Keyword results: Podcast
Background Briefing
We are truly an attention-challenged, internet-addled generation who has forgotten that news can be found outside an RSS reader. For us overwrought victims of Web 2.0, social media and lifecasting, listening to Background Briefing is like taking a warm bath in journalism juice.
Background Briefing truly is Aunty at her finest - rational, thorough and educational.
Escape Pod (podcast)
Once upon a time mad, cynical geniuses like Kurt Vonnegut and Phillip K. Dick made a living hacking out stories for pulp magazines, trashy bits of entertainment that could earn a writer a few bucks for whiskey and cigarettes. In the science fiction world, pulp is still alive and well, and a writer can still make money selling short stories to podcasts like Steve Eley's Escape Pod.
Rocketboom In Conversation
What:
Rocketboom In Conversation
Where:
Village Roadshow Theatre, State Library of Victoria. Entry 3 on Latrobe St
When:
TODAY! Thurs Aug 14, 6.30pm
How much:
$30 / $45 from Portable Film Festival
Description:
If you are a good citizen of the intermenet, you probably know about Rocketboom. Sure, bad name, but it's the world's most popular videocast. Unlike all other web-based media, apart from TwoThousand (hehe), it generates millions in ad revenue annually. According to The New York Times, Rocketboom (not, as is commonly thought, Water Rats) wrote ‘the obituary of TV'.
Event: Film
Stimulus: W
The Savage Lovecast
Do you plan to have intercourse in the next six months? Scratch that. Do ever you plan to have intercourse? If your answer is a resounding "Fuck yes" then you would be well advised to listen to The Savage Lovecast. For the unaware, Dan Savage is a (and here, if I were speaking to you, I would obnoxiously preface the first term with "quote, unquote") sex adviser and podcaster based out of Chicago.
You Look Nice Today (podcast)
Are you familiar with the simultaneously glorious and dismaying feeling that results in the sudden realisation that you are just never going to be as talented as someone you admire, but, goddamn it, you are going to love them all the same? A dissonance compounded by a distinct lack of social graces, attractiveness or general hygiene on the part of the admired figure? Woody Allen should be a pretty good point of reference.
Podcast
There's a great podcast here of a talk by Carl Honoré who wrote In Praise of Slow. Listening to it is bound to have even the most speed-addicted wanting to get in touch with their ‘inner tortoise'.
The talk was given as part of the TED (Technology Entertainment & Design) conference held annually in California.
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