Social Capital
Types of Social Capital, originally uploaded by DuncanWork. Please read Robert Patterson’s excellent post about how in some markets public media is helping members of the public especially hard hit by...
View ArticleR.I.P Walter Cronkite
Here’s an archive of “Uncle Walter’s” series of reminiscences he recorded for National Public Radio from 2001 – 2005.
View ArticleA New wbur.org Coming Your Way…
The station has now entered the manic, terminal phase of wbur.org’s redesign. Light trickles in from the other end of that damnably long tunnel, slicing through that suffocating, Stygian darkness. We...
View ArticleEndings and Beginnings
beginnings.., originally uploaded by Sir Mervs. Well, folks, that’s all she wrote…. I am leaving WBUR for the wilds of Upstate New York to take a position as Web Director at Union College. My last day...
View ArticleAmen
What makes one station different from another – one digital solution different from another – is its voice. Its humanity. Good luck budget-cutting your way to that. Amen.
View ArticleBubbles Are Bad
trapped in bubbles, originally uploaded by leodirac. Bubbles are pernicious things to be trapped inside of. If solid in color, then obviously, the world outside becomes invisible. But bubbles of clear...
View ArticleMad Men in Public Radio
My neighbor the, estimable Namita Raina, clued me into this “Mad Men Yourself” phenomenon that is apparently sweeping the continent. I feel so out of it For those few under a rock like I once was,...
View ArticleIan Remembered
Graham Griffith, a former On Point senior producer, reflects on the passing of Ian Docherty, a singular personality and prescient journalist who last graced these hallways eight or so years ago....
View ArticleCopyeditor Extraordinaire
Anyone need a first-rate copyeditor? Then meet Karen Wise. I can attest to her formidable chops, as she has cleaned up my prodigious messes for over a year now. Make sure to read her extraordinarily...
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