Todd Mundt

The new "The National" launches Monday on CBC and cbc.ca

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:45:03 -0700

Pirates, Privateers and Freebooters

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:37:02 -0700

Seeing the commercial on RDI reminds me to put this on the itinerary for Montreal and the Pointe à Callière Museum. Graham Griffith loved the exhibit.

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Getting Serious with Quick Search Box

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:56:30 -0700

via vimeo.com

QSB is starting to turn heads, especially with Quicksilver development at a comparative lull.

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The model of the new media model

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:41:00 -0700

via newsinnovation.com

A great talk by Leo Laporte of Twit.tv about how he started his business, and leveraged a successful model serving a niche audience.

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Welcome to Wave

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:46:33 -0700

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The first moments of the new WQXR!

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:13:58 -0700

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WQXR Relaunch.mp3 (5202 KB)

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MC Siegler on Palm’s Full Monty

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:05:53 -0700

via techcrunch.com

MC Siegler has outdone himself - this is an excellent piece of analysis on the accomplishments and challenges that face Palm.

WebOS is a worthy platform and Palm could see a measure of success with more apps and better hardware.

As far as iTunes syncing, Palm needs to grow up and create a simple app that integrates with the iTunes XML file. The more Palm acts like Apple is a company it has to take out, the less credible and more ridiculous it appears. There's room for everyone in this huge space.

Disclosure: I use the iPhone and the Palm Pre.

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Google Wave’s unproductive email metaphors

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 09:08:27 -0700

via scobleizer.com

Read Scoble's comments about the untapped richness of email. They're excellent and correct.

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Chronicle Vows To "Smash" "Naive" New Media Organizations: Media: SFAppeal

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:55:41 -0700

via sfappeal.com

Good luck with that.

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The best cheese in the world? A Quebec chèvre

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:02:24 -0700

via communities.canada.com

Yes, there is a World Cheese Awards 2009 competition... and the winner is Le Cendrillon, an ash-covered chèvre made by La Maison Alexis de Portneuf inc., 50 kilometres northwest of Quebec City.

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Grandma, Your Windows 7 Launch Party is HOT HOT HOT

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 05:38:34 -0700

via engadget.com

I'm not sure which video is more ridiculous - the parody or the original.

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Marketplace on Climate Change, part 2

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:32:18 -0700

via vimeo.com

Here's the full-length video of the discussion I featured earlier this week from the Public Radio Programming Conference in Cleveland. This is a great conversation.

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Marketplace: The Environmental Stakes are High

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:54:35 -0700

Last week, at the Public Radio Programming conference, APM's Marketplace assembled a panel of experts to discuss the impact of climate change.

Marketplace Money host Tess Vigeland was moderator as environment reporter Sam Eaton, Edward Maibach, Director, Center for Climate Change Communication (4C); and Alex Steffen, Executive Editor of Worldchanging, discussed how the climate is changing now, and offered their critique of the media's environmental coverage.

APM will soon release video of the complete talk, but for now, here's a meaty 12-minute chunk of it that I recorded on-the-fly at the conference.

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Marketplace_Enviro_level.mp3 (8540 KB)

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An Afghan Man on the Run

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 03:33:04 -0700

This will go up on The Mediavore later this morning. This is a
conversation with an Afghan man who was nearly murdered by the Taliban
because he was working as an interpreter for coalition forces. From
CBC Radio One's The Current.

To play mp3s in your browser, you will need to have Javascript turned on and have Flash Player 9 or better installed.

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Escape From Alcatraz And A 47-Year Manhunt : NPR

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:48:42 -0700

via npr.org

A fun Monday morning piece about the 1962 escape from Alcatraz of Frank Morris and Clarence and John Anglin. They were never found, and apparently, the tips have continued to come in over the years.

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The Zune HD's HD Radio

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 15:33:00 -0700

If you live within line-of-sight of your favorite FM radio station, you'll be able to enjoy it's HD transmissions, including multicast channels.

If you live outside that privileged radius, your experience with stable, uninterrupted reception of HD stations will remind you why you prefer to listen to the radio as an internet stream.

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Bob Garfield's Chaos Scenario at PRPD

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:33:00 -0700

Bob Garfield, co-host of On the Media and author of The Chaos Scenario, spoke at PRPD on Friday morning. Here are my notes:

Everything "mass" is under the threat of immediate extinction.

There's been 23% population growth ... yet 20% newspaper circulation decline. Revenues are at 1965 levels, industry-wide, even as newspaper readership has soared online. But because newspapers have based their online strategy on advertising, their revenues are depressed.

Magazine newsstand sales are down 12% in 2008. The magazine industry is in structural decline.

TV stations will see a 20-30% revenue decline in 2009. Network audiences have declined precipitately, and while until recently, networks could increase ad prices despite the declines, that has now ended. The broadband internet service delivered by the cable companies makes it possible for people to consume content online instead of pay cable.

Local commercial radio will die as soon as broadband internet is mobile and ubiquitous.

The internet is failing to provide the path for traditional media to continue.

Where's the sustainable business model? There is none.

Public media's business model, strangely, works. People pay for content they should consume for free. But if your station is just flipping a switch to carry national programs, your the cobblers at the edge of the industrial revolution. Your future is to be the news, cultural hub of your communities.

The future is listening to the audience - exploiting the intelligence and passion of the audience.

Widgets arean important tool that connects consumer directly to the producer, which reams of data to inform the producer.

Google is the ultimate expression of word of mouth, and it can help or hurt. For companies, the future is about creating and maintaining the spaces for audiences to talk about them; otherwise, the audience will go elsewhere.

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The Moth LIVE in Cleveland

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:55:54 -0700

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

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Sue Schardt at PRPD

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:27:00 -0700

"There is a change taking place. The change is taking place at the level of craft... and that's the place we need to focus."

Sent from my iPhone

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Audioboo Pro on the Way

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:22:00 -0700

Audioboo, the startup that allows you to record short snippets of audio on your iPhone for instant upload, is getting ready to offer a pro version.

From their newsletter:

The Royal Opera House in the UK is the first customer for audioBoo Pro - a set on online tools, such as moderation, editing and more that we'll be rolling out to large organisations over the coming months. There will also be a pro consumer version - Plus - that we're putting the finishing touches to soon, which includes longer recordings and multiple uploads that will be available on an annual subscription basis, like Vimeo and Flickr.

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