WBUR's Project CITRUS

Exploring the future of on-demand audio and emerging platforms at @WBUR. Tweets by the CITRUS team: @CrookedNumber, @jxnmitchell and @FrannieMonahan.

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https://t.co/zfVCxKVS8j

[Nick Quah @nwquah]

my substack/newslettter take for today is that if i had an editor for HP, the number of em-dashes in my copy would be dramatically reduced, which would be the start of a blood feud

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Anyway, please enjoy our final, fun-as-hell experiment. As usual, there is a sample repo if you'd like to try it out yourself:
https://t.co/UDOoUwTilS

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When Crisis Strikes, The Simplest Technology Can Be The Best
https://t.co/QENHpJneca

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A mantra/simplification of @wburcitrus was: "We want WBUR content on anything with a screen or speaker!" But I don't think any of us imagined that would mean: "your phone app"

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One last experiment from us. Dial a phone number, get the latest newscast from WBUR (volume up!!)

[MakerThrive @MakerThrive]

Today I am going to build a micro-SaaS from scratch 🤑

A Fully Automated Podcast Clip Studio 🎙️

We will turn short audio clips into animated, captioned videos ready for sharing on social media 📹

⚒️Tools: @webflow + @zapier + @airtable + @bannerbearHQ + @JotForm

[nick andersen @nicktheandersen]

shout it from the back

[Tamar Charney @TamarCharney]

Great advice from @wburcitrus

[nick andersen @nicktheandersen]

this excellent @wburcitrus report on how to make audio segments more evergreen is worth the time https://t.co/uXsMS1bi3E

[Frannie Monahan @FrannieMonahan]

My final contribution to @wburcitrus! Over the last year I spent a lot of time researching how broadcast audio can be produced strategically to sound its best across all kinds of listening platforms. Here are a few of my biggest takeaways:

[Dave Epstein @growingwisdom]

April has arrived. I'm exploring ways to keep doing the audio forecast. Let's see how this works. #weatherwisdom https://t.co/bUPb3jJWbM

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Of course, the biggest thank you goes to the great (and obviously very wise 😉) people at @GoogleNewsInit Without their generous grant, @wburcitrus would have never gotten off the ground.

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A while back we built an Alexa skill to accompany a radio series. We didn't realize it at the time, but we also built "a finger pointing to a blueprint of some form of interactive radio"
https://t.co/ivNp31tbJD

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Broadcast programming will have to evolve in order to keep finding its way into people's ears wherever they choose to listen. Are your segments up to snuff?
https://t.co/knNOGnfdmW

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We'd also like to thank the em dash. Without it, so many of our articles would not have had the same rhetorical punch.

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If you want to see how the sausage is made: https://t.co/2u2nwcFXfM

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We also produced Coronavirus, Briefly every night, for the past year. https://t.co/o9PsOH9TWw

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And huge heartfelt thanks to all the wonderful, amazing newsroom and newscast staff who produced countless hours of tape this past year. Without them, there would be no Coronavirus, Briefly.