Comments on: Audio of the “Hacking the Mothercorp” session

By: Phil

Phil — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:16:52 +0000

I just wanted to thank everyone at Northern Voice who participated, because I just listened to the audio and truly enjoyed it.

The comments reminded me of a CBC Vancouver produced project that I really enjoyed before the trial phase was up, CBC Home Delivery. At the time, I was living in NYC and I was really missing all of the CBC content. The concept was simple; you subscribed and loaded a basic aggregator on your computer (sounds like RSS before Adam CUrry and others invented it) and once a week you got a media-rich (video, audio, and text) themeatic overview of 5-7 key canadian and international stories of the week. The real strength of this service was that they compiled content from multiple forms of content into a read-able and sexy digest for people like me in NYC who counldn’t get all the CBC content of the airwaves.

Well, when it was up, I wrote producers at CBC Vancouver 3 or 4 letters of support literally begging them to bring it back — anyways, it was a great concept in 2003 and would be a great idea for Web 2.0 rich 2007.

By: the hour's web monkey

the hour's web monkey — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:57:23 +0000

thanks for the transcription. couple comments from the transcript.

i wanted to point out that the hour’s site allows diggs. in fact i just finished building the code and button today. if you go to a video page, say this story we did on maid cafes – http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/video.php?id=1305, you’ll see a few tools below the story description one of them is a digg button.

also someone brought up archives, there’s a couple ways to browse The Hour’s archives, one is to browse by category, like say Canadian news – http://www.cbc.ca/thehour/canada.php, that’ll bring up a bunch of Canadian stories. the other is do search it in the search bar below the menu.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:02:06 +0000

Oops. I meant Christopher. Butterfingers.

By: Chrisyopher

Chrisyopher — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:00:42 +0000

Hey there.
Stumbled on your site today, and really enjoyed the town-hall style chat. Most of my impressions of it are posted to my blog, but in short, it was really encouraging to hear people sharing some of the same concerns about the Corp getting up to date with the web 2.0 media environment, and hopefully trying to find ways to do it without it turning into a forum for flame wars and other things that won’t make Peter Gzowski spin in his grave . I’m curious to see what will happen.
And I completely agree with Mr. Drucker about the West Coast stream for Radio Two!
Anyways. Linking you on my blog. Keep up the good work.

By: kempton

kempton — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:16:43 +0000

Tod, Thanks for putting the audio session in words for ease of reference.

Alan, Thanks for the link to Tony Burman. I’ve started reading him now. Plus I can and will stop saying there is no blogging by CBC exec. Of course, it will be nice if Tony can blog more. I personally like the blog by Richard Sambrook, Director of BBC Global News. http://sambrook.typepad.com/sacredfacts/
I think Richard is quite insightful and worth reading.

Cheers,
Kempton

By: Alan

Alan — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 03:05:39 +0000

For those of you looking for a blog by one of the CBC execs, you may want to check out Letters from the Editor in Chief.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/about/burman/letters/

–Alan

By: Ted

Ted — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:38:35 +0000

I’d like to see an expanded podcast/vodcast roster, even if it requires a small monthly subscription fee. Like Luke (above), I’d enjoy an interactive blog with one or more CBC executives with whom we could share insights, comments, etc.

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 22:50:52 +0000

I look to cbc.ca for canadian news and its original programming. (AND THIS BLOG. LOVE THIS BLOG!)

The information can be both pushed or pulled to me but should be available in an archives as well. CBC is already doing this quite well.

What I need is access to more original programing online. For a fee? Sure. I would pay for it.

I don’t have a tv these days (my decision re: cable crap) so I’m limited to the news clips or Rick Mercer’s clips available online. There have been some interesting documentaries that I’ve missed on Newsworld!!

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:45:51 +0000

Tod – thanks for putting this discussion online. Just wanted to respond to two points (as someone on the “inside”, but obviously not speaking for the Corp.):

* One of the major reasons the Ogg Vorbis streaming hasn’t been expanded is due to the bandwidth issues it would introduce. We use the Akamai content delivery network for offloading most of the bandwidth burden of Windows Media and RealAudio streaming, but Akamai does not support Ogg. We’d have to bear that bandwidth burden ourselves and so far we’ve determined the costs would be prohibitive.
* In the near future, we will be expanding streaming of Radio Two to cover the west coast as well.

I also wanted to say that I really appreciated listening to all the comments from bloggers who are truly enthusiastic about the CBC!

By: Luke Closs

Luke Closs — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:16:28 +0000

Feedback feedback

Tod, is there any way to have “the executives” give their thoughts on our session? Perhaps you could relay their messages to us, or *gasp*, have them blog their thoughts back at the community.

Cheers,
Luke

By: kempton

kempton — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:30:13 +0000

Tod, thanks for sharing the recording with us. The session is mostly insightful and I will take the good together with the bad (and annoying) bits. (smile) Here are my 2 cents.

* I don’t mind seeing PBS-like sponsorship ad around internet content (if CBC needs to find money for them).
* With the internet, I would love to see (probably, again, sponsorship supported) the full-length interview of people when the news or TV-shows can only broadcast small portions of the interviews because of TV time limit.