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Moderator: Patricia Aufderheide. Participants: Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation; Diane Mermigas, The Hollywood Reporter; Dan Nova, Highland Capital Partners.
Because of a minor issue (let’s call it Autosave), these notes are adapted from Jessica Duda’s excellent summary on the Beyond Broadcast blog. I summarize them here not to pass them off as my own but to have [...]

Beyond Broadcast organizers offered the option of several loosely structured “idea generating/networking” dinners last night for conference attendees. I “moderated” a discussion among six individuals, based generally on the following question: how do we get the best content from our listeners? Participants included Josh Andrews of Chicago Public Radio, Jessica Duda of the Center for [...]

Tom Gerace (Gather.com), Thomas Kriese (Omidyar Network), Brendan Greeley (Radio Open Source), Rhea Mokund (Listenup.org) Moderator: Ethan Zuckerman (Global Voices, Berkman Center)
Brendan Greeley explained Radio Open Source’s approach to community media. The goal was to have the blog be the center, with the show as the outgrowth. Blogs are the new talk radio. Blogs [...]

I’ve spent some time digging around Gather.com and the Public Interactive Public Action beta and I’ve come away with somewhat more positive feelings about both.
I think the social networking aspect of these and other sites has less potential for public broadcasters - at least for now, while our main demographic is still late-GenX/Baby Boom. This [...]

Mark Glaser’s MediaShift blog features an interview with Dan Gillmor about Citizen Media. The interview follows a long post from Gillmor on the Bayosphere site, in which he lays out the objectives of Bayosphere, its effort to encourage and promote citizen journalism, and the ways in which the project didn’t succeed as expected. Gillmor offers [...]