Todd Mundt

The latest addition to what I call Personal Public Television - the universe of public media content that you can create and curate yourself:
If you’re afflicted with the disease which has no name - the periodic, intense craving for documentary films - then you’ll love SnagFilms. I just discovered this site and after spending some [...]

Why? Here’s my (incomplete) list.

* Unprecedented flexibility for anyone, from a blogger in Pittsburgh to KQED in San Francisco, to generate highly specific content searches of the NPR archive (going back to 1995) and port the results to a webpage or an application.
* A number of stations also have their archives inside the system, too. [...]

Oil prices have skyrocketed, and the cost of everything related to energy is rising in response.
What will be the impact of this new reality on public media. I’ve been offering some thoughts, hoping they’ll serve as conversation starters.
Now, more than ever, it’s time to engage the community.
I don’t recommend holding off on that cool community [...]

NPR’s “Inside” blog has announced the coming launch of its new API in the next few days.
10am UPDATE: It’s now live. Here’s Daniel Jacobson’s post.
This is a pretty big deal… a signal of openness from NPR, a willingness to let developers have access to NPR’s content, and the beginning of what could be some really [...]

The price of energy has risen as oil prices have skyrocketed, and the cost of everything related to energy (and that’s a lot) is starting to rise in response. Infrastructure expenses like travel and utilities are eating into other budget lines, and that should force us to think more creatively about how we do business.
How [...]

I didn’t have time to blog this yesterday, after news hit the streets, but CONGRATULATIONS to Jody Evans, who will be leaving Vermont Public Radio to become program director at KUT in Austin TX in September.
I’ve come to know Jody in my time on the PRPD board. What I appreciate most about her is that [...]

Energy and other costs are rising, and we’re just beginning to feel the ripple effect through the rest of the economy. Public media organizations are approaching the next year conservatively, assuming a downturn, and one which might last for awhile.
So, how will you adapt? This week, I’m posting thoughts on a couple of the many [...]

Are we in a recession? Hard to say. Unlike being hit on the head with a hammer, for instance, we don’t truly know if we’re in a recession until it’s stopped hurting. Is oil going to hit $200 a barrel, as some have predicted? Or $250? We don’t know.
What we do know is this: even [...]

The new blog launches today, offering an inside look at web development at NPR, from social media projects to election projects, mobile, etc. Andy Carvin and Daniel Jacobson appear to be in charge of the blog - or at least, co-authors of the opening post.
Great to see this kind of information sharing!
Inside NPR.org is one [...]

American University’s Center for Social Media has posted video and audio from the recent Beyond Broadcast gathering.
I attended BB in 06 and 07 but couldn’t make it because of schedule conflicts this year. If you found yourself in a similar situation, then check out the very complete report here.
I’ve just started digging into this, but [...]

I’ve already written about Ning and it’s potential for public media, from social networking at conferences to the platform for your station’s public forum.
Rob Paterson mentioned his plan to use Ning for a project in the comments, and now he’s posted in great detail on how he and KETC, and a larger community of public [...]

Nice piece by Rob Bole, of One Economy (described as a global nonprofit using technology to improve the lives of low income people), describing ways in which public media can gain more traction in a diverse and jam-packed media landscape.
Rob offers some thoughts on how he thinks public media can leverage its high quality content [...]