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Fri, May 18
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2012-05-20 - Spark 183: Phone Fonts, POV video, and Long-distance Love Tech
Reid Tatoris on game CAPTCHAs. Cathi Bond on POV Video glasses. Heather Knight on the Robot Film Fest. David Fewer on Bill C-11 & copyright in Canada. Carman Neustaedter on Long-distance relationship tech. Steve Matteson on designing fonts for mobile devices.
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Fri, May 11
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2012-05-13 - Spark 182: Descriptive Cameras, Bio-hacking, and Forgiving Bad
Matt Richardson on the Descriptive Camera. Jamie Malcolm and Mark Winter on The Camera Obscura Project. Hendrik Knoche on apps for the illiterate. Sanjay Arora on the search engine Million Short. Sonya Buyting on bio-hacking. Henry Petroski on how to forgive bad design.
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Fri, May 4
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2012-05-06 - Spark 181: Robot Comedians, Safety Apps, and Social Learning
Luke Rendell on the Social Learning Tournament. Dale Dougherty and Mitch Altman on the DARPA grant for makerspaces in schools. Edward Birnbaum on safety apps. Chris Parker on human-robot interaction. Heather Knight on Data, the robot comedian.
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Fri, Apr 27
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2012-04-29 - Spark 180: Selfsurfing, Open Government, and Data Hunters
Jonas Lund on the browser extension Selfsurfing. Brad Crawford on his film 100 Yen. Denis Grignon on comedians hosting podcasts. David Kattenburg on data-gathering Inuit hunters. Jonathan Brun on Open North and government transparency. Jennifer Pahlka on coding for a better government.
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Fri, Apr 20
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2012-04-22 - Spark 179: Meditation, Willpower, and the Algorithmic Economy
Kevin Slavin on the algorithmic economy. Rohan Gunatillake on combining our tech-filled lives with meditation. Sonya Buyting on designer organs that could communicate via Twitter. Ben Lang, Nir Kouris, Stephen Sills, and Carmi Levy on niche social networks. Kelly McGonigal on The Willpower Instinct.
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Fri, Mar 30
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2012-04-01 - Spark 178: 17th C Info Overload, Prince Songs as Proto-texts,
Jordan Hermant on the movie Pump Up the Volume as proto-file sharing and blogging. Jo Guldi on the 18th century Open Roads Movement as proto-net neutrality. Michelle Parise on Prince song titles as proto-texts. Colin Newell and Kristin Haring on CB radio/HAM radio as proto-social media. Richard Sennett on class behavior in London coffee houses as proto-status updates. Anas Saint-Jude on 17th C information overload as proto-present day information overload.
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Fri, Mar 23
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2012-03-25 - Spark 177: Humans Hurting Robots, Loveable User Interfaces, an
Michael Cook on Angelina, the AI game designer. Cathi Bond on the latest trend in buying art online. Julia Ringler on whether humans would destroy a robot if they could. Matt Jones on designing user interfaces with artificial empathy. Carlos Asmat on his social network for robots.
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Fri, Mar 16
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2012-03-18 - Spark 176: HR Algorithms, Hospital Surveillance, and Anonymous
Lindsay Michael on the top trends at SXSWi. Sean Carruthers on why algorithms are used more than people in the hiring process. Dr. Michael Gardam on hand washing in hospitals. Corey Takahashi on new innovations out of the Game Developers Conference. Gabriella Coleman on the online movement Anonymous.
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Fri, Mar 9
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2012-03-11 - Spark 175: Nature Hacks, Cyber Magic, and Body Interfaces
Chris Harrison on "on-body interfaces". Tema Frank on the future of magic and cyber magician Marco Tempest. Bartholomaus Traubeck on his tree-ring record player. Kate Hartman on her tweeting plant and the relationship between nature and tech. Matt Ratto on "critical making" - understanding technology by making it ourselves.
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Fri, Mar 2
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2012-03-04 - Spark 174: Electric Powwows, Speaking Indigenously, and Claimi
Dustin Rivers on using blogs and podcasts to teach Squamish. Jason Lewis on helping Aboriginal kids imagine their place in the future through web videos. Candis Callison on how First Nations people use social media. Susan O’Donnell on Facebook surveillance. Don Bain on using Twitter to bypass the mainstream media. Angie Morris on Aboriginal-owned social networks. Candice Hopkins on indigenous aesthetics on YouTube.
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Fri, Feb 17
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2012-02-19 - Spark 173: Open Source Objects, Visual Language, and Beautiful
David McCandless on The Information Is Beautiful Awards. Edward Boatman on The Noun Project. Angel Gambino on urban renewal through digital thinking. Jon Kalish on the Open Source Ecology farm. Limor Fried on having fun with open source hardware.
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Wed, Feb 15
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Full Interview: David McCandless on Information Design
Nora Young speaks with David McCandless, a data journalist and information designer in London, England. He’s kind of a rock star in the world of data visualization. He turns rivers of blunt data into beautiful, meaningful visuals.
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Fri, Feb 10
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2012-02-12 - Spark 172: Smart Cities, Rural Tech, and the Beauty of Binary
Christina Crook and Mary Robinette Kowal on the return to letter writing. Robert Brumley on designing a city with no people. Denis Grignon on the closing urban-rural tech divide. Kristen Haring on the beauty of binary systems.
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Fri, Feb 3
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2012-02-05 - Spark 171: Transparency, Crowdsourcing, and Consent
Rebecca MacKinnon on her new book Consent of the Networked. Cyrus Farivar on young politicians and online transparency. Alec Holowka on indie video game design. Michael Keferl on Don Tapscott on crowdsourcing cool.
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Fri, Jan 27
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2012-01-29 - Spark 170: Argonauts, Creative Hubs, and The War On Computing
Cory Doctorow on the coming war on personal computing. Byron Holland on balancing copyright protection with an open Internet. AnnaLee Saxenian on regional creative hubs and the new Argonauts. Jonathan Gifford on Berlin as the next Silicon Valley. Mark Surman on using the open principles of the web to create creative tech communities.
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Sun, Jan 22
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2012-01-22 - Spark 169: Accelerated Innovation, Education, and Employment
Matthew Kirschenbaum with on his upcoming book The Literary History of Word Processing. Edward Birnbaum on digital trap streets. Gerry McCartney on Purdue University's Hotseat technology. Rhonda McEwan on the benefits of mobile tech for non-verbal students. Andrew McAfee on his new book Race Against The Machine.
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Fri, Jan 13
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2012-01-15 - Spark 168 – Eye Tracking, Virtual Work, and Total Capture
Peter Nowak with the latest alternative interface technologies at CES. Paul LaFarge on hypertext fiction and the future of literature. Todd Pataky on computers that can identify you by your gait. Ian Cook and Shawn Long on the pros and cons of telecommuting. And Abigail Sellen goes beyond life-logging and total capture to explore the real difference between remembering and simply recording.
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Fri, Jan 6
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2012-01-06 - Spark 167: The Internet, Information, and Revolution
Spark celebrates the legacy of Alan Turing with two feature-length interviews. Luciano Floridi discusses the Fourth Revolution in knowledge and David Weinberger talks about how knowledge and decision making are changing in the Internet era.
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Sun, Dec 18 2011
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2011-12-18 - Spark 166: Library Hacking, Niche Publications, and Enlisting
Baratunde Thurston on enlisting online influencers to campaign for his new book. Steve Rubel on how to manage your time and attention in a transmedia world. Jon Kalish on DIY-ers re-purposing libraries. David Weinberger on library innovation. Cathi Bond on niche subscriptions and the return of the artifact.
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Sun, Dec 11 2011
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2011-12-11 - Spark 165 – Data, Design, and Open Science
Tony Haile on the problem with prediction and real-time data analysis. Anshuman Iddamsetty, Suneet Tuli and Anjali Kelkar on designing tech products to serve the needs of people with the lowest incomes. Michael Nielsen on his book Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Seth Cooper on contributing to science through his online game Foldit. Anthony Philbin of meTracker on collecting and analyzing our personal data sets.
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Sun, Dec 4 2011
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2011-12-04 - Spark 164: Hackers in Space, Unoriginal Genius, and The Polygo
Luis von Ahn on translating the web into every major language through online volunteers. Marjorie Perloff on poetry and unoriginal genius. Cinnamon Nippard on the amateur, hacker space race. Jane Margolis and Maria Klawe on why gender balance in computer science matters.
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Sun, Oct 30 2011
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2011-10-30 - Spark 160 – Real-time Renaissance, Kinder Tech, and The Declin
Kalina Christoff on whether digital devices are keeping us from being creative. Jeana Lee Tahnk on kids and tech gadgets, Mark Jeffrey on a resurgence in real-time environments, Jillian York on account deactivation and content removal, and Brooke Gladstone on The Influencing Machine.
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Sun, Oct 23 2011
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2011-10-23 - Spark 159: Programmers, Hybrids, and Cyborgs - oh my!
Rob Spence on the Eyeborg Project. Ayesha Khanna on living in the hybrid age. Mark Allemang and David Ticoll on the dearth of young people interested in Computer Science and IT. Corey Takahashi shows us all is not lost, with a group of teens who have developed and launched several successful apps. And Douglas Rushkoff on why learning to program should be basic literacy for us all.
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Sun, Oct 16 2011
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2011-10-16 – No new podcast this week (and a request)
There’s no new podcast episode this week. We’ll be back with a brand-new podcast episode of Spark next week. Also, if you download podcast using iTunes, we'd really appreciate if you'd go to the Spark iTunes page and rate or review Spark. It'd really help. Honest. Spark on iTunes: http://itun.es/iBY5G3
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Sun, Oct 9 2011
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2011-10-09 - Spark 158 – White-collar Robots, Solar Catastrophes, and the S
Jason Kottke and Chris Wilson on Robottke, Ted Striphas on the algorithmization of culture, Marjorie Skubic on sensors and the elderly, Farhad Manjoo on robots replacing humans in high skill professions, Sonya Buyting on solar storms and digital destruction, and John Graham-Cumming on building Babbage’s Analytical Engine.
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Sun, Oct 2 2011
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2011-10-02 - Spark 157: Sensors, Predictors, and Recognition Software
Jennifer Steeves and Alessandro Acquisti on facial recognition, Jonathan Koomey on why efficiency is the new power, Jure Leskovec on predicting the future through behaviour mining, and Ayesha Khanna on the future of smart cities
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Sun, Sep 25 2011
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2011-09-25 - Spark 156: Election Collection, Lawful Access, and a Retro-80s
David Fewer and Murray Stooke with both sides of the controversial "lawful access" legislation expected to be unveiled by Canada's federal government in the near future. Kaj Hasselriis on provincial election data collection. Leonard Paul on the art of Chiptune composition. Ernest Cline on his new 80s-obsessed novel Ready Player One. And Nora confesses her sins of pop culture omission to 80s TV icon Erica Ehm.
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Sun, Sep 18 2011
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2011-09-18 - Spark 155: Nymwars, Opting Out, and the Wikipedia Gender Gap
Alice Marwick on the cost of opting out of tech and social media. Zeynep Tufekci and scientist blogger "Scicurious" on the need for pseudonymity online. Robert Scoble in defence of the Google+ real name policy. Sue Gardner on gender imbalance on Wikipedia. And Andrew Budziak compares live streamed concerts to the real, sweaty thing.
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Sun, Sep 11 2011
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2011-09-11 - Spark 154: The Future of Education, The Myth of the Digital Na
Summer is over and Spark is back for our 5th season! This week we give education a reboot, debunk the myth of the digital native, and look at the intersection of art, memory, and math in a memorial for September 11th.
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Sun, Aug 21 2011
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2011-08-21 - Spark in the Summer: Siva Vaidhayanathan on The Googlization o
This summer on the Spark podcast, we're playing extended versions of some of our favourite interviews from the past season. This week, Nora's full interview with Siva Vaidhyanathan. Siva is a professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia, and he's the author of The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry). In it, Siva explores how so much of the world has embraced Google over the past decade, and he argues that we need to look critically at that embrace.
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