This long feature examines NPR's struggle to maintain a balance between its historical identity and its efforts to find new audiences. Once the organization began programming like a commercial media group, it alienated longtime listeners.

“It kind of freaks me out. I get a lot of the negative aspects of celebrity, but not much of the positive,” said Mr. Frank—the positive being, among other things, the “cash.” Ze Frank is ending his vlog this spring to pursue opportunities in the

Blog Barbie doll Amanda Congdon has parlayed her Rocketboom fame into a gig "at one of the three major television networks."

A Forrester research report says only a slim percentage of Internet users listen to podcasts. This doesn't surprise me in the least. I'm certainly an Internet power user, and I've never listened to one. Maybe if I had an iPod, I would.