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RSS is dead! Long live RSS! An Interview with The Old Reader

RSS is dead! Long live RSS!

This interview was recorded the week after Google announced the death of beloved feed parsing app, Google Reader. The headlines regarding Reader’s demise  have been predictably and wonderfully hyperbolic.

Elena Bulygina and Anton Tolchanov, two of the three co-founders of The Old Reader, help us make sense of a post-Google Reader world.

Props to @ChazFrench for his help in understanding the true power of the old Google reader.

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KoPoint: Interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard.in

KoPoint: Interview with Maciej Ceglowski of Pinboard.in

Maciej Ceglowski is the founder of Pinboard.in, an “anti-social” bookmarking site. As the social web evolves, some trends mature past the initial commodified service value to become strong cottage industries. A for-pay service inspired by the original del.icio.us, Pinboard.in takes a holistic approach to personal data tracking. The service integrates smoothly with the contemporary web of indie apps, and excels at truly frictionless clickstream cacheing.

Dan talks with Caciej about the vision behind a truly personal, counter-social service.

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The Murdoc Jones Show, EP 6 - Carl Blake Invents Pigs

The Murdoc Jones Show, EP 6 - Carl Blake Invents Pigs

Our first by phone guest, Carl Blake of Rustik Rooster Farms. Giddy up kids, as we head to the farm. Carl runs Rustik Rooster Farms and is re-inventing the pig. That’s right – he reinvented a PIG. In an effort to rid the world of confinement and genetically modified awfulness – Carl is a backwoods, redneck computer genius turned heritage pig farmer. Learn How to break your neck in 3 places and almost die – only to rehab yourself with tomato farming, Also learn how to: survive an attack from a Russian Boar named Atlas, how the man has modified your meat, that hydroponics is not just for weed, and a special note the for the Ladies… How to attract famous pig farmers.

Carl is a fantastic dude, and we’re not the only ones who think so. He is appearing on the Colbert Report (link coming when the episode airs) and The New York Times thinks he’s pretty cool as well.

Find more shows like this on KoPoint.

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Carl Blake Murdoc Jones Show

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Win the Room, EP 5 - What If With Miggs Borroughs

Win the Room, EP 5 - What If With Miggs Burroughs

Kelly: Miggs Burroughs is a known and well-loved multi-artist, he has talent in many mediums. Miggs is an artist based in Westport CT - my home town! 

We discuss over a glass of wine about how he wins his room, and all things artsy. I delve into the value of his provocative book, a collection of “What If” a series of rhetorical questions that stirs up the mind, and asks us to imagine endless possibilities. This podcast is for anyone who does or wants to think outside of the box.

Find more shows like this on KoPoint.

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Beer Diplomacy, EP 119 - Jesus & Tyrion Lannister

Beer Diplomacy, EP 119 - Jesus & Tyrion Lannister

Recorded on March 18, 2013 at KoPoint Studios in NYC.

This week, Stuart welcomes New York Times best selling author & comedian Baratunde Thurston and host of Tell Your Friends! & comedian Liam McEneaney.  We discuss what’s going on in our lives, the virtues of SoundCloud, gerrymandering, the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, why Republicans don’t win elections, and more!

Thanks, as always, to Dan Patterson for engineering and to SumAll for hosting us in their offices.

Topics can be found here.

Find more great shows like this on KoPoint

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Title of Episode

Artist

Stuart Tracte

Album

Beer Diplomacy

Beer Diplomacy, EP 118 - Title of Episode

Recorded on March 11, 2013 at KoPoint Studios in NYC.

The first foursome at KoPoint Studios, featuring Ty Francis, Alison Leiby, host Stuart Tracte, & Jackie “The Jokeman” Martling! Topics include the caloric value of a mouse click, the Bloomberg soda ban, the North Korean nuclear threat, gun ownership & the appropriateness of comedy. We spent time hearing some great anecdotes from Jackie and just had an all-around good time.

Thanks to Dan Patterson & Sum All for engineering & hosting the show, respectively.

This week’s topics can be found here.

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Ken Segall Keeps it Simple

Artist

Kelly Hadous

Album

Win the Room

Ken Segall Keeps it Simple | Win the Room

Kelly Hadous

Recorded live at KoPoint

Ken Segall Keeps it Simple:  Ken shares how win your room with simplicity.

Bio From KenSegall.com:
My story is a simple one. I’m a writer who worked at ad agencies with high standards, then met a client with absurdly high standards: Steve Jobs. From ‘Think Different’ to iMac and beyond, I found that Steve’s love of simplicity was at the core of Apple’s every success…

Kelly: Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work closely with Steve Jobs or name a product so brilliantly that it’s etched forever in the pages of history. Well I was, and that’s why I had to bring my dear friend Ken Segall on WTR radio.

Ken Segall worked closely with Steve Jobs at Apple. Ken is that guy we can thank for coming up with the name iMac, and the rest my friends is naming history. That cute little “i” became the foundation for naming all the other Apple products that followed.

We also chat about marketing ideas, and Ken says just “be yourself” I love it! How many times in a day do we worry and agonize about how we’re perceived, but if we just get out of our own way, then magic starts to happen!

Ken talks to moi at KoPoint, about his behind closed meetings with Steve Jobs and shares some awesome insights on his marketing strategies in Insanely Simple.

Finally, Scoopertino, Ken’s blog about all things sardonic in the unreal apple world is a hoot to say the least, and it always causes quite a stir not only for apple lovers, but the entire produce section.

I just adore Ken and I know you will too!

Share your comments, they’re always appreciated.

- Kelly and WTR team!

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Jobs

Artist

Stuart Tracte

Album

Beer Diplomacy

Beer Diplomacy, EP 117 - Jobs

Recorded on March 4, 2013 at KoPoint Studios in NYC.

This week, Stuart welcomes comedian Dan Soder and comedian/head writer of Totally Biased w/ W. Kamau Bell, Kevin Avery.  We put on our radio voices and discuss a bit about comedy and when you know you’ve found your comedic voice, horse meat, actually going to work, and hollering at women.   Keep an eye out for Dan Soder’s upcoming Comedy Central special and be sure to watch the return of Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on May 9th.

As always, thanks to Dan Patterson & SumAll for engineering and hosting, respectively.

This weeks topics can be found at http://bit.ly/BD117Topics.

Find more great shows like this on KoPoint.

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Parenting The Internet

Artist

CC Chapman

Album

Managing the Gray

Parenting | Managing the Gray

CC Chapman

My parenting philosophy is pretty straight forward. Be an honest person and treat other people as you want to be treated.


That is how I live my life and how I want my children too.


But, I also believe that you should stand behind whatever you say.


In today’s world where anyone can hide behind their keyboard and screen, it feels to me that the Internet is making too many people soft.


If they get challenged in the littlest ways they back down, run away or try to pretend that it never happened.


THAT is what is discussed on this episode of Managing the Gray. A bit of a rant, laced with encouragement to not be soft and to stand up for what you believe in.

Thanks for listening.

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