Comments on: Catch Me on NPR’s Morning Edition Monday http://chrisbaskind.com/2007/12/10/catch-me-on-nprs-morning-edition-monday/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:36:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ben Tremblay http://chrisbaskind.com/2007/12/10/catch-me-on-nprs-morning-edition-monday/#comment-31 Ben Tremblay Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:43:11 +0000 http://chrisbaskind.com/2007/12/10/catch-me-on-nprs-morning-edition-monday/#comment-31 I'll easily admit to a deep-seated bias in favor of public radio, but even that has been blasted by the realpolitik of the 70s: while happily ensconced as a broadcast tech with CBC Radio I came to see that the material I was perpetuating during the day was in some specifics rudely different than the stories I was helping develope in workshops and writing groups in my free time ... East Timor comes to mind. So, though I'm no pipe-carrying zealot I shudder deeply when I consider the mechanims of "broad-casting" that isn't user-generated. In any case, what consummes my time is that notion carried further: that folk can easily have their good energy dissipated through online activity that really achieves no substantial effect. (I keep wanting to work "phatic" into a sentence but the term remains way way too homely!) What I've been plugging at for years is a framework / architecture that ties online documents together using discussion. Or, flipped on its head, improves discussions' signal-to-noise ratio by connecting it to existing documents. Unfortunately, appearances to the contrary, it's almost impossible for an individual to gain entry. ("Buzz" ... page views ... the stuff of marketing; there's a set of paradoxes here that should enthrall a whole team of anthropologists, ethnologists, and social-psychologists!) nice to tweet you --bentrem I’ll easily admit to a deep-seated bias in favor of public radio, but even that has been blasted by the realpolitik of the 70s: while happily ensconced as a broadcast tech with CBC Radio I came to see that the material I was perpetuating during the day was in some specifics rudely different than the stories I was helping develope in workshops and writing groups in my free time … East Timor comes to mind. So, though I’m no pipe-carrying zealot I shudder deeply when I consider the mechanims of “broad-casting” that isn’t user-generated.

In any case, what consummes my time is that notion carried further: that folk can easily have their good energy dissipated through online activity that really achieves no substantial effect. (I keep wanting to work “phatic” into a sentence but the term remains way way too homely!)

What I’ve been plugging at for years is a framework / architecture that ties online documents together using discussion. Or, flipped on its head, improves discussions’ signal-to-noise ratio by connecting it to existing documents. Unfortunately, appearances to the contrary, it’s almost impossible for an individual to gain entry. (”Buzz” … page views … the stuff of marketing; there’s a set of paradoxes here that should enthrall a whole team of anthropologists, ethnologists, and social-psychologists!)

nice to tweet you
–bentrem

]]> By: Lighter Footstep on NPR’s Morning Edition | Taz Talks http://chrisbaskind.com/2007/12/10/catch-me-on-nprs-morning-edition-monday/#comment-30 Lighter Footstep on NPR’s Morning Edition | Taz Talks Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:07:45 +0000 http://chrisbaskind.com/2007/12/10/catch-me-on-nprs-morning-edition-monday/#comment-30 [...] A couple weeks back, I was interviewed by NPRÂ’s Neda Ullaby for an upcoming environmental piece on Morning Edition. [...] [...] A couple weeks back, I was interviewed by NPRÂ’s Neda Ullaby for an upcoming environmental piece on Morning Edition. [...]

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