Today’s Public Media Fight Misses The Point

Public media is a platform, not a podcast

Public media is not content or platform. It’s more than that.

Let’s build a public media organization from scratch, in 2016.

Your homework for tonight: you’ve been given $3 million dollars. It comes with one string attached: you must use that money to create a new…

Public Radio Story Private Pods: Now, Forever, and Yesterday

I’ve been reading an awful lot of essays lately about the future of public broadcasting and private podcasting and things of that nature such as that. And clarifying follow-up essays, plus reaction essays to those follow-ups. Everyone is furiously angry and scared…

More than 200 ideas for your next podcast

Take an idea. Leave an idea.

More than 200 free ideas for your next podcast

By Melody Kramer and Christine Eriksen

DIY radio with PODcasting

This post is from September 28, 2004, and ran in a Linux Journal blog called IT Garage, now archived at the Wayback Machine. Its significance is the research data point it provides for podcasts, which was then new and now brings up 171,000,000 results (at least for me) on Google…

A guardedly optimistic take on the future of NPR.

I received a lot of responses to the things I wrote about NPR last week. I thought I was done, but in reading the notes, I heard a lot of open questions. It was a bit frustrating to get dozens of very encouraging and positive but top-secret messages from NPR staff and a…