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John Proffitt has posted some of the general details of a reorganization announced yesterday at Alaska Public Telecommunications in Anchorage. The official announcement is here.
The reorganization is similar to ones undertaken by a number of stations in recent years, merging the management of radio, television and web, looking for a more logical org chart that [...]

Amazon has announced this morning that it will purchase all the outstanding shares of Audible.com, in a $300 million deal that will give Amazon access to Audible’s library of 80,000 titles, including audiobooks, periodicals, as well as some radio and TV programs. There’s more coverage here.
This is Amazon’s latest move to acquire audio content, most [...]

I moderated a really fascinating session today - “Building Audience Beyond Broadcast” - which, despite the title, looked at the new broadcast technology, HD Radio, as well as the strategic assessments that stations are making as they consider an array of non-broadcast channels to reach their audiences.
Robin Gehl of Cincinnati Public Radio, talked about the [...]

Sometimes I write posts here that are less public statements than “waves of thinking” about a particular issue that I’m pushing around in my head. This is one of them. In other words, this is mainly about gathering the wisdom of others and ruminating. Add your own thoughts if you’d like.
Dennis Haarsager consistently fires on [...]

I’ve been thinking about something Nico Flores wrote a few days ago:
Content is nothing on its own. It only exists as part of conversations — understood not in the usual ‘blogsphere’ sense of deliberation, but as shared concerns (not my term), concerns that we must partake in to be part of communities. When I buy [...]

Note: this is very much a working document. It’s a snapshot of a “living” line of reasoning and is likely to evolve over time. This began as a collection of my thoughts, but it’s been improved immeasurably by Mark Fuerst of iMA; I sent this to him and at least a third of this document [...]

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 [...]

Moderator: Peter Armstrong of oneworld.net; participants Skip Pizzi (Microsoft, and Radio World Magazine), Paul Jones (ibiblio)
Armstrong began by arguing, persuasively, that the BBC’s content initiatives (The Creative Future) is less a dialogue with the audience and more of a continuation of audience interaction that the BBC has offered before. Armstrong says that’s because the BBC’s [...]

Keynote: Reinventing the Gatekeeper
James Boyle, Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke Law School
We’re bad at predicting the future of technology; we have to understand that and the policy implications of it.
The inability to see the potential of commons-based media: we are blind to the opportunities this kind of media offers at every [...]

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 [...]