Category Archives: Audio
Background Briefing: The mobile payments push
[ABC Radio National] Get ready for the next big app attack, urging you to chop up your credit cards and use your mobile phone. You won´t have to go to a shop, just point the phone at a handily-placed barcode, and you’ve paid! It´s not a phone, it´s a `smart wallet´, and your mobile banker […]
Background Briefing: Don’t trust the web
[ABC Radio National) The internet is awash with misinformation, manipulated identities, fake reviews, and dishonest comments. Politicians use “astroturfing”. So do businesses and marketing firms. Beware—it’s infecting everyone. Reporter Hagar Cohen … play mp3. Astroturfing of Mumbrella by paper company Solaris during its fight with Greenpeace. (Mumbrella)
A Folk Song A Day
[via] AFSAD: On June 24, 2010 – Midsummer’s Day – the acclaimed British singer Jon Boden launched an ambitious new project – A Folk Song A Day. Every day for (nearly) a year now he’s been posting his performance of a traditional song free online or as an audio podcast. He’s close to reaching a total of […]
Cigar box guitar tribute to Blind Willie Johnson
BB‘s Mark Frauenfelder points to a gift from his friends at Cigar Box Nation: a cigar box guitar tribute to Blind Willie Johnson. If I Had My Way
You can take that to the Banksy
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TWiT 274: I’ll Take The Frisking
[TWiT.tv by leo laporte] Facebook mail, privacy while living in public, Android tablets, person of the year nominees, zoning out on Tetras, IAmTwittercus, and more. Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Brian Brushwood, Owen JJ Stone and Xeni Jardin play mp3
No Agenda: #251 – Banned by NASA
No Agenda: #251 – Banned by NASA [No Agenda Show by Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak] play mp3 | shownotes – HTML |
This Week In Google 68: It’s In My Breast Pocket
[TWiT.tv by leo laporte] Google’s grand incentive, Galaxy Tab day, the matter of size, one spec vs. any spec, smartphone sales, low profit business, changing cost of content, contacts trap, and more. Guest: Joel Johnson, editor-at-large for gizmodo.com Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Gina Trapani. play mp3
The Pipeline #30 | 5by5.tv
The Pipeline #30: Markus “Notch” Persson [5by5.tv by Dan Benjamin] Markus “Notch” Persson, creator of the indie game Minecraft, talks with Dan Benjamin about inspiration, creativity, and the future of gaming. Links for this episode: Hiding From Zombies in a Sandcastle in Minecraft | GameLife | Wired.com Making Minecraft: Building a Hit, One Block at […]
TWiT 273: The Sweet Spot Of Suck
[TWiT.tv by leo laporte] Kinect adventures, consoles vs. PCs, cost of Apple’s secrecy, future of mobile gaming, Android turns 3, Google blocks Facebook, National Unfriend Day, and more. Hosts: Leo Laporte, Mark Milian, Ryan Block and Lance Ulanoff. play mp3
net@night 175: USB Dead Drop
[TWiT.tv by leo laporte] Friendship pages, random maps, sharing quotes, Social Printshop, USB storage in the wild, and more. Guests: Aram Bartholl Hosts: Amber MacArthur and Leo Laporte play mp3
TWiT 272: Spill The Wine
[TWiT.tv by leo laporte] Facebook acquires, kills drop.io, what is in a name, entrepreneur heroes, Netflix in Canada, Firesheep, white iPhone wisdom, and more. Hosts: Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Lisa Bettany and Loic Le Meur play mp3
No Agenda: #248 – Stop Albedo Now!
No Agenda #248: Stop Albedo Now! [No Agenda Show by Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak] play mp3
Background Briefing: Why is James Murdoch so Angry?
BB 2010-10-31: Why is James Murdoch so angry? [ABC Radio National] “ The stars have not been in alignment for the Murdoch empire: a phone hacking scandal threatens its influence in British politics, people won’t pay for online content, the pirates have the best digital maps, and the British Library wants to give information away […]
This Week In Google 66: Schmidt Storm
[TWiT.tv by leo laporte] Google TV’s complexity, end of blockbusters, the right to pixelate, giant Gingerbread man, and more. Guest: Mitch Wagner Hosts: Leo Laporte, Jeff Jarvis, and Gina Trapani. play mp3
