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Stephen Hill has published his thoughts on the working paper issued by the Digital Distribution Consortium. He finds flaws in the plan, as well as the thinking that went into it.
His critique is excellent, so you should read it all, but I’ll pull a few highlights: first, the DDC model, which is weighted toward advertising [...]

This is likely to be one of the big themes of this year’s Public Media Conference. There is a growing frustration (it was already considerable) at our inaction on a number of fronts. This is especially galling because the New Realities process last year, while messy, looked like the beginning of something new, and there [...]

Henry Becton, the President of the WGBH Foundation, opened the CEO Seminar yesterday. What followed were two mind-expanding and, in my opinion, heartening days of discussion and information sharing. From my notes on the Becton talk:
Public Media’s Advantage:
1) A commitment to high quality, deep educational content
2) Our position as nearly the last of the locally [...]

I’ll write more about this tonight, I hope, but we’ve completed what has to have been the best two days of presentations and deep, quality discussion that I’ve ever experienced in public broadcasting. We must translate thoughts and words into actions, and we must do so immediately. But thoughts and words are an important start, [...]

If you’ve not had the opportunity to read Rob Paterson’s collection of pieces on Trusted Space, then push everything aside right now and read them. Paterson uses real world examples to get inside the idea of trusted space and how public media can successfully become a trusted space for its members.
A few nuggets:
The Emotional Experience [...]

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 [...]

John Sutton brought that acronym back to the front of my mind this week, as did my current reading, “The Innovator’s Solution” - one of the followup books to “Dilemma.” Big Hairy Audacious Goals don’t make a great company - they are a driving force, and the intention and effort to achieve them is - [...]

Stephen Hill challenges us to re-think the business model - develop a competitive value proposition and a new financial platform, to address our vulnerable revenue streams.

Todd, Mark:I couldn’t agree more with the spirit, the tone and the specifics of of what you have written here and I have been convinced of the absolutenecessity of offering [...]

John Barth of PRX sent comments on my recent New Realities rant post, and now that I’ve rescued them and others from WordPress moderation purgatory, I want to bring them to the front page so you don’t miss them.
John writes:
My public remarks [at New Realities] were intended to push people beyond their comfort zones and [...]

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 [...]