Just as I share the big news about On Point’s senior producer embracing his inner Tweet (Twit?), the service slows to a pace familiar to geologists everywhere.
Posts Tagged ‘Here & Now’
Humpday Notes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Here & Now, On Point, Twitter, wbur, WordPres on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Born Digital?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "On The Media", Here & Now, wbur, WNYC, youth on February 3, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Information generation, originally uploaded by Bukutgirl. This past Friday, WNYC’s On the Media aired a great interview with John Palfry, co-author of the new book Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives. According to Palfry and Urs Gasser, those born after 1980, or “digital natives,” think very differently from their elders, “digital immigrants.”
Here & Now Now & Then, or The Beauty of Comments
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, Here & Now on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New year, new president, new … new media intern at WBUR. No, I’m not as exciting as the passage of time or President Obama, but I love a good portmanteau, so I’m joining the converstation. My name’s Lexy, and I’m a senior at Boston University, an avid consumer of public media, and one of the [...]
Monday Afternoon Fun
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Here & Now, Only A Game on January 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Treat, originally uploaded by wasabicube. You know the drill: Public radio is a rarefied stew of heavy reportage and deep analysis. Car Talk is one of the few salutatory antidotes to the immobilizing profundity of it all.
Let’s Not Get Real…Ever Again
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Here & Now, mp3, Real Player on January 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
RSS + MP3, originally uploaded by Alan Joyce. In all my ebullience over the sublime new Here & Now website, I egregiously forgot to mention that the the audio is now served up in good-old fashioned mp3, thereby ending Real Media’s lock on the site, a longstanding frustration of many listeners, which I heartily shared.
Here & Now’s New Face—and Facebook, Too
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Facebook, Here & Now on January 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Months ago, I revealed to you the master plan. Here is the latest chalk mark on the wall. Curtain up and Here & Now step forward on the proscenium and take a long, proud bow. The new Here & Now, originally uploaded by WBUR.
Here & Now Making Noise
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Here & Now, Paul Levy, Utterli on December 18, 2008 | 7 Comments »
New Here & Now Redesign, originally uploaded by WBUR. For eons now I have been tempting listeners with promises of a shiny and improved Here & Now website. My initial post bemoaned the show logo itself, a flawed, convex monstrosity, sprinkled with what for all the world looked liked expletives plucked from cartoon bubbles (an [...]
New Look for Here & Now
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "public radio", Here & Now on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New Here & Now Logo, originally uploaded by WBUR. After month—maybe years—of agonizing arm-twisting and office furniture broken in fits of creative pique (okay, I exaggerate), the redesign of “Here & Now” inches oh-so-very-close to completion. Let the heavens rejoice!
GOP Hangover and Your Trusted News Source
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Here & Now, On Point, Twitter on November 6, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Streamed TV over IP + Twitter pre-scrubbed filtering, originally uploaded by qthrul. The morning after the morning after a night of Blue State euphoria. The post-celebratory hangovers have likely abated in the Blue states by now, though the inevitable finger-pointing and recriminations in the wake of the Republican drubbing guarantee a fair share of headaches [...]
Little Rest for the Weary
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Here & Now, Morning Edition, On Point on August 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
On Point: Live from the 2008 DNC, originally uploaded by WBUR. As I type this, the DNC production teams are slowly making their way back home and a new crew is headed to the Land of 10,000 Lakes. No break for Bob, Robin, and Tom, however. All of next week they will be reporting to [...]
