Showing posts with label Audio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audio. Show all posts

6/11/10

Listening to Oxford-style debate on organic food ...

Southest Minnesota farmers are mentioned about 18 minutes in. Not in a good way. This fellow suggests organic farmers in our region helped create the mudslides a couple years ago. Liar, liar, pants on fire.

4/27/10

Listening to Neil Gaiman on writing stories ...

Lovely talk.

“Best-selling comic book and science fiction writer Neil Gaiman speaks at Stillwater High School as part of a new Twin Cities-wide program to celebrate reading. Gaiman is the award-winning author of "Coraline," "The Graveyard Book," and the acclaimed DC Comics series ‘Sandman.’”

12/2/09

Let me see, what are we paying for cellphone use? ...

Today I received a video/audio feed from Chris in Germany on my iPod Touch. Free app. Free feed using wifi. My Touch does not have a camera, so Chris receives audio only. But it’s rumored that Apple will put a camera in the iPod Touch next year. I’m guessing the telcos are threatening/pleading with Apple not to do this. Eh?

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12/1/09

Tracking the wild beeb ...

It’s a beautiful thing: podcasting. Radio when and where you want it. I track perhaps fifty programs; I listen to maybe ten regularly; the others I watch to see if the topics catch my interest.

Of these, the BBC programs are the most valuable. The BBC is to consumer content what Apple is to consumer tech: everyone else should just stand back and let it handle the whole thing. Among its audio programs, Andrew Marr’s Start of the Week is the one that I never miss and most relish. Now, if the BBC would only let us, as in US, subscribe.

9/1/09

America's Best Idea ...

We went to a preview and talk with Dayton Duncan, the writer on the new Ken Burns documentary on the national parks.

7/30/09

Fallows and Ferguson

I'm trying to find a purpose for this blog; Twitter has proven to be a great place to post pix. See side panel. Maybe I can put links here, such as this one.

James Fallows is one of my gurus; he does his homework as a journalist. Naill Ferguson is worth a read but he is a bit catty about America.

From MPR site:
Harvard professor Niall Ferguson and journalist James Fallows discuss the close economic relationship between China and the United States, something they called "Chimerica." The two spoke earlier this month at the 2009 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.

9/10/08

Russia, Georgia, Nick Hayes

This is cool. I like Nick Hayes' commentary. Enjoy. LINK