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Re: Where to eat on Christmas Night

toddmundt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:24:51 -0000

Great question! Here's what I wrote to Matt via email:

Not everything closes, but most of the non-hotel destination restaurants close, and it's surprising how many of the cafes close, too - I think more so than in the US. (Starbucks may be open on Notre Dame and Square Jacques Cartier) This includes chains, too. I wouldn't say every place closes, but over the years, finding food for lunch and dinner has been a chore.

As for other stuff, yeah most attractions close on Christmas Day and the first half of Boxing Day. One thing we've done is take a walk up Mont Royal on Christmas Day if it's not too cold. There are lots of Montrealers out walking and sledding, it's a brisk walk that's not steep, and the belvedere that overlooks the city has a mini cafe that sells hot chocolate and stuff.

One year we bought bread and cheese the day before and made lunch with it - Quebec has great cheese. The auberge we stay at has a good breakfast which helps too and then try to find something good for dinner.

Re: Charlie Savage on Presidential Power

toddmundt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:39:48 -0000

Excellent - thanks for the link!

Re: A Thousand Stories on Public Media

toddmundt — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:49:04 -0000

Yes, I didn't mean to leave out PRX. It's the largest open content archive we have in public media and all of us can enjoy it or use it as a tool.

Re: Cutting the Coax: an update

toddmundt — Fri, 29 May 2009 15:57:34 -0000

Since my original post, Food Network, etc., have joined the Hulu platform.

Re: Preserving distinctive neighborhoods

toddmundt — Thu, 28 May 2009 05:31:33 -0000

Thanks for passing along the information!

Re: What’s next for New York architecture?

toddmundt — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:55:52 -0000

Thanks for catching that - for some reason, I had Lopate on the brain when I wrote the piece.

Re: Live Coverage: Auto Policy Announcement

toddmundt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:57:25 -0000

Thanks for the update, Julie! We've just adjusted the listings.

Re: Today on the Radio

toddmundt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:59:13 -0000

Easy as pie... Here and Now publishes its listing 3-4 hours after we go to press with ours.

Re: And now… Canada

toddmundt — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:56:04 -0000

Yes! and that reminds me to be on the lookout for it - and at least CBC has the brains to post Mercer clips on YouTube.

Re: On the Road Again with Mario Batali

toddmundt — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:03:49 -0000

Thanks for the comment! To my knowledge, there aren't any DVD's of Molto Mario available.

Re: This NPR API is a BIG deal.

toddmundt — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:55:04 -0000

Ashish - Thanks for the comment. I think the T&C is pretty clear about whether or not a developer can create a widget or other application that is for-profit, using the NPR API. But if you have further questions, I invite you to direct them to NPR.

Re: Andrew Sullivan: Blogging is the Golden Era of Journalism

toddmundt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:22:13 -0000

Rob - Thanks for the comment!

Re: Andrew Sullivan: Blogging is the Golden Era of Journalism

toddmundt — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 04:46:11 -0000

Public radio reporters can be expected to do some of this work, and they do already, but certainly not all of it. I'm talking about more people, potentially, not making a small number of reporters work to the point where they're not producing content they're proud of. Thanks for your comments!

Re: Promotion - hey, it works

toddmundt — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:09:10 -0000

Thanks, but, like Sarah Palin's handlers, now I need to lower your expectations. :)

Re: Promotion - hey, it works

toddmundt — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:45:47 -0000

Thanks, Keith. All very true.. and the public engagement piece is the important next tier for us. At the moment, we're (in Louisville) on level one, increasing public awareness of our sites, which have had major enhancements in the past 8 months, and in the past have had extremely low numbers. For us, this is where we begin. Others who have already achieved this need to move to the next piece of the puzzle, which you've outlined quite well. We're preparing our first major public engagement piece as I write this.

Re: Mark Ramsey’s PRPD Keynote

toddmundt — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:56:23 -0000

Thanks, Dan! It's been a chore trying to get a workable link to either the stream or the download. I've updated the post.

Re: Are your listeners asking about iPhone streaming?

toddmundt — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:36:17 -0000

Flycast was a pretty interesting web app, and the new, free stand-alone app shows promise, but we found it to be rather buggy, which is why we've not recommended it to our listeners. However, we'll keep an eye on it.

Re: Are your listeners asking about iPhone streaming?

toddmundt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:48:47 -0000

Thanks, Josh! I wonder if a number of us could find a way to pool resources to co-create a tuner app, offer it free or for something $1.99 to recoup a small amount of the costs? The app could offer as many pubradio streams as we could cram into it.

I'll send a request to Nullriver, too. Never hurts to have another request land on their desktop.

Re: Are your listeners asking about iPhone streaming?

toddmundt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:51:32 -0000

Ann - Thanks for the comment! I'll watch for the app.

Re: Mermigas: Not Ready for Digital Transition

toddmundt — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:08:20 -0000

John, thanks for your comments. I don't think anyone believes the loss in viewing will be permanent, but in Wilmington yesterday there were many people who didn't know about the change (despite a massive campaign), hadn't been able to hook up their TV's properly, or couldn't get the antennas adjusted well enough to receive a usable signal, or who had a good setup and then accidentally did something that caused a malfunction. (NPR interviewed the elderly man this morning who, after someone else set it up for him, pressed the wrong button on his remote and couldn't see TV anymore.)

Diane Mermigas has an important point: regardless of the positive end for all eventually, Wilmington was the absolute best case switchover, and broadcasters need to do much more to prepare viewers for the change.

Re: TSOYA: Thorn and Hossfeld make the Times

toddmundt — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:20:15 -0000

Grant - re:Times, that's the way I understand it, too. It was a rather long warmup for me to make a joke at PRI's expense. :)
I agree on You Look Nice Today - one of those times when I laugh out loud. Thanks for commenting!

Re: Contact

toddmundt — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:57:44 -0000

nettie52 - thanks for the comment. I try to avoid discussing politics here because of my position, but your thoughts remind me of an excellent piece Jay Rosen wrote about this issue of truth and lies, suggesting what he thinks the McCain strategy might be:

Strategy: Comes from Bush, the younger. When realities uncovered are directly in conflict with prior claims, consider the option of keeping the claims and breaking with reality. Done the right way, it’s a demonstration of strength. It dismays and weakens the press. And it can be great theatre.

His blog post is here: http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/press...

Re: CBC announces its new streams

toddmundt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:22:37 -0000

Rick - thanks for the comment. I heard some of that "jukebox" thing today, too. I'd guess that for every listener who likes that, there are 4 who don't. I wonder if complaints and comments will drive CBC to play complete works on the stream?

Re: GTD: priorities and fake due dates

toddmundt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:14:50 -0000

Dan - I'll check it out. I think I may have done so at one point, but I'll take a closer look. Thanks!

Re: GTD Workflow, post-iPhone 2.0

toddmundt — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:27:14 -0000

Dougist - thanks for the comment! I like the idea of a separate Gmail account for tasks, etc. Some folks also use the "username+" addressing to get emails into specific folders or labels on Mail, Gmail, etc. And on Journler... I love it, and I'm glad to see that Phil is continuing to push it forward - it's more useful to me than Yojimbo and other software like it.