rycaut / Shannon Clark
entrepreneur, conference organizer, writer, chef and fan
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Poker Brat radio July 10 2012
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PokerNews Podcast Episode #106: One Drop Coverage feat. Dan O’Brien and Allen Bari
The PokerNews crew discusses Day 1 of the $1 Million Big One for One Drop, and Allen Bari and Dan O’Brien discuss the final table of the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.
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Bernard Lee Poker show July 3rd 2012
Bernard has the latest from the 43rd annual World Series of Poker and chats with The Grinder, Michael Mizrachi. Bracelet winners Ronnie Bardah and Allyn Jaffery Shulman also join the show.
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A Decent Thing That Someone Would Like - The Talk Show - Mule Radio Syndicate
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AAC version
A special from the Macworld Expo show floor: Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber and Panic’s Cabel Sasser discuss the issues of the week.
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Live From WWDC 2012 - The Talk Show - Mule Radio Syndicate
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“Giving a Great Speech”
Graduation season is in full swing and unfortunately many of us will have to sit through long and boring commencement speeches to see our favorite graduate cross the stage. Scott Berkun, author of the book “Confessions of a Public Speaker,” joins the show to talk about what makes a speech great or fall short of connecting with an audience. Plus, the current president of Cleveland Toastmasters Club #351, Mary Kay Bilczo, gives practical tips on how everyone can improve their public speaking skills.
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Ian Bogost: “The Cartoonist and the Whaler: Notes on the Future of Journalism and Other Media” | MIT Comparative Media Studies
Ian Bogost is one of the world’s leading experts on gamification and he focuses on the gamification of news media. I’ve just listened to the first half of this 90 minute talk and found it well worth the time. It starts out slow but the examples get better over time. Most surprising to me was that there are a lot of examples of news turned into games. Bogost has done some of that in his academic work but he’s also studied the history of where games and news intersect. He believes, for example, that the loss of local cartoonists and the shift of casual gaming away from crossword puzzles onto the internet have done major harm to local newspapers, in addition to the many factors more often cited by others.
I’m not much into games, but I find gamification quite interesting. My own startup, Plexus Engine, isn’t really about gamification but I’ve used it to research the topic for a talk and thus come across Bogost as a leader in the field. The research has lead to some fun experimentation with gamification of learning in Plexus. It’s cool to hear about the larger context of that sort of experimentation. If you’re working in news, interested in gaming for social good or just want to learn about experiments in new media - Bogost’s talk "The Cartoonist and the Whaler" will be an enjoyable activity. I look forward to listening to the rest of it myself.
If gamification is of interest to you, you might like following this big fat Twitter list of the world’s leading experts in the field: https://twitter.com/#!/marshallk/gamification Stick it in your Flipboard for extra good times.
And now, a little more summary and the audio of the talk.
A "newsgame" is a videogame that does journalism. Drawing from five years of commercial development and academic research on this new approach, this talk summarizes the principles of newsgames and then offers two related but conflicting perspectives on its role in the future of newsmaking, framed by general thoughts on the challenges of designing and understanding contemporary media.
Ian Bogost, Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech, is a designer, philosopher, critic, and researcher who focuses on computational media—videogames in particular. He is also an author and an entrepreneur. He is also a Founding Partner at Persuasive Games and a Board Member at Open Texture (an educational publisher).
http://cms.mit.edu/news/2011/12/podcast_ian_bogost_the_cartoon.php
Tagged with newsgames videogames ian bogost gamification
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SE Podcast #24 - Eric Ries
Huffduffed from http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/10/se-podcast-24/
StackOverflow interviews Eric Ries
Tagged with stackoverflow podcast ericries leanstartup
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Escape Pod 251: Unexpected Outcomes by Tim Pratt
But the plane just stopped, and hung there, nose tipped at a slight angle, mere feet from the building.
And that’s when the figure — the one people call the Ambassador, or the Doctor, or the Outsider, or the Professor, or a hundred other names — appeared. Just a middle-aged man in a white lab coat, with steel-rimmed glasses and graying hair. His image filled the air above the jetliner, like the dome of the sky had been transformed into an IMAX movie screen.
He said, “People of Earth, I have a message for you.”
Rated PG for ennui and futility of life. (http://escapepod.org/)
Tagged with science fiction fiction short story fiction podcast escape pod tim pratt