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Jon Elliston speaks at the Carrboro Book Fair

Brian R. — Sun, 22 May 2005 15:14:37 +0000

Here is a recording of the entire talk and group discussion led by the amazing writer Jon Elliston at the Carrboro Book Fair. [See also my interview with Ethan the Book Fair organizer.] He discussed much of the new literature on interrogation and torture in the “war of terror”. A large amount of these books came out after the horrible violence that occurred at Abu Ghraib at the hands of US soldiers. It was fascinating to hear about how much detailed information is available about this horrific crime from the US military and other US government agencies themselves. Chief among them is the Taguba Report that made it into The New Yorker article by Seymour Hirsh that broke this awful story to the US and possibly the world. Many of us at the talk questioned the trustworthiness of all of this government information. If they somehow they let us read these terrifying accounts, what more violence hides under the rocks?

One of the most interesting parts of this recording, IMHO, is the response from the audience after the talk. One gentleman in particular said the talk was “very naive” and proceeded to tell a story about being abused in a southern jail, right here in the good ole’ USA.

MP3 36m 21s 16.7MB 64kbps

Interview with Dan Smith about Serious Games

Brian R. — Fri, 06 May 2005 15:54:56 +0000

For this interview I spoke with Dan Smith, VP of Circulation at the ContraCosta Times (a newspaper in the Bay area of Northern California). We had just finished a tour of the University of Southern California’s Integrated Media Systems Center. I asked him what he thought of the technology demos we had seen? He was impressed by the ‘Serious Games’. They were 3D first person shooter style environments not unlike the look and feel of Doom. Instead of killing people and creatures this ‘Serious Game’ was built to help students learn about biology. This was accomplished by navigating a virtual micro-world inside the human body. It’s wonderful to have Dan’s perspective as a newspaper man. The Mobile Media Conference fostered an interesting confluence of the worlds of news, entertainment, and education.

mobilemedia

MP3 5m 51s 2.7MB 64kbps

Interview with Howard Owens about Public Wifi

Brian R. — Wed, 04 May 2005 14:41:53 +0000

Todays podcast is a short interview I conducted in LA at the Mobile Media Conference. While we were on a bus going to the University of Southern California’s Integrated Media Systems Center I asked Howard Ownes of the Ventura County Star a question? Should there be more public broadband wi-fi networks and how should they be created? Municipal, Private, or Corporate. This is a very cool conversation that gets to the heart of the matter. Very relevant to some discussions going on here in Chapel Hill, NC. It’s wonderful to get other perspectives, even if I don’t completely agree with them all. mobilemedia

MP3 7m 5s 3.5MB 64kbps

Dan Gillmor speaks at UNC Journalism School

Brian R. — Mon, 21 Feb 2005 03:26:52 +0000

This weeks podcast is a recording of a talk Dan Gillmor gave at the UNC School of Journalism on Monday, February 14, 2005. He discussed his ideas about the future of citizen journalism and covered many of the points in his new book called We The Media. His book is under a Creative Commons license and is available as a free download here. I’ve included the first 27 minutes of the talk in this podcast. If you are interested in listening to the rest it’s available in the Audio Archives section. Soon video of the event, shot by folks at UNC, should be online too.

MP3 25m 17s 12.3MB 64kbps

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Local Bloggers in Greensboro Talk with Dave Winer

Brian R. — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:49:59 +0000

The News & Record, the local paper for Greensboro, NC, just hosted a public forum where local bloggers discuss the future of media with Dave Winer. Dave asked some direct questions of the newspaper folks and the bloggers. I was also very glad to hear Jerry L. McClough, the Blogmaster for 102 North Carolina NAACP blogs, bring up some serious gaps in local reporting. We need more perspectives to reach a wider audience! Here’s the Greensboro NAACP blog. Also, Dave talked about the beginning of podcasting too.

MP3 1h 18m 21s 35.8MB 64kbps
OGG 1h 18m 21s 32.5MB 64kbps

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Interview with Roch Smith

Brian R. — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:58:15 +0000

This weeks show is a very interesting discussion/interview with Roch Smith the founder of greensboro101.com. He’s part of the Greensboro, NC grassroots journalism revolution. We talked about his site, it’s future, and media in general.

MP3 33m 17s 15.3MB 64kbps
OGG 33m 17s 14.7MB 64kbps

Roch Smith, Jr. (left) and Brian Russell (right)
Photo by Roch Smith, Jr.

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The URLS discussed during this weeks show.
greensboro101.com

Credit for Creative Commons Liscensed music used in this show:
Sample from the song Wadidyusay? by Zap Mama.
Sample from the song What U Sittin’ On? by Danger Mouse & Jemini.
Bit of instrumental tunes from the song Relaxation Spa Treatment by Dan The Automator.

Interview with Ed Cone, Pt.2, 01/16/05

Brian R. — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 17:37:27 +0000

This weeks show is a two part interview with blogger extraordinaire Ed Cone. He’s a professional journalist who’s “beat” is technology and most specifically the inner working of blogging. We talked about a bunch of stuff such as the Greensboro News & Record’s exploration into blogging, citizen & professional journalism, local & national blogging, critical thinking, the law, etc. Here is part two.

Part 2
MP3 36m 55s 16.9MB 64kbps
OGG 36m 55s 18.2MB 64kbps

In part two of this interview I posed two questions, to Ed, that were originally posted over at the Citizen Journalism Forum on the Digital Divide Network web site. Basically the questions were, “Why be a Citizen Journalist & what about Libel?” [During the interview I read the post verbatum] Thanks for asking them Henry!

Ed Cone is a senior writer at Ziff Davis Media and has opinion column at the News & Record in Greensboro, NC. He’s also written for Forbes and been a contributing editor at Wired magazine.

Interview with Ed Cone, Pt.1, 01/16/05

Brian R. — Sun, 16 Jan 2005 23:20:32 +0000

This weeks show is a two part interview with blogger extraordinaire Ed Cone. He’s a professional journalist who’s “beat” is technology and most specifically the inner working of blogging. We talked about a bunch of stuff such as the Greensboro News & Record’s exploration into blogging, citizen journalism & professional journalism, local blogging & national blogging, and education. Here is part one. Part two will out in a few days.

Part 1
MP3 25m 23s 11.6MB 64kbps
OGG 25m 23s 12.3MB 64kbps

Ed Cone is a senior writer at Ziff Davis Media and has opinion column at the News & Record in Greensboro, NC. He’s also written for Forbes and been a contributing editor at Wired magazine.