Comments on: Station Experiments in Social Media http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/01/station-experiments Because these are the early days of a long revolution . . . Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: John http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/01/station-experiments#comment-63842 John Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:50:56 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/01/station-experiments/#comment-63842 Ken - thanks for the comment. I didn't mean to imply you guys weren't doing anything, or enough, or whatever. It's a broader point about public access to new media and "the new digital divide" - the difference between having 24/7/365 broadband wireless on your personal $3000 laptop versus 30 minutes a day of shared time on a library PC with an internet filter and nowhere to save files. Hopefully the answer comes in two forms: 1. The community model - not increasing the paid staff, but increasing the help the sophisticates offer the newbies. 2. Public media's role in helping move content back and forth between traditional media (radio and TV) and online media. (It ought to be able to go both directions . . . ) Ken – thanks for the comment.

I didn’t mean to imply you guys weren’t doing anything, or enough, or whatever.

It’s a broader point about public access to new media and “the new digital divide” – the difference between having 24/7/365 broadband wireless on your personal $3000 laptop versus 30 minutes a day of shared time on a library PC with an internet filter and nowhere to save files.

Hopefully the answer comes in two forms:

1. The community model – not increasing the paid staff, but increasing the help the sophisticates offer the newbies.

2. Public media’s role in helping move content back and forth between traditional media (radio and TV) and online media. (It ought to be able to go both directions . . . )

]]> By: Ken Freedman http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/01/station-experiments#comment-63825 Ken Freedman Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:21:01 +0000 http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/03/01/station-experiments/#comment-63825 Thanks for your review and comments, John. I didn't really go into all of our efforts to help bring our luddite listeners up to speed on things like RSS. What we do is to provide links and screen shots which will help them figure these things out. For example, on our <a HREF="http://podcast.wfmu.org" rel="nofollow">podcast page,</a> we provide a <a HREF="http://wfmu.org/podcast_howto.html" rel="nofollow">help section</a> which contains screenshots which attempt to hold people's hands through the process. But you are correct that we could and should be doing more in this area. But it's difficult with such a small paid staff. -ken Thanks for your review and comments, John. I didn’t really go into all of our efforts to help bring our luddite listeners up to speed on things like RSS. What we do is to provide links and screen shots which will help them figure these things out. For example, on our podcast page, we provide a help section which contains screenshots which attempt to hold people’s hands through the process.

But you are correct that we could and should be doing more in this area. But it’s difficult with such a small paid staff.

-ken

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