AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

Get My Vote: NPR’s User-Generated Political Commentary Initiative - Andy Carvin’s Waste of Bandwidth
Eighteen months ago this week, I started working at NPR as senior product manager for online communities. I’ve spent a lot of that time working with shows on social media experiments and educating NPR staff about the role Web 2.0 can play [...]

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Is PBS Still Necessary? - The New York Times
For the eighth straight year the Bush administration has ritually proposed taking a hefty whack out of the federal subsidy for public broadcasting. The cuts would in effect slice in half the money that public television and public radio get from the government. If we follow the [...]

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