Noteworthy:
- The Big 3 are nowhere to be found
- Almost half of the companies are tech oriented
- #1 (Google) is only 10 years old
I’m a big fan of NPR and I’ve always enjoyed the fact that they allow me to access their content however I want. Recently I created a personal NPR station (pictured above) of sorts in google reader. I cherry-picked the programs I care about and added them as RSS feeds, which allows me to listen to them right from google reader. Pure convenience.
Related, Fast Company has an in-depth article about NPR that’s worth a read. Here are a few interesting tidbits from the article:
- NPR’s median radio listener is 49; its median podcast listener is 33.
- Forty-three percent of NPR’s budget comes from the dues and fees member stations send in
- NPR’s audience may be surprisingly balanced among liberals, conservatives, and moderates, but it’s overwhelmingly college-educated and affluent.
- In one of the great under-told media success stories of the past decade, NPR has emerged not as the bespectacled schoolmarm of our imagination but as a massive news machine poised for what Dick Meyer, editorial director for digital media, half-jokingly calls “world domination.” NPR’s listenership has nearly doubled since 1999, even as newspaper circulation dropped off a cliff
Firefox Extension: Identify →
Via the website:
Identify is a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual. Simply navigate to the profile page or a blog of an individual you are interested in and on Windows press Alt i or on the Mac press Ctrl i.
sending nude or seminude pictures, a phenomenon known as sexting, is a fast-growing trend among teens.
— cnn.com
I had to give up something and that, for me, was voice mail,” he said. “It’s cutting out some forms of communication to make room for the others.
— quote via NYT.com
This was apparently directed by the Coen brothers and is an ad for this website.
I found this to be a very creative way of explaining the credit crisis - and I learned a bit.
