Converge

If you have bad news to tell your audience, a canceled program, a big format change… Apple’s MobileMe Status Updates blog shows you how not to do it:
Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe, and I’m working directly with the [...]

Worth a read, if you’ve not done so already, is the big chunk of an email to the staff of Bryant Park Project, from NPR’s interim CEO, Dennis Haarsager, who completed the cycle by posting it to his blog on Tuesday.
It’s exceptionally good, written with the tone you’d expect from someone who is a visionary, [...]

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 [...]

Diane Mermigas has a great piece exploring ways for public media to monetize its content and generate new revenues - something a lot of us are thinking about… well, right about now.
Her strong opening line: Nonprofit public media–and most especially public broadcasting–will embrace interactive Web tools that connect companies, producers and distributors of content and [...]

Rob Paterson has posted a presentation on the project he’s working on with the team at KETC in St. Louis. It’s quite impressive, with interesting partnerships, including with an online newspaper, and a well-chosen first issue: the subprime mortgage crisis.
It looks like they’re calling the concept 9Network (I love the name). This is a multi-layered [...]

Conference organizers are always trying to make their event have an impact well beyond the actual conference. Ning’s “Make your own social network” product is a good way to do that.
Beyond Broadcast used it for yesterday’s conference; WAMU also uses it for its forum called “The Conversation.” Check out the sites. They look great. [...]

The last time there was flooding on this scale in Iowa and the midwest - 1993 - we didn’t have the Internet. Or at least *this* Internet. But this time, we do, and there are a variety of ways for us Iowa expatriates to follow the flooding back home.
The most interesting site I’ve come across: [...]

Robert Scoble interviews Ev Williams and Biz Stone, the co-founders of twitter, about the recent problems with the service. It’s a good view inside the service and the architecture and scaling problems that twitter has faced. It is notable that twitter doubled in size in March and April (I saw a graph the other day [...]

“Media that’s targeted at you but doesn’t include you, may not be worth sitting still for.”
I’ve been meaning to post this for a long time. Clay Shirky gets at the impact of the architecture of participation and (sometimes) traditional media’s lack of understanding of the change we’re now experiencing. It’s less than 20 minutes, it’s [...]

I’m glad to see that more and more newspapers are allowing online readers to comment on stories because, increasingly, I find myself wondering, “What do stupid people think about the issues?”
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