New media and radio

Here I am babbling on in 2007. A view of how producers Sage Van Wing, Jenny Asarnow and I produced The Conversation.

Spot Us, Crowdsourcing, Crowdfunding

A few interviews I’ve done recently on new media questions were collected for this show,

David Cohn is the founder of Spot Us, an online journalism marketplace. It’s a fascinating experiment where people who want stories done will post the idea, journalists will offer to do the story for a price, individuals can pledge to get the story done. Spot Us will will get the story edited and distributed to local media.

The digital generation is coming of age, and changing everything. So says John Palfrey. He studies the “digital natives” among us, and he says they’ll transform everything from our politics to family life. His book is “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.”

Also today, Wired reporter Jeff Howe explains how businesses “crowdsource” work that individuals used to do. His new book is “Crowdsourcing: Why the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Business.”

What will be the blogging community’s Jayson Blair moment?

I enjoyed the conversation on We’re All Journalists Now by Gant. The evolving definition of journalist is one of the major disruptions taking place in news.