Sitting next to Doc at the Public Media conference, just listened to a keynote, lots of doom and gloom, but we agree it's not that dire. NPR just has to embrace the new media. NPR.org isn't that important. Upload segments of each show to YouTube. Give advance copies of big shows like Frontline to the bloggers that review the shows.
And Doc had the best idea of all, provide the "Alpha Torrent Seed" for all PBS shows. It should always be possible to download their shows immediately. Why not, they're non-commercial. Brilliant.
The secret isn't that hard to figure out, they did it with podcasting, just apply the same formula.
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Dave Winer, 55, is a visiting scholar at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in New York City.
"RSS was born in 1997 out of the confluence of Dave Winer's 'Really Simple Syndication' technology, used to push out blog updates, and Netscape's 'Rich Site Summary', which allowed users to create custom Netscape home pages with regularly updated data flows." - Tim O'Reilly.
Sitting next to Doc at the Public Media conference, just listened to a keynote, lots of doom and gloom, but we agree it's not that dire. NPR just has to embrace the new media. NPR.org isn't that important. Upload segments of each show to YouTube. Give advance copies of big shows like Frontline to the bloggers that review the shows. 
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