I School Podcast
By School of Information, UC Berkeley
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Lectures, seminars, talks, and events held at UC Berkeley's School of Information.
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CleanThe Credibility Crisis in Computational Science: An Information Issue (Victoria Stodden) | Scientific computation is emerging as absolutely central to the scientific method, but the prevalence of very relaxed practices is leading to a credibility crisis affecting many scientific fields. It is impossible to verify most of the results that computational scientists present at conferences and in papers today. Reproducible computational research, in which all details of computations — code and data — are made conveniently available to others, is necessary for a resolution of this crisis. This requires a multifaceted approach including policy solutions, computational tools for data and code dissemination, curation and archiving, and open licensing frameworks such as the Reproducible Research Standard. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSocial Media and Peer Learning: From Mediated Pedagogy to Peeragogy (Howard Rheingold) | Howard Rheingold offers a glimpse of the future of high-end online learning in which motivated self-learners collaborate via a variety of social media to create, deliver, and learn an agreed curriculum: a mutant variety of pedagogy that more closely resembles a peer-agogy. Rheingold proposes that our intention should be to teach ourselves how to teach ourselves online, and to share what we learn. He will show how the use of social media in courses he has taught about social media issues led him to co-redesign his curriculum, which led to more active participation by students in co-teaching the course. | 1/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanToo Big to Know: How the new dimensions of information are transforming business — and life (David Weinberger) | We used to know how to know things. That’s how we guided our businesses, our government, our daily lives. But now there is so much to know and so much conflicting advice to listen to. It seems like everyone’s an expert, and no one agrees with anyone else. This looks like a problem, but it actually can be a source of tremendous strength. It turns out that our old system of knowledge was based around the limitations of paper, a disconnected, expensive medium that managed a world that was too big to know by cutting down on what we had to deal with. There were of course advantages to that, but they came at the cost of throwing out most of what the world was trying to tell us. In the new knowledge ecology, knowledge takes on the properties of its new medium, the Net. That means knowledge has become huge, it's connected, and it embraces disagreement and differences. The key is to think about knowledge not as a set of content but as a network: the smartest person in the room is now the room itself. Then the question is, how can you build, maintain, and nurture a smart network? | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDigital Diversity: Exploring Global Media By Starting With Culture and Community (Ramesh Srinivasan) | What does it mean to think about culture and community before one thinks about technology? And how could that paradigm shift allow scholars and professionals to re-imagine solutions that think past net delusions around grassroots political movements, and empower community decision-making in the developing world, indigenous knowledge around climate change or cultural heritage, and communication between states and citizens? This talk takes us to several places where I have focused my fieldwork on technology and culture, and community-driven design, including Egypt's Tahrir Square, the Zuni Nation of New Mexico, the Kyrgyz Steppe, and Rural India. Across these projects, I argue for the power of thinking of both culture and technology as dynamic, and mutually co-constructed, introducing design, fieldwork, and research approaches toward the study of global media and information. | 10/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInformation Dynamics in a Socially Networked World (Lada Adamic) | Lada Adamic is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems. She is also affiliated with EECS. Her research interests center on information dynamics in networks: how information diffuses, how it can be found, and how it influences the evolution of a network's structure. Her projects have included identifying expertise in online question and answer forums, studying the dynamics of viral marketing, and characterizing the structure in blogs and other online communities. She has received an NSF CAREER award, and best paper awards from Hypertext'08, ICWSM'10 and '11, and the most influential paper of the decade award from Web Intelligence'11. | 10/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMediating the Social: Consequences for transition, design, critique and praxis (Rhonda McEwen) | In this talk new media scholar Rhonda McEwen examines the context for the emergence of social media and explores the subject beyond superficial understandings of software use, to engage in debates regarding the consequences of these media for our sociality. She will begin with a reflection on a timeline representing the rise of social media, then shares research findings from four of her new media projects — as well as drawing on current affairs — to describe the roles of Facebook, SMS, Skype, Blogs, LinkedIn, and Twitter in the areas of transitions, design, critique, and praxis. | 4/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHarnessing Magic: Learning Experience Design (Clark Quinn) | Technology is no longer the limiting factor, so what should we do? More than just rejecting the industrial model of learning, we need to think further. We can draw on different models of cognition and learning, and emerging technology capabilities, to propose new approaches to achieving our goals. We need to look for outside inspirations for rethinking what education might mean. Our reach should transcend learning and look to truly transformative experiences. Come explore the possibilities and co-create the future of learning design. | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhy the Google Book Settlement Failed – and What Comes Next? (Pamela Samuelson) | More than a year after the Google Book Settlement fairness hearing, Judge Chin ruled that the settlement was not fair and could not be approved. In this talk, Pam Samuelson explains why she thinks the failure of this settlement was inevitable. It will also discuss the options available after the failure of the settlement and why some of these options are more likely or desirable than others. | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDigital Divide or Digital Bridge: Can Information Technology Alleviate Poverty?: Panel Discussion with Eric Brewer (UC Berkeley | The past decade has seen great interest in information and communication technologies applied to international development, an endeavor sometimes abbreviated ICTD. Can mobile phones be used to improve rural healthcare? How do you design user interfaces for an illiterate migrant worker? What value is wireless technology to a farmer earning a dollar a day? In this panel, four prominent thinkers active in ICTD debate the potential for electronic technologies to contribute to the socio-economic development of the world’s impoverished communities. Eric Brewer is a UC Berkeley professor who develops wireless technologies to connect rural communities. Megan Smith is vice president of new business development at Google and managing director of Google.org. Kentaro Toyama is co-founder of Microsoft Research India, and a computer scientist turned technology skeptic. Wayan Vota is a senior director at Inveneo, a non-profit that works to provide information technology to underserved communities of the developing world. | 4/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHealth Care and the New Economy (Scott Young, MD) | Health care reform and the recent economic downturn are placing unprecedented pressure on the health care system to provide consumers with value. Patients, purchasers, regulators, and other key stakeholders are demanding that care be readily accessible, proactive, and focused on improving health while containing costs. Many in the health care system are developing novel strategies to provide these services including new delivery models centered on patient-centricity, health information technology, and integrated delivery systems. The lecture will discuss how these forces interact as well as the challenges and opportunities they afford in improving the U.S. health care system. | 3/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanTowards a Citizen Internet: the Opportunity for Civic Software (Jennifer Pahlka) | The last decade has seen the organic growth of the web as a platform, enabling near-frictionless community-building, social communication, and collective action. But the institutions citizens support to represent our collective will and achieve our common goals have been left behind, largely by their own design. Today, several factors are converging to make re-crafting of government possible, and a key ingredient are the very hackers and designers who see the enormous opportunity to build a “citizen Internet.” | 3/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhy the Future of Business is Sharing (Lisa Gansky) | Traditional businesses follow a simple formula: create a product or service, sell it, collect money. But in the last few years a fundamentally different model has taken root — one in which consumers have more choices, more tools, more information, and more peer-to-peer power. Pioneering entrepreneur Lisa Gansky calls it the Mesh and reveals why it will soon dominate the future of business. Mesh companies create, share and use social media, wireless networks, and data crunched from every available source to provide people with goods and services at the exact moment they need them, without the burden and expense of owning them outright. Gansky reveals how there is real money to be made and trusted brands and strong communities to be built in helping your customers buy less but use more. | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRumors of the Web's Demise (Roy Bahat) | Wired has declared “the web is dead.” We will look at several technologies and information systems that have died (or are on life support) — pigeon post, the area code — and others that are thriving — mobile applications, cable, World of Warcraft — and try to figure out whether the web is going the way of the dodo. Will our grandchildren know what a URL is? We will connect the web to ideas of location and ask: what is the meaning of place, in the digital age? Slides from this lecture are available at http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/newsandevents/events/20101027bahat | 10/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHistorical Hypermedia: An alternative history of the Semantic Web and Web 2.0 and implications for e-research (Charles van den | According to the article on Hypermedia in Wikipedia, Ted Nelson coined the term in 1963 and published it in 1965. The definition in the article states that “hypermedia is used as a logical extension of the term hypertext in which graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks intertwine to create a generally non-linear medium of information” and the World Wide Web is presented as a classical example. But it can be argued that the characteristics of hypermedia and their use in global collaborations go back much further in time. At the beginning of the 20th century the Belgian pioneer of knowledge organization Paul Otlet (1868–1944) began exploring “substitutes for the book” and to find new technologies to order and to link fragments of texts, images, sound, etc., for scholarly collaborations on a global level. Otlet sketched and commissioned hundreds of drawings of what we would call nowadays interfaces to synthesize global knowledge. It will be argued that Paul Otlet’s views and visualizations on substitutes for the codex book, interfaces, infrastructures and protocols for collective annotating by scholars might be relevant for recent discussions on the provenance and evidence of information in Web 2.0 and Semantic Web solutions for e-research, in particular in the digital humanities. | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Digitization of Science and the Degradation of the Scientific Method (Victoria Stodden) | As the scientific enterprise becomes increasingly computational, the nature of the information communicated must change. Without inclusion of the code and data with published computational results, we are engendering a credibility crisis in science. Controversies such as ClimateGate, the microarray-based drug sensitivity clinical trials under investigation at Duke University, and retractions from prominent journals due to unverified code suggest the need for greater transparency in our computational science. In this talk I argue that the scientific method be restored to (1) a focus on error control as central to scientific communication and (2) complete communication of the underlying methodology producing the results, ie. reproducibility. I outline barriers to these goals based on recent survey work (Stodden 2010), and suggest solutions such as the “Reproducible Research Standard” (Stodden 2009), giving open licensing options designed to create an intellectual property framework for scientists consonant with longstanding scientific norms. | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhy Do We Have to Pay People to Work? (J. Leighton Read) | Have you ever watched someone deeply engaged in a video game and performing a highly complex but completely artificial task with incredible competence? Could that focus and attention be bottled and used for something serious? We're convinced it can. In the world of collaboration taking place in the online role-playing games, every day (and night) tens of thousands of teams of 5 to 100's of people from multiple time zones, countries and cultures, each with different and highly complementary skills self-assemble around extremely challenging goals. This sounds a lot like the new world of global business collaboration. The psychological principles and affordances found in MMOs have much to teach us about teamwork, leadership, innovation, urgency, and incentives. To be clear, we are not talking about just using games for training and simulation, although these are wonderful applications. We expect a range of uses that range from borrowing a few of the key psychological ingredients from great games like World of Warcraft that will make the workplace more interesting all the way to the full Monty: re-engineering entire jobs so that workers become their avatars, building transparent and persistent reputations for tackling graded challenges with teammates inside a virtual online world as part of a compelling narrative. If this sounds fantastic, it is worth noting that tens of millions of MMO players are already carrying out tasks inside their games that look exactly like the kinds of information work that companies have to pay people to do! Because business today is dependent on voluntary creativity and collaboration of workers using their tacit knowledge, ignoring game inspired design principles is a huge missed opportunity. Games offer powerful tools for creating alignment, performance and engagement. And like any powerful technology, they can be dangerous if the implications for stakeholders aren't thoughtfully considered. | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA (very) brief history of "information"; or, what are we all doing here, anyway? (Geoff Nunberg) | It accumulates on our hard drives and lurks in our genes. Companies and consultants promise to refine it out of data or distill it into knowledge. It can topple churches and tyrants; the health of democratic societies depends on its free exchange (and free, we're told, is exactly what it wants to be). Its revolution has upended our lives: now we do its work, suffer its fatigue from its explosion, and worry about its widening gap, as we take up our roles in its society, its economy, and its age — not to mention (in a more transitory and purely local way) its school. So what could it — or not to beg the question, what could they — possibly be? Does "information" name a single concept or a family of concepts? Or is it not really a concept at all, but just a bit of semantic sleight of hand? For starters, it helps to look at how we got here. It turns out that confusion of the meanings of "information" began at least two centuries ago (and as it happens, dictionaries all get the story wrong). "Information" has always been a jerry-built notion that conceals its own inconsistencies, so that it can slip surreptitiously between one sense and another. But ultimately, I'll suggest, that's exactly what has made the term so adaptable and so useful to us: the words we name our ages after are always ones that enable us to leave important things unsaid. | 4/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRegulating Reputational Systems (Eric Goldman) | Reputational information helps decision-makers predict a company's or person's future performance based on their past behavior. Our economy is filled with systems that capture and publish reputational information; examples include credit reporting databases, eBay feedback ratings, job references and consumer product reviews . This talk will survey various reputational systems, discuss some lessons about designing and implementing them, and explore how legal regulation can help or hinder the process. | 4/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanMitch Kapor on "Commons-Based Peer Production" | Mitch Kapor was the guest speaker in the Info 290 seminar "Commons-Based Peer Production" on Friday; Kapor is the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, founding chair of the Mozilla Foundation, founder of the Open Source Applications Foundation, and a member of the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation. | 4/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanEntrepreneurship as an Extreme Sport (Tina Seelig) | Most people move through the world tripping on problems in their path. True entrepreneurs look at those problems through a different set of lenses: they see them as opportunities. This lecture will focus on creating value by turning problems on their head. Tina Seelig, executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, shares surprising stories that come from her courses on creativity and entrepreneurship that demonstrate that by creatively challenging assumptions, breaking the rules, and having a healthy disregard for the impossible you can bring remarkable ideas to life. | 3/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBusiness and Consumer Experience for Media in the 21st Century (Daniel Scheinman) | As we enter the 21st Century, the Media and Entertainment Industry has undergone changes not seen since mechanization of the theater with the advent of the motion picture camera. Several data points suggest the “tipping point” for digital entertainment (and its accompanying economic model and consumer expectations) is here, putting significant pressure on the traditional monetization and business models for entertainment content. As we enter this new age, Daniel Scheinman, senior vice president and general manager of the Cisco Media Solutions Group, shares insights on this “Media and Entertainment Disruption” that has already occurred and the online, social format of storytelling yet to come — ultimately changing the entertainment experience for both media companies and consumers. | 2/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Revolution Will be Digitized: How IT is Affecting Business and Competition (Andrew McAfee) | In 1987 Robert Solow observed that "We see evidence of the computer age everywhere except in the productivity statistics." In 2009, the situation is utterly changed; a large and growing body of evidence reveals that IT is affecting not only productivity, but also competition. And technology's impact is not limited to only a few industries, but is instead being felt throughout the economy. Dr. McAfee will first present evidence of IT's deep and broad impact, then offer an explanation for how the humble computer could be having such a large effect. The "Computer Revolution" in business is actually four distinct but related developments. McAfee will describe each of them, then use case studies to show how leading companies are taking advantage of them to advance within their industries. | 11/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanComputer Mediated Transactions (Hal Varian) | These days nearly every economic transaction involves a computer in some form or other. What does this mean for economics? I argue that the ubiquity of computers enables new and more efficient contractual forms, better alignment of incentives, more sophisticated data extraction and analysis, creates an environment for controlled experimentation, and allows for personalization and customization. I review some of the long and rich history of these phenomena and describe some of their implications for current and future practices. | 10/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPredicting Social Security Numbers From Public Data (Alessandro Acquisti) | We show that Social Security numbers (SSNs) can be accurately predicted from widely available public data, such as individuals' dates and states of birth. Using only publicly available information, we observed a correlation between individuals' SSNs and their birth data, and found that for younger cohorts the correlation allows statistical inference of private SSNs, thereby heightening the risks of identity theft for millions of US residents. The inferences are made possible by the public availability of the Social Security Administration's Death Master File and the widespread accessibility of personal information from multiple sources, such as data brokers or profiles on social networking sites. Our results highlight the unexpected privacy consequences of the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies, and quantify novel privacy risks associated with information revelation in public forums. They also highlight how well-meaning policies in the area of information security can backfire, because of unanticipated interplays between policies and diverse sources of personal data. | 10/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSustainable Innovation (Judith Estrin) | -- | 4/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Wikipedia Revolution (Andrew Lih) | -- | 4/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanLessons from a Road Warrior (John Rutledge) | -- | 3/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Internets We Did Not Build (David Clark) | -- | 3/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSecurity and Privacy in the Internet of Things (Oliver Guenther) | -- | 2/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJonathan Grudin: Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies | -- | 10/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFrancesco Antinucci: Communicating Cultural Heritage: The Role of New Media | -- | 9/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPrivacy in Context by Helen Nissenbaum | -- | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean"Is the Web a Threat to Our Culture?" by Paul Duguid & Andrew Keen | -- | 3/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCombating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Participation Matters (Henry Jenkins) | -- | 2/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFuturism and its Discontents by Jamais Cascio | -- | 2/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDisruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 3: Virtual Worlds by Mitch Kapor | -- | 11/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDisruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 2: The Internet and the World Wide Web (Mitch Kapor) | -- | 11/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanInnovation in Social Entrepreneurship and the Social Uses of ICT, by Craig Newmark | -- | 10/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean(Re-)Defining the Public Domain, Carl Malamud | -- | 10/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhen Worlds Collide: Designing social networking services that span physical and digital places by Elizabeth Churchill | -- | 10/9/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDisruptive Innovations I Have Known and Loved - Part 1: The Personal Computer by Mitch Kapor | -- | 10/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPowerset and Natural Language Search (Barney Pell) | -- | 3/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanDemocratizing Innovation by Eric Von Hippel | -- | 2/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPictures of Traces of Places, People, and Groups (Marc Smith) | -- | 10/11/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanWhat Price Insularity? Dialogs about Computer Security Failings (Fred Schneider) | -- | 10/4/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSignals, Truth and Design (Judith Donath) | -- | 9/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom (Yochai Benkler) | -- | 4/27/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Future of Information Panel (Geoff Nunberg, Mimi Ito, Brewster Kahle, Brad Horowitz) | -- | 4/26/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Tour of the Humanities in 2050, or, The Problem of Everything (Quentin Hardy) | -- | 3/22/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCautious Cars, Cranky Kitchens, Demanding Devices (Donald A. Norman) | -- | 3/1/06 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanContent Creation by Massively Distributed Collaboration (Mitch Kapor) | -- | 11/9/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJimmy Wales at SIMS (The Past and Future of Free Online Resources) | -- | 11/3/05 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 52 Episodes |
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