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Finding Better Tech Broadcasts?
BearGrylls writes "As a young lad and aspiring technologist I have found shows like Revision3's 'The Broken' and 'Systm' to be entertaining, informative, and, most importantly, thorough. As time has gone on revision3 has kept some of the tech-related shows, but dumbed them down to appeal to a larger audience. This annoyed me, but I've continued to be a loyal viewer of their tech shows anyway. However, I suspect this trend to continue and my disappointment to grow. Where can I find tech shows that dive deep into projects and discussions instead of simply skimming the surface?"
I have also found them to dumb down the old shows. But they just added Hak5 to their lineup. This show is great for advanced users. They really get technical with all things network, hacking, games, .... I also found the audio pod casts from Leo Leport to be good.
I have never found any of the tech shows to discuss Tech for the most part. I wanted to her about the core level stuff, life what languages was best for what types of developments. What trends where in the works and how to best use them. How to make the most of product XYZ and not just O hey we installed it and it made nice pretty charts. I wanted to know how best to secure my networks and what products did what and what was the best approach and how to make product xyz do it. But, all I got was "Hey this is a neat new toy yall all need to go out and buy XYZ. Today show was sponsored buy the people who make XYZ, go buy it!" I want more than a bunch of commercials and cute girls pointing to the shinny new boxes.
I listen to TWIT (This Week In Tech) regularly, mainly for Leo Laporte and any guest who isn't Dvorak. I don't find Leo to be particularly techy, but he's quite entertaining and controls the flow of the show well.
They mention Rev3 alot and also a new site called GDGT (GaDGeT) which is supposedly good - I must admit I haven't found time to check it out yet.
Okay no excuses, subsribing to an RSS feed is dead simple, so I'm going go ahead and subscribe to GDGT and check it out. - Oh and IO9 while I'm at it.
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Greek. Although the spirit of your reply is correct; the same applies to words such as "virus": the Anglicized plural "viruses" is acceptable, even though in the original Latin there is no plural form (it's a mass noun).
Yeah, I had a sig once; I got bored of it.
Oddly, I thought your point was clearer the first time!
As it happens I do quite enjoy The Gadget Show (UK) - although it doesn't always go into as much detail as I would like, and suffers from an occasional bout of "oooh... shiney!".
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The internet is just jam packed with info. Just go sign up for Google's tech talk RSS feed on youtube, that's just a small corner of mostly tech, most of the time (and the occasional diversion into human rights or harry potter as a philosophically christian themed narrative :P ).
There are lives at stake here!
There was a great series shown in the UK for a while, called "Planet Mechanics". They built, from scratch or any simple materials they could lay their hands on, a high pressure water turbine for off grid electricity, a working wind turbine generator, a compressed air powered moped, a farm slurry digester to make methane for fuel, all kinds of stuff.
http://hackermedia.org/ is a site that aggregates awesome tech shows. If anyone sees anything that I am missing please email me. While I am pimping out projects I work on, http://hackerpublicradio.org/ is a great show that is done by the community, not any set hosts.
Leo Laporte's TWiT (named after the flagship show "This Week in Tech") network at twit.tv. It includes downloadable audio casts and streaming video. I listen to it on my daily commute. Two good ones are FLOSS Weekly with Randall Schwartz and Security Now with Steve Gibson. I was just listening to FLOSS weekly today -- they had a KDE developer on discussing the latest developments.
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No-one says stadia.
I present myself as a counterexample.
It's not even correct to do so.
The Oxford English Dictionary and American Heritage Dictionary offer both "stadiums" and "stadia" as plurals for "stadium". Webster offers only "stadia".
English nouns (such as stadium) pluralize with an s on the end.
There are no simple criterions for determining how English nouns pluralise, whatever they may teach childs where you live. Yet somehow, in spite of the many "crisises" of which we hear so much in the mediums, the English language has survived. It seems to have more lifes than a cat.
Citizen Engineer only has one episode out so far, and looks like it's going to be mostly hardhacking, but it's definitely not dumbed-down.
On the other hand, if you're looking for a serious discussion on the future of tech with a stronger grip on reality than Popular Science, try MIT's LabCast videos, with footage of working prototypes.
You may enjoy these shows:
The Packet Sniffers
http://www.packetsniffers.org
HackTV
http://www.hacktv.org/
M0difyd
http://www.pracdev.org/m0diphyd/
Infonomicon TV
http://nomicon.info/infotv.php
Irongeek
http://www.irongeek.com/
Hacker Media
http://hackermedia.org/
Hacker Public Radio (Daily tech audio podcast)
http://www.hackerpublicradio.org/
Today With A Techie (Audio podcast - stopped at 300 episodes)
http://www.twatech.org/
In the spirit of open source, if something is making you itch, you have the opportunity to scratch it.
I used to host a tech-oriented radio show on a local community radio station. I also syndicated the show using radio4all.net.
Television is a little harder to do, but thanks to sites like YouTube, it is possible to do on the cheap, because Google will absorb the bandwidth costs if your show is a success (and reap the ad revenue).
You can also do what Kevin Rose did in the early days of the Broken: Encourage your show to be distributed far and wide by whatever means are available.
Granted, none of these are likely to produce a result with as much production value as Revision3 shows (there's nothing like geeking out in HD), but it can get you started.
. . . if you want to go that route. If not, that's okay, too
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It's not always tech, but it's never dumbed-down. 2 hours a week. Podcast available.
I remember when TLC was called the Learning Channel and actually had intelligent programming. Now it's more akin to the "Tender Loving Care" channel
I refer to it as "The Ladies Channel".
I think you were on some bo-bo "Websters" site. M-W.com (i.e. the "real Websters") accepts both forms.
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