February 2008
600 posts
Leng: fire knocked out our transmitter. another station plus tv began relaying their air.
Feb 22nd
We relied on twitter, google maps because our cms crashed, server went down from traffic.
Feb 22nd
1 note
Leng’s showing @kpbsnews use of twitter during the fire. “twitter kinda became my CMS.” qotd 2.
Feb 22nd
Some shut up that piano. We’ve got 20 mins left in our panel.
Feb 22nd
they started posting tweets on their site just 2 days before the fires broke. Good timing.
Feb 22nd
Leng: we used twitter as an internal comm tool until she saw how pbs wired science was using it.
Feb 22nd
Leng Caloh is up next. “the SD wildfires were our public media coming of age.”
Feb 22nd
Leng: “maybe we were being innovative but we were being desperate.” ima08 QOTD.
Feb 22nd
Caloh is pronounced like Kahlo.
Feb 22nd
kpbs fire map got at least 1.7 mil views. Google thinks it’s more.
Feb 22nd
Any questions for our panelists?
Feb 22nd
Just interrupted @juliaschrenkler to explain twitter. About 5 pct of the audience hadn’t heard of it. Very low if u ask me.
Feb 21st
Yes, I can moderate a panel and Twitter at the same time. Julia Schrenkler of APM is now talking about the Minn. bridge collapse.
Feb 21st
Peter: we need to think about twitter re: bbc emergency response strategy.
Feb 21st
BBC organizes itself the same way the govt does for continuity of govt. Continuity of newscasting.
Feb 21st
what’s next: planning for pandemic. what if one third of staff get laid low by bird flu?
Feb 21st
BBC reported official stat: 2 ppl dead. SkyNews reported 90. It was really 52. Which one was worse?
Feb 21st
Peter: bbc shoulda said: “public reports suggest that X were dead.” Relying solely on official channels undermined public confidence.
Feb 21st
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.
Feb 21st
MPR did their bridge coverage without a watertight plan in place. they had to wing a lot of it.
Feb 21st
The most important, most common question asked online in every single disaster: R U OK?
Feb 21st
Rafat: Mobile video is probably overrated. Mobile audio will be bigger.
Feb 21st
Rafat: As full qwerty keyboards penetrate mobile market and mobile networks get faster, users will expect a lot more from mobile content.
Feb 21st
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!)
Feb 21st
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)
Feb 21st
Haarsager: a recession is more likely to impact sponsorship than membership.
Feb 21st
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.
Feb 21st
Tweets @timjeby: Key point: We must develop a frictionless giving program to sustain ourselves… it’s just too damn complicated now
Feb 21st
Q: Do you believe a large station could survive on frictionless public giving? Doc: Yes.
Feb 21st
(But the reason why we’re not Japan or Korea is because we have sucky bandwidth across all platforms, nu?)
Feb 21st
Doc: whenever I give to stations online, it never takes less than 3 minutes. “They always ask for my fax # and crap like that.”
Feb 21st
Doc: Brad Sucks makes a good living giving away all of his stuff for free. http://www.bradsucks.net
Feb 21st
Rafat: Don’t read too much into Radiohead. (Their online distribution experiment, not their music, that is.)
Feb 21st
WashPost-ABC polls has Obama and Clinton tied in Texas.
Feb 21st
No matter what Rafat says, I’m not gonna stop transcoding my vlog posts for mobile.
Feb 21st
Audience member: My station exec would beat me to death with a pledge mug for advocating what Doc was saying. Ha! CSI: Pledge Week!
Feb 21st
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.
Feb 21st
Wifi is down again. Meh.
Feb 21st
… and accessibility. Things you can’t give away for free.
Feb 21st
CNN: Weather forces helicopter carrying U.S. Sens. Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel and John Kerry to make an emergency landing in Afghanistan.
Feb 21st
Kevin Kelley’s 8 generatives - Immediacy, personalization, interpretation, authenticity, embodiment, patronage findability.
Feb 21st
Diane: It’s all about Connections. (See James Burke, et al. -ac)
Feb 21st
Diane just said Community Networking. How 1996! I love it. What’s past is prologue.
Feb 21st
Another third of staff time goes to processing ugc - fixing audio levels, edit help, compression, etc.
Feb 21st
One-third of staff time at vocalo.org is spent on the ground locally forging community relations.
Feb 21st
Vocalo.org seeks to reflect the ethnic diversity in the communities they serve.
Feb 21st
Of the 15 people staffing vocalo.org, only one of them comes from public radio.
Feb 21st
The final third of staff time is in the studio as DJs, curating and broadcasting UGC.
Feb 21st
Vocalo.org presentation now talking about mobile audio content via a toll-free number using OneBox.
Feb 21st
Nothing on Vocalo.org is more than seven minutes long. Most range from 30 secs to three minutes.
Feb 21st