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New Podcast: Trends in Agriculture and Info Flows

Nora — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:00:12 +0000

My podcasting pal, Cathi Bond and I have a new episode out. This time, Cathi continues her fascination with the re-invention of agriculture by looking at an intriguing project she found on Kickstarter. I continue to have an unhealthy interest in how we are learning to manage the enormous amount of information that we now have access to. We’re trying out new models that deliberately taper and tailor that information – and do it in a way that’s friendly. I look at two new spins on this: Little Printer and Feedair. Click to listen below, or visit the blog for the full show notes, with links to our stories.

The Sniffer, Nov. 4th, 2011: Trends in Publishing and Cellie Use

Nora — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:33:37 +0000

What does a physical object mean in a digital age? Even as many of us embrace ebooks, convert our music libraries to mp3s, or stream movies online, we still seem to hunger for the tactile. It’s something we’ve talked about before, both on Spark (for instance, in this interview with Mark Paterson) and on my podcast with Cathi Bond. This time on The Sniffer podcast, Cathi has a look at a new art/fashion-y publication called The Slant. What I find intriguing about it is the idea of paper publication as artifact. If you’re going to make something physical, tactile, you have to bring real value to the physical product – make it something that can’t really be replicated as digitally. Let’s see how The Slant does!

You can listen to the episode below, or head over to The Sniffer blog to listen and check out the links to our stories. Thanks!
Sni-2011-11-04 by nora3000

The Sniffer, Oct. 7th, 2011: Trends in Publishing and Niche Subscriptions

Nora — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:46:36 +0000

The latest episode of The Sniffer, my podcast with Cathi Bond, is up. This time we talk about the hard questions any author interested in self-publishing needs to ask, and I look at a couple of examples of niche subscription services as a way of selling scarce goods in a digital economy. You can listen below, or hop over to The Sniffer to find links to stories and more.
Sni-2011-10-07 by nora3000

First Spark of the New Season

Nora — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:11:17 +0000

Today, we launch season five(!) of Spark, my CBC radio broadcast/podcast. You can listen to it online here, or subscribe to the podcast.

The Sniffer Launches!

Nora — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:02:16 +0000

My podcasting pal, Cathi Bond, and I have launched the new season of our trendwatching podcast, The Sniffer. We began way back in 2005, and we’re still enjoying it. We’ve also pegged quite a few long range trends in our time. You can listen below, or at The Sniffer website, where you’ll also find links to the stories we talk about.
Sni-2011-09-09 by nora3000

Podcasters Unite!

Nora — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:04:00 +0000

Just came back from Podcasters Across Borders (my third). Great to see old friends again, of course, and to learn some new tricks of the trade. It inspired me to be more diligent about audio quality with thesniffer.

It was also interesting to see how the podcasting community has evolved over the past three years. There seems to be a comfort with different streams of podcasting. For some people, it’s pure hobby, mode of expression, and way of connecting with like-minded people. For others, it’s part of their business. For some, it’s a way of leveraging their digital profile. We all seem to co-exist happily enough. I guess for me, it’s a bit of all three.

Some personal highlights: Sylvain gave a great talk on Learning From The Beatles (and I don’t even really like The Beatles). Jay gave the first presentation on McLuhan I’ve ever seen that also talked about Harold Innis…Yay! And of course, the food was great!

Thanks to PAB for a great weekend!