The iHeart radio podcast company creates podcast enshittification with A.J. Jacobs’s very nice podcast The Puzzler. Of the 14 minutes a podcast lasts, 5 minutes are filled with ads, that is 35%.
Yes, Tim Ferriss (‘double-r-double-s’), arguably the best podcaster out there, preambles and postambles his podcasts with 5 minutes of ads; also annoying, but at least his podcasts are between 1 and 2 hours long!
Lunduke had planned Linux Sucks 2022, Lunduke.locas.com. I am liking the 2014 edition.
Non-interview non-fiction podcasts by Kevin Kelly’s followers.
Austin Kleon’s stream of collages is so great.
Retro games look better on old tv’s. Will analog television become the next retro fashion?
Zomaar een paar leuke podcasts:
Kunst is Lang van Luuk Heezen. Waarschijnlijk beste Nederlandse podcast over kunst.
AmsterdamFM Kunst en Cultuur. Waarschijnlijk een goede tweede podcast over kunst. Wat elitair elan.
Deviate with Rolf Potts. Auteur van Vagabonding, een klassieker die om mij niet duidelijke redenen totaal onterecht nog niet in het Nederlands is vertaald (wil ik wel doen voor een fatsoenlijk honorarium).
Cool-tools van Mark Frauenfelder en Kevin Kelly. Lekker nerdy.
Met Groenteman in de kast. Ok, eigenlijk tweede Nederlandse podcast over kunst en andere dingen. Lekkere nonchalante lul, die Gijs Groenteman, met die ironisch-emotieloze stem.
No Such Thing As A Fish. Misschien wel de leukste podcast.
I wrote in an earlier post that I was reading The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green. The Anthropocene Reviewed is a collection of essays in which John Greene examines some very different aspects of being human. I heard some of the essays before via via The Anthropocene Reviewed podcast.
The topics John Green touches on range from the cave paintings of Lascaux, through Indycar races in Indiana, the QWERTY keyboard to August Sander’s famous photograph titled “Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance,” which depicts three men who do not appear to be farmers. (By the way, the photo I read on Wikipedia is actually called “Jungbauern, 1914,” and “Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance” is the title of Richard Powers’ book inspired by the photo.)
Green mixes facts and personal stories in the essays in an engaging, funny and moving way. A great book that tastes like more.
Postscriptum: See also this video about a review of August Sander’s photo on The Art Assignment channel, presented by John Green.