Brooke Gladstone opens up this week’s “On the Media” with the following lines: You know, most weeks, we could say something about Fox News (like Bill O’Reilly’s show stalking critics with camera crews, for example), but usually we don’t. Partly because Fox News won’t talk to us, partly because – well – it gets boring.
“Air” Rollercoaster, originally uploaded by nic0. I bought a new battery for my iBook last night. Which means that after months of eyeing a room’s outlets anytime I wanted to use my computer, I’m finally back to the land of laptop users enjoying the convenience they paid for. But part of me wonders if my [...]
More specifically, that title should really be “New Media beats Old Media to news about how New Media brings Old Media to people.” I mean, seriously, it was this time in January when we told you about Public Radio Exchange’s Public Radio Tuner application for the iPhone. And even then, the hat tip goes to [...]
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 weekend, Kerry and I became proud owners of iPhones. We’re a little late to the game, but I don’t really mind. It’s been worth the wait. And half of that reason is how geeky I can make the device. If I open up the calculator, for example, and turn the phone sideways, it becomes [...]
Last week, I promised our awesome friend Scott that we would round up all of the NPR people who actively use Twitter and post links here. This is how it works: I’m going to start a list of NPR twitter-ers (tweeters? twits?) that will be updated every so often with links to relevant Twitter accounts. [...]
A friend brought this to our attention: Unlike 34,368 other Twitter users, we don’t follow @hotdogsladies; he seems far less inclined to shake the haters off than the fans, but once in a while, he’ll go on an insight spree. This is pretty awesome, but we’re still not following. Besides, it’s inaccurate. Robert Siegel doesn’t [...]
Good morning, everybody. So yesterday, the Bryant Park Project got canceled. I’m sure you heard about that. If you’re just joining us and are wanting to hurl a few pebbles at the NPR Goliath, go here. Yesterday morning, I heard that BPP was canceled via their Twitter feed and fired off a rather spiteful post [...]
I just got off the phone with Kerry; she’d left in a huff after writing the previous post, full of vitriol and good points. She took the just-announced cancellation of NPR’s “The Bryant Park Project” personally. I suppose that’s good; it means I didn’t do something horrible right before waking up. You see, Kerry works [...]
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NPR does social media better than New Facebook
I’ve been hearing about NPR’s new social networking feature for a while now, thanks to its progenitor, the talented and affable Andy Carvin. Today, I realized I couldn’t wait any longer. Given that we know that a large portion of our readership is employed by or married to someone employed by NPR, I feel like [...]