Macworld’s Dan Moren and Lex Friedman join host Chris Breen to discuss the recent Samsung v Apple patent case as well as some unwelcome Twitter changes.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1168336/patent_wrangles_and_twitter_strangles.html
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Patent wrangles and Twitter strangles | Macworld
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Drinking in Medieval England - Footnoting History
From Neanderthals to Napoleon’s sister, each week Footnoting History’s team of young academics share their favorite stories from across history.
Do you like to drink? Well, so did people in the middle ages… Tune in to learn about what people were drinking and about the culture associated with booze 700 years ago.
Further Reading:
Judith Bennett, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996).Peter Clark, The English Alehouse: A Social History, 1200-1830 (London: Longman, 1983).
Barbara Hanawalt. “The Host, the Law and the Ambiguous Space of Medieval London Taverns,” in Medieval Crime and Social Control, ed. Barbara Hanawalt and David Walace (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), pp. 204-223.
A. Lynn Martin, Alcohol, Sex and Gender in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (New York: Palgrave, 2001).
http://www.footnotinghistory.com/2/post/2013/03/drinking-in-medieval-england.html
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5by5 | In Beta #42: The Internet Doesn’t Write an Apology
The PyCon kerfuffle and Kevin’s week-long attempt to leave email behind forever.
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5by5 | Systematic #36: Dalton Caldwell - App.net, Productivity and music
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Battle for Android Supremacy, Pheed: New Facebook? - Download This Show - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Is Pheed the next Facebook? It’s been called the ultimate new social media network, it’s had high profile stars spruiking it and it’s already shot ahead of Facebook and Twitter in Apple’s App store … so just what is Pheed? As android phone manufacturers compete furiously to produce the best on the market, what does it all mean for the smartphone of 2013 and beyond? And we look at PromiseLocker the Aussie start-up measuring personal, public and political promises and holding them all to account.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/downloadthisshow/dts082013/4589160
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5by5 | In Beta #41: Follow, Subscribe, Encircle
Facebook’s end-arounds on Android, and the sad but inevitable shutdown of Google Reader
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210: Surveillance, Sharing, Colour | Spark with Nora Young | CBC Radio
This week on Spark - We question the modern compulsion to share all the details of our lives with others. A look at surveillance concerns as we continue to capture everything going on around us. And inside colour forecasting. Really! Just click the Listen button, or click here to download
http://www.cbc.ca/spark/episodes/2013/03/15/210-surveillance-sharing-colour/
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5by5 | In Beta #40: Bad at the Habit Zone
Why Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg wants women to lean in, and the rise and fall of Turntable.fm.
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The Big Web Show #84 with Dalton Caldwell
Dalton Caldwell, CEO and co-founder of App.net, is Jeffrey Zeldman’s guest in Episode No. 84 of The Big Web Show, sponsored by Happy Cog.
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Cyber vetting and personality - Future Tense - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Rightly or wrongly many corporations and recruitment agencies use social media platforms as a form of employee vetting. The Facebook sites and Twitter posts of potential workers are scoured for indications of anti-social behaviour. But just how effective is social media at predicting personality type? Well, the London-based Online Privacy Foundation has been conducting research into that very question. We discuss their findings with the Foundation’s co-founder Chris Sumner.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/cyber-vetting-and-personality/4518948