Needs No Introduction

Introducing Needs No Introduction

October 14, 2005
| rabble podcast network executive producer Wayne MacPhail introduces the podcast and announces Ralph Nader as our first guest speaker.

0:42 minutes (333.92 KB)
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Episode 1: Yes, You Can Make a Podcast

October 17, 2005
| Wayne MacPhail, the executive producer of the rabble podcast network, introduces you to the very basics of how to produce a podcast. And yes, you can do it.

10:37 minutes (9.72 MB)
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Episode 2: All About Microphones

October 22, 2005
| Host Wayne MacPhail gives you a quick overview of the types of microphones and devices you can use to record your podcast.

10:53 minutes (4.99 MB)
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Episode 3 - Nerd Talk About Digital Audio

November 1, 2005
| Host Wayne MacPhail explains all about the difference between analog and digital sound recording, sample size, sample rate and compression. See, told you he'd talk nerdy.

13:13 minutes (6.06 MB)
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Episode 4 - Messin' With Sound

November 24, 2005
| Once you capture sound, you'll want to manipulate it. In this episode, you'll learn about the basic techniques you can use to edit, sweeten, clean up and enhance your audio.

9:53 minutes (9.06 MB)
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Episode 5 - Mr. Music Please

December 12, 2005
| Wayne explains how to make a musical signature for your podcast, and why he hasn't had one so far.

7:48 minutes (7.14 MB)
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When You're Mobile

January 2, 2006
| A rundown of the devices you'll need when you want to take your podcast to the street.

13:48 minutes (12.64 MB)
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Episode 7 - The Garageband Edition

January 19, 2006
| Wayne reviews the new podcast features in Garageband 3, just out for the Mac. He ends the show with "I Love My Mac" by Toronto musician Daphne Kalfon.

14:06 minutes (12.92 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Two: Code PINK - Women for Peace

November 28, 2006
| Ana Herzog, Nancy Hill in real life, talks about how a vacation in Second Life led to the creation of a virtual outpost for outrageous peace activists
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12:21 minutes (14.21 MB)
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Episode Three - The Homeless Professor - Harry Pence

December 5, 2006
| Harry Pence, a Distinguished Teaching Professor of Chemistry at the State University of New York discusses online communities, Second Life and education

15:40 minutes (17.93 MB)
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Episode Four - The Green Fairy of Amoration Studio

December 12, 2006
| In Kenzo, a former chaplin and missionary talks about her nonprofit mission in Second Life.

16:27 minutes (19 MB)
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Episode Five - Leaps and Parachutes - Beth Kanter

December 19, 2006
| Nonprofit educator Beth Kanter offers tough home truths about Second Life

17:40 minutes (20.25 MB)
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Episode Seven - The Undead Librarian - Floria Hand

January 2, 2007
| A reference librarian in Second Life compares and contrasts her time in sl with her adventures in World of Warcraft

16:16 minutes (18.62 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Six - Riding the Orca - Linda Kelley

December 26, 2006
| Linda Kelley (Delia Lake in Second Life) talks about the Centre for Water Studies and the lessons of her grandmother
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15:44 minutes (18.65 MB)
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Episode Eight - Blood Plagues and Red Rain - John Anderton, CDC

January 9, 2007
| John Aderton of the CDC discusses the Centres for Disease Control's presence and plans in Second Life

20:15 minutes (23.19 MB)
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Episode Nine - The Island Where Anything Can Go Wrong

January 16, 2007
| Ramesh Ramloll discusses Play2Train a Second Life-based disaster simulator

14:35 minutes (16.69 MB)
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Episode Ten - Dancing With the Graces

January 23, 2007
| Catherine and Alan Petersen discuss bringing art history and curation into Second Life

18:18 minutes (20.95 MB)
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Episode Eleven - Hypertext in the Memory Palace - Richard Smyth

January 30, 2007
| Richard Smyth discusses education, Second Life and electracy

17:24 minutes (19.91 MB)
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Episode Twelve - Social Profit in the Myst

February 6, 2007
| Media That Matters founder Bill Weaver discusses a new Second Life Island where social profits and for profits can party together

24:44 minutes (28.32 MB)
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Episode Thirteen - A Heart of Gold - Jackie Brosseuk

February 13, 2007
| Jackie Brosseuk discusses the future of Betterworld Island

21:36 minutes (24.73 MB)
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Episode Fourteen - All Roads Lead to Peoria - Lorelei Junot

February 20, 2007
| Lori Bell (Lorelei Junot) of the Alliance Library System discusses the remarkable educational archipelago she's created in Second Life

37:41 minutes (43.14 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Fifteen - Transformers

February 27, 2007
| In this guest-free episode, host Wayne MacPhail shares his thoughts on his recent experiences in Second Life

14:44 minutes (16.87 MB)
Online Tools for the 21st Century

Episode One - Meebo

February 22, 2007
| Meebo is a great way to consolidate all your instant messages fixes in one easy webpage.

1:39 minutes (1.89 MB)
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Episode Two - Twitter

March 1, 2007
| A tool that let's you tell the world what you're doing right now

2:14 minutes (2.57 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Sixteen - Everybody's Sister - Jeska Linden

March 6, 2007
| Jeska Linden, a community developer for Linden Lab, talks frankly about the product's limits and opportunities

20:28 minutes (23.42 MB)
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Episode Three - Tumblr

March 7, 2007
| How to create a Nerf blog in a hurry

1:55 minutes (2.19 MB)
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Episode Seventeen - The New Architects of Information

March 13, 2007
| Info architects Stacy Surla and Andrew Hinton discuss IA and the Information Architecture Island in Second Life

32:27 minutes (37.14 MB)
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Episode Four - Clipmarks

March 15, 2007
| A social bookmarking tool with a sharp pair of scissors

2:07 minutes (2.43 MB)
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Episode Five - Spanning Sync

March 22, 2007
| A simple way to make Google Calendar play nice with iCal

1:43 minutes (1.96 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Eighteen - Masters of Media - Gerri Sinclair

March 20, 2007
| Dr. Gerri Sinclair talks education in the metaverse

30:19 minutes (34.69 MB)
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Episode Nineteen - Building in Space - Chad Oberg

March 27, 2007
| A design consultant and intern architect discusses the effects of space, both virtual and real

36:31 minutes (41.8 MB)
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Episode Six - wikispaces

March 29, 2007
| A cheap, easy way to create collaborative websites

2:13 minutes (2.55 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Twenty - The Titanium Survivor - Stacy Stone

April 3, 2007
| Patient advocate, marketer and entrepreneur Stacy Stone talks marketing online and in-world.

19:41 minutes (22.53 MB)
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Episode Seven - Toondoo

April 5, 2007
| A simple way to make, share and comment on comic strips

1:46 minutes (2.03 MB)
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Episode Eight - picknik

April 12, 2007
| A great online way to tell Adobe to apply the "stuff it up your butt" filter

1:46 minutes (2.03 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Twenty One - Search and Access - Donna Dinberg

April 17, 2007
| A librarian and geneologist copes with government regulations in a virtual world.

36:32 minutes (41.81 MB)
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#40 - Episode 40!

April 16, 2007
| In this episode Keith gets the buzz on bees, reel women babble about Babble, and author Rawi Hage talks about memory in Lebanon. We picnick with online tools, and The Acorn drop music from above.

26:16 minutes (24.06 MB)
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Episode Nine - Jaiku

April 19, 2007
| A twitter competitor with RSS feed aggregation

1:46 minutes (2.02 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Twenty Two - Lawmen in the Wild West - Jim Milles

April 26, 2007
| Jim Milles, the Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library at the University at Buffalo Law School talks libraries, law and taxes
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29:07 minutes (33.32 MB)
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Episode Ten - Newsvine

April 26, 2007
| An newly revamped tool for tracking, seeding and making news

1:51 minutes (2.12 MB)
Who’s on Second?

Episode Twenty Three - The Sculptable Prim - Golam Amadeus

May 1, 2007
| A Portuguese painter casts an artistic eye on Second Life in the week of the sculptural prim

24:07 minutes (27.6 MB)
Online Tools for the 21st Century

Episode Eleven - iGoogle

May 3, 2007
| iGoogle - World domination, one homepage at a time

1:46 minutes (2.02 MB)
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Episode Twelve - Rooms

May 16, 2007
| Two Web 2.0 tools, Jaiku and Meebo add group chat to their sites

1:50 minutes (2.1 MB)
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Episode Twenty Four - The Cat Curator

May 25, 2007
| Kristina Lively talks collaboration, cat attire and libraries on Second Life.

26:23 minutes (30.2 MB)
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Episode Thirteen - Facebook

May 30, 2007
| Facebook's new openess to apps is a whole new gig.

2:06 minutes (2.4 MB)
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Episode Fourteen - Google Street View

June 6, 2007
| Google Maps new street view brings walking tours, and some butt cleavage, to your desktop.

1:46 minutes (2.02 MB)
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Episode Fifteen - iPhone and Safari

June 12, 2007
| Want to develop apps for the iPhone? Think Web 2.0, pal.

2:29 minutes (2.84 MB)
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Episode Sixteen - Remixer

June 18, 2007
| YouTube gives you a quick, online way to edit your videos

1:55 minutes (2.19 MB)
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Episode Seventeen - CastRoller

June 29, 2007
| An easy way to take control of your podcast RSS feeds

1:55 minutes (2.2 MB)
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Episode Eighteen - ning.com

July 13, 2007
| A handy social community in a box tool you can use to relive your clubhouse fantasies

1:35 minutes (1.82 MB)
Who Are You?

Eating Disorders - The Church of Ana

February 26, 2009
| Websites that promote eating disorders distort identity and self-image and can turn weight loss into a frightening religion.

13:39 minutes (12.53 MB)
Who Are You?

Roma's Story - Jews in Search of Identity Online

March 6, 2009
| For many people who were unaware of their Jewish roots, the Web is revealing a whole new identity.

12:04 minutes (11.08 MB)

High Infidelity - Online Dating and Honesty

March 19, 2009
| Could going online in search of love make you more true to yourself?

18:21 minutes (16.84 MB)
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#86: An ear forever rambling, on biofuel

May 1, 2009
| Keith on vacations of excess, an chat about biofuel, Victoria Fenner takes her ear for a walk and music from Deep Dark Woods

24:47 minutes (28.4 MB)