Robert Wagner

Redoing Media – Episode 31: iTunes & Podcasting – 2 Great Tastes That Go Great Together?

December 26, 2010

Robert Wagner explains why the Wikileaks app was rejected by the iTunes store, how Apple helps (and hurts) podcasters, and how to grow your audience.

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12/23 show preview: iTunes as media gatekeeper?

December 22, 2010

Listener Jeff sent me this email on 12/16 (do note the date – pre-Wikileaks app rejection. Jeff, are you psychic?) Some questions I was pondering… Since most people use iTunes to download and find podcast content, doesn’t that give Apple a lot of power in the “new” media of internet radio? What’s the risk that [...]

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Who deserves the ‘WTF??’ award?

October 22, 2010

You know what I’m talking about here…right? That site that makes you log in with a unique login or download their custom proprietary app — before you can even see why you’d want to care about what they’re doing/offering. (Even worse: they want you to buy it…) Media outlets touting their social media creds while [...]

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Redoing Media – Episode 23 w/Paul Gerald about future of book publishing

October 21, 2010

In this week’s Redoing Media: Betsy is still old, Robert doesn’t want anyone touching his stuff, the Kindle is meh, physical books are dead, and Paul Gerald is an example of the bookseller of the future.

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“Paperback Writer” now ancient concept?

October 20, 2010

Yes, I still read books. Real books. On paper. (One more reason for my kids to label me old and decrepit…) But I’m also reading books on my iPhone. Consuming books in PDF form on my laptop. (Tried flirting with a Sony Reader back in the day – no go, for a variety of reasons.) [...]

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Redoing Media – Episode 22: Where Betsy gets a new job!

October 14, 2010

In this episode, Betsy applies (and gets…maybe) the job of Chief Listening Officer at cascadia.fm, while Robert questions her qualifications. Along the way, examples of community management done right (KGW, with Steph Stricklen & Aaron Weiss, for example) & wrong (oh, Vaseline – really?)

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Community Managers in Journalism: WTF or “more, please?”

October 13, 2010

Tomorrow’s Redoing Media show, ripped directly from a Twitter conversation yesterday. Or was it….?? See, I’d already planned to talk tomorrow about why traditional media outlets need more community management after reading this article: The Future of Social Media in Journalism (I’d wanted to last week, but we ran out of time…) In particular, I [...]

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Redoing Media – Episode 20: Skepticism about bloggers, Facebook and/or OPB? Really?

September 30, 2010

Betsy Richter & Robert Wagner talk on Redoing Media this week about blog hatred & Facebook disdain & express a joint “huh-wha?” about OPB’s PubCamp.

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Redoing Media – Episode 12 with Robert Wagner

May 20, 2010

OurPDX’s new editor Robert Wagner joins Betsy to talk about his vision for the community-authored site.

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Today on Redoing Media: Robert Wagner from OurPDX?

May 20, 2010

Yes, Robert joins me for a second appearance on the Redoing Media show today at 1 pm. Yes, Robert is now the new editor of OurPDX. Which would make me the ex-editor, I suppose. But it wasn’t a hostile takeover, fiendish corporate power struggle, or a pissy ‘don’t let the door hit you on the [...]

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