Viewers like you
Andy Carvin (in a tweet) points to the Wikipedia entry on the phrase “Viewers like you.” All part of the Web’s dismantling (and reassembling) of the traditional notion of topics. [Tags: wikipedia npr...
View ArticleCrowd-sourcing photos
Steve Myers at Poynter has a good story about NPR’s crowd-sourcing Dollar Politics project. One element of it was a request for help identifying 200 people who attended a Senate hearing, some...
View ArticleFear of leadership, fear of government
This morning on NPR, Mara Liasson wrapped up her coverage of President Obama’s health care speech by saying something like: It’s unsure whether the speech will have the effect Obama wants, but if it...
View ArticleWhy we don’t remember how science works
I was listening this morning to an NPR Morning Edition story by Allison Aubrey about a study that found that if mice drink lots o’ joe, they’re less likely to suffer from little tiny cases of...
View Article[aspen] Amanda Michel and Matt Thompson on how the media have changed recently
Amanda Michel, who I know from her time at the Berkman Center, is being interviewed by Matt Thompson. She’s pretty amazing: Howard Dean campaign, Huffpo’s Off the Bus, Pro Publica, and now social media...
View ArticleMan in the street = Editor in the studio
Maybe I’ve been unlucky, or maybe I’m just more sensitive these days, but I think I’m hearing more NPR interviews with ordinary joes and janes. For example, they just ran interviews about the election...
View ArticleNPR frees up 800,000 stories
NPR has announced that it’s making 800,000 pieces of audio embeddable anywhere you want, including on this blog: When you browse their site you’ll find an “embed” button to the right of a story’s...
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