Todd Mundt

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I’m closing in on a year of using Twitter, seven months with Jaiku… and I’ve enjoyed the element of presence these applications afford - the vicarious enjoyment I get from the snapshots into the lives of my friends, many of whom live across the country.
I talk to some of these people regularly on the phone [...]

The closing of Backfence this week has encouraged good discussion about hyperlocal content. Terry Heaton pulls some of the threads together in a post today.
He includes comments from Jeff Jarvis and Mike Orren, who point out the value of the content, but also the challenge of getting people to, first, read it, and, second, to [...]

This blog is supposed to be about deep thoughts involving public media. But frankly, I have only a certain amount of time each day to think the deep thoughts, since most of my job is action-oriented right now. So, here’s the bigger question on my mind right now: who’s using Twitter?
I love it. It’s a [...]

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 [...]

Ethan’s seven minute history of the communities on the Internet is a classic. He presented it at the open of the session on social networking that he moderated at last week’s Beyond Broadcast convening. Read it here.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Charles Nesson, co-founder and faculty director, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School
Nesson delivered a brief and powerful address about the rhetorical space of the Internet, the central value of openness and the challenge posed by those who would curtail that openness. He spoke about universities and the mandate to create an “open [...]

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 [...]