Todd Mundt

A great presentation and interview with Brad Anderson, the CEO of Best Buy, about the company’s use of tools like wikis to speed up learning inside the company and improve customer service. There’s some pretty innovative stuff here, like the use of prediction markets to monitor progress on projects.
Peter Hishberg chats with Anderson at Google [...]

I was busy Friday and didn’t have time to say all that I wanted to about The Mediavore. So, another point.
The blog serves a national audience, but the appeal is also local. We want listeners to our three formats (WUOL, WFPL and WFPK) to appreciate public radio more, to discover more of the stuff they [...]

We’re launching “The Mediavore” today, and we’re excited about where it’s headed.
Public media listeners and viewers have more content available to them than ever before. Hundreds of stations streaming 24/7, and a wealth of talk, newsmagazine and music shows that far exceeds the capacity of local station schedules, and time available to listen.
The Mediavore is [...]

Following up on the sad news I posted yesterday, this press release from Twin Cities Public Television:
MEDIA ADVISORY
November 10, 2008
For immediate release                                                                   [...]

Cindy was the most courageous person I ever knew; throughout her life, she confronted change, in her career, in her health, some of it unwelcome, and yet she was a fount of optimism, and maintained a laser-like focus on what she needed to do.
Presented with the “mess” of a cancer diagnosis, and its resurgence, she [...]

If you want a good, 20 minute explanation of the concept of Flow, here’s Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to provide it. It’s great if you’ve not been exposed to this idea about states of intense, sustained creativity. But even if you have a basic working knowledge of Flow, there are still nice tidbits here.
One of my takeaways [...]

Is that a real term? Might be. Did I invent it or did someone else? I don’t care.
Whatever it is, we’re experimenting with it at WFPL.org. This is the first of two posts about it.
The experiment is a first stab at trying to address three problems: first, public radio web sites are really quite static. [...]

Featuring host (and vocalist) Marion Dries of 91.9 WFPK Radio Louisville.
Oh, and to illustrate how great minds think alike:

from The Essential 885 XPN Songs

Compared to other news organizations, NPR has come late to community engagement, but it’s done a good job of it. The first tools rolled out for listeners a few weeks ago, and station pages launched last week.
With fundraising in full swing, we didn’t fully activate the WFPL page until last weekend. (NPR is allowing station [...]

Sullivan’s piece in the November issue of The Atlantic is the best think piece about blogging I’ve seen, and its connections to, as well as its extension of the practice of journalism.
Sullivan writes that blogging is jazz to established journalism’s classical music. One doesn’t replace the other, but each requires a different way of performing, [...]

From this week’s New Yorker:
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken [...]

I watched Torturing Democracy last night and it’s stunning - meticulously researched, utterly amazing, devastating. I don’t feel like getting into the whole discussion about PBS’s inability to schedule the documentary before January 21, 2009: it’s perfectly understandable, given more pressing considerations, like Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns.
But a number of public television [...]