Todd Mundt

This blog is supposed to be about deep thoughts involving public media. But frankly, I have only a certain amount of time each day to think the deep thoughts, since most of my job is action-oriented right now. So, here’s the bigger question on my mind right now: who’s using Twitter?

I love it. It’s a combination of IM, SMS, blogging, and possibly other things, too. I’m a recent convert, having given in to the urge to join about two weeks ago. I’m not using it for much yet, except to send out small note to people who, at this point, couldn’t care less. But there’s something about Twitter that’s infectious, and there’s some kind of potential here, too. BBC News is delivering headlines using the service and CNN has breaking news available.

An application for public media here? Not sure. But there’s something interesting going on here around this idea of instantaneous social connection. “On Point” updates its web site during the program to include interesting quotes from guests and callers. What if I could subscribe to that stream through Twitter? I might not be able to hear the program, but I’d be able to catch the most compelling points of the discussion, in near real-time… on the Twitter web site or delivered to my phone or IM client.

Interesting.