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brad@kozlek.com — Sun, 20 May 2007 01:35:38 +0000

Barack Obama Podcast: Q and A At Partnership For Public Service

brad@kozlek.com — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:40:06 +0000

I just recently started listening to all the episodes of Barack Obama’s podcast. It is great to see a Senator use technology to talk directly to the people. I have listened to maybe a half dozen episodes and social technology has come up more than several times. In the podcast I link to below, in which he addresses college-age citizens, he wonders about the future of the government when the facebook generation gets a hold of it. He says that the current government is a 1930s design, and today’s youth are more comfortable with social networks and flattened structures instead of endless levels of hierarchy.

Obama also sponsored legislation which was passed into law that mandates a free, easily accessible, web site that would allow anyone to find out exactly how the federal government is spending our money. The website, fedspending.gov, is supposed to up by January of 2008.

I have become a huge fan of Obama, and the his grasp of technology/media is really only a small part of the equation. All the reasons that lead me to support Obama or beyond the scope of this blog entry, but at the top of the list is this: Listening to Obama, I am inspired to do better things. Listen to his podcasts and will hear lots of reasons why I am on the Obama train. Linked below is the one I mention above.

Listen to Barack Obama answer questions at the partnership for public service

Remember, you can subscribe to a podcast feed of the various podcast episodes that I talk about.

Parody of This American Life

brad@kozlek.com — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:27:51 +0000

Just discovered the Kasper Hauser comedy podcast. They do a spot on impersonation of This American Life.

Granted, parodying This American Life is in many ways like shooting fish in a barrel, and what Kasper Hauser does here isn’t so much make fun of This American Life as recreate it. Still, as an avid This American Life listener, I found it highly amusing.

Remember, you can subscribe to a podcast feed of the various podcast episodes that I talk about.

ETS Talk: The Total Package

brad@kozlek.com — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 23:01:48 +0000

The lastest ETS Talk is up. In this installment we talk about building online communities, blogging in and out of the classroom, and at the end I throw a wrench in the machine by wondering about the need for a permanent archive of all the content being electronically published at the university.

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ETS Talk: D’Arcy Norman

brad@kozlek.com — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:49:48 +0000

In this week’s episode of ETS talk, Cole, Allan and I talk to D’Arcy Norman, edtech blogger extraordinaire. We talk about strategies for driving adoption of new technology across the higher ed institution, not just the early adopters.

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ETS Talk: Getting Our Twitter On

brad@kozlek.com — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:38:26 +0000

Continuing the trend of all twitter all the time on this blog, I will say that in the latest episode of ETS talk we have a discussion of twitter and the experience of using it within our organization at the university.

direct link to audio file

ETS talk podcast on the web

Luke and His Dad: Children of Men SPOILERS

brad@kozlek.com — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:02:54 +0000

This episode spoils the ending of “Children of Men”, so only listen if you have already seen the movie. Luke and his Dad have a great discussion about the movie. They hit on something that I never considered: the spread of information technology may empower the third world to revolt against the wealth of the first world.

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BK’s Picks – subscribe to the podcast feed

brad@kozlek.com — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:03:33 +0000

I set up another podcast feed with feedburner. I figured I’d start a feed for the various podcasts I to which I link. I had this in my mind for a while, which is why I have been linking directly to the media file in my posts. Feedburner uses these links to add enclosures to the items in the RSS Feed.

This is the link to feed. I will drop in podcast episodes that I want to share. Some of them may be podcasts that feature me. Others may simply be something of interest I stumble upon.

I am using the BK’s Picks category to organize the posts that included in the podcast feed.

You should consider starting up your own podcast feed of media culled from across the net. I’d subscribe to it.

ETS Talk: iPhone and Transparent Organizations

brad@kozlek.com — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:28:20 +0000

Another episode of ETS Talk (link opens in iTunes) in which Cole, Allan, Chris and I talk about the iPhone and try to drum up some more listener participation.

Direct link to audio file.

54 Hour Movie: Brownian Motion, or Are We Dancin’?

brad@kozlek.com — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 23:59:41 +0000

A new team joined the 54 hour movie project this month. I do not know them personally. No one who currently participates in the 54 hour fun knows them except through the website. They contacted us and now they are submitting movies. I have to say I really enjoyed this movie. I am hoping they participate more.

Their film perfectly fit in spiritually with the 54 hour movie project.

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You can also download Brownian Motion, or Are We Dancin’?.

If you haven’t, you should check out all the 54 hour submissions from January. This was a very good batch.