What will public radio and TV look like in 10 years? We cannot know now because the future is not like the present. It is a huge unknown. But maybe we can use the process of how another unknown was explored to help us find our way?
What had Jefferson really bought by the Louisiana Purchase? What was this vast landscape all about? What were the people like? What was its potential?
So what then is the social web really like? What is this new country with its unknown landscape, peoples, customs, dangers and opportunities all about?
No one in public radio or TV can know. But a group of pioneers are out there, beyond “St Louis” and the known, exploring. This blog is their story. My hope is that with enough stories, we too will gain enough confidence to follow them into the frontier of the new America.
I call these pioneers, after their ancestors, The Corps of Discovery. This site is roughly organized as follows:
- Stations and People – Perspectives of individual stations and their leaders
- Culture - Why it is how we see the world that will be the decisive barrier or opportunity
- Technology - What is proving to work well – how is technology affecting the economics – what is now clear about technology?
- Papers – Mini Books that include many of these parts in pdf form that you can download and then read on the plane, in the bath or on the beach
All of these posts were posted originally on my main blog or on Fast Forward. My purpose here to aggregate all of these stories into one place so that they might be more easily found.
Please weigh in yourself. I am hoping that your comments will add to what we can know and understand.
I hope that this site may be a new kind of book – static in structure – but hyperlinked and never really finished
Rob… thank you! As our station sets out to discover the territory ahead of us, this pathfinding will be valuable indeed. This web resource is timely and necessary; I’m overjoyed to see it!