The We Media Podcast
A serial podcast on personal media by students in We Media: The Personal Media Revolution. Online notebook of links. [Carleton College Cinema & Media Studies | Professor John Schott | Winter | 2006]
Karina Hill: Lifecaching
Lifecaching is the word that describes our ability to record details about our everyday lives through the use of technology. This podcast explores this phenomenon and attempts to determine the rationale behind it.
Tommy Helgen: The Online Social Experiment
Online diaries, online friends, online lives. Blogging has created a whole new social environment. Could it ever rival the real world in terms of human interaction?
Scott Vignos: The Global Digital Divide
What good is the World Wide Web if only the developed world has access? Why is the Internet important to developing nations if what's waiting is blogged anecdotes, popups and spam? This podcast discusses the various aspects of the Global Digital Divide -- the shapes it takes, the actors involved and the solutions at hand -- and suggests that the Internet for the developing world might finally be the great equalizer.
Sam Chotiner-Gardner: Interview with Rocketboom
So here it is: my interview with Andrew Baron. We spoke about everything Rocketboom and focused primarily on the video blog's use of political content. I hope you enjoy the fruits of our conversation.
About Rocketboom:
For those who do not know, Rocketboom is one of the most popular video
podcasts in the world. According to Rocketboom.com, it has “more
daily subscribers for original syndicated multimedia content than
nearly any other site, including podcasts”. It is a daily video-cast
that covers quirky news stories involving everything from politics to
technology. It averages over a million viewers a week and according
to many publications, including the New York Times and the Wallstreet
Journal, it is a great example of a growing interest in new media. In
the end, Rocketboom is simply a great show, but don't just take my
word for it, check out Rocketboom.com
Leah Sipher-Mann: Creative Commons Licenses
Creative Commons licenses allow creativity to grow and expand in new, decidedly collaborative ways. But just how are people using these licenses and are there any repercussions? This podcast addresses both of these questions as well as discussing what CC licensing means for the future of digital art in general.
Niko Tonks: The Internet Fast Lane
How would you feel if you awoke one day to find that your ISP had filtered your internet, forcing you to pay extra to access certain content? Major telecommunications companies envision such a future, where the internet would exist in tiers, not of bandwidth, but of content. This presents a threat to the internet as we know it, as it would give an unfair advantage to the website that pays the most to your ISP. What can be done to prevent this?
Aleshia Mueller: Internet Video vs. The TV Star
We have been savoring the sweet taste of the digital revolution for a few years now. This time, the flavor is Internet video and everyone wants a lick. This podcast will discuss the rise in online video and whether or not it is killing the TV star. Come on, have a listen and see what Aaron Flores, Amanda Congdon, Denis Foo Kune, Josh Kinberg, and Michael Verdi have to say about it.
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Sam Lowry: Take Back the Airwaves
Flip on the television and surf for a little while. No matter what
time it is, one thing can always be counted on: mainstream news today
sucks. Maybe it's Turner's fault, maybe it's Murdoch's fault, but Edward R.
Murrow is probably rolling in his grave. Either way, my generation has
grown up in the age of cable news trash where only a grain of
mega-media journalism can be counted on as truthful, unbiased, and
unfiltered. But now a movement is underway to reclaim television
and print, putting the power of the press back in the hands of the
everyday person. It's called citizen journalism, and camphone citizen
journalism is the grease for its gears.
Khanh Nguyen: Blogging as a Personal Expression
Six months ago I left Dalat, my hometown in Vietnam. Like many other cities in Vietnam, accessibility to the Internet in Dalat has come only in the past three years. The Internet is commonly used as place to mine for information, and that is all it was for me until recently. Now I am a freshman in a "Personal Media Revolution" class at Carleton College, and suddenly I am discoverying new ways to turn the Internet into a place to publish my ideas as writing, audio or video. So I am in two new places: Northfield, MN and cyberspace.
Greg Marliave: Mobile Internet Video
With a growth in the ability to share large content over the Internet new sources for video content have become possible. But is there a place for amateur video communities to prosper, or is video content still the domain of professionals and big media businesses?
Sarah Jones: Darknets
Darknets are secure filesharing networks that are especially popular as conduits for digital music and videos. Most common media swapping networks like Kazaa and BitTorrents aren't secure. More and more people are turning to digital music. Corporate media giants are battling against filesharing. How dark will digital media Darknets get?
Daniel Matanovic: The Long Tail
Are you a big fan of Amazon and Netflix? Ever wondered how they earn money with Neo-Italian Realism movies and other obscurities?
It’s simple: it’s statistics…
Ever heard of power laws and the economics of scarcity? No? Want to find out what they have to do with Amazon and Netflix? Then you should read Chris Anderson’s article about the “Long Tail”!
You don’t like to read long articles? You are a fan of audiovisual entertainment? Then you should check this out!
Dan Selz: Pay Attention
Everyone and their mom wants to try and figure out what the new dynamics of Web 2.0 are going to be. One popular suggestion is that a new "attention economy" will emerge, as a result of there being so many new sources competing for our attention. I spoke with Barb Palser of Internet Broadcasting Systems, the third largest news-broadcasting site on the Web to see what she thought about this idea.
Evan Sallee: News Aggregators
How have RSS and news aggregators changed my life? What are news aggregators? Listen and find out.
Erika Lewis: Facebook Culture
I think Facebook “culture” is fascinating. I know I check mine at least a few times a week. And then there are those kids checking theirs in the library, between classes, while talking on their cell phones…what do they want? Are they finding it?
Andrew Blum: Wikipedia
What is Wikipedia? Is it just a twist on the traditional encyclopedia, or does it represent a new trend in new media towards open sourced information gathering? To get insight on this powerful new tool, I've decided to interview Donald Penman '07, a Carleton student, and Wikipedia user.
August Brown: Remix (The Blue Duck Theory)
In a world congested with royalties and contracts, is it possible to truly have free creative control? If you start with a blank canvas, it is mostly possible, but if you remix, it becomes much more difficult. How do we allow free creative control while still respecting the intellectual property of original artists? It's a very daunting question to answer, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be asked.
Gracie Young: Music Like Water
In the book Music Like Water, Gerd Leonhard and David Kusek explore a future where music is free flowing and ubiquitus. We have been freed from the control of the music industry and experiencing music has been forever changed.
