Spark Plus from CBC Radio
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Podcast Description
Spark Plus features additional audio you won't hear on the regular Spark podcast, including extended interviews and bonus material.
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Full Interview: Steve Matteson on Designing Fonts for Mobile Tech | Nora talks to Steve Matteson about the challenges in designing fonts for mobile devices. He's the Creative Type Director at Monotype Imaging. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: David Fewer on Copyright Bill C-11 | David Fewer of the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic talks to Nora about new developments with Bill C-11. C-11 is a bill to amend Canada's copyright act. | 5/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Sanjay Arora on Million Short | Nora Young speaks with Sanjay Arora. He's behind MillionShort.com, a new search engine which knocks the top one million most popular websites off your search results. | 5/7/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Heather Knight on Data, the Robot Comedian | Nora speaks with Heather Knight, a social roboticist. Through Data, a robot that tells jokes, she's exploring how robots might be able to pick up on human social cues, so they can respond more appropriately. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Chris Parker on Human-Robot Interaction | Nora Young speaks with Chris Parker, a human-robot interaction researcher at UBC. | 4/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Jennifer Pahlka on Code for America | Nora speaks with Jennifer Pahlka, the founder and executive director of Code for America, which she describes as a "Peace Corps for Geeks". Fellows spend a year working with city governments to create technology to make their communities better. | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Kelly McGonigal on Willpower | Nora Young speaks with Kelly McGonigal about her new book "The Willpower Instinct." Turns out we can look to science, not hunches, to help us boost our willpower. | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Jo Guldi on History of Roads and Net Neutrality | Nora Young speaks with Jo Guldi, author of the book "Roads to Power." She thinks the history of roads in Britain has a lot in common with our current internet history. | 3/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview - Michael Cook on Angelina - the AI Game Designer | Michael Cook is a PhD student at Imperial College's Computational Creativity Group in London, UK and he wanted to know if a computer program could create a video game starting from nothing. So ANGELINA was born - an artificial intelligence program who creates, from nothing, playable, simple games. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Dr. Michael Gardam on Hospital Surveillance | Nora speaks with Dr. Michael Gardam about new hospital surveillance technology that tracks the movements of health care workers. He's Director of Infection Prevention and Control at the University Health Network in Toronto. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Gabriella Coleman on Anonymous | Nora Young speaks with Gabriella Coleman about Anonymous. She's the Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological Literacy at McGill and currently working on a book on Anonymous and digital activism. | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Matt Ratto on Critical Making | Matt Ratto is an assistant professor at University of Toronto, and director of ThingTank, an experimental space for hacking electronics. He's a believer in what he calls "critical making" - the idea that we don't really understand our technologies just by reading or talking about them, but by making them. He takes Nora on a tour of the ThingTank, and explains why we just might be in the midst of a groundbreaking era for critical makers. | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Angel Gambino on Urban Renewal in Detroit | Nora Young speaks with Angel Gambino on stage at the Transmission Global Summit conference in Victoria, British Columbia. She’s a digital entrepreneur and co-founder of the Rosa Parks Project, a plan to revitalize the oldest neighbourhood in Detroit. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Edward Boatman on The Noun Project | Nora Young speaks with Edward Boatman, the designer and co-founder of The Noun Project. It's an ambitious initiative to design an internationally recognized symbol for every noun, to be used on the web. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: David McCandless on Information Design | Nora Young speaks with David McCandless, a data journalist and information designer in London, England. He turns rivers of blunt data into beautiful, meaningful visuals. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Limor Fried on Open Source Hardware | Making wearable computers? A booster for your iPhone made out of a mint box? It doesn’t get more DIY than this. Limor Fried is the founder an lead engineer at Adafruit Industries. She’s one of the leading forces behind the maker movement - people who like to alter technology to better it, or make electronics at home from scratch. And she's particularly interested in making hardware that is open source. | 2/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Don Tapscott on the future of crowdsourcing | Mazer is a brand new initiative coming out of the Japanese government as part of its "Cool Japan" project. The idea is to have leading creative lights in Japan post questions or problems, and crowdsource the answers. The winning ideas will be bid on by businesses to make them a reality. We expand the conversation for a look at how and when crowdsourcing can be effective, with digital culture writer, Don Tapscott. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Rebecca MacKinnon on The Consent of the Networked | In her new book, Consent of the Networked, Rebecca MacKinnon argues that it’s time to discuss the ways technology should be structured and governed to support the rights and liberties of all the world’s Internet users. | 1/31/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Byron Holland on Balancing Copyright with the Open Internet | Nora sits down with the president and CEO of the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) to talk about balancing copyright with the open internet in the wake of the recent protests against SOPA | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Mark Surman on Creative Hubs | As part of a larger look at cities and how to create creative hubs (aka the mythical next Silicon Valley), Nora Young speaks with Mark Surman, executive director of the Mozilla foundation who has a long history in working to build open, collaborative, creative environments. | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Cory Doctorow on the War on General Computing | Science fiction author, journalist, and all around futurist Cory Doctorow believes the recent copyright battles are the opening salvo of a larger war against general computers. | 1/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Andrew McAfee on Accelerated Innovation and the Economy | Throughout history, technological change has caused job loss, but there have always been new jobs that have opened up. In his new book Race Against The Machine, MIT researcher Andrew McAfee argues that digital technology is advancing so quickly, it's outstripping our ability to adapt economically. | 1/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Rhonda McEwen on Mobile Tech in Classrooms | Many schools are experimenting with new digital tools in the classroom, from cellphones, to apps, to tablets. Rhonda McEwen, a University of Toronto academic who researches the impact of new media, has been researching the benefits of using iPads with non-verbal students who are autistic. | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Abigail Sellen on Total Capture and Human Memory | Right now we are in the age of life-logging, recording every bit of information about a person's activities, behavior, and physicality. This behavior is also called total capture and Facebook’s latest Timeline feature, has introduced the idea of total capture to mainstream audiences. A Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Abigail Sellen is critical of the modern conversation on life-logging and total capture and argues this technical handling of memories through indexing and metadata is just not how memory works. | 1/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Baratunde Thurston on enlisting online influencers to sell his book | Baratunde Thurston is a comedian and author, as well as the web and politics editor for The Onion. His first book, How to be Black, will come out at the end of January, and he has an interesting approach to marketing it. He has amassed an advance street team of volunteers - volunteers he vetted for their social media influence, and has now sent forth to campaign for him and his book. | 12/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: David Weinberger on LibraryCloud and ShelfLife | Nora Young interviews David Weinberger, author and co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab. | 12/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Full Interview: Luis von Ahn on Duolingo | Luis von Ahn wants to translate the entire web into every major world language. Nora Young interviews Luis about his new project, Duolingo. | 11/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 27 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
Fantastic!
Far and away the best program on CBC Radio... keep up the great work. I look forward to the new season this fall!
Awesome show
I love the extended 1 hour format. One of the best tech radio and podcast shows I've ever subscribed to. The mix of topics is great and the grammar features are a nice bonus. Keep up the amazing work.
Best show on CBC.
Also the best show of its genre.
