The Digital Divide
How do the latest technologies affect our communities? How can we use science to benefit society and how do we keep it from harming us?
KBOO's The Digital Divide attempts to answer these questions and ask a few of our own through interviews, recordings, and commentary. The show touches upon such issues as open source, privacy, transparency, intellectual property, free speech, accessibility, hacking, net neutrality, file sharing, piracy, social networking, pollution, bioethics and more.
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Cory Doctorow on The Digital Divide with Rabia Yeaman
Listen in to this great interview with Cory Doctorow and Rabia Yeaman. Cory's newest book Homeland, a sequel to a previous sci-fi best seller, Little Brother is already generating a lot of buzz. Listen in.
- Length: 62:10 minutes (56.92 MB)
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Michelle Rowley talks about Code Scouts her not-for-profit to bring women into programming.
KBOO's Joe Meyer speaks with Michelle Rowley about Code Scouts, a not-for-profit she put together at the Portland Incubator Experiment. Code Scouts creates environments that empower women to become computer programmers and uses badges to layout what you don't know how to ask. Michelle shares some biographical information and her plans to help more women succeed in the tech world.
- Length: 35:12 minutes (32.22 MB)
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Tiny House Ontario on the August 2012 Digital Divide
Technology writer Rabia Yeaman interviews blogger Laura Moreland who writes about her experience building and living in a 108 sq. foot home without running water or electricity. Her blog Tiny House Ontario describes her daily life living in a very small space with little amenities.
- Length: 47:08 minutes (32.37 MB)
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George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe.
Interview with Host Rabia Yeaman and digital historian George Dyson, author of Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. Dyson’s account, sheds important new light on how the digital universe exploded in the aftermath of World War II.
- Length: 42:48 minutes (39.19 MB)
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The Digital Divide: Matthew Stadler
Suzanne LaGrande talks to writer, editor and co-founder of The Publication Studio, Matthew Stadler. Among other things they discuss is the Publication Studio's DIY publishing strategies, the social life of the book, and the importance of creating public conversations.
For more about Matthew Stadler's work and that of the Publication Studio go to: http://
- Artist: Suzanne LaGrande
- Title: The Digital Divide: Matthew Stadler
- Album: Writers on Craft
- Date: 2011-12-18
- Genre: Podcast
- Year: 2011
- Producer: Suzanne LaGrande
- Length: 22:44 minutes (20.82 MB)
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Michelle Rae Anderson on The Digital Divide
Suzanne LaGrande interviews Michelle Rae Anderson. (aka @mediaChick on social websites) Michelle is a writer, digital strategist and community builder with 20 years of media development experience. As a media ecologist, she's fascinated with the way people and technologies interact in business and in pleasure. Recently, she completed an ambitious genre-bending storytelling experiment The Miracle in July, (http://themiracleinjuly.com/)
She also is founder of the guerrilla publishing agency I Heart Media. (http://iheartmedia.com/)
- Date: 2011-11-02
- Length: 17:30 minutes (16.02 MB)
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Science historian Naomi Oreskes on "The Merchants of Doubt"
Dave DeAngelis speaks with scientist and historian Naomi Oreskes about her new book "The Merchants of Doubt,"which describes how organized campaigns undermine the scientific evidence related to important environmental and health issues such as second-hand smoke, acid rain, the ozone hole, and global warming.
- Title: Science historian Naomi Oreskes on "The Merchants of Doubt"
- Length: 26:48 minutes (24.54 MB)
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Are We Alone in the Universe?
Are we alone in the universe? So far, definitive proof has eluded us. However, in recent years scientists have been engaged in a widespread search for extraterrestrial life, which has produced encouraging results.
To learn the latest about the quest for life beyond Earth, Dave DeAngelis interviews Washington Post science writer Marc Kaufman. Marc is the author of First Contact,” where he describes compelling new evidence that suggests life beyond Earth is not only possible, but highly probable.
- Title: Are We Alone in the Universe?
- Length: 26:00 minutes (23.8 MB)
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Exploring The Best of the Left Podcast
KBOO Digital Divide: Interview with Jay Tomlinson, creator of Best of the Left Podcast | by Ross Freeman Levin
reporter Ross Freeman Levin thinks he spends too much time trolling podcasts for interesting audio content. But that seemingly-wasted time may be paying off: he's found creative inspiration in one show, The Best of the Left Podcast. Ross interviewed Jay Tomlinson, the show's producer, and picked his brain for tasty tidbits about making a living as a progressive podcaster.
Best of the Left Script for Digital Divide:
find links for content in this segment following this script
(audio from bestoftheleft.com intro)
That’s the voice of Jay Tomlinson, producer of The Best of the Left Podcast.
He works from his home in Chicago or on the road, distributing his show through the internet to listeners around the world.
Jay takes a broad spectrum of progressive media and paints ideas as soundscapes through the voices of others.
He is a story teller, media aggregator and curator of ideas.
If you listen to his show you’ll hear commentary, debate, comedy, thought pieces, and music related to the show’s topic.
Jay posts a new program every three days on a different topic ranging from labor rights to marriage equality and everything in-between.
I use an application on my mobile phone to download The Best of the Left automatically whenever there’s a new episode.
And I listen to the show whenever I have time to wrap my mind around big ideas.
Although he doesn’t typically editorialize, Jay asks the listener to actively engage his audio collage.
Listeners give their feedback on his show through various social media channels or by leaving voice mail to be played on the show.
Here are a few clips from the most recent The Best of the Left podcast entitled ‘Dumb as the Fossils we Burn’:
(audio clips from podcast)
Jay has found a niche where his listeners support him not only with comments and suggestions but also with their dollars.
I wanted to know more about Jay’s creative process and what it takes to produce a successful multimedia podcast.
So I interviewed Jay Tomlinson to give you a glimpse of what it can be like to work as a curator of ideas online and make a living doing it.
(interview audio)
Today’s digital media has expanded our sphere of knowledge and transformed our story telling.
Our relationships to each other and our society have evolved simultaneously with our communication technology.
A confluence of curious people, mobile media devices and the world wide web has shattered many boundaries between distant individuals and the stories of their lives.
It’s exciting for me to engage listeners in this new media frontier and share some of my story with you through this show.
So there you have it, a heavily distilled, shaken but not stirred, lightly vaporized version of my interview with Jay Tomlinson, creator of the Best of the Left Podcast.
Go to Jay’s website at Best of the Left dot com to learn more about what he’s doing lately.
Or visit KBOO.fm slash Digital Divide to see links for the topics discussed in this segment.
We all have a story to tell. With a little creativity, experimentation and some concerted effort any one out there can join in the fun.
A good way to start is by volunteering at KBOO.
It’s your listener powered radio station, where you too can learn to produce the stories you want to tell and get them out into the mediasphere.
I’m Ross Freeman Levin for the Digital Divide.
Let’s keep our airwaves radical!
Links for the show segment:
www.bestoftheleftpodcast.com | Best of the Left website
https://www.facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft | Jay’s Facebook page
http://twitter.com/#!/BestOfTheLeft | Best of the Left on Twitter social networking site
http://donateyouraccount.com/ | donate your Twitter account to a campaign you support
audacity | free, open source tool for editing audio
garage band | audio editor for Mac OS
wordpress | one of the many resources for publishing your work or blog on the web
getglue | personalized pop culture media tracker
http://www.stitcher.com/home.php | your source for portable and personalized news and talk internet radio
http://bre.ad/ | the best way to share your idea
Best of the Left Description (from https://www.facebook.com/BestOfTheLeft)
Aggregating and amplifying the absolute best of the truly liberal media
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Act 1: Rocks – Mark Fiore
Song 1: Welcome Home (Sanitarium) [Instrumental Version] – Plays Metallica By Four Cellos
Act 2: Fracking linked to well contamination – Green News Report
Act 3: Watch It, Gas Hole – Thom Hartmann
Song 3: Home – Up From Below (Deluxe Edition)
Act 4: Nuclear and the climate – Le Show
Song 4: As Long As the Grass Grows – Round Dance the Night Away
Act 5: Island’s Recovery May Set Example For Gulf Residents – NPR
Song 5: Dudeman – Viktor Krauss II
Act 6: Exxon Paleontologists Call For Increased U.S. Fossil Production – The Onion
Song 6: La Paix – Dimanche a Bamako
Act 7: 2011 sets weird weather record – Green News Report
Song 7: Knock Yourself Out – I Heart Huckabees (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Act 8: Mark Moffett – Colbert Report
Song 8: Mexico – James Taylor: Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
Act 9: Safe, clean, too cheap to meter – Le Show
Song 9: Go Sadness – Howl Howl Gaff Gaff
Act 10: More weird weather, new records set – Green News Report
Voicemails:
Thoughts on the future of climate change – Dominic from Castle Rock, Colorado
Responding on federal funding of Planned Parenthood – Patrick from Dallas
Details on government reimbursments for non-profits – Shane from Cleveland, OH
Voicemail Music:
Turtle (Bonobo Mix) – One Offs… Remixes & B Sides
Ghostwriter – Deadringer
Final comments on Stitcher.com and DonateYourAccount.com
Bonus Voicemail:
Deeper understanding reaction to Bin Laden – Andrew from NY
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
How green is my country? – Need to Know
Find source links for this episode after the break!
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- Length: 29:55 minutes (27.4 MB)
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Physicist Brian Greene discusses the hidden reality of parallel universes
Dave DeAngelis speaks with physicist Brian Greene about his new book "The Hidden Reality: Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos."
Brian Greene is Professor of Mathematics & Physics at Columbia University, and is recognized for a number of groundbreaking discoveries in the field of superstring theory. He's the author of two previous bestsellers: “The Elegant Universe” and “The Fabric of the Cosmos”, and his three-part NOVA special based on "The Elegant Universe" won both an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award.
- Title: Physicist Brian Greene discusses the hidden reality of parallel universes
- Length: 27:38 minutes (25.29 MB)
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