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This is an example of the kind of thing I was talking about in my paper for Technologies of Persuasion.
This week’s Earshot was the 10th I produced. I was listening back to some of the ones from last year and I’m really quite proud of the show we’ve put together.
This week’s show is about Darwin and the theory of evolution. I interviewed Chris Raxworthy from the American Museum of Natural History.
Or listen to old Earshots:
Graduate Student Union
Hundred Dollar Laptop
Imax Movies and Evolution
MGM v Grokster
The Pilot – The Solomon Amendment
A year after downloading this 3-part documentary I finally got around to watching it. It’s worth a look.
It’s an interesting look at the similarities and common interests of the neo-cons and the islamists.
Aliens are taking over our culture.
I wrote a paper for Technologies of Persuasion inspired by Technopoly by Neil Postman, which is my new favourite book ever.
So this week I insisted that we busy some original programming. The syndicated shows didn’t do too well. That didn’t matter though, because we still made money.
BBC NEWS | Business | Strawberry smell trademark denied
Olfactory memory lasts a long time. The ability to associate a smell with a particular product to the exclusion of all others would be a strong weapon for advertisers trying to colonise our brains.
I edited together those 12 pictures from September to make a sequence. It sucks, but it was a good exercise for practising Final Cut Pro.
These days you hear a lot about tipping points for various things – Jeff Jarvis refers to them all the time when he talks about citizens media.
This week I read a chapter of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point. It was about time I got around to reading at least some of the book since it’s had such a bit impact on contemporary discourse.
It’s all about people who are good connectors and how they contribute to making ideas popular. It’s a nice description of some stuff I’ve been noticing myself over the last few years.
Some people are good at initiating and maintaining casual acquaintanceships – they tend to know a lot of people and keep up with them and are good at putting people in touch with each other and leveraging their connections to get things done – get someone a job, put a group together for a particular purpose.
This week’s guest on Earshot was Eric Larsen of One World Expeditions, who was part of Greenpeace’s Project Thin Ice.
