day, leaving the private radio stations with the job [...]
Back on Go tomorrow
I’ll be on Go for the first time this season tomorrow morning, Saturday, November 15, 2008. I’ll abandon all my previous personas (Dieting Dan, Discount Dan, Dan the Love Man, etc.) in favour of a new one: Dan the Man Man. Dan the Man Man will be a bad advice column for men. Update: Whole [...]
Where to download The Nerve and Age of Persuasion
Shhhh… cbcpodcasts.wordpress.com says it’s “for the CBC shows that fall through the podcast cracks.” It liberates Jowi Taylor’s excellent series The Nerve from Windows Media hell. It lets you easily download Terry O’Reilly’s fantastic Age of Persuasion (which is not impossible via cbc.ca if you know how to click “View Source,” but it’s needlessly difficult). [...]
Consider me zapped
I think a lot about Spark, the radio program I work on. I talk a lot about Spark, too — mostly to Liz and Nora (my co-workers), to listeners, and to other radio people. This past weekend I attended Zap Your PRAM, a non-conference organized by Charlottetown-based silverorange and Reinvented. I was asked to give [...]