I've been mulling this idea for a while, and last night I left a comment on Facebook and a post on Buzz regarding my decision-making process.  

Thus far your feedback, comments, DMs, emails, and thoughts have extremely helpful.  I had a blast covering last year's SXSW and I'm sure this year will be equally fun and productive.  

However, I post this not simply to crowdsource smart people in a decision-making process (though you are smart and I appreciate your thoughts).  The point of even considering #NoSXSW, and then posting content / soliciting comments is to demonstrate my own (and I believe shared with many) internal conflict about the nature of the social web.

Here's the comment and commentary:

Giving very serious consideration to not attending SXSW this year.

I haven't abandoned the idea of going, but I'm trying to (heh) make a 'mature' decision. I'm giving it serious consideration and weighing the options - both positive and negative:

Here's my reasoning: 
1) Time. I want to launch the @abcnewsradio platform sometime reasonably soon. 
2) Taste. I love you guys, but can stomach only so much social media and social media people. Seriously. I say this not to gripe, but in that I have VERY serious concerns about the insular and hyperbolic nature of social media. ESPECIALLY in the context of the field of journalism. There are a LOT of conference-goers and hot-air blowers. But what do these people DO? What have they BUILT? I'm building something and have been for a long time. I want to do it right and to the highest degree of quality possible. No joke. 
3.) Expense. It's tough times everywhere and while it can be expensed, it just seems like it's poor taste to go to SXSW of all places while at the same time my industry and my company are weathering a tough storm. Plus, dude, we're all broke as a joke, aren't we? 
4.) The WHCD is the following weekend. It's also a shorter, less expensive trip. Plus, wise people have told me that when given the choice to eat dinner with POTUS over talk about Twitter with social media people, always choose POTUS. Always.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. These are my thoughts but I'd love to hear yours. And honestly, I'd love to see you guys. 

But SXSW isn't a vacation and I want to get some serious shit done. I'll make a decision some time pretty soon. And I'd really love your feedback.

I'd like to reiterate that I have not yet made a decision, and your comments on Facebook, Twitter, and Buzz have been outstanding.  

But really, this decision and these posts are not about me.  This is about the interesting dichotomy and (at least internal) conflict between the remarkable connective nature of the social web, coupled with the remarkably insular nature of the communities that evangelize tech and social web tools. 

As always, your thoughtful feedback is appreciated. 

Thanks.

- DHP

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Protopodcasts are short, minimal podcasts that more closely resemble a good FM radio talkset than a traditional podcast.  If you have a Protopodcast and would like it featured let me know.

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Dave Diamond - KFI Dave Diamond was a rock n roll radio DJ in LA and San Francisco from the mid-50's through the mid-70s. He later retired to teach broadcasting. 

Diamond was one of the first 'Boss Jocks' and along with the legendary Bill Drake helped invent modern radio. Diamond was on the first Beatles tour, booked the fist gigs the Doors ever played in LA, wrote songs with Janis Jopin, and helped to define the sound of rock radio. 

While today we tend to scoff at radio as an antiquated medium, in the mid-50s radio was revolutionary. And by the mid-60s FM rock radio was the dominate pop-culture platform. 

Diamond was my professor for many years, and remains my most trusted mentor. He would frequently pass out 'Diamond's Laws to Live By' to his students. Some times we would spend entire classes discussing these deceptively simple ideas. 

These 'Laws' may seem overt and obvious. But upon reflection the power of Diamond's Laws comes from their mantra-like elegance and simplicity. 

Hope you can find some value in Diamond's Laws to Live By. 

- DHP

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I'll be using Buzz for stories this week. 

Specifically I'll be doing two things: 

A.) Asking for your input on how Buzz could and should be used for various components of news and journalism. 
B.) Posting a story or two that I'm working on 

A few factors of particular interest are at play here: 
1.) Crowdsourced News. Yes, this is an obvious conversation piece but it's nonetheless quite relevant. 
2.) Private and Selective Crowdsourcing. Much more interesting is the possibility of sharing certain information with trusted sources and trusted lists within Google Contacts and Buzz. Trusts lists let me, the journalist, share more information with the hope of getting more information back from a select and confidential list of people. 

I'll be experimenting with both of these tactics this week on at least one specific and particular story. 

Obviously I won't need to update you in a week with how this experiment goes - you'll tell me as it happens. But I will do a few summary posts on this topic. 

Of course, today's standards are tomorrows cliches. And the last thing I want is for this to become a pretentious and weighty topic. 

But this is a fascinating idea and I'd love your thoughts on Google Buzz + Journalism. 

Thanks. 

Over the next few weeks I'll share a few more thoughts on Google Buzz.  As always, I'm interested in the far-reaching possibilities of platforms like Buzz and the potential impact of the social web on people, media, and journalism.  Your comments below are always welcome.  

Here's this blog's RSS feed for syndicated updates.

You can follow me across the social web including Google Buzz, Facebook, and Twitter.

Thanks.

- DHP.

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• Email: The primary (and public) email contact on this site is now dhp@danpatterson.com.  Add this address to your contact list.  However, all of my email addresses will remain the same, so if we've communicated in the past all previous addresses will remain unchanged.  My contact page is here.

Thoughts on Digital Identity

Acquiring my name, Dan Patterson, tied to the primary TLD (top level domain - the .com in a URL string) has been important to me since I started using the internet.  I began podcasting in 2004 and blogging in 2005.   Believe it or not, I was (and in many ways remain) a reluctant blogger.  The internet is a web (pun intended) of dubious information and sources.  

However, the internet has become the de facto platform for information consumption and dissemination for much of the industrialized world.  Though institutions like libraries, government, and enterprise are also crucial pieces of Western information infrastructure, the web is where most people go to acquire information.  Inherently tied to information access is the ability for individuals to vet and verify information.  In a word, this process is called Trust.  For an individual, organization, government, or business to take action or make a decision based on information, that information must be Trusted and verifiable.  Tying a source, in this case an identity by way of a name, to information of any kind is critically important of all individuals.  This is why obtaining my name to a common domain is important to me.  It should be important to you as well, regardless of your particular station in society at large or online.  

Thanks

The process of acquiring this domain took a long time and I owe my thanks to a few people.  First, the domain was paid for by a benefactor who wises to remain nameless (as always, I provide a list of professional disclosures here), and was given to me as a personal Christmas gift  (as opposed to a professional gift which I could not accept due to journalistic and ethical conflicts).  I used a domain broker, Loren Stocker, who was great to work with and I would recommend to anyone looking to acquire a hard-to-get domain.  I was connected to Loren through Dane Atkinson, CEO of Squarespace.  Dane is a another great guy who I recommend highly.

And last, but of course not least, thanks much to you. 

I appreciate your interest, links, comments, and thoughtful insights over the past 5 years.  Here's to many more.

Thank you.

Most Sincerely Yours,

- Dan Patterson

January, 2010

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Part of my job is very straight forward:  I go places and ask people questions.  I generally interview two distinct groups of professionals: news makers from the United Nations and technology thought leaders. 

Part of my job, however, is technical and abstract.  Nutshell: I build and manage the ABC News Radio platform. I've been taking advantage of this mellow work week (much of the media industry vacations during the week between Christmas and New Year) to finish building the infrastructure of the ABC News Radio Digital Platform.  I wrote the following post as a year-end salvo to the work we've complete this year and in anticipation of the upcoming launch of our new sites and data platform.

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In the news and journalism industry, every day is exciting.  Journalists and content producers are constantly rushing off to cover a story, editing audio, taking notes, and typing copy.  Boredom is not frequently experienced in a newsroom.

But this year is going to be particularly exciting for ABC News Radio.  While we have no intention of abandoning our affiliate stations, we will be ramping up our online presence.  In fact, our digital efforts will help improve the content and service we provide to affiliates, while also making it much easier for the average person to discover our content online.

The plan is to begin launching the ABC News Radio Platform through Q1 of 2010.  A 'platform' is far more than a few web sites.  Platform implies quality quality content supported by infrastructure, technology, relationships, and vision.  2009 involved a lot of construction of the infrastructure and back-end.  2010 is exciting because we get to show off what we've been building.

We'll articulate specific Platform details as the year progresses.  Here's the plan:

1.) Web sites.

ABC News Radio will have two web sites: one for affiliates and one for the public.  The affiliate website will serve a number of functions, all based around providing timely information in multiple formats to our 2000+ radio affiliates.  The public site will serve our podcasts, video, and news content in a simple, flat, highly-searchable interface.  Via API, both sites will provide access to our content archive.

2.) Content Archival.

Our media archive spans more than a half decade and includes content from some of the most significant events in recent history.  This content is culturally and historically important.  We want you to be able to access this content quickly, easily, and affordably.  The archive is immense and will take a while to fully digitize.  But we can soon offer access to some of the media, and more as time goes on.  We're using Amazon Web Services, and specifically S3, to store and distribute our media library.  Two days ago we started pushing data from our social web accounts (Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, etc) to S3 and normalizing the data.  We'll soon begin uploading portions of our archive.  Soon after that we'll start letting select developers and members of the public in to poke around.  If you'd like access, let us know.

3.) Data and APIs.

It's one thing to archive our media content library, but what good is that content if it's not accessible and usable?  To that end we've been working with a number of developers on creation of Application Programming Interface (APIs).  This will allow our affiliates, developers, and the public to access and create content (apps, widgets, tools, etc) with our data in a number of ways.  We're very excited about this project and believe that data archival and access will play a significant role in the future of the news and journalism industries.

4.) Application Development.

While public betas of ABC News Radio applications are several months away from deployment, we strongly believe in delivering the news and media content to you in formats that you're accustomed to.  We've begun the process of creating applications for the iPhone, Android, Facebook, and other devices.  This is a long process but it's our hope that by this time next year you'll be reading a similar post from our blog our your mobile device. 

5.) Social Web Integration.

We're committed to using the social web to disseminate our media, connect with our audience, and reach new audiences.  There are a ton of fantastic companies, services, and people within the social web community and we've appreciated working with many of them.  Some (but certainly not all) of our favorites include Squarespace, Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, Blip.fm, Blip.tv, Vimeo, and others. 

As ever web developer knows all products and projects are constantly in 'beta, and the ABC News Radio Digital Platform is no exception.  But we've already accomplished many critical components of the above plan.  Development on our web sites began almost six months ago. We've inked a deal with Squarespace to provide critical technologies,  we're all over the social web, and have started laying the backbone of an accessible digital archive.  There's a lot of work yet to be done, but we're confident that you'll be pleased with the results.

Thanks much for swinging by and for helping us create a better product and platform!  If you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us.

- Dan Patterson

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It's official! The ABC News Radio web platform is now officially powered by Squarespace.  After several months of negotiations, last week ABC News Radio and Squarespace inked a deal that will allow us to to officially develop various web properties and push our media through their unique and flexible system.

Squarespace is a New York City-based technology company.  They produce a powerful cloud-based content management system (CMS).

For the past several months we've been unofficially developing two sites using the Squarespace CMS using the domains abcnewsradioonline.com.  This site - our primary public site - and an Affiliate Resource site at http://affiliates.abcnewsradioonline.com are two critical front-end and management tools that allow ABC News Radio to accomplish two core tasks:

1.) Super-serve by providing tools and information to our terresterial radio affiliate stations across the country.

2.) Provide the public with easy access to our news and media content.

Our digital initiatives have many technical components and partners.  We'll document and highlight each step as we move closer to launch.  And while both of these sites are still a few weeks away from launch, the Squarespace deal will allow ABC News Radio to make significant progress towards deploying a robust digital platform.

As always, if you have any questions or comments feel free to contact us.

Thanks for reading.

- Dan Patterson

Digital Audio Manager and web platform developer [more about Dan]

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Richard D'Anjolell, a member of our ABC News Radio Facebook page, shared these great thoughts about the audio: Actually, the audio reinforces the state of the Internet and the importance of Web 2.0 in that there is lots of noise out there and we need filters to help us key in on the messages we really want to hear. Just looking at the positive.

Upon invitation (thanks Kas) from Black Hills State University I spoke to a PR class about the social web and changing nature of media.

Though the Black Hills / Spearfish area is rural and sparely populated, the people are fantastic.  I attended college at BHSU from 1998 - 2002, and 2004 - 2006.  I studied theatre, telecommunication, and political science.  During my time at 'BH' I worked at KBHU, the college radio station. 

At age 19 I started as KBHU's assistant news director and my job was primarily to wake at 5 three days per week and record the news and weather.  I worked my way up to music director, then program director and eventually general manager. 

KBHU was also the birthplace of the Creepy Sleepy Show - the radio programme and podcast I produced for a number of years.  Creepy Sleepy was primairly a music show from 1999 - 2002.  Upon my return to school in 2004 Creepy Sleepy changed quickly and asserted itself as an intense two-hour political talk and music show. 

Creepy Sleepy was spotted by Ellen Ratner and eventually lead to being hired by the Talk Radio News Service to work as a UN and political correspondent. 

Creating web sites and covering the UN for TRNS, in turn, lead to my current work as a digital content manager and sometimes-interviewer for ABC News Radio.

I bring this up antecdotally detail the potential of both tenacity and technology.  I was fortunate to have good mentors, lucky breaks, and several unique opportunities that helped provide experience. 

Technology has been an empowering tool.   But it hasn't been all technology.  I worked hard, too.  I stayed up late, I gave up the bar in lieu of a mixing board and Cool Edit Pro, I worked the phone and responded to every single email.

But these are values I acquired, in part, at BHSU.  I was fortunate to have started my work in a small town in the mountains of South Dakota.

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While this is not official ABC News policy, the below should be considered just good, solid common sense:

I and my colleagues in news journalism - print, broadcast, and web - take sourcing very seriously. Don't allow speculation to override your good judgement. This goes for my/any individual account, ABC, or any other news outlet - good journalists always cite their sources (we try hard for 3), try hard to never disseminate speculation or gossip (we're not perfect and sometimes we get fooled), and would rather be accurate than first.

We've been pushing updates to the ABC News Radio Twitter and Facebook accounts.

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I've known Julien and Chris for years and it was a pleasure to be able to discuss many web-centric topics in a main stream news context.  

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Background:

Problems:

Twitter, and many social web sites, is based on a reward system.  Meaning, users are given small 'rewards' (I have a few theories about this - more in the future) for participating and contributing to the ecosystem.   The SUL, while a nice attempt, is contrary to Twitter's global ambitions and works against user uptick and retention.  Within the fairly narrow confines of the tech world it's fine to be a 'celebrity startup' and 'in the club.'  But in the real world, this amounts to a hill of beans.  Most Twitter users are not 'in the club' and feeling excluded can only lead to resentment.  Far more important is the fact that most normal people don't care about the technorati.  'Importance' to the tech world is 'irrelevant' to the rest of the world.  Go ahead, ask your boss, mom, cab driver, bus driver, or Dude on the Street about TechCrunch or Mashable.  Not that these sites are bad - they're not.  But  many Dudes on the Street collectively create the 'Pulse of the Planet.'  This may change in time, but right now most 'big' tech blogs and personalities are obscure to the mainstream.

Twitter's functionality is also a major problem.  Twitter's front page and initial log in screens are poorly designed, confusing, and lack purpose.  Twitter provides no answer to the question of 'why should I care?' People lack incentive to stick around.  

Competition:

Solutions:

Conclusions:

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This is a Development Site.  We could call it a jargony term like 'super-hyper-beta-alpha-release-candidate-0.81' or something equally silly.  But really what this means is that this site is a work in progress.

You're likely to see a ton of design overhauls, feature and functionality additions and improvements, and maybe a few bugs.  Most bugs are squashed fairly quickly but feel free to ping us if you have suggestions on how to improve things.

The ABC News Radio web platform is more than just a website and will go through several iterations.  We'd like to officially launch the site by the end of 2009.   At launch we should have a few content blogs, great audio podcasts from around the ABC News world, and tons of original video. 

Additionally, over the next year or so we're working to roll out a content-focused API, several data archival tools, and further integration with the social web.  The goal is to a.) provide a sophisticated service to our radio and content affiliates, and b.) provide an equally great service to the public at large.  We want our content to be easily consumed, discussed, and shared both offline and on.

Thanks much for swinging by our home-in-the-making.  We really do appreciate it.  To stay current on site updates you can grab our feed, follow us on Twitter, or add our Facebook page (below). If you have any questions, comments or critiques feel free to drop us a line.

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For the past few weeks we've been playing around with video.  We still haven't settled on a CDN ('Content Delivery Network' for those less jargon-prone) and are still testing a few different options. 

For the time being, we're using the great Blip.tv dashboard to upload videos, track metrics, and redistribute to YouTube, Vimeo, and the Internet Archive.

Over the next few weeks we're going to toy around with video interviews recorded in our studios at ABC News Radio, live from breaking news events, and mobile reporting.

We're pretty proud of our video quality - both in terms of the journalism and interview subjects and technical recording quality.  And of course we want to distribute our videos - both to our affiliates and our listeners - in the most user-friend formats.

Priorities include:

• Getting breaking news and important clips to our affiliates.


• Providing a great podcast experience through RSS, iTunes, Zune, and other sites.


• Creating a great mobile video viewing experience.


• Providing videos in multiple topic-specific channels like news, politics, entertainment, and sports.


• Integrating with the social web on sites like Facebook, Twitter, UStream and more.

As always, your comments and suggestions are encouraged!  We know that you watch a ton of video, so drop us a line with your ideas on how best to implement various types of live, real-time, and podcast video.  Stay current by grabbing the RSS Feed and by following us on Facebook and Twitter (below).

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And, like most people, you have a Facebook account.  Like some people you might also have a Twitter account.

I have a few theories (hint: we're all drug addicts - more on that later) as to why these particular sites have grown in both popularity and influce over the past few years.  Personally, I'm not terribly interested in the gossip and yellow journalism about CEOs, company mergers, startup funding (aside: when did CEO become the new rock star and what happened to real rock stars?).

I am, like you, interested in people, information, and ideas.  And to that end I do believe that some of these sites matter.  Actually, let me clarify: these sites and companies do not matter.  Twitter does not matter, Facebook does not matter, Brand XYZ does not matter.

What does matter is what these particular sites facilitate.  These sites matter for these very simple, very basic reasons:

1.) People are inherently social (we like to connect with other people and we like to share things).

2.) People are inherently curious (like like to search, consume, and click).

3.) People are inherently lazy (we're not schlubs, but we do like the Path of Least Resistance).

Facebook, Twitter, and the like are - right now - the Paths of Least Resistance between people, other people and information.  

For bonus points, these sites also gratify our egos and our own sense of importance.  

This is not a bad thing - we all like the dopamine rush of an @ Reply.  And we are, after all, humans.  We like to feel as though our existence is validated and has meaning.

As time goes on, how we interact with each other and information (and of course, the web) will become more sophisticated and refined.   Jargon, crappy reporting on boring CEOs, and endless speculation about the next Apple gadget can be endlessly irritating and superfluous.  And it is.

But if we ignore the noise look at human use of sites like Facebook and Twitter as the most efficient means to an end (you determine what that End is), we will produce a media much more interesting than a few simple websites.

Facebook, Twitter, et al are tools - it's up to us to use them correctly.

Thoughts?

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- DHP

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Hi there!  It's been a while since we've checked in.  This is not to imply that nothing has been popping at ABC News Radio.  The opposite, in fact!  We've been pretty busy here at ABC News Radio.

I'll post a list of our current projects a bit later this week, but right now I'm stoked to have implemented Google Friend Connect (Wikipedia link) on our sites. See that little 'Sign In' button in the right side bar?  Click it and you can securely log in with your Google credentials.  

What does this mean for you?  A few things:  First, it means that you can easily interact with this site.  It also gives you a bit more security as Google handles the authentication process, not us - Google acts as a thrid-party buffer between websites and end-users.

Much like the Disqus/Facebook/OAuth/OpenID implimentation of a few weeks ago, Google Friend Connect allows you to log in to our and follow our site and content in Google.  This will allow you to use your Gmail credentials to log in, follow us in your Google Reader, and share our content with your Google Contacts.

More site updates coming soon.

As always, the RSS feed for this blog is here, you can follow us @ABCNewsRadio on Twitter, and catch our and status updates on Facebook.

If you have any questions, comments or critiques, please visit our Contact Page.

Thanks!

- Dan Patterson

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The format for Ignite is pretty great:

• Speakers must prepare a deck (slide presentation).
• Speakers are limited to 5 total minutes.
• Slides auto-advance every 15 seconds.

So, the format is tight and the standards are high (Ignite's YouTube channel has a ton of great presentations). 

Obviously a subject like as "How to Save Journalism (In Five Minutes or Less!) is presumptious as hell and can't possibly be summized in a five minute presentation

But, I do my best to deconstruct the idea in to managable segments.  Some ideas are complicated and complex.  Some ideas require considerable time and energy to articulate.  However, I'm excited about the challenge and hopefully this speech will serve as kindling for further discussion on the topic.

The deck is augmented with a speech (I'll post the video when after the event), and slides alone don't do the thesis justice, I've shared the presentation below. 

I'd love your feedback and ideas.

Thanks.

- DHP

Today is the official launch 'Candor,' the debut novel from author Pam Bachorz.  Candor is a creepy, dystopian, young adult novel.   Candor is a great, quick, weekend read but is far from fluffy.  The story revolves around the lives of brainwashed residents of a fictional Florida town, and serves as a great metaphor for our contemporary analogue/digital culture. While it's not strictly a techie/geek book, Candor is perfect for the Cory Doctorow meta-culture crowd. 

From Amazon:

In the model community of Candor, Florida, every teen wants to be like Oscar Banks. The son of the town’s founder, Oscar earns straight As, is student-body president, and is in demand for every club and cause. But Oscar has a secret. He knows that parents bring their teens to Candor to make them respectful, compliant–perfect–through subliminal Messages that carefully correct and control their behavior. And Oscar’s built a business sabotaging his father’s scheme with Messages of his own, getting his clients out before they’re turned. After all, who would ever suspect the perfect Oscar Banks?  Then he meets Nia, the girl he can’t stand to see changed. Saving Nia means losing her forever. Keeping her in Candor, Oscar risks exposure . . . and more. 

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Over the last few months I've lent Pam, her publisher Egmont, and her agent Elana Roth a few web Best Practice tips and tricks.  I've also helped their team organize a podcast of original Candor-inspired webisodes.  Details TK on these podcasts, but I've read the scripts and am pretty excited.

Pam is pretty geeky herself.  She has created some pretty deck videos and a website around the fictional town of Candor, Florida.

I'm excited for the team and wish them the best of luck with their analogue/digital experiments.

- DHP

The Protopodcast meme is spreading: My old friend Quentin Lewis has started a podcast called When Elvis Died.

You should listen and subscribe to the When Elvis Died protopodcast:

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More things you should do:

• Start your own protopodcast.
• Check out other protopodcasts.
• Send in music playlist suggestions for my protopocast.
• Subscribe to the Protopodcast : Music RSS feed.

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- Dan

I firmly believe the 'short URL' (popularized by TinyURL and Bit.ly for use on Twitter) to be a bridge technology that facilitates some convenience and data-mining between iterations of user behavior standards and URL sharing protocols.  However, I do like this convenience and data aggregation.

I'm hosting my shortlinks / short URLs on the dhp.me domain.  You probably arrive at this post via a dynamically generated short URL.  Below are a few static URLs:  

http://dhp.me/bio

http://dhp.me/blog

http://dhp.me/links

http://dhp.me/abc

http://dhp.me/podcast

http://dhp.me/media

http://dhp.me/contact

http://dhp.me/twitter

http://dhp.me/facebook

If you have any questions or comments you can, of course, use the http://dhp.me/contact URL to send an email.  

Thanks.

- Dan

4 June 2009 – More than one dozen United States talk radio hosts from across the political spectrum converged on the United Nations today to give their listeners an insight into the inner workings of the world body.

Interviews are also available individually on the podcast page.

Matthew Lee; UN Correspondent and Blogger
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Anita Sharma; North American Coordinator for the UN Millennium Campaign
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Jessica Jiji; UN SG Office Speech Writer
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Nicholas Reader; Deputy Spokesperson UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Andrew Hudson; Head of Water Governance Program of UN Development Program
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Jared Kotler; Spokesperson for UN Department of Political Affairs
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Jane Stewart; International Labor Organization Special Representative to the United Nations
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Carsten Staur; Ambassador of Denmark to the United Nations
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Nick Birnback; Chief of the Peacekeeping Public Affairs Section of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations
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Joanne Sandler; Deputy Executive Director for Programs for UNIFEM
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John McNee; Permanent representative of Canada to the United Nations
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The United Nations is a massive and complicated organization.  In previous years I have helped Talk Radio News run and administrate Talk Radio Day.  This year I was on the other side of the microphone.  I thank my guests for helping to interperate the UN.  Interview Podcast... ->>

These interviews were originally available on ABC News Radio.

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