Robert Feder, media blogger on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo.org, writes that its blogs are taking “a short break” and will return in a week or two on the redesigned website of WBEZ.org.
Vocalo, which kicked off as a multimedia public-square discussion space in 2007, is having a rough go of it. A strategic plan (PDF) presented to Chicago Public Radio’s board last October said, “As a website Vocalo must be seen as unsuccessful so far” (Current, Jan. 11, 2010).