Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Summer Camp Bus Ride, originally uploaded by nyjuls1904.
As I board the bus to Summer Podcast Camp, it will be with some trepidation. The backpack is crammed with all the right gear (and my brown bag lunch), but I worry that none of the cool kids will want to hang with an old public radio hack [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Blogging for Cats, originally uploaded by Vicki’s Pics.
A tip of the hat to that other public broadcasting giant (you know the one that also does TV) for embracing blogs in a big way. More specifically, for one show in particular that has embraced blogs in a big way, and here I refer to the estimable [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christopher Lydon, NPR, open source, The Bryant Park Project on July 14, 2008 | 14 Comments »
this sucks at ten15am, originally uploaded by Michael Surtees.
It’s a sad day for fans of “The Bryant Park Project.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Car Talk, Tweet-Up, Twitter on July 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Those Car Talk Guys Sure Are Animated, originally uploaded by WBUR.
Wow. I am humbled by the response to my call for a “Tweet-Up.”
Based on demand registered here and elsewhere, I’d say there is enough interest to easily justify two sessions: One for the afternoon crowd, and perhaps a morning session for the bagels and coffee [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tweet-Up, Twitter on July 10, 2008 | 19 Comments »
tweet, originally uploaded by sierraromeo [sarah-ji]
How about a Tweet-up of WBUR listeners?
And lest you think this is simply a callow attempt to burnish my social media credentials, let me emphasize my genuine interest in meeting the folks behind the avatars. It has been very informative and great fun exchanging ideas with you online about WBUR’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged On Point, summer, wbur on July 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Sleeping off that summer heat, originally uploaded by roddh.
Vacation didn’t sharpen the gray matter. It remains as dull as a butter knife.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged watch, cell phone, technology, mobile web, calculator on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Passage of Time, originally uploaded by ToniVC.
So now it’s July. Independence Day is just around the corner, Boston is steaming up, and ice cream trucks are back to their predatory creep along quiet city streets. As part of the July switchover ritual I have to flip my wristwatch’s date from “30″ to “1″, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged amazon, bezos, greasy breakfast hands, gutenburg, kindle, louis l'amour, On Point on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Freecycle kindling, originally uploaded by DrStarbuck.
Last Wednesday, On Point had Amazon founder & CEO Jeff Bezos on to talk about his behemoth Internet retailer. Bezos talked to Tom Ashbrook about the looong list of products Amazon offers (chainsaws? really?) and the various services—online storage, for one—that they’ve gotten into.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Web 2.0 on June 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Courtroom One Gavel, originally uploaded by Joe Gratz.
We have spent a lot of our time of late tinkering with 2.0 tools.
Much of our time is spent tearing out of whole chunks of WBUR and scattering the bits before the winds of Web 2.0: Dollops of local news here, a generous slab of On Point there. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging on June 25, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sprinkles aka “Jimmies”, originally uploaded by Qfamily.
Hello, my name is Will Roseliep and I’m a summer intern for On Point. They’re keeping me busy over in the Southwest corner of the building, but when I get a free moment Ken George has graciously allowed me to blog for The ConverStation. Ken has done a fantastic [...]
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