It’s little surprise to us that we’re not alone in being unabashed supporters of NPR’s digital stragety – and their startling aptitude with the internet.
It’s also no secret that I’m a fan of their mobile strategy. I’ve written about both the Public Radio Player and NPR iPhone apps (both excellent, btw).
So what surprises me is not so much that mocoNews.net is also a fan of NPR’s mobile strategy, but that there exists a fan site dedicated to the mobile Internet.
(Said surprise completely and consciously ignores the fact that I am one half of the staff of a public radio fan blog.)
They put some thought into what an NPR post-podcasting would look like (and we’re not even fully post-radio yet). More importantly, mocoNews finds hints of that future in present projects. What they say about NPR’s new mobile site and their Android app makes me wish I weren’t so loyal to Apple’s phone.
It’s the promise of a truly expansive and ever-evolving NPR experience (and one that I can plug headphones into while walking around) that really has my head spinning right now, and it makes me quite sad that the iPhone App Store’s approval process puts such a hamper on that kind of development.
Oh, and one more thing, I’m fairly certain that mocoNews stole one of our headlines for a related site, PaidContent.net: “Public Radio Dangerously Close To Making Public Radio Obsolete.”
That’s okay guys, you can keep it.
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