Category Archives for tech

Radio Free Ruin #2 with Anne Elizabeth Moore is live! (At a different website)

Radio Free Ruin #2: Garments, Gadgets, and Third World Labor with Anne Elizabeth Moore is live! I speak with author/Truthout columnist/activist/former Punk Planet editor Anne Elizabeth Moore about garment work and third world labor, women in comics, cats, and much … Continue reading

24. January 2012 by Paul M. Davis
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Radio Free Ruin #1: We’re an American Band (2012) with Cooper McBean

Cooper McBean of the Devil Makes Three joins us to talk about tech and the Internet have transformed the life of an independent professional musician.

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16. January 2012 by Paul M. Davis
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Apple’s Devices Are Made of Blood and Misery. As Are All The Rest. So Do Something About It.

I’ve been following Mike Daisey’s work for quite some time, and was bummed that I missed his one-man show, The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, when I visited New York this past November. Despite my weariness with This American Life, … Continue reading

09. January 2012 by Paul M. Davis
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The Best Podcasts of 2011, and The State of the Medium

Photo by HoundCat on Flickr. In the middle of the last decade, there were bright hopes that podcasts represented a new form of citizen broadcast media. But over the past few years, that promise seemed squandered, as rebroadcasts of public radio … Continue reading

31. December 2011 by Paul M. Davis
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Hacker Jailbreaks a Kindle Touch

I’m a big fan of the new generation of e-ink Kindle devices, but Amazon’s hardware, software and commerce ecosystem is the most constricting walled garden of all. Though the functionality of the devices is limited by design, the Kindle 4 … Continue reading

13. December 2011 by Paul M. Davis
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Hey Facebook: Gender Identity Isn’t a Circuit

While setting up a “person” page for my writing and/or vanity this morning, I briefly became hopeful that Facebook finally was allowing individuals more choices for gender identity than male or female when I encountered a dropdown box suggesting this … Continue reading

04. December 2011 by Paul M. Davis
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Steve Jobs Is Dead, And So Is My Dad: Two Very Different Silicon Valley Stories

My Dad died five years ago, and I often dream of him. Two nights ago, I awoke from a dream in which I was attending a 70th birthday celebration in his honor. In a large field in Cupertino, the size … Continue reading

07. October 2011 by Paul M. Davis
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