Engadget
Now that you've got an NPR-lovin' stereo in your bedroom, the only thing missing in your otherwise completely fulfilled life is an NPR application that enables you to listen to your favorite programs whenever, wherever. If we just rung your bell, you can now drift away and die happy. Available this very moment in the 100,00 (Read More)
Pubcasting In the News
NPR joined with the proprietor of HD Radio technology, iBiquity Digital Corp., to propose that the FCC quadruple the permitted digital FM power level. In a statement released today they agreed the plan would protect analog FM broadcasts from interference while significantly improving reception of the digital HD Radio signa (Read More)
Engadget
You know that smartphone you love, that ultimate expression of handheld convergence that some would call a mobile computer? It's crap. Or so says octogenarian, Martin Cooper, former lead engineer at Motorola credited with the invention of the handheld cellphone -- really, his name is on the "Radio telephone system" patent (Read More)
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“Public Media: From Broadcast to Broadband” discussion at Berkman Center | Public Radio .. http://bit.ly/44sMPN. (Read More)
TechCrunch
Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience Marissa Mayer was recently profiled in a Vogue Magazine article that offered a in-depth glimpse into the exec’s lifestyle, loves, career and fashion preferences. Now, Mayer has been named as one of Glamour Magazine’s 2009 Women of the Year. Joining Mayer on the (Read More)
Google Operating System
Gmail Chat, the web-based version of Google Talk, added last year voice and video chat. The feature is now available in iGoogle and orkut, but it will probably be added to other Google services, as well.SFGate reports that Google will improve the service significantly in the coming months.Gmail's voice and video chats are n (Read More)
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by Elephants on Bicycles (Flickr)It took longer than expected, but I finally posted notes from my PublicMediaCamp session “Creating an Online Unconference“ to the PubCamp wiki.It’s packed with details from the session and links out to relevant materials. Not to mention two funny / instructive videos from recent Intel commer (Read More)
James Fallows
My wife just alerted me to something I had missed in the paper today: news that Nien Cheng had died in Washington this week, at 94.Life and Death in Shanghai, her memoir of her life in China in the pre-Communist era, and then her daughter's murder and her own imprisonment and torture by Red Guards during the Cultural Revolu (Read More)