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Broadband caps could hurt innovation
from APM: Future Tense
October 10, 2008
Today, we feature part two of our interview with Stacey Higginbotham, lead writer on technology blog GigaOm. Yesterday she explained that Internet service providers such as Comcast are beginning to restrict the amount of data that consumers can download and upload to save money on infrastructure. To...
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Counting Your Audience
from KCRW's On the Beat
October 08, 2008
The economic livelihood of a commercial radio station is largely driven by one single factor. Ratings. Ratings are the estimate of the number of people listening to that station during a specific period of time. For almost 60 years, Arbitron has been the recognized company to estimate listeners, and...
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Post-Soviet Bloc Party (Studio 360)
from Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen
October 10, 2008
Russian-American Irina Reyn updates Tolstoy with her novel What Happened to Anna K. Underground theater thrives in Belarus, a country where statues of Stalin still loom over the city. We’ll explore how tiny Georgia became a filmmaking capital of the old Soviet Union, and how freedom and war have t...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-10 Friday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 10, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-10 FridayHeadlines for October 10, 2008As Stocks Plummet Across the Globe, Bush to Host Emergency Finance Meeting at White HouseUS Lifts Ban on Nuclear Trade with IndiaAPA Approves Measure Banning Psychologists from Interrogations “Section 60: Arlington National Cemetery”D...
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Increasing Numbers of Latino Politicians Running in Northwest
from KUOW News Podcast
October 10, 2008
In Washington, Oregon and Idaho there are nearly 50 Latino politicians in office this year. Eight are running for major state and federal offices this November. The numbers are up for 10 years ago, when only 13 Latino candidates were elected into office. Their progress is a reflection of the changin...
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The Splendid Table for Saturday October 11, 2008
from APM: The Splendid Table
October 10, 2008
This week we peek at the fantasy life of a house in Tuscany with Michael Tucker, author of Living in a Foreign Language, A Memoir of Food, Wine and Love. Sally Schneider author of A New Way to Cook gives us a fresh take on pears, and Seattle chef Tom Douglas explains the trials and tribulations of b...
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Colourmusic: 'Put In A Little Gas'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 09, 2008
F, Monday, Orange, February, Venus, Lunatic, 1 or 13, the improbably named, full-length debut from rock band Colourmusic, has a mouthful of a title, and it's not the only thing that's over-the-top about the Oklahoma group. Not only does the band dress in matching all-white outfits for live performan...
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Why do ISPs want to limit consumer broadband use?
from APM: Future Tense
October 09, 2008
Increasingly, some Internet service providers are placing limits on their broadband services. Comcast, for example, forbids customers from transferring more than 250 gigabytes of data per month. Customers who go over the limit risk getting dumped. Time Warner is experimenting with a tiered service, ...
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Counting Your Audience
from KCRW's On the Beat
October 08, 2008
The economic livelihood of a commercial radio station is largely driven by one single factor. Ratings. Ratings are the estimate of the number of people listening to that station during a specific period of time. For almost 60 years, Arbitron has been the recognized company to estimate listeners, and...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-09 Thursday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 09, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-09 ThursdayHeadlines for October 09, 2008Greg Palast on Vote Rigging and Suppression Ahead of the 2008 ElectionOhio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner on Voter Rights, Faulty Electronic Voting Machines, Voter Fraud and GOP Voter ChallengesReport: Voter Purging Process Is Shro...
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Noah And The Whale: '2 Atoms In A Molecule'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 07, 2008
Chances are you've heard at least one song by the London-based Noah and the Whale. Recently, the folk-rock band had its immutably cheerful tune "5 Years Time" featured in a Saturn SUV commercial. Clapping, whistling and ukulele play joyfully together with choruses capable of inducing a Diabetic coma...
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Great Bloomers: 'Catching Up'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 08, 2008
The Great Bloomers are a rootsy, rock quintet based out of Toronto, Canada who, earlier this year, released a self-titled debut EP. Today's featured song, "Catching Up," opens up the EP and showcases a healthy admiration for the Beach Boys, who happen to be one of the Great Bloomers' biggest influen...
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MySpace Music streams a billion songs in less than a month
from APM: Future Tense
October 07, 2008
MySpace Music, which allows users to listen to major label songs for free, debuted late last month, and has already streamed one billion songs. That amounts to about eight songs for each of 120 million MySpace members. "MySpace Music lets you listen to pretty much every song ever recorded, and it st...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-07 Tuesday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 07, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-07 TuesdayHeadlines for October 07, 2008Can Coal Be Clean? A Debate Between Michael Brune of Rainforest Action Network and Joe Lucas of American Coalition for Clean Coal ElectricityThe Tyranny of Oil: Antonia Juhasz on "The World's Most Powerful Industry -- What We Must Do to ...
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Democracy Now! 2008-10-08 Wednesday
from Democracy Now! Audio
October 08, 2008
Democracy Now! 2008-10-08 WednesdayHeadlines for October 08, 2008European, Asian Markets Plunge as Recession Fears Spread WorldwideFaltering Economy Takes Center Stage in McCain-Obama DebateMcCain-Obama Debate Highlights Similar Stances on Foreign Policy Download this show...
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Sick Hanford Workers Turn out for State of the Site Meeting
from KUOW News Podcast
October 06, 2008
Each year Hanford's top officials turn out for a town hall style meeting to answer questions about radioactive waste cleanup in southeast Washington. The event is called the State of the Site. Correspondent Anna King attended the meeting in Kennewick. The audience included hundreds of sick retired w...
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The Social Brain
from HumanMedia.org Podcasts
September 13, 2008
"The act of compassion begins with full attention, just as rapport does. You have to really see the person. If you see the person, then naturally, empathy arises. If you tune into the other person, you feel with them. If empathy arises, and if that person is in dire need, then empathic concern can c...
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Frances Moore Lapp
from HumanMedia.org Podcasts
September 20, 2008
"I was just absolutely swept away. I thought: Oh my gosh! If people only knew that hunger is needless, hunger is human-made, that we would all do something." -- Frances Moore Lapp More than thirty years after publication of her breakthrough best-selling book "Diet for a Small Planet," Frances Moore ...
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Plushgun: 'Just Impolite'
from NPR: Second Stage Podcast
October 06, 2008
In early 2007, singer and songwriter Daniel Ingala began writing and recording catchy, synth-driven pop music in his New York City apartment. He soon took on the moniker Plushgun, and uploaded his first song, "Just Impolite," to his MySpace page. The track quickly found an online audience, drawing m...
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Stephen Schneider
from The Progressive Radio Show
October 06, 2008
My guest this week is Stephen Schneider, climatologist from Stanford, who is one of the leading experts on global warming. MP3 DOWNLOAD read more Visit www.progressive.org...
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