Converge

My main responsibility here at Louisville Public Media is to develop and execute a media strategy. There will be various pieces to this strategy, some quite specific about tactics and goals. Those pieces will get evaluated regularly and tweaked as needed.
But the first piece is more general and broad - a statement of principles, if [...]

We moved to Louisville two months ago; it’s got great, walkable neighborhoods, and most of what we need is within about 10 blocks of our house, from cafes to the grocery store, the natural food store, the farmer’s market, the hardware store, the place where I get my hair cut.
Result: we’re driving our car less [...]

I’ve been using friendfeed for quite a while now, but I’ve used it as a lifestream application mainly, importing my feeds, adding a few friends, and then looking at the site every day or two.
All along, I’ve been reading posts from the likes of Louis Gray and Robert Scoble about the value of friendfeed, as [...]

I got my invite to Brightkite about a week ago, I’m still not sure how useful it is. The user base is too small yet, (but it’s growing) in my neck of the woods.
Brightkite thumbnail: you share your current location (to a level of accuracy that you control) with friends and others; you can create [...]

Found on GigaOM: A report that begins to get at the ways the iPhone is changing how users interact with the mobile web. There’s been major growth in use of the mobile web in the past nine months, driven largely by the iPhone’s more agile browser, and now other cell phone makers are responding with [...]

We’re canceling cable this week, at home, and we won’t be getting satellite. After consuming media throughout a black coaxial cable for 20 years, I think we’re just about at that point where we can consume any video we want to without it.
A few caveats: we’re not a household that spends 4 hours a day [...]

Will the “reign of terror” come to an end in St Louis?
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I’ll put on my foodie hat and recommend this week’s New Yorker piece about Grant Achatz by DT Max. Achatz is the chef at Alinea in Chicago, named best restaurant in the country by Gourmet magazine in 2006.
Achatz has been battling late-stage cancer of the tongue, and as Max notes, not only does he appear [...]

The first time I tried Mozy for online storage and backup, it was in beta and it felt like it. I ran into some troubled backups, a few crashes… nothing terrible, but with lots of options available in this space, it didn’t take much for me to look for another solution.
What’s happened since? EMC acquired [...]

Comcast is one of a growing number of companies actively using twitter as an early warning system for customer service issues. It’s an interesting example of companies trying to pro-actively reach out to people when they have problems, or when they get lost in telephone support hell and just want to hear from a human [...]

Or, easier than you think.
In last week’s PRPD Webinar about Social Media on a Budget, Bruce Warren talked briefly about video. He told participants it was easy to get started, and the cost was low.
If you’re looking for examples, here’s one from Poynter Institute’s Al Thompkins. His kit is versatile and reasonably low-cost. Check out [...]

Andy Carvin has seeded a list of public media people, programs and stations using Twitter. It’s already an impressive list and it will grow: it’s a wiki, so if you or your station or program belong on the list, go ahead and add yourself.
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