News cheese
Eddie Mair's PM blog has been launched with great fanfare. Well OK Eddie was testing the software and managed to post a test message so we've decided just to keep going.
We invited listeners to the PM Newsletter to come up with a phrase that encapsulates PM that could act as a strapline for the blog. We will put up a different one each day. I hope you enjoy them. Among my favourites are:
From Sammy Loutro PM: "The creamiest gobbets scooped straight from the middle of the News Cheese"
From Wolf Marloh PM: "The Today programme for Australians"
From Mohawk Dave PM: It's better than daytime telly"
We've decided to do a blog because I strongly believe the intimate relationship PM listeners have with the programme is similar to the sense of belonging successful online communities have. The massive take up of the PM Newsletter has reinforced that view for me. The newsletter will continue, for now, but the blog allows listeners to talk to each other without us getting in the way and not just when we are on air.
What can you expect from the blog and how will it evolve? It could be the vanguard in showing what radio can offer in the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s Creative Future, or it could be a dump for endless inane, barely literate, drivel. Your guess is as good as mine.
Comments
Just an idea, but why not publish the newsletter content on the PM blog and use tags/keywords/catagories to stamp the posts so that if the reader just wants to see Eddie's writing or material from the newsletter that option's available?
Who, or what authorized that group of astronomers to decide on whether or not Pluto is really a planet? Even more to the point, who cares?
Perhaps they could engage in something really useful, like how many angels actually dance on the head of a pin? The answer to that question would be much more interesting.
Jake Kuiken
Calgary, Canada
Are you sure Sammy Loutro isn't just Chris Morris in disguise?
PM: Left-wing propaganda we're forced to pay for under threat of prison.