Archive for the 'Podcast Zeitgeist' Category
November 13, 2008
What I got out of this week’s podcasts for nerds and geeks:
“TWIT 168: Dirty Pedro” This week’s episode proved useful for getting to sleep on Tuesday evening. Otherwise, I might be asking, how do I get this 1:34 hours of my life back? The signal to noise ratio is quite low, despite heroic efforts by John C. Dvorak to keep the discussion focused on technology. The Audible.com ad was mercifully short. Topics: Google/Yahoo, Obama’s technology and FCC policy, cameras, keyboards, an argument for aggressive comment moderation on blogs. Released: Nov. 9. Length: 1 hour, 34 minutes
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November 6, 2008
Podcasts I got around to listening to this week, and what was on them, in the order I listened:
“TWIT 167: More Twit Than You Require” First half: An informative discussion of Windows 7, the replacement for Vista, which I did not care about, as a Mac user. Fast-forwarded to second half (just past 1-hour mark): Leo Laporte interview with John Hodgman, the fake-trivia expert Daily Show I’m-a-PC guy, who is on a book tour. Instead of playing a character, Hodgman gets nerd-real. It’s good. Released: Nov. 2. Length: 1 hour, 45 minutes
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Tags: Buddhism, Diggnation, feminism, films, finabulous, Franklin's Tower, geeks, Grateful Dead, John Hodgman, Jonathan Larroquette, Leo Laporte, meditation, movies, nerds, podcasts, Seth Romatelli, sexism, This Week in Tech, Twit.tv, UFOs, Uhh Yeah Dude
October 29, 2008
Here are some impressions of the latest episodes from my current list of active podcasts. Topics covered included the election, the financial crisis, new Macs, Frank TV, your “Desert Island Sedaris,” Santa vs. Odin and a squid with a dog’s head that eats penguins at the South Pole.
In the order I listened this week:
“Uhh, Yeah Dude, Episode 138” The show is more political than usual. Seth and Jonathan have some advice for McCain about profanity and do not like Obama’s sports-team pandering. The badness of Frank TV: All of Frank Calienda’s impressions sound the same. Who is your Desert Island Sedaris, David or Amy? In the funniest and longest set-piece, Seth describes a visit with “2,000″ school children to the traveling DEA exhibit “Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause” at the California Science Center, which explains how to manufacture cocaine, heroin and crystal meth. Unlikely street names for drugs. Aaron Neville sings “Silent Night.” Planning an Applebee’s fan video. And more riffs on headlines. Released: Oct. 24. Length: 1 hour, 6 minutes.
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October 19, 2008
Lately my music library has languished as I have loaded up my iPhone with podcasts of a certain type: Men (mostly) talking about gadgets, technology, movies, stuff on the Web, games, women, and news of the weird, among other topics. The list:
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Tags: Alex Albrecht, Apple TV, comedy, comics, computers, iPhone Apps, iPods, iTunes, John C. Dvorak, Jonathan Larroquette, Kevin Rose, Kevin Smith, Leo Laporte, MacBreak Weekly, men, Merlin Mann, movies, Podcast Zeitgeist, podcasts, Scott Bourne, Seth Romatelli, Smodcast, technology, This Week in Tech, TV, Twit.tv, Uhh Yeah Dude, video games, You Look Nice Today
October 1, 2008
Updated March 12, 2011.
Hello, my name is Patrick LaForge.
@Palafo is a purely personal and non-commercial blog, a public notebook about a few of my obsessions — the Web, technology and computers; media of all types (books, podcasts, blogs, Twitter and social media, and music); and my quest for the perfect cup of coffee.
I am no relation to this guy nor am I the president and CEO of the Edmonton Oilers hockey team.
By some happy accident, I am an editor at a local newspaper in New York, where I am currently the editor in charge of news presentation, which is a fancy yet imperfect way of describing the copy desks and aspects of Web production.
I was also the founding editor and one of the creators of the paper’s blog about New York, City Room. The blog you are reading is not affiliated with those enterprises in any way, and I am responsible for its content, which follows my employer’s ethics policy.
This blog is updated erratically. I spend more time posting on Twitter; you can follow me there: @palafo.
Thanks for reading.
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