Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)

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Jesse Thorn is a polycast — a polymath of podcasts. He helped define the form by taking a show that he developed with others on a college radio station and making it into a podcast in 2004. That show, the Sound of Young America, now called Bullseye, focuses on interesting cultural trends and sports in-depth interviews,… Continue reading Set Your Radio Dial to Maximum Fun with Jesse Thorn (Episode 88)

How to Feel Real App Appeal with Garrett Murray (Episode 87)

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Garrett Murray is the founder and creative director of Karbon, an app-development firm. But software isn’t his whole life; he also happens to be an award-winning filmmaker. His firm developed the apps Scratch, a quick-input notepad for iPhone, and Ego, for tracking all your Web status in a single glance. Actor Tom Hanks just singled… Continue reading How to Feel Real App Appeal with Garrett Murray (Episode 87)

Bakfiets to the Future with Phillip Ross (Episode 86)

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Phillip Ross is one of the fellows behind Metrofiets, a company that makes cargo bikes — a kind of transportation vehicle developed in the Netherlands, and known as bakfietsen there. He and his partner James Nichols build their bikes in Portland, Oregon. Phil helped bring Critical Mass to Portland and is the co-creator and producer… Continue reading Bakfiets to the Future with Phillip Ross (Episode 86)

Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)

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Nicole Dieker wears a lot of hats, as well as a brown coat. She’s a freelance copywriter and ghostwriter, pens fiction, and writes essays. She’s also a musician who bootstrapped herself out of a convention to which she returns every year, a rock climber, a Firefly fan, a whiskey drinker, and much more. Nicole wears… Continue reading Welcome to the World of Tomorrow with Nicole Dieker (Episode 85)