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• Climate activists get creative

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  PHOTO: ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images Activists are planning both theatrical and confrontational demonstrations for Copenhagen. Protesters are bidding for media attention, but it’s unlikely they will significantly sway the outcome of the climate negotiations. The World’s Marina Giovannelli reports on how ...
  3 days ago

• Audio Slideshow: Camel Races in Australia

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Photojournalist Tim Bonham journeys deep into the Australian outback to profile Glenda Sutton. Sutton is a camel jockey, and has been since 1998. She learned how to ride in the United Arab Emirates, and now races in her native Australia. Bonham caught up with her at The Boulia Camel Races in Queensland. Click ...
  4 days ago

• Windows 7 in African languages, unfortunate baby names, and the new Klingon

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Download audio file (WIWnews6.mp3) For the latest podcast, five language news stories from the past month: 5. African languages to get their versions of Windows . Microsoft says by 2011 it will release versions of its new Windows 7 operating system in ten African languages: Sesotho sa Leboa, Setswana, ...
  4 days ago

• A reporter’s revenge against spam

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Download audio file (1204096.mp3) Download MP3 Two years ago, the BBC’s Simon Cox tracked down one of the world’s most notorious spammers. Then, Cox became part of the story in ways he never imagined. Anchor Marco Werman has an update. More in our Technology Podcast Listen to our original story ...
  1 week ago

• Tech Podcast: Tackling Cybercrime and Spam

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Download audio file (WTPpodcast269.mp3) Download MP3 See this man? He may be responsible for some of the thousands of spam emails that have hit your inbox over the years. His name is Shane Atkinson, and he lives in New Zealand. He and his brother Lance, along with some help from Texan Jody Smith and some ...
  1 week ago

• WGBHs new slogan sounds awfully familiar

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 613
  Where have we heard that before? Its not enough that WGBH is stealing WBURs news/talk format; now its trying to wrest away its slogan, too. The station, which used to call itself "Bostons NPR Arts and Culture Station" is now calling itself just "Bostons NPR Station," as if WBUR, "Bostons NPR News Station," no ...
  1 week ago

• Making the case for Obama’s Afghanistan plan

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen went before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington today. The panel was giving testimony related to President Obama’s plan to send more US troops to Afghanistan. The ...
  1 week ago

• World AIDS Day Posters

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  In this audio slideshow from BBC News we can look at some of the subtle and shocking ways that health campaigners have used images to raise HIV/AIDS awareness across the world. This is explained by Julia Nurse and William Schupbach, two of the librarians who helped assemble the images for the Wellcome Collection. The ...
  1 week ago

• WGBH Changes Format/ WCRB Goes Non-Commercial

  
  PRPD News for Programmers — Authority: 124
  Bostons WGBH is making big changes today - taking over formerly commercial WCRB and making major changes to their legacy 89.7FM station schedule.  WCRB will feature a mixture of classical hosts from both that station and former WGBH classical hosts along with programming from Classical 24.WGBH will convert its ...
  1 week ago

• Classical WGBH radio to switch to 99.5 FM tomorrow

  
  Aisle Be Seeing You — Authority: 117
  Tomorrow is DAY 1 of WGBHs classical radio format switch from 89.7 FM to 99.5 FM. Get the details here .
  1 week ago

• Words your grandmother taught you in Chinese, Dutch and Yiddish

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Download audio file (WIWpodcast74.mp3) Did Barack Obama learn a word or two from his grandmother? Well, maybe not — he didn’t grow up with the gran pictured here (it’s his Kenyan stepmother). But many people did learn their very first foreign words from their grandmothers. The Big Show’s Marco ...
  1 week ago

• Global Hit: Paganini

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  For todays Global Hit, we tackle a very serious subject: classical music. Or maybe not so serious, if you’re checking out Paganini, a comedy string quartet from Spain and Lebanon. The groups mission is to get the world of classical music to lighten up. The World’s Gerry Hadden went to one of Paganinis shows in ...
  1 week ago

• WGBH Twitter hacked

  
  Universal Hub - All Boston, all the time — Authority: 613
  The Twitter account for WGBHs "Greater Boston" (@GreaterBoston) has been hacked. Either that, or PBS is finally offering some good loot when you donate money during commercial breaks.
  1 week ago

• WGBH and public radio’s future

  
  Doc Searls Weblog — Authority: 605
  @robpatrob ( Robert Paterson ) asks (responding to this tweet and this post ) “ Why would GBH line up against BUR? Why have a war between 2 Pub stations in same city?” (In this tweet and this one , Dan Kennedy asks pretty much the same thing.) The short answer is, Because it wouldn’t be a war. ...
  2 weeks ago

• No Breakthroughs in Senate Race

  
  Marry in Massachusetts — Authority: 121
  The candidate who gets the most loyal voters to the polls on December 8th wins. Polls to date say the Dem wholl run in the January 19th final for Ted Kennedys seat will be AG Martha Coakley. For the life of me, I cant understand why. She needs to show more to get my support. Personal whine: We at Left Ahead! had ...
  2 weeks ago

• WGBH update - feedback reply

  
  Steve's 2 Cents — Authority: 131
   I did send in feedback via the WGBH website and received this email in reply: Dear Mr. Sherlock, Operating a multi-format station like 89.7 is very challenging in today’s media environment. While many of our loyal supporters may understand our programming schedule and what genres air when, most other radio ...
  2 weeks ago

• Senate Candidates Debate: Make Your Primary Decision

  
  Boston Blog — Authority: 486
  Tomorrow, two debates will take place that might help you make a decision in the special election race to fill Ted Kennedy’s senate seat. First, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce sponsors a debate between the Republican candidates Scott Brown and Jack E. Robinson tomorrow at 8am. It’s too late to register ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tech Podcast 268: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Returns!

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Download audio file (WTPpodcast268.mp3) Download MP3 If you’ve followed this podcast for any length of time, you’ll know I have a soft spot for the late Douglas Adams’ monumentally satisfying Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy . I love it in pretty much all of its forms (OK, I’m partial to the radio ...
  3 weeks ago

• WGBH canceling folk? Say it aint so!

  
  Steve's 2 Cents — Authority: 131
  From Scott Alarik via Jake at the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse : As many of you know, WGBH will cancel its Saturday afternoon program, "Folk On WGBH" on December 1. This ends a historic commitment to American folk music on WGBH, that goes back to to the early 1970s. I want to urge you to contact WGBH, spread the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Cokes, Kit Kats, and Men’s Undies

  
  PRI's The World — Authority: 608
  Download audio file (gloecon36.mp3) Download MP3 My friend Steve Coleman has a brilliant strategy to limit his soda consumption: He stocks his refrigerator exclusively with Coca Cola. You see, Steve, aka “The Cone,” is a Pepsi aficionado. If The Cone has a Pepsi readily available, (or a Starbucks eggnog latte ...
  4 weeks ago

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