TrueAnon Episode 229: Internet for the People

[ellievoyyd]

My favorite podcast, TrueAnon has uploaded a new episode about the internet!!! Very excited to listen, since this and a lot of other podcasts I like don't tend to cover the issue of the problems with the internet, although trueanon and Behind The Bastards have done good stuff on it.

You can listen to the new TrueAnon episode here:

They are interviewing Ben Tarnoff, author of a forthcoming book from Verso called Internet for the People. Let's have a listen and discussion of the episode? I haven't listened yet but will be while I clean today.

Let me know if you know any other podcasts that have done good in depth episodes on the internet.

[Gans]

Interesting. The power of words sound never be forgotten. The evil companies really have too many good PR consultants to frame their products.
And well, nice message boards had always been there and will always be there as a counter-weight to the big social media, fortuneatly. Hopefully the message board owners will not make the mistake and fork, fork, fork their projects and communites for every single little detail that bothers them, because message boards only run well with a certain amout of participants.

Other podcasts:
Ehm... well if you know some German...

https://chaosradio.de/episoden

From the Chaos Computer Club, it's Chaosradio , especially the old episodes before 2002/2003, really covered computer stuff in extreme depth in 3 hour sessions on public (!) radio.

[ellievoyyd]

ha, well i hope you are OK with a very drastic non-sequitor, Gans, but another podcast I like with a funnily appropriate name covered some of the early internet organizing of the far right: https://idontspeakgerman.libsyn.com/75-tom-metzger-part-1

I guess i have read also a bit of the history of BBS's and forums and experienced a bit of it myself when i was much much younger, toward the end of their popularity i was on a few different forums.

There definitely is an annoying bit about splintering off, but to me i see that as a kind of "natural lifecycle" of things like this - the big social media are like Frankenstein monsters which are kept alive by artificial life support... there needs to be a true "ecosystem" that is alive and changing, instead of what has been the case for Web2.0 which has just been less of an ecosystem and more of a petri dish

[Gans]

Very appropriate name, yes.

Maybe some other source of talks, more from the serious business side: Computer History Museum. Old chaps and ladies talking about the computer industry of the 70s, 80s, 90s... Wozniak might tell you something about Games and Apples. And Sir Tim Berners-Lee probably has a word on HTML specs... definetly lots of interesting personalities there.
Invidious-Link:
https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCHDr4RtxwA1KqKGwxgdK4Vg
Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory