Todd Mundt

I forgot to mention this in my post about mobile applications, but NPR Mobile has been on a tear this summer. Right now, there are more than 40 stations participating in the project, which lets users of many different kinds of cellphones access updated newscasts, other streaming audio, as well as a wealth of text [...]

I don’t think I can post screenshots here, but if you’re in public media, you’ve probably seen the new Public Radio Tuner iPhone app that American Public Media will release next month.
I feel a little awkward because APM announced this last Thursday and I’m blogging about it a week later. But I was busy at [...]

Diane Mermigas addresses the digital switch in her latest post, noting that while consumers are confused about the coming change, and many aren’t ready for it… the industry is in same quandary.
Broadcasters face an expected 9% loss in revenue next year, and after February 17th, 2009, every confused consumer will represent lost viewing, lower ratings, [...]

I watched this moment live today, just because it felt kind of important. Analog television broadcasts ended in Wilmington, NC today. At noon, they flipped the switch, and that was the end, after almost 70 years (counting from the granting of the first commercial television license on 7/1/1941 to NBC New York).
This was the dry [...]

So many people who are far smarter than me have weighed in on Google Chrome, but I still want to say a couple of things about it because it makes me excited.
I have my own list of favorite things about Chrome, and they range from the complete redesign of the browser architecture, the new ultra-fast [...]

You should watch these videos. Certainly, there’s some “cheese” here, but if you forget about the devices and think about the concept, you’ll see where Web 3.0 is likely to take us.

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo.
Web 1.0 was about web pages; Web 2.0 was, among other things, about the rise of web [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

I’m not all sweaty over GPS, but 3G will be welcome, after a year of slumming on the EDGE.
The App Store will be revolutionary, and I’ve already and installed and started playing with about a dozen of them.
The one thing that does get my heart pumping is the 16GB hard drive. I bought my first [...]

There are two kinds of phone hate

I hate my phone call making device because it doesn’t work
I hate my phone call making device because it works

I’m a victim of both. Why #1? Because my Treo 700P is driving me up the wall. It locks up constantly, and many days, I find myself rebooting it 7, [...]