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Re: Some take-aways from the Public Media Conference

andy carvin — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:38:48 -0000

Funny - I was just about to say the same thing about you. :-)

Re: Public Media’s Twitter Pack

andy carvin — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:34:17 -0000

Almost forgot to mention: the edit password is project.

Re: More on twitter and stations

andy carvin — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:51:36 -0000

Very good points, Josh. In fact, my plan was to make similar comments when I wrote about having a station account be multiple staffers, but got sidetracked.

There's definitely a fine line between Transparency and Too Much Information, and most folks probably don't care about updates from an official station account with messages like "debating cornflakes vs. wheaties for breakfast." For new users of Twitter, it might even be a turnoff. I think that's perfectly fine for personal twitter accounts - color me guilty - but it's not something I would do, say, on the nprnewsblog account.

Having said that, occasional personal tweets like that have added character to the bpp account. I just wouldn't have it become a regular feature of it. Tweets like "cleaning up the breakfast I spilled all over the soundboard" are much more illuminating than ones just focusing on breakfast. :-)

Re: NPR’s Knights are training with digital swords

andy carvin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:14:09 -0000

Yeah, there's not much posted yet, mostly because the first class of Knight trainees was graduating by the time the blog was ready to roll. It'll pick up in a couple of weeks when the next group of trainees begin their five-week stint with the program. And we've set up @nprknights on Twitter where they'll do some Twitter experimenting as well.

Re: This NPR API is a BIG deal.

andy carvin — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:59:04 -0000

Rob: what this means is that anyone can now gain access to 250,000+ stories we've produced since 1995 and produce their own mashups out of them. Think of all the cool tools that've been developed for Twitter - Twittervision, Summize, etc - they're all made possible because Twitter allows users to tap into their databases, grab the content and make something new out of it.

For example, you could create a mashup that automatically generates a Flickr photo gallery based on keywords from NPR stories, and display it with the audio stream of each story. You could create a Google Map mashup that shows all the stories having to do with a geographic area. You could create Facebook widgets that play the audio of everything we've ever done related to the band Radiohead. You could create a mashup connecting our content to Twitter and do something so crazy I can't even fathom it. :-)

For stations, we're giving even deeper access to the API that we're giving the general public, which will allow you to put more NPR content on your site than ever before. Dan Jacobson can provide more details.

Re: Why Does NPR Have A Facebook Killer? | My Philly Network

andy carvin — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:37:37 -0000

Actually, we have a community page on Facebook as well, with more than 130,000 subscribers:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/NPR/10643211755

We've taken the approach that it's important to be where communities are already established - Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and the like - while at the same time creating more opportunities for interaction on our own site. So it's very much a both/and strategy rather than an either-or one.

Re: Updated: NPR Launches Open API; Major Shows Not Included

andy carvin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:01:48 -0000

Hi Rafat,

The reason why shows such as Prairie Home Companion and This American Life aren't included is because they're not NPR shows. They're among the many shows that are produced by American Public Media and PRI, and we have no affiliation with them.

As for shows like Car Talk, Fresh Air, etc, that aren't included in the beta release, it's because they are shows that are produced outside of NPR and we haven't secured the rights to distribute them online via our API. We're hoping that we'll be able to work out deals with a number of these program producers, though, so they too can join the 250,000+ stories already available via the API from the majority of our programs. We also hope to extend the API going back to 1970. More more information, you can check out the discussions on our Inside NPR.org blog.

Re: Are Bloggers The Descendents Of Caesar?

andy carvin — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:32:12 -0000

Actually, the original draft of the timeline had a lot of earlier milestones in it. I posted it on my blog to get public suggestions, and several people commenting on including the great pamphleteers of the American Revolutionary War. I had planned to include them in the final version but unfortunately they cut all of my pre-1967 milestones because of word length.

Re: Creating A PublicMediaCamp Charter

andy carvin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:31:27 -0000

Thanks, Thomas, that's what I was going for. :-)

Re: NPR + PI = ?

andy carvin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:37:25 -0000

NPR Digital Media's Darren Mauro just posted this blog post on the Inside NPR.org blog.