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#92This Week in Venture Capital is amazing.
web: http://thisweekin.com/thisweekin-venture-capital/
itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-in-venture-capi...
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#93On the Media is my favorite for news. Frankly it's one of the only news programs where I feel like I've legitimately learned something about the situation after listening to it.
+1 for On the Media
in fact, I've been on a couple of times:
http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2007/05/25/05 http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2010/05/21/03
very intelligent hosts, covering very important issues in a deep way.
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#94Reporters Roundtable is a professionally produced weekly conversation about a single tech-topic. It's great - http://www.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/ If you handle two hours of Jason Calacanis you could try This Week in Startups. http://thisweekin.com/startups 37signals podcast has had a couple of moments but it's not particularly thrilling. - http://37signals.com/podcast
++ on Reporters Roundtable and 37signals.
I had David Heinemeier Hansson on This Week in Startups and he is brilliant IMO: http://jc.is/9K4f0l
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The History of Rome looks good. Here's the link for their home page, for those of us who don't use itunes: http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
I was going to write a perl script to download all these but after I discovered that the naming scheme wasn't consistent throughout every file, I gave up and installed iTunes to download everything. I then promptly removed all hundreds of megabytes of it. An advantage is the naming scheme is pretty good; nothing that a novice shell-scripter can't fix.
I don't understand why you "removed all hundreds of megabytes of it".
At any rate, this is a simple python script to list all mp3 files in those posts (I like to use wget do do the actual downloading):
It uses the cool lxml library: http://codespeak.net/lxml/
(I use something similar to download all posts of a blog I want to read offline on my kindle).
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#96Seminars About Long-term Thinking at the Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/seminars/
BBC World Service documentaries: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/documentaries/
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#97Reporters Roundtable is a professionally produced weekly conversation about a single tech-topic. It's great - http://www.cnet.com/reporters-roundtable-podcast/ If you handle two hours of Jason Calacanis you could try This Week in Startups. http://thisweekin.com/startups 37signals podcast has had a couple of moments but it's not particularly thrilling. - http://37signals.com/podcast
++ on Reporters Roundtable and 37signals. I had David Heinemeier Hansson on This Week in Startups and he is brilliant IMO: http://jc.is/9K4f0l
That episode is a classic, I highly recommend it too - DHH and Jason are a good match.
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#98No Agenda, for real news, no tabloid shit.
I find it highly entertaining, as long as I don't get too ramped up with all of the conspiracy theories. And like the BBC, it gives me a wider view of what is going on in the world than US media.
I also agree that it helps counteract all of the bias out there.
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