Tag: podcasts

  • LiveJournal, Russia, and Reddit

    Friends and Blasphemers is a pretty great episode from the podcast Reply All. They dive into what happened to LiveJournal when it got popular in Russia. https://embed.radiopublic.com/e?if=reply-all-OWdvQ8&ge=s1!e601a84ab2126a49a088148a33a52436f5a8b910 One of the interesting parts was a breakdown of how much Russian trolls got paid to disrupt LJ: PJ: Emails actually leaked out later that had the rates…

  • Detroit Beer Press Podcast – Blackrocks Brewery

    If you’re looking for a beer podcast to listen to today (and I know you are), check out this one from Detroit Beer Press. The hosts interview a couple of the brewers from Blackrocks Brewery in Marquette, MI – Alex Leckie and my brother Charles Hotelling.

  • NPR’s most interesting podcast

    Browsing through NPR’s Podcast Directory, one in particular stood out; not for its content but for the way it was created. Most of the podcasts are simply NPR shows, but NPR: Most E-Mailed Stories is assembled based on the audience’s reaction to NPR news stories. People tend to share stories they like, so in theory…