The Digital Cafe on WYPR with Mario Armstrong
By Mario Armstrong
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Podcast Description
Exploring the intersection of technology, culture, and business in less than five minutes on WYPR 88.1 FM Your NPR News Station.
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CleanApril 4th Monday Roundtable | -- | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Social Learning Network | What if you could customize a college degree by combining world class courses from different universities affordably? Marco Masoni sees that in the future of education. He’s a lawyer, writer, educator, and cofounder of Einztein which curates videos and. | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Decline of Women in Tech | 25% of U.S. IT professionals in 2009 are women, down from 36% from 1991. - 18% of computer and IT degrees were earned by women in 2008, down from 37% in 1985. - -National Center for Women in Technology Monica Beeman joins Mario to discuss these low ... | 3/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAn Online Journalism Experiment Debuts in Baltimore | Fabrice Florin joins us to talk about a new journalism experiment that’s happening in Baltimore right now. He’s the founder and executive director of NewsTrust. It's a social news network devoted to good journalism that’s just begun a pilot program | 3/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCES 2011 in 5 Minutes | 144,000 people, 80 countries, 2700 exhibitors, 1.5 million square feet. - Mario went to CES so you don't have to. Here are the top 4 trends from CES. - 1. Smart TVs: The living room television repositioned as a computer with internet access. - 2. | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Fragmented Web | The World Wide Web’s turned 20 and its creator Tim Berners-Lee recently wrote an essay in Scientific American warning about companies and practices that he says are threatening the democratic potential of the Web. | 1/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Top Internet Trends of 2010 | David-Michel Davies, Executive Director of the Webby Awards, Co-Founder of Internet Week, and the publisher of daily email newsletter Netted joins Mario for a retrospective talk of the web trends of 2010 and, added bonus! | 1/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe (World Wide) Wire | According to the New York Times, top officials from the FBI traveled to Silicon Valley to meet with managers of major companies including Google and Facebook to expand the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Verdict on the iPad, 8 Months Later | It’s been about 8 months since the iPad debuted. It’s made Time’s “50 Best Inventions of 2010” list. A recent report from IT research firm Gartner predicted that tablets will “displace around 10 percent of PC units by 2014”. | 12/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanObama’s Videogame Challenge | President Obama announced a National STEM contest to promote learning through game design and inspire careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). - What is your perspective on video games being used in education? Is it a waste of time? | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanStartup Opportunities Spring From Recession | 2009 was a great year for entrepreneurs according to several recently release reports from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. The number of Startup businesses created even surpassing the technology boom of 1999. | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanIgnite Baltimore | 5 minutes, 20 slides, a room full of people, what would you say? If you think you have a pretty good answer, you’re in luck because that’s the basic idea behind Ignite, a rapid-fire speaker series. The next Ignite Baltimore is taking place September | 8/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAll the Single Ladies: 30 Dates in 30 Days | Brian Moore, a previous guest on the Digital Cafe, is newly single. He's also crowdsourcing his dating life at DatingBrian.com. Mario and Brian discuss stepping outside of your comfort zone on this edition of the Digital Cafe. - air date: August 10, 2010 | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleaneBooks outsell Hardcovers | Digital downloads of books now outsell hardcover versions at a rate of about 1.8 eBooks for every hardcover sold. Amazon opened in July of 1995 and has the largest selection of books worldwide. They've been selling hardcover books for 15 years, | 8/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanArtscape’s Baby Betascape | Artscape is the largest free arts festival in the country with over 350,000 attendees, featuring fashion designers, photography, concerts, crafts, and performing arts. Add robots and tech to that list. Heather Sarkissian, CEO of mp3Car, | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Decade of Geek Movies Tearing Up the Box Office | What’s going on with all these comic, sci-fi, and fantasy movies that have been coming out every year. Take a look at this summer’s list of Hollywood films: Kick-Ass, Iron Man 2, Twilight, Scott Pilgrim, Tron: Legacy, | 7/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Phone as a Passport | Mario discusses the trend behind location-based services with Josh Williams, CEO of Gowalla. What are we learning about ourselves, others, and the world around us with these tools? For another perspective on location-based services, | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Elements of Style (for the Internet) | Should I spell it "internet" or "Internet"? What do I need to know about SEO as a writer? Chris Barr, Senior Editorial Director at Yahoo and former founding Editor-in-Chief at CNET joins us to talk about writing for the web. | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanShould We Believe Thom Yorke About Major labels Dying? | It is only a matter of time - months rather than years - before the music business establishment completely folds. (It will be) no great loss to the world. - Thom Yorke, singer of Radiohead We've learned a lot from Radiohead's digital experiment, | 7/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleaniAd: Apple’s Mobile Advertising Network | Apple recently made an announcement that most people probably didn’t notice after the unveiling of the iPad. They announced iAd, a new way to review and insert ads into iPhone and iPad apps. This with ad publisher networks like Baltimore's Millenial Me. | 6/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Mobile Web vs Mobile Apps | Mario recently discussed the death of desktop computing on the Digital Cafe. Onward to the future of mobile computing! Have a great idea for a mobile site or an iPhone app? What foundational knowledge do you need to start creating? | 4/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Post-Desktop World | In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs. -John Herlihy, Google’s Vice President of Global Ad Operations. What does that look like? Mario and Gus Sentementes from the Baltimore Su | 4/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAll or Nothing Fundraising Online | Writing a book, recording an album, filming a movie? Want to sail around the globe? Take note of online fundraising service Kickstarter. It takes a cue from Malcolm Gladwell and allows you to raise funds for a project, | 4/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Youtube College Essay | Math-inspired dance moves, ukelele recordings, bedroom monologues, these are some of videos the comprise the average 24 hours of video that get uploaded to Youtube every minute. Some of these videos are slickly produced and edited. | 3/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanRedefining Journalism with a Hybrid Computer Engineering Degree | Interested in the future of journalism? You can help shape it. That’s the idea behind a new graduate program beginning in the Fall of 2011 at Columbia University that includes semesters in both the Columbia School of Journalism and in Columbia’s Fu Fo | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Default Is Social: Facebook’s Open Graph | We’re building toward a Web where the default is social. Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends. - Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO Max Willens, editor of WeAllMakeMusic.com, | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCheaper Digital College Textbooks Could Replace Paper | Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks—20 percent of tuition at an average university and half of tuition at a community college. Textbook prices have increased at four times the rate of inflation since 1994 and continue to rise. | 3/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCheaper CDs, Too Little, Too Late? | CDs are about to get cheaper, sort of. The Universal Music Group, which is the largest of the four major labels which also include Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group, and EMI is about to test a plan that could influence the rest of the record... | 3/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPrivacy Concerns Arise Around Google Buzz | air date: February 2, 2010 - What if a social network was based around who you emailed the most and let your contacts see that info? Have some relationships you'd prefer not to reveal to others? That's too bad because if you turned on Google Buzz, | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanSexting and the 4th Amendment | According to an Associate Press-MTV poll, 1 in every 4 teens and 1 in every 3 young adults is “sexting.” There’s no statistics on how commonly this is done in the workplace, but sexting has now sparked a debate over privacy. | 2/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 30 Episodes |
