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| Friday, February 16, 2007 |
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Smoothing 
| | Checking out Rough Cuts, a show in progress at NPR that uses blogging, podcasting and listener/blogger/whatever involvement to help bring to life a show that's not a show in the traditional sense. More from Andy Carvin. Jeff Jarvis noted that it only had 15 inbound links on Technorati this morning, while an NPR exec noted that the podcast gets 57,000 downloads a day. I think that will change. |
More public, less radio
| | Yesterday afternoon Jeff Jarvis, Zadi Diaz, Rob Paterson, David Weinberger and I met wth Andy Carvin and Maria Thomas of NPR's Digital Media division. (Jay Rosen showed up in time to hang at the Italian eatery around the corner in the evening.) The Digital Media folks comprise the corner of the public radio company that isn't about radio alone. Instead they're leveraging NPR's radio legacy into a world comprised of every other form of connection. They not only "get it", but give it very well. NPR's website is exceptionally popular and the organization supports podcasting aggressively. Its own podcasts are among the most popular in the world, and it wants to expand far beyond the current popular fare. |
| | The big question on the world wide floor is how NPR and its member stations adapt to a world where consumers are now producers, given that NPR is a nonprofit membership organization with no risk capital — and when their credo, their revenue model and their 35-year legacy are all about serving their member stations. |
| | Today we talk with folks from other parts of the company. Be interesting to see how that goes. |
Mass Avenue freeze out
| | It's 17° outside, and the high won't break freezing today in D.C. Still, people wonder why I walk around outside protected by nothing more than a sports coat. The reason is that I'm walking, metabolizing, putting out heat, and spending most of the day inside anyway, where I don't need to be bundled up. |
| | Also, for reasons that have never been clear to me, I don't mind cold as long as I'm not freezing outright. Makes it easier to travel light. |
LAX to IAD
| | Here are some pix from my flight to Dulles a couple days ago. We took an unusually southerly route out of L.A., cutting south near the Mexican border, finally angling toward Washington around El Paso. The flight was smooth, but the shooting sucked, except for a few places over far southern California. |
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