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Repurposing ‘Old, Old HomePod’
This post was originally written in June 2021 for Hemispheric News; subscribe at the Patreon site One Prime Plus to receive this monthly newsletter and other benefits that are linked to the Hemispheric Views podcast. If you’re into technology, you probably have a lot of old things lying around your home. Although I try to recycle some
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68. On a Country Road with Andrew McLuhan
Andrew is a writer, poet and media educator, as well as the founder of the McLuhan Institute. He also happens to be the descendant of renowned media ecologists Marshall and Eric McLuhan. In this episode, he kindly joins me to discuss his work at the institute, what motivates him to write, how we can slow
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67. Podcasting on Podcasting with Dr. Dario Llinares
I’m joined by Dario to talk about his background in film research (and now audio), along with the art of academic podcasting and why the podcast as a medium has a propensity to talk about itself. Other Ways to Listen Apple Podcasts | Castro | Overcast | Pocket Casts | RSS Find Dario Online Links and Show Notes Introducing Dario — 00:00 Academic
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66. An Aca-fan Moment with Anne Korfmacher
Anne is a PhD student who is investigating what she calls ‘fan commentary’ podcasts. She tells the story of how she started listening to them, what appealed to her about undertaking higher research on the topic and what it means to be a fan. Other Ways to Listen Apple Podcasts | Castro | Overcast | Pocket Casts | RSS Find Anna Online Links
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65. Becoming an Independent Developer with Vincent Ritter
Vincent shares his personal story of how he became an independent developer, from his earliest use of computers through to creative projects and apps like Gluon for Micro.blog. Other Ways to Listen Apple Podcasts | Castro | Overcast | Pocket Casts | RSS Find Vincent Online Links and Show Notes Early Days with Computers 00:00 Flight 10:22 Experimenting on the Web 13:23 Developing
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64. Lounge Bite: Small-file Aesthetics
We all know about the monetary cost of streaming media, but what does it cost the planet? Other Ways to Listen Apple Podcasts | Castro | Overcast | Pocket Casts | RSS Links and Show Notes
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Presenting Hemispheric Views One Prime Plus
If you have been following my blog and its associated Lounge Ruminator podcast, then you may recall an episode that I uploaded on 16 August 2020: ’39. International Mac Nerds with Special Guests Andrew Canion and Jason Burk’. This shared, extended audio rumination became the pilot for Hemispheric Views, a fortnightly podcast that I now co-host
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63. Information Curation
In this episode, I offer a quick critique on Apple’s power as a ‘vectoralist’ of information, drawing on Kara Swisher’s recent interview of CEO Tim Cook and the work of scholar McKenzie Wark. Other Ways to Listen Apple Podcasts | Castro | Overcast | Pocket Casts | RSS Links and Show Notes Introduction 00:00 Apple as Vectoralist 00:47 To Ruminate… 11:30
