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Spark on CBC Radio One Nora Young helps you navigate your digital life by connecting you to fresh ideas in surprising ways.
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2012-05-20 - Spark 183: Phone Fonts, POV Video, and Long-distance Love Tech | Reid Tatoris on game CAPTCHAs. Cathi Bond on POV Video glasses. Heather Knight on the Robot Film Fest. David Fewer on Bill C-11 and copyright in Canada. Carman Neustaedter on Long-distance relationship tech. Steve Matteson on designing fonts for mobile devices. | 5/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-05-13 - Spark 182: Descriptive Cameras, Bio-hacking, and Forgiving Bad Design | Matt Richardson on the Descriptive Camera. Jamie Malcolm and Mark Winter on The Camera Obscura Project. Hendrik Knoche on apps for the illiterate. Sanjay Arora on the search engine Million Short. Sonya Buyting on bio-hacking. Henry Petroski on how to forgive bad design. | 5/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-05-06 - Spark 181: Robot Comedians, Safety Apps, and Social Learning | Luke Rendell on the Social Learning Tournament. Dale Dougherty and Mitch Altman on the DARPA grant for makerspaces in schools. Edward Birnbaum on safety apps. Chris Parker on human-robot interaction. Heather Knight on Data, the robot comedian. | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-04-29 - Spark 180: Selfsurfing, Open Government, and Data Hunters | Jonas Lund on the browser extension Selfsurfing. Brad Crawford on his film 100 Yen. Denis Grignon on comedians hosting podcasts. David Kattenburg on data-gathering Inuit hunters. Jonathan Brun on Open North and government transparency. Jennifer Pahlka on coding for a better government. | 4/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-04-22 - Spark 179: Meditation, Willpower, and the Algorithmic Economy | Kevin Slavin on the algorithmic economy. Rohan Gunatillake on combining our tech-filled lives with meditation. Sonya Buyting on designer organs that could communicate via Twitter. Ben Lang, Nir Kouris, Stephen Sills, and Carmi Levy on niche social networks. Kelly McGonigal on The Willpower Instinct. | 4/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-04-01 - Spark 178: 17th C Info Overload, Prince Songs as Proto-texts, and Ham Radio as the Original Social Media | Jordan Hermant on the movie Pump Up the Volume as proto-file sharing and blogging. Jo Guldi on the 18th century Open Roads Movement as proto-net neutrality. Michelle Parise on Prince song titles as proto-texts. Colin Newell and Kristin Haring on CB radio/HAM radio as proto-social media. Richard Sennett on class behavior in London coffee houses as proto-status updates. Anaïs Saint-Jude on 17th C information overload as proto-present day information overload. | 3/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-03-25 - Spark 177: Humans Hurting Robots, Loveable User Interfaces, and the Robot Social Network. | Michael Cook on Angelina, the AI game designer. Cathi Bond on the latest trend in buying art online. Julia Ringler on whether humans would destroy a robot if they could. Matt Jones on designing user interfaces with artificial empathy. Carlos Asmat on his social network for robots. | 3/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-03-18 - Spark 176: HR Algorithms, Hospital Surveillance, and Anonymous | Lindsay Michael on the top trends at SXSWi. Sean Carruthers on why algorithms are used more than people in the hiring process. Dr. Michael Gardam on hand washing in hospitals. Corey Takahashi on new innovations out of the Game Developers Conference. Gabriella Coleman on the online movement Anonymous. | 3/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-03-11 - Spark 175: Nature Hacks, Cyber Magic, and Body Interfaces | Chris Harrison on "on-body interfaces". Tema Frank on the future of magic and cyber magician Marco Tempest. Bartholomaus Traubeck on his tree-ring record player. Kate Hartman on her tweeting plant and the relationship between nature and tech. Matt Ratto on "critical making" - understanding technology by making it ourselves. | 3/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-03-04 - Spark 174: Electric Powwows, Speaking Indigenously, and Claiming Cyberspace | Dustin Rivers on using blogs and podcasts to teach Squamish. Jason Lewis on helping Aboriginal kids imagine their place in the future through web videos. Candis Callison on how First Nations people use social media. Susan O’Donnell on Facebook surveillance. Don Bain on using Twitter to bypass the mainstream media. Angie Morris on Aboriginal-owned social networks. Candice Hopkins on indigenous aesthetics on YouTube. | 3/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-02-19 - Spark 173: Open Source Objects, Visual Language, and Beautiful Information | David McCandless on The Information Is Beautiful Awards. Edward Boatman on The Noun Project. Angel Gambino on urban renewal through digital thinking. Jon Kalish on the Open Source Ecology farm. Limor Fried on having fun with open source hardware. | 2/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-02-12 - Spark 172: Smart Cities, Rural Tech, and the Beauty of Binary | Christina Crook and Mary Robinette Kowal on the return to letter writing. Robert Brumley on designing a city with no people. Denis Grignon on the closing urban-rural tech divide. Kristen Haring on the beauty of binary systems. | 2/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-02-05 - Spark 171: Transparency, Crowdsourcing, and Consent | Rebecca MacKinnon on her new book Consent of the Networked. Cyrus Farivar on young politicians and online transparency. Alec Holowka on indie video game design. Michael Keferl on Don Tapscott on crowdsourcing cool. | 2/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-01-29 - Spark 170: Argonauts, Creative Hubs, and The War On Computing | Cory Doctorow on the coming war on personal computing. Byron Holland on balancing copyright protection with an open Internet. AnnaLee Saxenian on regional creative hubs and the new Argonauts. Jonathan Gifford on Berlin as the next Silicon Valley. Mark Surman on using the open principles of the web to create creative tech communities. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-01-22 - Spark 169: Accelerated Innovation, Education, and Employment | Matthew Kirschenbaum with on his upcoming book The Literary History of Word Processing. Edward Birnbaum on digital trap streets. Gerry McCartney on Purdue University's Hotseat technology. Rhonda McEwan on the benefits of mobile tech for non-verbal students. Andrew McAfee on his new book Race Against The Machine. | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-01-15 - Spark 168 – Eye Tracking, Virtual Work, and Total Capture | Peter Nowak with the latest alternative interface technologies at CES. Paul LaFarge on hypertext fiction and the future of literature. Todd Pataky on computers that can identify you by your gait. Ian Cook and Shawn Long on the pros and cons of telecommuting. And Abigail Sellen goes beyond life-logging and total capture to explore the real difference between remembering and simply recording. | 1/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2012-01-06 - Spark 167: The Internet, Information, and Revolution | Spark celebrates the legacy of Alan Turing with two feature-length interviews. Luciano Floridi discusses the Fourth Revolution in knowledge and David Weinberger talks about how knowledge and decision making are changing in the Internet era. | 1/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-12-18 - Spark 166: Library Hacking, Niche Publications, and Enlisting Online Influencers | Baratunde Thurston on enlisting online influencers to campaign for his new book. Steve Rubel on how to manage your time and attention in a transmedia world. Jon Kalish on DIY-ers re-purposing libraries. David Weinberger on library innovation. Cathi Bond on niche subscriptions and the return of the artifact. | 12/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-12-11 - Spark 165 – Data, Design, and Open Science | Tony Haile on the problem with prediction and real-time data analysis. Anshuman Iddamsetty, Suneet Tuli and Anjali Kelkar on designing tech products to serve the needs of people with the lowest incomes. Michael Nielsen on his book Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Seth Cooper on contributing to science through his online game Foldit. Anthony Philbin of meTracker on collecting and analyzing our personal data sets. | 12/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-12-04 - Spark 164: Hackers in Space, Unoriginal Genius, and The Polyglot Web | Luis von Ahn on translating the web into every major language through online volunteers. Marjorie Perloff on poetry and unoriginal genius. Cinnamon Nippard on the amateur, hacker space race. Jane Margolis and Maria Klawe on why gender balance in computer science matters. | 12/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-11-27 - Spark 163: Hypnotizing Computers, Online Ethics, and Your Friend the Social Bot | Tim Maly on the emerging trend of computers being controlled by visual inputs. Daniel Finnan on French site Copwatch and the ethics of posting photos of police online. Konstantin Beznosov on UBC socialbot research. Tim Hwang on The Socialbots 2011 Competition. And Maria Bakardjieva on the implications of socialbot acceptance and immersion in our online lives. | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-11-13 - Spark 162: Solar Gadgets, Tactile Telepresence, and Social TV | Hans Raffauf and Bill St. Arnaud talk social solar-power gadget chargers. Marie-Jose Monpetit on the present and future of social TV. Nora Young visits a telepresence art exhibit. Amanda Lenhart on a new study about teens and social media. And Jon Kalish on DIY sous vide cooking. | 11/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-11-06 - Spark 161: Skype Sleeping, Lonely Blogging, and Personal 3D Viewing | Cathi Bond on the personal 3D viewer, Rob Cruickshank on the history of 3D tech, Nancy Baym on Personal Connections In The Digital World, David Plotz on fake Facebook birthdays, Kaj Hasselriis on Skype Sleeping, Louis Marrone on blogging for no one, and Michelle Parise on the death of love letters. | 11/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-10-30 - Spark 160 – Real-time Renaissance, Kinder Tech, and The Decline of Creativity | Kalina Christoff on whether digital devices are keeping us from being creative. Jeana Lee Tahnk on kids and tech gadgets, Mark Jeffrey on a resurgence in real-time environments, Jillian York on account deactivation and content removal, and Brooke Gladstone on The Influencing Machine. | 10/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-10-23 - Spark 159: Programmers, Hybrids, and Cyborgs - oh my! | Rob Spence on the Eyeborg Project. Ayesha Khanna on living in the hybrid age. Mark Allemang and David Ticoll on the dearth of young people interested in Computer Science and IT. Corey Takahashi shows us all is not lost, with a group of teens who have developed and launched several successful apps. And Douglas Rushkoff on why learning to program should be basic literacy for us all. | 10/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-10-16 – No new podcast this week (and a request) | There’s no new podcast episode this week. We’ll be back with a brand-new podcast episode of Spark next week. Also, if you download podcast using iTunes, we'd really appreciate if you'd go to the Spark iTunes page and rate or review Spark. It'd really help. Honest. Spark on iTunes: http://itun.es/iBY5G3 | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-10-09 - Spark 158 – White-collar Robots, Solar Catastrophes, and the Steam Computer | Jason Kottke and Chris Wilson on Robottke, Ted Striphas on the algorithmization of culture, Marjorie Skubic on sensors and the elderly, Farhad Manjoo on robots replacing humans in high skill professions, Sonya Buyting on solar storms and digital destruction, and John Graham-Cumming on building Babbage’s Analytical Engine. | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-10-02 - Spark 157: Sensors, Predictors, and Recognition Software | Jennifer Steeves and Alessandro Acquisti on facial recognition, Jonathan Koomey on why efficiency is the new power, Jure Leskovec on predicting the future through behaviour mining, and Ayesha Khanna on the future of smart cities | 10/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-09-25 - Spark 156: Election Collection, Lawful Access, and a Retro-80s Remix. | David Fewer and Murray Stooke with both sides of the controversial "lawful access" legislation expected to be unveiled by Canada's federal government in the near future. Kaj Hasselriis on provincial election data collection. Leonard Paul on the art of Chiptune composition. Ernest Cline on his new 80s-obsessed novel Ready Player One. And Nora confesses her sins of pop culture omission to 80s TV icon Erica Ehm. | 9/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-09-18 - Spark 155: Nymwars, Opting Out, and the Wikipedia Gender Gap | Alice Marwick on the cost of opting out of tech and social media. Zeynep Tufekci and scientist blogger "Scicurious" on the need for pseudonymity online. Robert Scoble in defence of the Google+ real name policy. Sue Gardner on gender imbalance on Wikipedia. And Andrew Budziak compares live streamed concerts to the real, sweaty thing. | 9/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-09-11 - Spark 154: The Future of Education, The Myth of the Digital Native, and Designing Memorials for September 11 | Summer is over and Spark is back for our 5th season! This week we give education a reboot, debunk the myth of the digital native, and look at the intersection of art, memory, and math in a memorial for September 11th. | 9/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-08-21 - Spark in the Summer: Siva Vaidhayanathan on The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry) | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan. Siva is a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, and he's the author of The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry). In it, Siva explores how so much of the world has embraced Google over the past decade, and he argues that we need to look critically at that embrace. | 8/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-08-14 - Spark in the Summer: Anders Samberg on Whole Brain Emulation | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's interview with Anders Samberg from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University in England. Anders and Nora talked about "whole brain emulation" -- whether it's possible to keep a digital copy of your entire brain. | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-08-07 - Spark in the Summer: Adam Greenfield on Urban Computing | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Adam Greenfield. Adam is the founder and managing director of the urban-systems design practice Urbanscale and he thinks a lot about the future of the networked city, something he's called urban computing. | 8/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-07-31 - Spark in the Summer: Ilana Gershon on The Breakup 2.0 | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Ilana Gershon, author of The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media. | 7/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-07-24 - Spark in the Summer: Brian Christian on The Most Human Human | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Brian Christian, author of The Most Human Human. It's all about Brian's experience taking part in the Loebner Prize, the annual Turing Test. Along the way, he learned, as he puts it, "what talking with computers teaches us about what it means to be alive." | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-07-17 - Spark in the Summer: Isabel Pedersen on Reality-shifting Devices | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Isabel Pedersen. Isabel is a Communications professor at Ryerson University who studies "reality-shifting devices." | 7/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-07-10 - Spark in the Summer: Tim Wu on The Master Switch | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Tim Wu. Tim was born in Canada, and now works as a law professor at Columbia University in New York, and as an advisor to the US Federal Trade Commission. Nora talks to him about his book, The Master Switch. | 7/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-07-03 - Spark in the Summer: Jane McGonigal on Fixing Reality | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Jane McGonigal says we should consider shifting the way we view game culture, because those hours and that brain power are precious resources we can apply to solving real world problems. That's the subject of her book, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and how They Can Change the World. | 7/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-06-26 - Spark 153: DIY Living, Context-Aware Computing, and The Internet of Elsewhere | Cyrus Farivar on The Internet of Elsewhere. Jon Kalish on living a totally DIY life. Deborah McGuiness on the semantic web. Aditi Muralidharan on building intuition into search. And Hossein Rahnama on context-aware computing. | 6/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-06-19 - Spark 152: Post-Privacy, Facebook Psychology, and Open Data | Peter Rukavina turns realtime energy information into music. Usman Haque helps build "The Internet of Things" with Pachube. Dan Falk explores the psychology of Facebook. Christian Heller lives "post-privacy." And Nora talks to Canada's Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart about her recent report on online tracking and targeting. | 6/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-06-12 - Spark 151: Bee Furniture, Fan Subbing, and The Smartphone Wallet | David Schropfer on Google Wallet and mobile money. Vanessa Harden, Kevin Hill, and Angela Dougall on inter-species collaboration - making furniture with bees. Clare Lawlor and Xiaochang Li on fan subbing and the future of TV broadcasting. And Seth Godin on The Domino Project - cutting out the middleman to make direct connections between authors and readers. | 6/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-06-05 – No new podcast this week | This week on Spark's regular, over-the-air radio broadcast, you'll hear Spark 133: News Games, Super Angels, and The Master Switch which first aired back in January. But you won't hear Spark 133 this week on the podcast, because we've promised no more podcast repeats. We'll be back with a brand-new episode of Spark next week, on June 12. | 6/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-05-29 - Spark 150: Web Consciousness, Unitasking, and Transmedia Trickery | Marshall McLuhan on pushing the medium to its limits. Andrea Phillips on transmedia trickery - the popularity and the risks of transmedia marketing campaigns. Robert J. Sawyer on Web consciousness and his new book Wonder. Dan Misener on a return to unitasking. And Siva Vaidhyanathan on his book The Googlization of Everything. And we celebrate the Spark Sesquicentennial! | 5/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-05-22 - Spark 149: Credibility Hubs, FOMO, and Retrieval | Anand Giridharadas on the new credibility hubs and our return, after many years of seeking the truth for ourselves, to authority for information. Dr. Gary Small on FOMO and social media and how it is re-wiring our brains. Jon Kalish on hackerspaces and a return to a DIY ethic. Aimee Morrison, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi, and Jay Ferguson of Sloan, on rarity and abundance in the current digital music world. | 5/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-05-15 - Spark 148: Stealth Social Marketing, Haptics, and Obsolescence | Marshall McLuhan and what the medium makes obsolete. Mark Paterson on whether our virtual lives are at the cost of our sense of touch. A former stealth marketer on creating false online identities and friendships to influence buying behaviour. Grant McCracken in praise of the 30 second ad spot and why social media has its limits for advertising. Anders Sandberg on the possibility of making sentient software. Dr. Peter Carlen and Roman Genov on a microchip for the brain that could make epileptic seizures obsolete. | 5/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-05-08 - Spark 147: Digital Impermanence, Pervasive Computing, and McLuhan Today | Eric McLuhan on his father's relevance today. Timothy Taylor on why humans didn't make the tools, the tools made us! Adam Greenfield on pervasive computing and the networked city. Philippe Morin with the story of an arctic trapper with his own YouTube channel. And Jason Scott on digital impermanence, the dangers of storing your data in one place. | 5/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-04-24 - Spark 146: Joy, Enchantment, and Work | Jason Fried on why work doesn't happen at work (hint: meetings and managers!). Ingrid Fetell on why we should design for joy. And Guy Kawasaki on how to be a more enchanting and therefore more successful person. | 4/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-04-17 - Spark 145: Data Trails, Tracking, and Hacktivism | Stephan Urbach and Brett Solomon on hactivism and digital freedom. Emrys Westacott on surveillance, children, and ethics. Andrew Bailey on coupon tracking. And Jonathan Gifford on the urban data trail. | 4/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-04-10 - Spark 144: Humans, Bots, and Robonauts | Andrew Goldenberg on Robonauts and other humanoid robots. Sherry Turkle on her book Alone Together. Ben Bashford and Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino on designing emotion and the internet of things. And Brian Christian on his book The Most Human Human. | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-10-01 - Episode 47 | Bill Parry's tale of two laptops, Nathan Eagle empowers people in the Dominican Republic and Kenya through text messages with txteagle, Ken Njoroge sells ringtones to Kenyans, Canada's Digital Wish List: Lynn Sutherland, Charles Zamaria and Sylvain GrandMaison on the French-English digital divide in Canada. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-09-24 - Episode 46 | On this episode of Spark, Stephen Baker introduces Nora to The Numerati, Canada's Digital Wish List: Ron Deibert, director of the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, Spark listeners Ed Shaw and Stuart Croall add their wishes to the Digital Wish List, Gina Trapani talks to Nora while riding her solar powered, GPS enabled, picture-taking Flickr Bike, and Terry O'Reilly looks at the resurgence of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, and the delicate art of marketing to urban hipsters. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-09-17 - Episode 45 | On this episode of Spark, Matt Richtel writes a Twiller - a thriller novel on Twitter, Merlin Mann tells Nora what makes a good blog, Heather Creech talks about her Digital Wish List for the upcoming election, Mitch Kapoor thinks countries should have CTOs - Chief Technology Officers. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer 9 - We're Back! | Spark is back and gearing up for Season 2. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer 8 - Clay Shirky | From May 2008, Nora Young's full interview with Clay Shirky | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer 10 - Telemegaphone Project | A sneak peak at an upcoming item for our first show of Season 2 about a very loud phone on top of a mountain in Norway. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer 7 - Malle Vallik | From May 2008, Nora Young's full interview with Malle Vallik. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer 6 - Derek K. Miller | From April 2008, Nora Young's full interview with Derek K. Miller. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer 5 - Microcelebrities | From March 2008, Nora Young's full panel with Theresa Senft, Sarah Meyers, and Merlin Mann on Microcelebrity | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-11-19 - Episode 54 | Gavin O'Carroll sends postcards to his relatives using Send With Peggy, Don Tapscott explains how the "Net Generation" thinks differently, Pete Nowak explains what system access fees are and why they're disappearing, and Merlin Mann helps build an audience for your blog without alienating the people you admire | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-11-12 - Episode 53 | On this episode of Spark: Jackie Sharkey explains internet use in Nunavut, Spark listeners do their best dial-up impressions, Nora introduces Spark Lite, our low-bandwidth podcast, Laurence Ashworth explains marketing electronics to women, Ying Cheng develops technology for women, and started the No More Pink Phone movement, Nora tries out the GenderAnalyzer, and Merlin Mann encourages bloggers to get better. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-11-05 - Episode 52 | On this episode of Spark, small design decisions with big consequences: Bill Gauley tests toilets for efficiency, Raphael Grignani designs mobile phones for billions of people, Spark listeners weigh in on the future of the phone book, and Dan signs up and signs on with OpenID. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-04-01 - Episode 72: Roombas, Goodbye Emails and Facebook Mea Culpas | Paul Saulnier hacks a Roomba vacuum cleaner so that it moves away from you when you're angry.Saul Greenberg explains why it's hard for computers to understand what humans are feeling.Sean Prpick tells the story of how a Roomba brought pain to his marriage.Futurist Jamais Cascio looks at how we relate to robots, and why we treat them like pets.Megan Hustad wonders wonders why we're compelled to send out goodbye emails. Al Rae is using Facebook to find old friends and say he's sorry. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-03-25 - Episode 71: Music & Technology | Pat and Patrick Costello organize The Ukulele Project to make instructional videos for Tom White's ukulele club in Ogoki Post, Ontario, Jonathan Berger explains why some people prefer the sizzling sound of MP3s, Carl Wilson on how technology influences the aesthetic of pop music, Nora tries out the Emotichair, a chair designed to give deaf people a richer experience of music, and Richard Cytowic studies synaesthesia, a "crossing of the senses" | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-04-08 - Episode 73: Copyright, the public domain, and remix culture | Kutiman remixes YouTube on THRU YOU, Teru remixes Nora's full interview with Kutiman to win Spark's remix contest, James Boyle tries to balance intellectual property rights and the public domain, and Jean Dryden demystifies Canadian copyright law. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-03-11 - Episode 69: Springboard, Metropath(ologies), and CRTC hearings | Cristina Matei designs Springboard, a social network for public transit, Judith Donath explores information overload through Metropath(ologies), Anil Dash unplugged for two weeks, and didn't miss anything, and Peter Nowak explains the current CRTC hearings | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-03-18 - Episode 70: e-Fidgeting, road trip mixtapes, LIFT, and the return of aspic | Dan Misener fidgets with technology. James Levine and Chris Noessel explain why that might be a good thing. Grant Lawrence from CBC Radio 3 makes a road trip mixtape using Harmon Kardon's Amplified Journeys, Cyrus Farivar explores where the future went at the LIFT Conference, and Cathi Bond enjoys the gelatinous food that's all the retro rage: aspic | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-10-29 - Episode 51 | Twanna A. Hines explains the group dating trend, Merlin Mann talks about managing expectations on your blog, Dan asks "How am I supposed to use this phone with my mittens on?" Duncan Elliott explains capacitive touchscreens, Spark listeners call 1-877-34-SPARK, and Alex (Sandy) Pentland sends out Honest Signals. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-10-15 - Episode 49 | Jean Snow looks back at the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, Peter Nowak visits the Brookhaven Lab to learn about Tennis for Two, Merlin Mann teaches Nora to think about her blog audience, Nora falls asleep, Tapani Salmi wakes Nora up to explain HappyWakeUp, and Quinn Norton reflects on the human-robot interfaces and the HAL exoskeleton. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-10-08 - Episode 48 | Dan talks to Ilona Dougherty, Richard Akerman, and Grace Lake about voting online, Nora introduces our new toll-free number: 1-877-34-SPARK, Spark listeners talk about their workplace computer woes, Lisagaye Tomlinson and Paul Martine BYOC (Bring Your Own Computer), Nora talks to Merlin Mann about his upcoming series, and Jane McGonigal explains Superstruct, and gaming for the greater good. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-06-18 - Episode 42 | Chris Higgins discovers Hugh Crawford and Betsy Reid's digital version of Jamie Livingston's 'Polaroid a Day' project, Nora gives an update on Spark's Grandma Dinner, Nora mentions her full interview with Jonathan Zittrain, and Ken Banks explains what the west can learn from cell phone use in Africa | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-06-11 - Episode 41 | Valrie Lamontagne tells the story of Peau d'ne, and talks about her Sun, Moon, and Sky dresses, Roel Vertegaal reshapes computers, Merlin Mann explains how to deal with Turkey Bacn: those unwanted email forwards that clog up your inbox, and Paolo Prandoni builds "billboards that look back." | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-01-14 - Episode 62: Laptops vs. Desktops, iPosture, Ethan Zuckerman and computer viruses in Sierra Leone | As laptops overtake desktops, ergonomist Rabiya Lallani explains the effect computers can have on our bodies. Rabiya and Nora make a video to explain how to set up your laptop for proper ergonomics Nora asks for your ideas on redesigning laptops Ethan Zuckerman explains why the big wide world of the Web may actually be limiting the kind of information you get. Craig Desson reports on Sierra Leone's computer virus pandemic | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-02-04 - Episode 65: Laptops in the Kitchen, Games for Grownups, and ChangeCamp | On this episode of Spark, Hannah Classen brings tech into the kitchen to splatter-proof your internet recipes, Jenova Chen designs video games with a sophisticated emotional palette, Gerjon Zomer saves ink with the Ecofont, and Mark Kuznicki brings people together to re-imagine government and citizenship at ChangeCamp | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-01-28 - Episode 64: Blogs get unplugged, photos get real, and government gets visible | Ben Terrett prints blog posts on newsprint in Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, Dan Pacheco enabled citizen publishers with Printcasting, Liz explains print-on-demand photo technology like this photo frame from Prinics, Andy Kaplan-Myrth promotes government transparency through visiblegovernment.ca | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-03-04 - Episode 68: Greener gadgets, the end of solitude, and becoming the master of your domain | Allan Chochinov of Core77 explains the Greener Gadgets Design Competition 2009, William Deresiewicz on The End of Solitude, Rhonda McEwen researches how university students use mobile phones and social networks to manage feelings of loneliness, Elizabeth Bowie discovers that ElizabethBowie.com is taken, then buys ElizabethBowie.ca, Peter Rukavina explains why everyone should get their own domain for their email, and Spark listeners own a lot of domains | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-02-25 - Episode 67: Twittering Grandma, Digital Legacy, and Ageism in Design | Christian Payne's grandmother is on Twitter, Paul Taylor combines genealogy and social networking with Arcalife, and Glen Hougan teaches his students to design for an aging population | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-02-11 - Episode 66: The tech gap in relationships, meta-movie reviews, and spatial intelligence | Bill Buxton and Elizabeth Russ explain the technology gap in their relationship, Twanna A. Hines on the importance of technological compatibility, Bill Buxton explains how a computer is unlike a pencil, David Edelstein explains how review aggregators are affecting film criticism, Nora tries her hand at the Rubik's 360, Will Shortz explains why our love affair with puzzles persists, Philip Servos on spatial intelligence and Rubik's puzzles, and 9 year-old Callum Moseley solves the Rubik's 360 | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-01-21 - Episode 63: Whoppers, Facebookgate, and Leadership 2.0 | Nora wonders what Burger King's Whopper Sacrifice campaign says about the nature of Facebook friendship, Brad J Ward investigates Facebookgate, Mitch Joel on social media, ethics and marketing, Andy Kaplan-Myrth promotes online tools for government transparency at VisibleGovernment.ca, and Seth Godin explains how the internet is changing leadership | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-01-10 - Episode 61B: CES, Xenophiles, and what if gamers ran the world? | EPISODE 61 UPDATED W/ NEW CES CONTENT ON JAN 10, 2009 -- Nora checks in with Peter Nowak at CES 2009, Tom Armitage wonders What if Gamers Ran the World to discuss what video games can teach the leaders of tomorrow, Ethan Zuckerman on xenophiles, bridge figures, and third-culture kids, Update on Mitch Kapor's idea of a CTO for the USA | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-01-07 - Episode 61: CES, Xenophiles, and what if gamers ran the world? | Nora checks in with Peter Nowak at CES 2009, Tom Armitage wonders What if Gamers Ran the World to discuss what video games can teach the leaders of tomorrow, Ethan Zuckerman on xenophiles, bridge figures, and third-culture kids, Update on Mitch Kapor's idea of a CTO for the USA | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-12-30 - Episode 60: 27 Ideas in 27 Minutes | This week, Spark tried something a little different. Producer Jane Farrow put together a special episode chock-full of fresh ideas for 2009. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-12-24 - Episode 59: Clay Shirky on your cognitive surplus | This week on Spark, a feature interview with Clay Shirky, author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. Clay and host Nora Young talk about the pros and cons of social media, new online business models online, and how big change comes from human motivation, not shiny new technologies. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-12-17 - Episode 58: Memory, Wikipedia,and Sewing 2.0 | Angela Troyer explains why ballroom dancing can help improve your memory, Gary Small says you can teach an old brain new tricks, Cathi Bond explores sewing's resurgence (pun intended), and Chris Jensen assigns his students Wikipedia homework | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-12-10 - Episode 57: Government transparency, blogs, and vlogs | Rahaf Harfoush explains what Obama's campaign and change.gov can teach Canadian politicians about transparency, Tom Steinberg makes it easy to track elected officials using They Work for You, Merlin Mann answers your questions about blogging, and Heather Gold bridges the geek/non-geek divide to explain vlogging | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-12-03 - Episode 56: Boot-up Times and Iconoclasts | On this episode of Spark: David Schlesinger represents call centre employees who are suing over long boot-up and login times, Matt Richtel explains the future of quick-booting computers, Andy Hertzfeld tells the story of saving lives by reducing boot times, and Gregory Berns on Iconoclasts | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-11-26 - Episode 55 | On this episode of Spark, Tony Hsieh blogs about the layoffs at his company, Zappos.com, Don Tapscott explains the Net Generation's new expectations for work, Dan James of silverorange divides his time between CEOing and shingling, and Vincent Lam explains how to be a writer and a doctor. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-03-28 - Spark 107: Bamboo bicycles, pig spleen weather forecasts, and sermon stealing | Jon Kalish visits the Bamboo Bike Studio in Brooklyn, Thomas Aitken escapes dial-up by building a tower, The Rev. Heather McCance explains sermon stealing, Jesse Schell explains why shame is a powerful force in Facebook games, Nora reminds you to backup your digital life, Hannah Classen gets a weather forecast from pig spleen forecaster Jeff Woodward, Nora and Alex Leavitt talk about Glee and transmedia, and "Computers are Hard. Who's to blame?" | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-03-21 - Spark 106: Dematerialization, illegal cassette dubs, and intangible cultural heritage | Dan Misener dematerializes, Michael Geist explains the murky legal waters around dubbing your old cassettes and vinyl, Meryl Swiatek finds a cassette tape of her mom, Hannah Classen shows Nora a few options for audio recording, Renee Sampson learns SENCOTEN, Chris Harvey builds fonts and keyboard layouts, Dale Jarvis records Intangible Cultural Heritage, and Anand Giriharadas explains how Ushahidi is is changing the notion of how to bear witness in these digital times | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-03-07 - Spark 105: Bringing Sexy App | Andy Baio tracks pirated Oscar-nominated films, danah boyd researches teens, privacy, and social media, Jessica Leshnoff reports on the trend of boomers sexting, Ali Rizvi Badshah explains the impact of the internet on the shelf life of jokes, Dan Gillmor on Apple's removal of sexy iPhone apps from its App Store, and Peter Nowak writes about the origins of everyday innovations in his book, Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Shaped Technology as We Know It. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-02-28 - Spark 104: Online friendship, personal branding, and geoweb privacy | Steven Johnson defines the geoweb, Boy van Amstel promotes location-based privacy awareness through Please Rob Me, Laurent LaSalle extoles the virutes of location-based web services like FourSquare, Anand Giridharadas on the trend of personal branding, Upopolis lets young hospital patients chat with one another, and danah boyd and Bill Deresiewicz examine online social networking and the concept of friendship | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-02-21 - Spark 103: Personalized email scams, anti-human software design, and living Craigslist | Anne Wright-Howard tells the story of a personalized email scam, Finn Brunton explains how internet scam artists commit "lightweight identity theft," Judith Donath on the pros and cons of being fashionable online, Rob Ennals identifies controversial claims with DisputeFinder, Karen Mendell tells the story of her worst Craigslist experience, Jason Paul is living his life on Craigslist, and Jaron Lanier believes there's danger in the way the web is evolving | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-02-14 - Spark 102: The mathematics of love, password sharing, and Enterprise 2.0 | Sam Yagan of OkCupid explains the math behind dating websites, Catherine Middleton researches smartphone use, Nora introduces Spark Exchange, Cyrus Farivar asks if you should share your passwords with your partner, Campbell McDonald makes disabled parking more accessible with the Parking Mobility smartphone app, and Andrew McAfee explains Enterprise 2.0 | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-04-16 - Episode 33 | Jenny Sparrow learns that her "unlimited" internet plan actually has some limitations, Bill St. Arnaud on how Canada's broadband access compares to the rest of the world, Spark introduces new video columns, Amber Mac explains Net Neutrality, and why you should care, and Bell's Mirko Bibic on traffic shaping and net neutrality. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-04-09 - Episode 32 | Robert Scoble and Brad Kellett document obsolete skills, Peter Hirschberg shares his love of games through his own personal arcade, Tom Lucier on people who have never dealt a physical hand of solitaire, Jayant Agarwalla and John Chew on the popular and controversial digital Scrabble game Scrabulous, and Sam Flemming on the Chinese trend of Tuangou ("team-buying") | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-04-02 - Episode 31 | Ian Usher sells his life on eBay, Michael Sikorsky crowdsources through Cambrian House, Amber Mac explains why Canadians often can't watch TV online, Nora mentions Hector Serrano's Reduced Carbon Footprint Souvenir concept, Adrian Bowyer on the new manufacturing model that the 3D printer might create, and a panel: Theresa Senft, Sarah Meyers, and Merlin Mann on microcelebrity | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-03-26 - Episode 30 | Spark listeners are geeks, Craig Desson joins the Dork Army, a group of Canadian professional video gamers, Celeste McWhorter defines gamedar, Andr Meadows is a self-professed "proud certified black nerd," Raafi Rivero on the rise of the black nerd, and Ivan Bowman uses a robot to telecommute from Halifax to Waterloo. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-01-31 - Spark 101: iPads, fantasy user interfaces, and workplace surveillance | John Gruber on Apple's iPad announcement, Mark Coleran designs fantasy user interfaces, Scott Berkun explains why the future of UI will be boring, Spark listeners weigh in on earbud etiquette, Cyrus Farivar intvestigates workplace internet filtering, and David Zweig researches monitoring in the workplace | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-01-24 - Spark 100: Distracting clowns, earbud etiquette, and the dark side of the cloud | Dustin Randall and Ira Hyman test people's attentiveness, Steven Yantis studies our brains' abilities to multitask, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty explains capital letters, Wanja Oberhof publishes personalized newspapers with niiu, Gary Liao wonders about earbud etiquette, Google could add real-time advertisements to Street View, Nic Mitham explains advertising in virtual worlds, Cloud 9 invites theatregoers behind the scenes online, and Danny Sullivan on the dark side of the cloud | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-01-17 - Spark 99: Pirates, protecting children, and Web 2.0 suicide | Sahara Byrne researches strategies that families can use to best protect children from negative effects of online behaviour, Sharon Duke Estroff spends time as an undercover mom in online virtual worlds, Rebecca MacKinnon weighs in on Google's new approach to China, Cliff Harris asks why people pirate his games, Matt Mason explores how smart businesses deal with piracy, Gordan Savicic builds the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-01-10 - Spark 98: Traffic lights, digital companions, and Swiss Army knives | Peter Nowak reports from CES 2010, Yorick Wilks explains The Companions Project, Nora's Computer Club: Setting Up a Blog, Nora announces that Spark is airing on Vermont Public Radio, Laurie Dawson tries out Tangible Interaction's digital graffiti wall, Tom Lucier explains Broken City Lab's Cross-Border Communication, the unintended consequences of LED traffic lights, and Bill Buxton and Jared Spool on digital Swiss Army knives and the relative merits of single-purpose and multi-function devices | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-01-03 - Spark 97: How to reclaim meaning in your work life | Seth Godin gives away his free eBook What Matters Now, and Matthew B. Crawford writes about the value of work in his book, Shop Class as Soulcraft | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-12-20 - Spark 96: Aspirational technology, the future of search, and dinner with a stranger | Ian Manheimer helps find the perfect gadget with Measy, Caterina Fake on Hunch and the future of search, Franke James has Dinner with a Stranger named Mark Shouldice, Dan Misener shows Nora the Spark Holiday Remote Access Toolkit, Rex Sorgatz publishes the List of Lists, and James Gee explains what video games can teach us about the way we learn | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-12-13 - Spark 95: Spam, scams, and holiday sentiments | Clancy Delbarre and Barbara Miller explain the import of eCards on paper and ink cards, David Jevans from the Anti-Phishing Working Group explains how to avoid holiday eCard scams, Finn Brunton researches the unintended consequences of spam, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty demystifies holiday grammar, Steve Rubel lists Ten Common Phrases That Could Soon Be History, Lianne Raymond investigates techdropping, and Grant McCracken makes the case for the Chief Culture Officer | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-12-06 - Spark 94: Magic technology, glove hackers, and the age of metrics | Gus Savoie remembers the first email he sent, Dan Misener hacks his gloves with conductive thread so they work with his iPhone, Julie Ireton looks at Canadian copyright, Hannah Classen heads to the roof to look at space colonies, Craig Fahner waters his garden remotely with #garden, and Anand Giridharadas on the age of metrics | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-03-19 - Episode 29 | Lee LeFever explains technology In Plain English, Laurent Haug bridges the divide in the kitchen through grandma dinners, and Andr Caron explains the mobile digital divide. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-03-12 - Episode 28 | Eszter Hargittai uses her camera to remember the cheese she likes, Saul Greenberg on how technology has changed the way we remember, Clive Thompson asks if an outboard brain makes you stupid, Patrick Davidson on the cognitive neuroscience of memory, danah boyd shares her algorithms for dumb security questions, Tom Lucier on spilled beer and Barilliant, and Genevieve Bell on keeping track of your digital lies | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-03-05 - Episode 27 | Nora tells the story of the Virginia Snow Day, Marc Fisher and danah boyd on what the snow day story says about digital culture right now, Dr. Brian Goldman reveals the correct diagnoses in our cyberchondriacs contest, Steven Skolne invents a new sport: speedcabling, and Nora challenges cable wizard Keith Murray to a speedcabling match. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-04-22 - Episode 75: Self-monitoring, interactive magazines, and a Twittering cat door | Gus and Penny (who are cats) use a Twittering Cat Door, Nicholas Felton on self-monitoring and Daytum.com, Nora and Elizabeth review some of the messy desktop contest entries submitted so far, Anand Agarwala explains human-computer action, and shows Nora Bumptop, and Tim Devin publishes I Left This Here for You to Read. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-02-27 - Episode 26 | A repeat podcast from January 9, 2008: Nora needs to pee, and consults MizPee, Carlo Ratti maps the Wikicity, Joe Pompei beams sound with the Audio Spotlight, Kristen Nauth explains multisensory marketing, Dan Ackerman Greenberg greases the wheels of viral video, Jean Burgess on the viral nature of the web, and Nora introduces the Spark Wiki, then asks for your questions for her interview with Howard Rheingold. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-04-15 - Episode 74: Religion in a digital age, WiFi t-shirts, and curating the web | Rachel Wagner researches the intersection of digital culture and religion, and what it means for how we understand the sacred, Liane Balaban reads her poem "Wireless Networks," Nora and Jesse Wente try out the WiFi t-shirt, and Jason Kottke curates the web | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-02-20 - Episode 25 | The top health searches of 2007, Steve Lohr on Google Health and the consumerization of health information, Spark and White Coat, Black Art team up to give two listeners medical conditions, Keith Laycock explains why you can't use cell phones in the hospital, and Judy Illes on the ethics of cognitive enhancement drugs. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-02-13 - Episode 24 | Dan Misener accidentally receives someone else's email, a Spark listener uncovers digital evidence for divorce cases, David Paccioco explains on how the law treats digital evidence, Lawyer Lou Brzezinski carries a blank laptop, Clive Thompson keeps the his most important information on his laptop, not in his head, Nora mentions Spark's self-diagnosis contest, and Nick Carr explains the big switch in computing. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-02-06 - Episode 23 | Kevin Lawver and Saffron write very short stories called Ficlets, Tom Howell defends idiosyncrasy, Michael Kinsley tells the story of the LA Times Wikitorial, Calendar Girl makes a collaborative record through Calendar Songs, and Howard Rheingold on collaborative technology and collective action. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-01-30 - Episode 22 | Nora builds a Virtual Nora with My Virtual Model, Ian McCarthy explains mass customization, Julien Smith says the web is built for text, Jim Glass searches audio with the MIT Lecture Browser, James Graham harvests the energy of human movement with crowd farms, and Dan Misener bundles up. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-01-23 - Episode 21 | Luke Closs measures his energy use with his Kill-a-watt, Michael Bhardwaj fights vampire power, Alex Steffen blogs bright green at Worldchanging, Bruce MacDougall poses an energy riddle, Tom Howell investigates obsolete armoires, and Bill St. Arnaud explains how the Internet causes carbon emissions. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-01-16 - Episode 20 | Alex Pang on "Googling your stuff" with RFID tags, Justin Langois turns RSS feeds into art in With Love, RSS, Virginia Heffernan defends lurking, Maddy Janse builds the connected house of the future with the Amigo Project, and Alex Pang returns to explore the future of RFID | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-01-09 - Episode 19 | Nora needs to pee, and consults MizPee, Carlo Ratti maps the Wikicity, Joe Pompei beams sound with the Audio Spotlight, Kristen Nauth explains multisensory marketing, Dan Ackerman Greenberg greases the wheels of viral video, Jean Burgess on the viral nature of the web, and Nora introduces the Spark Wiki, then asks for your questions for her interview with Howard Rheingold. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-01-02 - Episode 18 | Spark listeners share their technological New Year's resolutions, Gina Trapani boosts her productivity with some New Year's life hacks, Spark producer Elizabeth de-clutters by donating her CD-ROMs to MOOT, the Museum of Obsolete Technologies, Rick Prelinger archives ephemeral films, and students at George Brown College resolve to learn to type | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-12-26 - Episode 17 | Spark listeners watch TV on demand, Matthew Cashmore on the shared experience of television, Nora and Cathi Bond watch a giant outdoor television, Peter Rukavina explains living with a Nabaztag WiFi-enabled rabbit, and Anand Giridharadas explains outsourcing 2.0. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-12-19 - Episode 16 | Frank Branham explains why so many board games come with DVDs, Tom Lucier has a love/hate relationship with USB gadgets as Christmas gifts, Darsha Hewitt turns electronic toys into circuit bent instruments, Jay Baydala wants to eliminate extreme poverty through ChristmasFuture, Techiquette: Tom Howell asks if it's ethical to upgrade to the latest power-hungry electronics | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-12-12 - Episode 15 | George Norman Lippert writes Harry Potter fan fiction, Denis McGrath on fan fiction, Daniel Gervais on the legal implications of fan fiction and remix culture, Rick Prelinger on the peaceful co-existence of fee and free (full interview, Spark listeners confess their love for old technology, the University of Manitoba holds a funeral for its mainframe, and Mitch Joel on online reputation management. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-12-05 - Episode 14 | What the heck is my kid doing? Technology that parents just don't understand, high school students Rose and Brad from Spartan Youth Radio explain how they use technology, Barbara Coloroso on parenting in the age of surveillance, Emily Want on Anne's Diary, a social networking site for girls, kids explain the technology their parents just don't understand, Tom Lucier is a paper man, and students from Spartan Youth Radio explain their relationships with technology. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-11-28 - Episode 13 | (Some) Spark listeners are geeks, Craig Desson joins the Dork Army, a group of Canadian professional video gamers, Celeste McWhorter defines gamedar, Andr Meadows is a self-professed "proud certified black nerd," Raafi Rivero on the rise of the black nerd, and Anand Giridharadas explains outsourcing 2.0. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-11-21 - Episode 12 | Matthew Cashmore on the shared experience of television, Nora and Cathi Bond watch a giant outdoor television, Peter Rukavina explains living with a Nabaztag WiFi-enabled rabbit, Techiquette: Tom Howell investigates the ethics of personal outsourcing, and Anand Giridharadas explains outsourcing 2.0 | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-11-14 - Episode 11 | Elizabeth Bowie admits her WiFi is unsecure, Rob Burbach explains the latest trends in credit card fraud, Tracey Black explains the next generation of payment systems -- the chip card, Roger Ball measures Chinese head and face shapes for the SizeChina project, Robert Beggs helps Elizabeth secure her WiFi, Darin Myman on the BigString self-destructing email service, and Robert Ransick explains his artwork Casa Segura. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-11-07 - Episode 10 | Lorraine Gauthier gives John Van Dusen's wartime house a green makeover as part of the Now House project, John Moralee and Tom Steinberg improve their neighbourhoods using FixMyStreet , Techiquette: Tom Howell investigates the legalities and ethics of using your neighbour's WiFi, the grade five class at Market Lane Public School cranks dat Soulja Boy, and Xiaochang Li explains the success of Soulja Boy and how internet trends cross over into the mainstream. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-11-29 - Spark 93: Too much information, digital pack rats, and Wikipedia's digital blind spots | Gabriella Coleman explains why ebook piracy may be poised to shake up the publishing business, Tim Pretty and Rob Hyndman on digital pack rats, Daemon Fairless's iPod changed his relationship with music, Nora and Sue Foley rock out with ThinkGeek's Electronic Rock Guitar Shirt, Cyrus Farivar surfs the Halal web, Mark Graham maps Wikipedia's digital blind spots and Clay Shirky on how we shape tools and tools shape us | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-11-22 - Spark 92: FloH club, new media literacy, and getting the old age you deserve | Sean Cole tries out the FloH Club, a new computer service aimed at older people, Your Job Before the Internet: Todd Thicke and Michele Nasraway, co-executive producers of America's Funniest Videos, Jenna McWilliams teaches new media literacy, Nora mentions that the Amazon Kindle is now available in Canada, Cyrus Farivar visits UCLA for the 40th anniversary of the Internet, Joe Coughlin from MIT's AgeLab on the future of aging | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-11-15 - Spark 91: CAPTCHAs, data visualization and romancing the phone | Luis von Ahn fights spam and digitizes books with CAPTCHAs and reCAPTCHA, John Lee plays matchmaker for mismatched shoes with unevenfeet.com, Daemon Fairless investigates texting and dating, December's issue of Esquire magazine has an augmented reality cover, Hannah Classen wonders why we don't have robotic butlers, Fernanda Viegas visualizes data with Many Eyes, and Lawrence Lessig explains the perils of openness in government | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-11-01 - Spark 90: The pleasures and sorrows of work, continuous partial attention, and email apnea | Alain de Botton on the pleasures and sorrows of work, and Linda Stone on continuous partial attention and email apnea | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-10-25 - Spark 89: Traditional knowledge, instant film, and online borders | V. K. Gupta protects ancient wisdom in the Traditional Knowledge Digital Library, Jeremy de Beer on traditional knowledge and intellectual property, Spark Quest: Grant Lawrence tries out Sony's Party-shot camera accessory, Nora checks in with Andr Bosman of The Impossible Project, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty advises Patrick Horneker about writing for an international audience on the web, Pete Nowak updates Nora on Canadian net neutrality, Dan Misener explains geoblocking, and Roger Martin expla | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-10-18 - Spark 88: Tracking trash, the real value of stories, and social media for businesses | David Eaves explains VanTrash, Jennifer Dunnam tracks trash with MIT's Sensible City Lab's Trash | Track, Rob Walker co-curates the Significant Objects Project, Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty gives advice about email subject lines, Rick Fogarty uses Skype for hairstyle consultations, Bernd Boesemeyer deals with a negative review of his B&B on TripAdvisor, and Mitch Joel explains why businesses should embrace online conversations | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-10-04 - Spark 87: Open science, general knowledge, and doctors before the internet | Tom Howell fixes his leaky sink with a little help from his father (and Skype), Daemon Fairless learns cabinetmaking, cooking, and guitar on YouTube, Jenny Carpenter explains Open Science, Mignon Fogarty (AKA Grammar Girl) explains where to place emoticons and links in email messages, Your Job Before the Internet: Dr. Stewart Cameron, Francois Jacques worries about covert Googling at his pub trivia night and Brian Cathcart wonders, "Is Google Killing General Knowledge?" | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-06-04 - Episode 40 | Eugene Potapov helps deer blog, Steven Johnson on the state of the Geoweb, Justin Hall explains PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, and Ron Baecker develops memory prosthetics for seniors, amnesics, and Alzheimer's patients | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-05-28 - Episode 39 | Harlequin's Malle Vallik publishes romance 2.0, Amber Mac explains what the US switch to digital broadcasting in 2009 means for Canadians, Nora introduces Elena, star of Spark's upcoming Grandma Dinner, and Bill Buxton on webcams, telepresence, and if location matters anymore. Go to cbc.ca/spark for links, information, full interviews, and contests. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-05-21 - Episode 38 | Clay Shirky talks about our cognitive surplus. Merlin Mann helps Nora cringe-bust her TODO list with 3 easy tips. Spark listeners share their tips too. Nora thinks voicemail is obsolete, and you fill our inbox with your opinions. Kate Raynes-Goldie reports back from ROFLCon with her take on internet memes.And I Can Has Reuseable Grocery Bag? Enter Spark's lolcat contest. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-05-14 - Podcast repeats? | The on-air version of Spark is a repeat this week. Instead of replaying it, Nora talks to Raj Patel about podcast repeats. If you're looking for the episode that went to air this week, see http://www.cbc.ca/spark/blog/2008/02/show_notes_february_13_2008.html | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-10-31 - Episode 9 | Are advertisements becoming smarter than we are? Nick Prigioniero explains marketing through narrowcasting, Anastasia Goodstein on marketing to kids in virtual worlds, John Furneaux tells us how Life Brand tissue boxes got their stripes, Allen Adamson on product repackaging trends, and Tom Howell spins hybrid vinyl CDs right round, baby, right round. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-10-24 - Episode 8 | Adrian Bowyer prints in 3D with RepRap, Richard Harper demystifies the paperless office, Jeff Bilmes controls a mouse pointer with the vocal joystick, Jamais Cascio and William Gibson on the future of the 3D Web, and Cory Kidd and Amna Carreiro on Autom: A Robotic Weight Loss Coach | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-10-17 - Episode 7 | Matthew Seiler brews some do-it-yourself root beer, Sherry Huss on Maker Faire and the DIY movement, Jamais Cascio and William Gibson on smart environments and the future of the Internet, Journalism student Catherine Rolfsen interviews Andrew Keen and Rahaf Harfoursh about the future of newspapers, your reactions to cell phones on airplanes,and Nora and Tom Howell try to change traffic lights using magnets | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-10-10 - Episode 6 | Nora rides David McCallum's Warbike, Jesse Wente unwires his house with Internet over Power Lines, William Kamkwamba builds a windmill to bring electricity to his home, Ory Okolloh on the power of blogging in Africa, Nora mentions Afrigator, an African blog aggregator, Promo for next episode: William Gibson interview, Techiquette: Is it OK to use your cell phone on an airplane? | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-10-03 - Episode 5 | On this episode of Spark: Nora drops her cellphone in the sink, the toilet, and the pool, Karen Ryan on Trash Luxe, design that finds "beauty in unexpected and unwanted materials,"CScout Japan's Michael Keferl explains QR codes, Ivan Bowman answers questions about his robot IvanAnywhere, Lane Becker and Patti Roll on crowdsourced customer service with Satisfaction, and Khoi Vinh on designed deterioration. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-09-27 - Spark 86: Digital forgetting, email salutations, and food pills | Andrew Feldmar is barred from entering the US after a border guard Googled his name, Viktor Mayer-Schnberger believes that digital technology should forget, Mignon Fogarty (AKA Grammar Girl) talks about email salutations and parentheses, Lynn Glazier explores the culture of sexual harassment among teens, Hannah Classen discovers what ever happened to the food pill, Dan Misener looks at the "new old" way to be a pirate, and Peter Nowak of cbc.ca/technology drops by for a Net Neutrality update | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-09-20 - Spark 85: Augmented reality, chiptune jazz, and a world without email | Luis Suarez explains how he got rid of corporate email and replaced it with social software tools, Marla Thirsk is still on dial-up, Cathi Bond explains two trends in augmented reality, science fiction author Bruce Sterling contemplates the future implications of AR, Daniel Jones tells the story of NBC versus the pirates, Andy Baio crowdfunds a chiptune cover of Kind of Bloop, and THWOMP revives classic video game music in their "Nintendo cover band" | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-09-13 - Spark 84: Regrettable videos, Open Textbooks, and Twittering Taco Trucks | Timothy Tackett (AKA Mr UNSTABL3) takes a bath in a Burger King sink, Bill Wasik and Hal Niedzviecki on regrettable online videos, and what to do about them, Hannah Classen wonders what happened to the promise of a flying car, Eric Frank from Flat World Knowldge publishes open textbooks, Kate Arkless Gray and the BBC's World Service preserve endangered sounds with Save our Sounds, and Cyrus Farivar dines at Twittering taco trucks | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-08-26 - Spark in the Summer: Anil Dash and Gina Trapani on keeping last years model | Extended interview with Anil Dash and Gina Trapani. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-08-19 - Spark in the Summer: Gary Hustwit on Objectified | Extended interview with Gary Hustwit. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-08-12 - Spark in the Summer: William Deresiewicz on The End of Solitude | Extended interview with William Deresiewicz. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-08-05 - Spark in the Summer: Rachel Wagner on digital culture and religion | Extended Interview with Rachel Wagner. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-07-22 - Spark in the Summer: Carl Wilson on MP3s and the Sound of (Pop) Music | Extended Interview with Carl Wilson | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-07-29 - Spark in the Summer: Glen Hougan on designing for seniors | Extended interview with Glen Hougan. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-07-15 - Spark in the Summer: Seth Godin on Tribes | Extended interview with Seth Godin | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-07-08 - Spark in the Summer: Jane McGonigal on gaming for the greater good | Extended interview with Jane McGonigal. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-07-01 - Spark in the Summer: Ed Burtynsky on 10,000 year old photos | Extended interview with Ed Burtynsky. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-06-24 - Episode 83: Corrupted files, what I wore, and email sabbaticals | Scott Jaschik on trust and digital cheating in the classroom, Dan Misener looks at "What I Wore"-style blogs, Jenny Carpenter investigates forensic linguistics and sentiment analysis, and danah boyd takes an email sabbatical | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-04-03 - Spark 143: Coupons, Dynamic Deals, and Bubbles | Mathew Ingram on the new tech bubble. Andrew Gregson on online dynamic pricing. Paul Cubbon on online group buying pitfalls. And Sterling Eyford on coupon hacking. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-05-07 - Episode 36 | Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom closes its doors, Beth Coleman on participation, ownership and identity in online virtual worlds, Spark listeners share their "off the grid" stories, John Sanderson tries to keep large trucks from getting stuck in Wedmore, England, and Michael Feir gives Nora a tour of the internet from the perspective of a blind person. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-04-30 - Episode 35 | Derek K. Miller wonders if he needs a digital executor, Amber Mac explains Creative Commons, Catherine tells the story of losing her digital photos when her Powerbook died, Merlin Mann of 43Folders.com builds a Disaster Preparedness Kit for your digital life, The Guardian's Charles Arthur explains Phorm's partnership with UK ISP to deliver targeted advertising and Lauren Weinstein thinks ISPs shouldn't have right to intercept users' internet communications. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-04-23 - Episode 34 | Patrick Griffin designs fonts and sells them online at MyFonts, Virginia Postrel explains the cultural currency of type, Jeff MacIntyre uses zenware to focus on his writing, Dane Watkins tests small communities for their collective dysfunctions through his art project Disorder and Naomi S. Baron on how digital technology affects the way we read and write. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-09-26 - Episode 4 | Mike Partridge explains his cochlear implant, Kevin Englehart on the new wave of artificial limbs, Ryan Knighton on computer screen reader monotony, Spark visits a German-style games night at Drexoll Games in Vancouver, is it OK to look at someone else's browser history?, David Sky writes a sequencer plugin for Audacity, Pedro Mendes on Digital camera hacks, and Andy Thompson and Patrick Condon on the return of the trailer park. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-06-17 - Episode 82: Teen texting tales, accessible technology, and viral culture | Spark listeners call in with their terrifying teen texting tales, Al Rae tries to send and receive 80 texts in one day, Nora visits the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto, and Bill Wasik on how the internet is changing culture | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2007-09-05 - Episode 1 | On the first episode of Spark, Nora Young explores Plagiarism 2.0, cleaning your keyboard in the dishwasher, interactive film, and Omlet. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-06-10 - Episode 81: Canadian broadband, Twaiku poetry, Cigarette vending machines, and Bookcamp | CANARIE's Bill St. Arnaud explains the current state of Canadian broadband, and comments on the OECD's recent broadband report, Rayat Deonandan writes Twitter haiku poems, Michael Keferl of CScout Japan explains Taspo, the Japanese RFID-enabled "tabacco passport," and Hugh McGuire explores the future of books and publishing in the digital age at BookCamp Toronto. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-05-20 - Episode 78: Soaking dishes, driving tech innovation with porn, and cultural laziness | Stef and Luigi disagree about soaking dishes online with Sidetaker.com, Peter Nowak explains how the business of pornography fuels the business of technology, Kate Rich runs Feral Trade, a "freight network outside of commercial systems," and Cyrus Farivar admits his cultural laziness. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-06-03 - Episode 80: Social Translation, Mapmaking 2.0, Drunk Dialing, and Open Cities | Ethan Zuckerman explains social translation and the multilingual web, Cyrus Farivar reports back from the Where 2.0 conference, Nora mentions Bad Decision Blocker iPhone app, and Gmail's Mail Goggles feature, and Andrea Reimer explains Vancouver's plan to open up municipal data | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-05-13 - Episode 77: QWERTY, Objectified, and Last Year's Model | Nora delves into the deep, dark history of the QWERTY keyboard layout (guests include: Martin Howard, Bill Buxton, Stan Liebowitz, Philip Steadman, and Jared Spool), Gary Hustwit interviews industrial design heavyweights for his documentary Objectified and Anil Dash and Gina Trapani want you to buy great gadgets, then keep them with LastYearsModel.org | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-03-27 - Spark 142: Dialects, Devices, and Distraction | Constable Hugh Smith on cycling and distraction. Clifford Nass on multi-tasking to distraction. Gabriela Herman on her blogger portrait series. Philippe Morin on the Phraselator, a translation tool helping people in Canada's western arctic keep their languages alive. Noah Smith on how slang used on Twitter can actually help geographically locate someone. Rick Ashmann on his Map of North American English Dialects, which he plots using Youtube clips. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-05-06 - Episode 76: Online activism, lurking, mashups, and APIs | Anders Colding-Jrgensen created a real Facebook group about a fictitious cause: "No to the demolition of the Stork Fountain," Evgeny Morozov on Slactivism and the role social media can play in political activism, Jim Lebans defends lurking, Jer Thorp uses the NYT NewsWire API to control a smoke detector called the NewsAlarm, and explains the importance of APIs. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-05-27 - Episode 79: Digital preservation, Exclamation Marks (!!!) and SPIN Farming | Seamus Ross, Dean of the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, explains digital preservation, Mignon Fogarty (AKA Grammar Girl) talks about exclamation marks and interrobangs, and Wally Satzewich starts a web-powered, veggie growing revolution called SPIN Farming | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-03-13 - Spark 141: Police, Perps and Social Media | This week on Spark, a special look at Law Enforcement & Social Media. How can police take advantage of all the opportunities that social media offers, while avoiding the pitfalls? We'll hear about how police are using tools like Facebook and Twitter right now. We'll hear about what they should (and shouldn't) be doing online. And we'll get a glimpse of the other side: how the "bad guys" use social media. Plus, what happens when people use social media to take the law into their own hands. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-03-06 - Spark 140: WiFi Art, Digital Legacy, and C is for Computer | Computer programming legend Brian Kernighan on why we all need to understand the basics of computers. John Gruber, Todd Sieling, Tris Hussey, Jono Xai, and Jenna McWilliams on why computers are so hard. John Freeman and Ilana Gershon on the trouble with email formalities and etiquette. Einar Sneve Martinussen on WiFi and the immaterial. And Adele McAlear on death and digital legacy. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-02-27-Spark 139: 3D Food Printers, DIY Toasters, and Digital Currency | Anshuman Iddamsetty and Andrew Whinston on digital currency. Kaj Hasselriis on mobile money in Kenya. David Schropfer on the mobile payment industry. Thomas Thwaites on the Toaster Project. Jeffrey Lipton and Dave Arnold on 3D food printing. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-02-20 - Spark 138: Rap Metrics, Machine Poets, and The Breakup 2.0 | Ilana Gershon on her book The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media. Anand Giridharadas on his new book India Calling: An Intimate Portrait of a Nations Remaking. Noah Smith on automated question answering. Michael Galvez on Google's poetry translator project. And Liban Ali Yusuf on RapMetrics, statistical analysis of rap. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-02-06 - Spark 137: Broken Realities, Net Delusions and The Kill Switch | Ron Deibert on the internet as a basic human right. Evgeny Morozov on his latest book The Net Delusion. Chris Eaton on embracing the digital world as an artist. Mike Masnick on new business models for book publishers.Jane McGonigal on her new book Reality Is Broken. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-01-30 - Spark 136: Online Introverts, Designing for Solitude, and The Drama of Usage Based Billing | Steve Anderson, Mirko Bibec and Markus Giesler on Usage Based Billing in Canada. Sandra Ferrari on internet introverts. Ben Fullerton on designing for solitude. And Kyle Wiens on importance of being able to tamper with your own digital devices. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-01-23 - Spark 135: Online Curating, World Music 2.0, and Tweeting Cavemen | Sterling Eyford on research into cave drawings as proto-tweets. Dr.Harvey Karp argues toddlers are like cavemen so you need to communicate with them in short bursts. Hannu Ripatti on social media for toddlers. Cathi Bond on the new wave of curated and closed online journalism. Al Rae on Glenn Gould's prescient view of technology and music. And Wayne Marshall on World Music 2.0, a new digitally-fueled way of creating music. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-01-16 - Spark 134: Tractor Beams, Domain Names, and Wireless Power | Pete Nowak on wireless power and gesture technology at CES. James Stribopoulos on police cell phone searches without a warrant. Eric Rabkin on scifi predictions come true. And Kieren McCarthy on the opening up of top-level internet domain names. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-01-09 - Spark 133: News Games, Super Angels, and The Master Switch | Tim Wu on the historical cycling of innovation in information empires. Boris Wertz on what it takes to get your tech startup backed by angel investors. Kellee Santiago on the future of video games as communication tools. Ian Bogost on newsgames as journalism tools. And Amanda Cox on data visualization in journalism. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2011-01-02 - Spark 132: Innovation special with Steven Johnson and Barbara van Schewick | First, a feature interview with Steven Johnson, author of Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation. Then, Nora's interview with Barbara van Schewick, Stanford law prof and computer scientist, and author of Internet Architecture and Innovation. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-12-19 - Spark 131: Digi-minimalism, Telepresence, and Twinfluence | Anil Dash on numbers and influence on Twitter. Meg Wilcox on an Ottawa research team taking telepresence to the next level. Waafa Bilal on the camera hes implanted in the back of his head. Kelly Sutton and Cathi Bond on digital minimalism. And Eyal deLara on the pros and cons of cloud computing. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-12-05 - Spark 130: The Web Turns 20, African e-Commerce, and Libellous Linking | David Fewer on libellous links. Tim Wu on the danger of the decline of innovation on the Web. Kori Shearstone on the 20th Anniversary of the Web. Femi Akinde on e-commerce for the poor. Jackie Strecker on information and communication technologies in refugee camps. And Nate Tabak on Kosovos struggle for digital sovereignty. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-11-28 - Spark 129: Female start-ups, family trees, and copyright | James Boyle and David Fewer on copyright reform. Jon Kalish on online DIY genealogy. Penelope Trunk on why there are so few women founding venture-backed tech start-ups. Vivek Wadhwa on how male and female entrepreneurs are really no different. And Wendy Powely on the dearth of women in Computer Science. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-11-21 - Spark 128: Noise, Filters, and Birdsong | Julian Treasure on the pervasive nature of sound. Kate Crawford on the overload of information noise. Brain Whitman on hacks that filter out music you dont like. William Gibson on how social media is making the internet like a mall. And Finn Brunton on spam filters and taking down spam kingpins. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-11-14 - Spark 127: William Gibson, Lumberjack Chic, and The Last IP Address | Dan Misener and Paul Anderson on the fact we are running out of IP addresses, and how the new IPV6 will help. Vanessa Grant on workplace social media guidelines. Helen Nissenbaum on contextual integrity and privacy online. Andrea Chiu on why the internet is so crucial to LGBT youth. William Gibson on his latest novel, Zero History. And Todd Falkowsky on the trend toward retro Canadiana. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-11-07 - Spark 126: Games, Games, Games! | Michelle Hoyle on the hows and whys of "grinding" in World of Warcraft. Jennifer Jenson on the still absent female perspective in game culture. Mare Sheppard and Jim Munroe on indie video game making and games as art. Seth Priebatsch on the gamification of our lives. And Dan Hon on keeping games fun. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-10-31 - Spark 125: Brain Tweets, Better Buses, and Paper | Dustin Freeman on digital devices that act like paper. Olivier Thereaux and Mark Miller on building better bus systems. The Dalai Lama on how technology effects our happiness. Baratunde Thurston on the merits of email lists. Austin Serafin on the blind using iPhones. And Sonya Buyting on the latest in mind-computer interfaces. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-10-24 - Spark 124: Farm Bots, Shifting Reality, and Life Logging | Ethan Zuckerman on personal media monitoring and Ian Kerr on life-logging. Isabel Pedersen on reality-shifting interfaces. Sean Prpick on the advent of robotic farming. Max Drucker on hiring using social media intelligence. And Valdis Krebs on network analysis and intelligence in the workplace. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-10-10 - Spark 123: Personalization, Perfect Playlists, and Privacy | Cyrus Farviar on the privacy issue in Germany over Google Street View. A look at Google Street View and how it has become a way for us to connect with our past. Paul LaMere and Bill Goldsmith on making the perfect playlist can a computer do a better job than a human? George Sirk travels to the Arctic hear how the internet has changed the lives of Inuit. Nick Bilton on his new book I Live In The Future & Heres How It Works. Anand Giridharadas & Joanne McNeil on the decline of mass culture. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-10-03 - Spark 122: Bits, Tools, and Digital TV | Bill St.Arnaud and Michael Geist on the Digital TV transition. Jer Thorp on online tools built on top of one another. James Cochrane and his electric parts-band The Bit 52's. Nora Young with Rochelle Mazar and Hugh McGuire on Public Domain art on portable devices. Clifford Nass on human-computer interaction and his new book "The Man Who Lied To His Laptop". | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-09-26 - Spark 121: Blooks, Co-creation, and Twitter Strangers | Joel Johnson, Jonah Lehrer, Charlan Nemeth on how following strangers on Twitter can expand our creative potential. Michael Onesi and Tim Carmody on the proliferation of blogs being published as books. Michelle Parise on the overwhelming amount of digital photos and whether theyve lost their meaning. Don Tapscott on his new book MacroWikinomics. John Winsor on how to do better at collaboration and co-creation in the advertising world. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-09-12 - Spark 119: Big Fat Books, Micro-volunteering, and Search Engine Misnomers | Kelly McBride looks at the misnomer 'Ground Zero Mosque' and what it means for online journalism. Hannah Classen talks big books. Cesil Fernandes tries to camp without technology. Micki Krimmel talks about collective consumption through sharing with your neighbours. And we talk micro-volunteering with Jacob Colker and Dave Rand. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-09-05 - Spark in the Summer: Super Sad True Love Story | The Spark team is back and getting ready for Season 4. This week on the podcast, our full interview with Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-09-19 - Spark 120: Cyborgs, Digital Sabbaths, and Super Sad True Love | Gary Shteyngart on his new dystopian novel Super Sad True Love Story. Mike Wise on how he now takes a "Digital Sabbath" one day a week. Peter Rukavina on printing out books versus e-readers. Tim Maly on the 50th anniversary of the coining of the word cyborg. Sarah Bridge on the impact genetic testing has had on her family in relation to breast cancer. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-08-29 - Spark in the Summer: Twitter Strangers | The Spark team is back in the saddle, getting ready for Season 4. This week on the podcast, a sneak peek at a story we're working on all about Twitter Strangers. Hear from Joel Johnson and Jonah Lehrer. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-08-22 - Spark in the Summer: Mary Madden on reputation management and social media | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: Mary Madden from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Back in May, Pew released a really interesting report about social networking habits. It looked at how we monitor whats being said about us on the internet and the ways we make changes to that information to manage our online reputation. Mary Madden was the lead author of the report. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-08-15 - Spark in the Summer: Jay Frank on the future of hit songs | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: Jay Frank. Jay is the author of Futurehit.DNA: How the Digital Revolution is Changing Top 10 Songs. Jays book is all about how we listen to music now, and what effect thats having on how pop music is created. Spark will return in September with brand new episodes. Thanks for listening, and please, stay subscribed. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-08-08 - Spark in the Summer: Tina Roth Eisenberg | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: Tina Roth Eisenberg. Tina runs the popular design blog Swiss Miss, and she decided to crowdsource baby name suggestions from her blog readers. Spark will return in September with brand new episodes. Thanks for listening, and please, stay subscribed. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-08-01 - Spark in the Summer: Learn to breathe with Nora | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. But this week, we thought we'd try something a little different. As Nora's mentioned on the show, she's been doing yoga for a long time, about 20 years, and we thought, hey, why not include some yoga breathing techniques with the podcast. Spark will return in September with brand new episodes. Thanks for listening, and please, stay subscribed. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-07-25 - Spark in the Summer: Dan Pink on Motivation 3.0 | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: Daniel Pink. Nora talked to Dan about his book "Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us." It's a look at what Dan calls Motivation 3.0, an alternative to the traditional carrot and stick model of motivation. Spark will return in September with brand new episodes. Thanks for listening, and please, stay subscribed. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-07-18 - Spark in the Summer: Jenna McWilliams on New Media Literacy | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: Jenna McWilliams. Jenna is a doctoral student in the Learning Sciences Program at Indiana University. She talked about "new media literacy." Nowadays, we have access to a huge amount of information, credible and otherwise. How do we learn to spot the difference between quality info and crackpot conspiracy theories? | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-07-11 - Spark in the Summer: Joe Coughlin on the future of aging | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: Joe Coughlin. Joe is the director of the Agelab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He talked about rethinking our misconceptions around aging, what the baby boomers will expect from their golden years, and how we can make decisions now, so that we get the elder years we deserve. Thanks for listening, and please, stay subscribed. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Spark in the Summer: danah boyd and William Deresiewicz on online friendship | This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week: danah boyd and William Deresiewicz. danah is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research, and a Fellow at the Berkman Center. William Deresiewicz is a writer, and his essay Faux Friendship was recently published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Spark will return in September with brand new episodes. Thanks for listening, and please, stay subscrib | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-06-27 - Spark 118: Bursts, Shallows, and Game Changers | Ted Sullivan and Scott Radley talk about electronic baseball scorekeeping, and the professionalization of amateur sports. Albert-Lszl Barabsi explores whether our behaviour patterns are random, or whether they can be predicted. Anand Giridharadas talks about the word, "so." Nicholas Carr looks at how the internet is changing our brains. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-06-20 - Spark 117: Virtual Street Corners, responsive architecture, and the future of public libraries | What can public libraries learn from bookstores? Chris Wiersma, Erikjan Vermeulen, and Gerry Meek talk about the future of public library design. John Ewing explains his Virtual Street Corners project, which connects two neighbourhoods in Boston. Anna Bullus makes chewing gum disposal bins out of used chewing gum, and Todd Falkowsky explains "upcycling." Globe and Mail architecture critic Lisa Rochon tells Nora about some Canadian examples of responsive architecture. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-06-13 - No new podcast this week | This week on Sparks regular, over-the-air radio broadcast, youll hear an encore presentation of Spark 87: Open science, general knowledge, and doctors before the internet Because weve promised no more podcast repeats, you wont find this episode in our regular podcast feed. But if you would like to listen again, or check out any of the links mentioned on this weeks show, just go to our site, cbc.ca/spark Well be back with a brand-new episode of Spark on June 20, 2010. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-06-06 - Spark 116: Copyright reform, responsive architecture, and Indias unsung inventors | Kaila Hale-Stern and Joshua Benton on media website comment policies. Peter Nowak on Bill C-32, which would reform Canadian copyright. Nora explores how moms are portayed in tech media and marketing. Nora visits Philip Beesley's Hylozoic Ground -- an enormous, computerized, crystalline forest --to discuss responsive architecture. Anil Gupta searches for Indias unsung inventors through the Honey Bee Network. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-05-30 - Spark 115: Text 2.0, reputation management, and Facebook privacy | Ralf Biedert explains Text 2.0. Toru Ishikawa researches the relative merits of GPS and paper maps. Mathew Katz takes a technological roadtrip. Mary Madden explores reputation management and social media for The Pew Internet and American Life Project. Nora interviews Debbie Frost, Director of International Communications and Public Policy at Facebook. Carolina Vallejo creates a design competition called "Design for the First World: The Rest Saving the West." | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-05-23 - Spark 114: Facebook privacy, video game localization, and universal translators | Nora talks to Philip Moscovitch and Andrew Jones from the Spark community about Facebook and privacy. David Wasieleski explains the business ethics of social networking sites like Facebook. Cyborg anthropologist Amber Case explains why Facebook is "sticky." Cyrus Farivar buys his grammie a cellie. Dude, where's my universal translator? Diana Daz Montn specializes in video game localization. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-05-16 - Spark 113: Vocoders, microfluidics, and hybrid leaders | Dave Tompkins outlines the history of the vocoder, Spark producer Elizabeth Bowie looks at the recent trend of group buying websites, June Cohen explains TED's Open TV project, Jon Kalish explores window farming, Frederick Balagadde researches microfluidics, and Anand Giridharadas, talks about hybrid leaders. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-05-09 - No new podcast this week | This week on Spark's radio broadcast, you'll hear an encore presentation of some of our favourite items from fall 2009 including CAPTCHA's, America's Funniest Home Videos, and Data Visualisation. If you would like to listen again or check out any of the links mentioned on this week's show, visit cbc.ca/spark for the show notes. We'll be back with a brand new episode of Spark on May 16, 2010. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-05-02 - Spark 112: Sex ed, floppy disks, and cellies in the classroom | Homer Spring and Marie Bjerede explains Project K-nect, a pilot program that puts smartphones in high school math classrooms. Lisa Noble weights in on cellies in the classroom. Julia Barton investigates "media fasting." Debbie Pacheco visits the Sex::Tech conference to investigate how new technologies are being used to spread sexual health information to young people. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-04-25 - Spark 111: Virtual choirs, virtual mourning, and the story of stuff | Annie Leonard and The Story of Stuff, Kyle Weins of iFixit wants to reinvent repair, Daemon Fairless embraces his DIY side and discovers a surprising connection along the way, Anabel Quan-Haase explains how technology extends human empathy to people we dont know in the real world, Eric Whitacre tells the story of his virtual choir, and Rick Prelinger archives the world | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-04-18 - Spark 110: Computers that write music, play chess, and listen to cocktail parties | Jay Frank explains how technology is changing pop music, Lauren Simmons assigns a DRM assignment to her Music and Computers class at Leaside High School, Nora mentions openparliament.ca, John Culling builds audibility maps to help solve the cocktail party problem, Robert Martens and Steve Labourveau respond to Nora's interview with Jesse Schell, Tim Devine created Two Computers at Leisure Playing Chess in a Park, David Cope co-creates music with software composers Emmy and Emily Howell | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-04-11 - Spark 109: Extreme crowdsourcing, the slow web, and motivation 3.0 | Joanne McNeill of Tomorrow Museum explains her take on the iPads lack of multitasking, Tom Lucier's social media baby moratorium, Swiss Miss Tina Roth Eisenberg tries some extreme crowdsourcing, Mayor Nicolai Wammen considers changing the name of rhus, Denmark, to Aarhus, Denmark, CBC Radio 3's Grant Lawrence uses failin.gs to ask, "What's wrong with me?", Danny Peck explains failin.gs, and Daniel Pink on motivation 3.0. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2010-04-04 - Spark 108: Games, play, and technology with Jesse Schell and Kevin Kelly | Jesse Schell on the psychology of video games, and the "gamification" of life, and Kevin Kelly on the importance of play and the pleasures of wasting time. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2009-04-10 - Hour-long Spark Special | As part of CBC's special programming on April 10, we put together a one hour-long "best of" program, featuring some of our favorite guests and items from past seasons, including: Ben Terrett's Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, David McCallum's Warbike, Christian Paynes grandmother on Twitter, Dan James's shingling, Tom Howell's Techiquette, Celeste McWhorter's gamedar, and Jenova Chen's video games with a sophisticated emotional palette. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-09-03 - Episode 43 | Nora escapes from phone tree hell to host a new season of Spark. Shai Berger makes calling big business easier with Fonolo.com. Richard Rose explains what's new in speech recognition research. Pete Nowak gives Nora the 411 on Canadian data plans and consumer discontent.Elsabet Gunnarsdttir is in Dale, Norway and listening to the world via the Telemegaphone project. Chemistry teachers Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams send their students home with podcasts, not homework. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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2008-09-10 - Episode 44 | Brewster Kahle, of Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, talks about why, for the sake of our culture, we need to digitize works of print, audio and video. You do your best impressions of a dial-up connection. Katherine Monk weighs in on when movie CGI works and when it just seems fake and creepy. Photographer Ed Burtynsky proposes the Gallery of the Long Now, and photographs that will last 10,000 years. | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 219 Episodes |
Customer Reviews
One of my favorites
It's a very well paced fun show to listen to. This summer they are playing complete interviews from earlier news segments and those are just as interesting as the shows themselves. It sometimes seems like cotton candy because the shows are so fun to listen to, but beyond the surface every show has fascinating and valuable content.
Very creative!
I love the usage of CC licenced sounds and music.
THE technology/culture podcast i hear in the morning when i drive to work.
Nora is great.
Cheers.
This show is amazing
This is an amazing show and has quickly become my favorite podcast. Nora is wonderfully professional, relatable, and very easy on the ears. It is high quality with excellent interviews that make you think. I highly recommend it!
