This weekend Public Radio International’s Smiley and West program returned to the Chicago airwaves. Commercial progressive talk station WCPT starting airing the program Sunday, Nov. 4, and will continue airing it on Sundays at 3 PM. WVON, a commercial AM talk station focused on the African-American community, will carry the program on Saturdays at 11 […]
Podcast review: You Are Not So Smart #5 – Selling Out Rating: 3/5 I first found journalist David McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart blog almost three years ago when he first started publishing short pieces exploring all sorts of cognitive biases and the limitations of heuristic decision making. McRaney has convincingly taken on ideas […]
Since I was unable to attend in person, I was glad to have the opportunity to listen live online to some of the discussion from the Transmission Arts Colloquium hosted by free103point9 and community radio WGXC-FM a little more than a week ago. That program, featuring all of the featured colloquium guests, is now available […]
Podcast review: Back to Work #88 – So Many Reasons To Cry Rating: 3 / 5 Back to Work can be a frustrating podcast. Featuring productivity guru Merlin Mann and interlocutor Dan Benjamin, the podcast is ostensibly about strategies for getting good work done, and dealing with the challenges and barriers that can impede. The […]
When I started my podcast review project last week I stated that one of my reasons for the undertaking is that podcast reviews are relatively rare. The Onion’s A/V club does a weekly podcast review roundup that tends to be dominated by comedy podcasts. I’ve found plenty of other podcast review sites on the ‘net […]
Podcast Review: Seth Godin’s Startup School #3 – Creating Scarcity Rating: 4 / 5 I don’t know how many episodes will be in Seth Godin’s Startup School series, but here we find him at episode #3, which is just as good as the first two. For more background on the series see my review of […]
In a firey open letter released Monday, public television and radio host Tavis Smiley issued a series of firm rebukes to Chicago Public Radio CEO Torey Malatia, whose flagship station, WBEZ, cancelled Smiley and West at the end of September. In that letter Smiley says that he was willing to “simply move beyond” the cancellation […]
Chicago’s public radio station WBEZ quietly dropped the syndicated Smiley and West program from its Sunday line-up at the end of September. This stands in contrast to the station’s decision to drop Car Talk reruns from its Saturday line-up, which management communicated in an email to donor members explaining the decision and soliciting feedback (full […]
I’m a little bummed and surprised that I only found out these two radio and sound art conferences this afternoon. free103point9 is hosting the Transmission Arts Colloquium this weekend at its Wave Farm Study Center in New York State’s Hudson Valley. The Center is home to community radio station WGXC which dedicates much of its […]
Podcast Review: Seth Godin’s Startup School #1 – Freelancer or Entrepreneur? Rating: 3.5 / 5 I found this podcast by reviewing the iTunes Store’s “new and noteworthy” section in the Podcast app on my iPhone. I just downloaded and started using the app this week, and was hoping to find something fresh to get me […]
