Podcasting is a big business and one that is expected to keep growing. According to Podcast Insights, there are currently over 660,000 podcasts and over 28 million episodes as of last month. Convince&Convert states podcast listening by women has increased 14% in one year. Yet, podcasting remains a genre mostly used and created by white…
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How Your Social Position Determines Your Power, Beliefs and Behaviors, is the Subtitle to Matthew O. Jackson’s new book, The Human Network. That’s a lot to promise in a few words, but Jackson has the intellectual chops to deliver. Jackson is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University and he’s made a name worldwide as…
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Wayne Rooney has a hattrick and Ben is back, so basically Ben can never be sick again. Filibuster is back and Jason, Adam, and Ben talk about D.C. United resounding win over Real Salt Lake, including the glory of that hattrick. We also heap some praise on Junior Moreno and Russell Canouse, talk about the…
Read MoreThe court will hear the case of a black man on death row in Mississippi, who’s been tried six times for the same crime. David Greene talks to Madeleine Baran, host of the podcast: In the Dark. DAVID GREENE, HOST: We’re going to hear now about the extraordinary case of Curtis Flowers. He’s a black…
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Pens center Evgeni Malkin joins Sam Kasan to recap his incredible 13-year NHL career that includes three Stanley Cups, two scoring titles, an MVP, playoff MVP and reaching 1,000-career points on the ninth episode of The Scoop podcast presented by Point Park University. Highlights include: Malkin discusses reaching 1,000 points Malkin looks back on getting…
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Podcasts are having a moment right now. The format has seen a surge in popularity in recent years because of several factors, including easier access for both creators (who can even record audio on their smartphones) and listeners (who are just a few taps away from opening most podcasts). Part of the beauty of podcasts…
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Welcome to Hot Pod, a newsletter about podcasts. This is issue 200, published March 19, 2019. Issue 200. Crazy, huh? Look, I’ve never held a proper job for more than nine months, and so it’s more surprising to me than to anyone else that I’ve sent out two hundred of these comically lengthy newsletters for…
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Source: Mike Coppola / Getty Omari Hardwick is entering the world of podcasts. The Power star revealed that he is launching his own podcast “Poetics” where he is challenging some of our favorite rappers to show off their spoken word skills. “I’m asking rappers to come in and sit down and recite a poem,” The 45-year-old told…
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The Google Podcasts Creator Program, run by PRX, is back and is looking for its next round of participants. The program provides 20 weeks of training and mentorship as well as seed funding to promising podcasters with the aim of promoting underrepresented voices throughout the industry and around the world. Catalina May and Martín Cruz,…
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Show Notes The development of artificial intelligence has begun to feel inevitable and promising. But University of Chicago computer scientist, Ben Zhao, has spent much of his career testing how the security of these systems can break down. Zhao’s study involving Yelp reviews generated by A.I. show how these system could be used to distort…
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