In my last post, I mentioned how I was going to take a little break from consuming so much news in an effort to be a little happier. It’s been 48 hours, and holy crap, y’all, it’s working. Granted, now I’m starting to feel mildly guilty that my news break is going to cause someone [...]
As I sit here, I’m actually at work, taking 30- and 40- second breaks between tasks to write a sentence here and there. What gets me through the work day isn’t always music – though I feel like I’m the only person in this building who listens to music at all while working. What gets [...]
Here’s what my news consumption looks like on a typical day: Every morning, Matthew and I wake up to three different alarms and Morning Edition. It’s usually turned on by whoever wakes up first and stays on until we leave the house. I listen to more Morning Edition in my car on the way to [...]
Happy new president week, y’all. According to OTM, Obama’s first victory is being allowed to hang on to his Blackberry in office (personally, I’m surprised he’s not an iPhone guy). Obama is the first president to use e-mail, which seems kind of insane. There’s a reson, though – presidents’ correspondance is kept for historical records, [...]
Today, Barack Obama was sworn in as president, and NPR was all over it (as were we all – who else got one of those “STOP STREAMING THE INAUGURATION!” emails at work today?). NPR has collected all of their Inauguration ’09 coverage onto one helpful page. There are photos, stories, 105 year-olds, and all kinds [...]
This week’s “On the Media” is all Bob Garfield, all the time. And with no Brooke Gladstone to rein him in, Bob lets his internet-will-kill-everything fear run rampant. He even refers to something called a “Web blog.”
Everyone, by now, knows about the plane that went down in the Hudson river this afternoon. It’s worth mentioning that immediately upon the event happening, Twitter exploded with conversation about the plane crash. The Twitter reportage – started, for all intents (and from my vantage point), by your friend and ours, Laura Conaway, via @planetmoney [...]
It’s not exactly public radio, so it’s a little off-topic, but the latest episode of the Poetry Foundation’s “Poetry Off the Shelf” podcast includes what might be the most inspired moment ever: they call back a group of “Poetry” magazine readers who disapprove of the magazine’s content. This would be like if Rush Limbaugh called [...]
After a super busy day at the real job, I was skimming npr.org, checking out headlines and looking for something that stood out for tonight’s post. There it was, gleaming in the right rail, today’s most viewed story, “PETA attempts to make fish more adorable“. Awww! From the headline, I can understand the story’s popularity. [...]
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When Kerry and I started R/S, we thought we were the only kids on the block with a geeky public radio fanblog. Turns out we were wrong. Public Radio Redux beat us to the scene. Erin Mishkin and Jen Nathan have a different take on it. Nathan is an independent radio producer, and that inborn [...]