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January 26, 2007
Name That NPR Show!
As some of you may know, I've been working on a project at NPR called Rough Cuts, in which we're using a blog and podcast to invite the public to preview a new radio show that we're designing and help us develop it. So far the feedback has been tremendous, with over 400 comments posted to the site this month. Now we're asking for your help on a related matter: we need a name for this new show.
Michel Martin, the host of the unnamed show, describes it like this:
We don't have a name yet. We really want one. Just a little name. A name all our own. Is that too much to ask?It's not like we haven't been trying. We have. But we haven't been able to come up with one that satisfies us, and perhaps more important, our legal department (it can't already belong to another radio show, for example). A group of us is having a meeting on Monday, when Marie and I return from Los Angeles, to brainstorm some more.
But then the obvious thought occurred. Why not ask you?
This is not really a contest because there is no prize -- but you can best believe that if we pick your name I will take you out to dinner if you get yourself to Washington. And we'll put your picture on the Web site. Fair enough?
Sounds like a pretty cool offer to me. But time is ticking away - we're having that naming meeting on Monday, so you have between now and then to suggest a name. One suggestion: be sure to listen to some of the podcasts first so you can get the gist of what we're doing, then maybe the name will write itself. We can only hope. -andy
Posted by acarvin at January 26, 2007 12:28 PM
Listen to a computer-generated podcast of this article
