February 2008
600 posts
Leng: fire knocked out our transmitter. another station plus tv began relaying their air.
We relied on twitter, google maps because our cms crashed, server went down from traffic.
Leng’s showing @kpbsnews use of twitter during the fire. “twitter kinda became my CMS.” qotd 2.
Some shut up that piano. We’ve got 20 mins left in our panel.
they started posting tweets on their site just 2 days before the fires broke. Good timing.
Leng: we used twitter as an internal comm tool until she saw how pbs wired science was using it.
Leng Caloh is up next. “the SD wildfires were our public media coming of age.”
Leng: “maybe we were being innovative but we were being desperate.” ima08 QOTD.
Caloh is pronounced like Kahlo.
kpbs fire map got at least 1.7 mil views. Google thinks it’s more.
Any questions for our panelists?
Just interrupted @juliaschrenkler to explain twitter. About 5 pct of the audience hadn’t heard of it. Very low if u ask me.
Yes, I can moderate a panel and Twitter at the same time. Julia Schrenkler of APM is now talking about the Minn. bridge collapse.
Peter: we need to think about twitter re: bbc emergency response strategy.
BBC organizes itself the same way the govt does for continuity of govt. Continuity of newscasting.
what’s next: planning for pandemic. what if one third of staff get laid low by bird flu?
BBC reported official stat: 2 ppl dead. SkyNews reported 90. It was really 52. Which one was worse?
Peter: bbc shoulda said: “public reports suggest that X were dead.” Relying solely on official channels undermined public confidence.
Peter Horrocks: I almost wish you hadn’t had to invite me but I’m now an expert in discussing online response to terror attacks.
MPR did their bridge coverage without a watertight plan in place. they had to wing a lot of it.
The most important, most common question asked online in every single disaster: R U OK?
Rafat: Mobile video is probably overrated. Mobile audio will be bigger.
Rafat: As full qwerty keyboards penetrate mobile market and mobile networks get faster, users will expect a lot more from mobile content.
Rafat: Nokia decided to change themselves from the ground up. Look at how different they are now from a year or two ago. (Say more, please!)
Rafat: don’t forget the power of offline. You’re in the community- make the most of it. (Another reason why I want npr & meetup to partner)
Haarsager: a recession is more likely to impact sponsorship than membership.
Jacqui Kain just asked about Rafat’s ho-hum opinion of mobile video. A: Watching TV on your phone. We’re not Japan or Korea.
Tweets @timjeby: Key point: We must develop a frictionless giving program to sustain ourselves… it’s just too damn complicated now
Q: Do you believe a large station could survive on frictionless public giving? Doc: Yes.
(But the reason why we’re not Japan or Korea is because we have sucky bandwidth across all platforms, nu?)
Doc: whenever I give to stations online, it never takes less than 3 minutes. “They always ask for my fax # and crap like that.”
Doc: Brad Sucks makes a good living giving away all of his stuff for free. http://www.bradsucks.net
Rafat: Don’t read too much into Radiohead. (Their online distribution experiment, not their music, that is.)
WashPost-ABC polls has Obama and Clinton tied in Texas.
No matter what Rafat says, I’m not gonna stop transcoding my vlog posts for mobile.
Audience member: My station exec would beat me to death with a pledge mug for advocating what Doc was saying. Ha! CSI: Pledge Week!
Tonight at Red Hat- head uphill on Olive for a couple of blocks, take a left on 2nd, go two blocks until you hit Disney Hall. It’s under it.
Wifi is down again. Meh.
… and accessibility. Things you can’t give away for free.
CNN: Weather forces helicopter carrying U.S. Sens. Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel and John Kerry to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan.
Kevin Kelley’s 8 generatives - Immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, embodiment, patronage findability.
Diane: It’s all about Connections. (See James Burke, et al. -ac)
Diane just said Community Networking. How 1996! I love it. What’s past is prologue.
Another third of staff time goes to processing ugc - fixing audio levels, edit help, compression, etc.
One-third of staff time at vocalo.org is spent on the ground locally forging community relations.
Vocalo.org seeks to reflect the ethnic diversity in the communities they serve.
Of the 15 people staffing vocalo.org, only one of them comes from public radio.
The final third of staff time is in the studio as DJs, curating and broadcasting UGC.
Vocalo.org presentation now talking about mobile audio content via a toll-free number using OneBox.
Nothing on Vocalo.org is more than seven minutes long. Most range from 30 secs to three minutes.