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The Original Podcast #17: Do No Evil

jason — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:30:23 +0000

We cover a lot of ground on Google this week– is their stand on net neutrality changing? With the demise of Wave, what does Google’s development model really look like now? That and more changes in the Milwaukee radio market, on this week’s podcast.

Also, we felt like you should definitely take a look at some of Schrubbe’s photos from this year’s EAA Airventure. Great job from Dave.

As always, you can take a look at the podcast blog for show notes and stories. Enjoy the program!

The Original Podcast #16: I’ll Build a Spaceport Right After the Game

jason — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:00:03 +0000

On podcast #16, Kyle and I talk about e-books overtaking the paper book market, U2 & the Pope, new Russian spaceports, and a legitimate, academic use for Twitter. All the stories can be found on the podcast blog.

This week’s episode clocks in at around 50 minutes. Thanks as always for listening…

The Original Podast #15: The Other White Meat

jason — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:08 +0000

On this week’s show, Kyle and I look at the Internet and its newly proven capacity to be something of a barometer for human emotion. We discuss the web project WikiLeaks and ask some important questions about what their purpose should be.

Take a look at all the stories we linked over on the podcast blog, and as always, thanks for listening.

The Original Podcast #14: Sex, Drugs & Jesus

jason — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:58:20 +0000

On this week’s show, Kyle and I talk about the differences between American and European privacy. NPR is ready for everyone to have Internet radio–in the car. Speaking of the Internet, is our information consumption killing our attention span? One author thinks so.

Check out the stories we covered over on the podcast blog…

Enjoy the show and all its svelte 37 minutes.

The Original Podcast #13: Should We Ask You Some Questions?

jason — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:18:14 +0000

Take a look at the podcast blog for links to the topics on this week’s show, including Second Life in the virtual college classroom, the possibility of sentience in the Googlplex, privacy on Facebook, and whether journalists should just go ahead and ask the questions they want answered, instead of checking with us first.

This week’s program clocks in at about 40 minutes; as always, thanks for listening.

The Original Podcast #12: Get Your Four Squares Off My Bookface

jason — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:00:29 +0000

Kyle and I finally reconvene after an extended hiatus to much (imagined) fanfare. Seriously, it’s like when Fox brought The Family Guy back after like five years or whatever it was. We will not be engaging in any fisticuffs with a giant chicken, though.

Instead, we bring you commentary on topics of interest to us that are either in the news, or not quite making the news. The “Best Podcast” blog is the repository for our topics, and the source of links to the stories we discuss.

This week, we talk about CNN’s dwindling ratings, the notion of information burnout, why geolocation should freak you out (or not), a survey that finds millennials aren’t particularly interested in religion, and the changing face of advertising.

Hope you enjoy the show; thanks for listening.

Podcast #25: I’ll Wave, At Your Face

jason — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:47:45 +0000

This is not our 25th podcast. But, it’s been a while, so that sounded like a nice round number to get started again. Kyle and I kick off our audio resurgence with these topics:

Phil Cianciola was unceremoniously dismissed from WTMJ over Labor Day weekend. On October 15, he debuted the PhilCast. We have some thoughts.
Kyle got into the Google Wave beta. Now if he only had someone to wave at.
Seth MacFarlane became a Microsoft whore, but can we blame him?
I need to get rid of some CDs, but can’t imagine who would want them.

First, let me apologize for the rough (and I mean *rough*) audio quality. Had some technical issues, but really wanted to get a show out to you (the export to mp3 didn’t go very well). We mostly do this for fun, but we do appreciate you listening, and we want it to be enjoyable.

Beyond that, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Michelle’s debut on The Price Is Right on October 15 was EVERYTHING we expected it to be. I had to admit that while seated in the audience at the taping, it didn’t quite seem real; we were just at a thing in a studio in Hollywood, and Michelle got to be on stage. I think it comes down to how your brain has been conditioned to experience something: for me, The Price Is Right is only “real” when I watch it on TV. I remember being excited and happy on the day of the taping, but when we watched the show, I was practically beside myself. It was great. I recorded in a few different formats, so if you’re interested in a copy, let me know.

Finally, just a bizarre coincidence: Kyle and I were taping the podcast while the nation was riveted to their TVs watching what they thought was a 6-year-old boy floating at 7,000 feet over Colorado in a weather balloon. Hence, we missing out on the drama.

Podcast #10: Cold Off the Press

jason — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:43:33 +0000

On the podcast this week (our second ultra-svelte 3×5 edition), Kyle and I continue our discussion of newspapers, journalism, and the need for new business models as the industry moves forward. Here’s a summary of the topics at hand:

Kyle blogged about how the way we consume news in today’s world doesn’t leave much room for serendipity
I listened to This Week in Tech and heard a story reported on Forbes.com about a dramatic influx of journalism students at major universities.
Benjamin Cardin, Democratic senator from Maryland, has proposed the Newspaper Revitalization Act. What newspapers (if any) could benefit from a nonprofit business model?

This week’s podcast weighs in at under 18 minutes, so take a little time to listen here or download at your leisure. Music, once again, from Tommy Guerrero.

Podcast #9: The Index Card Edition

jason — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:35:52 +0000

This week, Kyle and I tried out a new format– three topics, five minutes each. The result is a relatively concise and compact show that hits on these topics:

Andrew Keen wrote a piece a couple weeks ago about what the folks studying the humanities at universities need to do to stay relevant in a 21st century economy. We’re wondering, what is the purpose of this course of study nowadays anyway?
Seems all but assured that Sirius satellite radio is going bankrupt. Did you notice? Did you care? What’s the problem with a pay-to-listen service, and where is radio in today’s media landscape?
We would not be the first ones to suggest that Twitter is the new Facebook. But what is the movement about, really? Is everyone just talking about Twitter because mainstream media finally picked it up, or is it really changing the way we interact on the web? And what will come next?

Hit the player link, or download for portable good times!

[podcast]http://radiocitymke.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/kbpodcast_031609.mp3[/podcast]

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Podcast #8: Competing Philosophies

jason — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:10:21 +0000

This week on the podcast, Kyle and I talk about some products and services that thrive on a healthy, competitive marketplace, and we get a little philosophical with some of them. Follow the links for more info, on either the podcast blog, soloshootsfirst, or Kyle’s Convergence Tangent:

Windows 7 & the Growth of Linux: is Microsoft forever doomed to be geekdom’s Evil Empire?
In the digital age, we all do a lot of track-at-a-time shuffling. But we both found out there’s something to be said for listening to entire albums, the way the artist intended.
The USPS might drop a day of service. We are cool with that. How about you?
“functional MRI” is opening doors into the human brain– CBS’s 60 Minutes reported on this burgeoning research that allows computers to “identify” simple thoughts. The researchers expect to have much more sophisticated mind-reading software in five years. An amazing piece with some staggering implications.
Jim Powell, partner to Bob Uecker on the Brewers Radio Network for the past 13 years, is now the #1 play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves. We’ll miss Jim’s call, and hope the Brewers can find someone to fill his shoes.

As always, enjoy the show within this post, or download it at your leisure…

[podcast]http://radiocitymke.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/kbpodcast_020609.mp3[/podcast]

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Podcast #7 – The “O” List

jason — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:33:37 +0000

This week on the podcast, Kyle and I ended up talking about some issues that the new Obama administration may (or may not) need to work on once he takes office next week. We also talked about the nearly-innumerable number of social networks on the Internet, and how people in the 21st century will settle on a standard.

As always, you can listen here, or feel free to download. For links to the stories we’ve been reading (and some others that could be featured on a future show), consult the podcast blog.

[podcast]http://radiocitymke.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/kbpodcast_011109.mp3[/podcast]

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Podcast #6 – The Final Frontier

jason — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 12:57:45 +0000

This week on the podcast, Kyle and I got together to talk with our friend Dave about issues surrounding NASA and the aerospace industry as a new presidential administration is preparing to take office, and our country’s financial future is as uncertain as ever. Some notes for this week’s show:

NASA’s Black Hole Budgets, from the New York Times
Beyond the Moon, a study from the Planetary Society, via New Scientist
R2-D2 and Other Lessons From Bell Labs, from the New York Times
EAA
SpaceShipTwo

As usual, the show is playable here or via download.

[podcast]http://radiocitymke.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/kb_podcast_121308.mp3[/podcast]

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