Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker | WFMU

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Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker | WFMU

Too Much Information is the sober hangover after the digital party has run out of memes, apps and schemes. Host Benjamen Walker finds out that, in a world where everyone overshares the truth 140 characters at a time, telling tales might be the most honest thing to do.

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    Surveillance Special from May 19, 2014

    Benjamen Walker - "Interview with Susan Mcgregor" [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/55711

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    good bye, farewell, see you on the other side from Nov 25, 2013

    last show! [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/53336

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    Bricolage from Nov 18, 2013

    Out Of Office [Programmer David Heinemeier Hansson tells us about his Out Of Office experience, David is a partner at 37signals and a co-author (with Jason Fried) of REMOTE: Office Not Required. We also meet Ignacio Uriarte, he left his cubicle for a career in Office Art. And Ravenna Koenig, TOE’s newest correspondent, explains the difference between Facebook-Work & Work-Work.] "Chris" [D.C. correspondent ”Chris” who tells us about the NSA’s desire to install backdoors in Podcasts] Waiting in Line [About a year ago I travelled across America for the BBC. I visited Airports, Amusement parks, Highways and Community Colleges in order to understand how the priority queue is changing the American experience of waiting in line. A version of this piece aired on the BBC World Service, part of their “Real America” series produced in conjunction with PRX.] Admissions of Defeat [Peter Choyce is one of my oldest friends and a listener favorite, but he has a secret we’ve never addressed until now.] Benjamen Walker [More about these stories on Soundcloud] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/53241

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    Laurie Jo Reynolds / the Square from Oct 28, 2013

    Jehane Noujaim - "The Square" [0:00:00] Laurie Jo Reynolds - "Tamms year 10" [0:10:11] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52950

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    Online Dating with Chiara Atik: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Aug 5, 2013

    Beex - "Beat Beat" [Get it on the Free Music Archive] Grandma Phyllis [She met my Grandpa Sol on Classifieds2000.com in 1998. This is what she looks like:] Podington Bear - "Wind Up Toy" [Get it on the Free Music Archive] Chiara Atik [She's the author of Modern Dating: A Field Guide from the Experts at HowAboutWe. This is what she looks like:] Jim the Poet [He called in to ask me on a date, which will be the subject of next week's show. This what he looks like:] Riz Ortolani - "Cannibal Holocaust Theme" [Thank you for listening! Join me as I guest host for the next 2 weeks. Let me know if you have any stories for the show about love, dating or technology by sending a note to andrea at freemusicarchive.org or tweeting @andreasilenzi] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51799

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    Peter Maass on Spying, and Radiovision 2013 from Oct 14, 2013

    Peter Maass - "Surveillance" [0:00:00] Starlee Kine - "Native Advertising" [0:27:11] Starlee Kine - "Dr. Phil" [0:36:35] Jonathan Goldstein - "Why Travel: A journey to Bali" [0:48:12] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52756

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    Jia Zhangke + Alexis Ohanian from Oct 7, 2013

    Jia Zhangke - "Touch of Sin" [0:00:00] Alexis Ohanian - "Without their permission" [0:15:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52665

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    Balthus Cats and Girls, Short Films, Mr. Burns & Helen Epstein on S. Josephine Baker from Sep 30, 2013

    Balthus: Cats & Girls Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play Short Films at NYFF Fighting for Life by S. Josephine Baker, Introduction by Helen Epstein https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52570

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    The Happy Atheist from Sep 9, 2013

    The Happy Atheist ["The Happy Atheist" by PZ Myers] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52286

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    Hollywood and Hitler from Jul 15, 2013

    Thomas Doherty [Hollywood and Hitler] [0:00:00] Hollywood and Hitler [Film Clip #1] [0:06:38] Hollywood and Hitler [   Your browser does not support the video tag. Video won't work? View this clip here.] [0:16:42] Hollywood and Hitler [   Your browser does not support the video tag. Video won't work? View this clip here.] [0:19:51] Hollywood and Hitler [   Your browser does not support the video tag. Video won't work? View this clip here.] [0:20:51] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51515

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    Adam Curtis: An Essay Writer Who Uses Television from Sep 23, 2013

    Adam Curtis [0:00:00] Adam Curtis - "All watched over by machines of loving grace - Episodio 1: Love and power (Adam Curtis)" [ All watched over by machines of loving grace from mayo11 on Vimeo.] [0:18:14] Adam Curtis - "This is a documentary series made by the BBC, and broadcasted between October 20th, 2004 to November 3rd, 2004. It is made up of three episodes." [Get it on Archive.org] [0:19:50] Adam Curtis - "Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self" [ Adam Curtis: The Century of the Self from therebel.org on Vimeo.] [0:22:40] Adam Curtis [“What am I?” Adam Curtis asks, on @WFMU. “I’m an essay writer who uses television.” #MAVAC— Park Avenue Armory (@ParkAveArmory) September 23, 2013 ] [0:38:06] Adam Curtis [“@RobertDelNaja and I sat down like two boys in a bedroom comparing records, and created a setlist for #MAVAC.” 
—Adam Curtis— Park Avenue Armory (@ParkAveArmory) September 23, 2013 ] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52475

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    Sounds, Photos, and Jellyfish from Sep 16, 2013

    Barbara London - "Sound Art" [0:00:00] Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin - "the holy bible" [0:18:34] Nick Brandt - "Across The Ravaged Land" [0:32:43] Lisa-ann Gershwin - "Stung! Jellyfish..." [0:44:05] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52382

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    Republic of Outsiders with Alissa Quart from Aug 26, 2013

    BW is back - "Thanks Andrea" - "Republic of Outsiders with Alissa Quart" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52098

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    When Romances End: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Aug 19, 2013

    Andrea Silenzi [On the ending of this show] Grandma Phyllis [On the ending of her relationship with Zilch] Andrea and Matt [On how they'll maybe someday breakup, and how that should go down] Grandma Phyllis [On the day her husband Sol died] KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race [Oh, and this is one of the guys we started messaging:] KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race KCRW's 24-Hour Radio Race Laura Griffin, Laura Mayer and Andrea Silenzi [Our entry in the contest titled First Date, Last Night] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/52003

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    The Date with Jim the Poet, Family Vacation: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Aug 12, 2013

    Jim the Poet - "Asks me out on live radio..." Laura Mayer - ""That's how you build chemistry. You get it on the record."" Jim the Poet - "Gets us hot dogs at Rudy's" Jim the Poet - "Tells me why he became a poet" [Jim] Jim the Poet - "On why men fake orgasms" Jim the Poet - "Should you give everyone a chance?" [Jim] Family Vacation - "As heard on TMI in 2010" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51902

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    The Art of the Pickup: Andrea Silenzi Guest Hosts from Jul 29, 2013

    Beex - "Beat, Beat" [Free Music Archive] Grandma Phyllis - "Advice for meeting people: Be yourself, though she cautions, "I still don't know who I am. I know who I'm trying to be!"" Laura Mayer - "Advice for meeting people: go to a bar that's exactly 307 paces from your mouse-infested apartment." [Follow Laura on Twitter.] Podington Bear - "By Grace" [Free Music Archive] Apes of God - "Advice for meeting girls: go to a paint store." [via Music for Maniacs] Dr. Robert Glover - "Advice for meeting women: tell them to do something for you" [Dr. Glover, author of No More Mr. Nice Guy& WFMU's Brett W. Thompson] Andrea Silenzi + Anonymous Ex Roommate - "Advice for meeting people: make sure they won't steal your laptop and sea salt shaker" [RIP Sea Salt Shaker] Riz Ortolani - "Cannibal Holocaust Theme" [Thank you for listening! Join me as I guest host for the next 3 weeks. Let me know if you have any stories for the show about love, dating or technology by sending a note to andrea at free music archive dot org.] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51709

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    Ethan Zuckerman on "Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection" from Jul 22, 2013

    Ethan Zuckerman [Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51610

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    Conversations about Photography with Fred Ritchin & Ivan Sigal from Jul 1, 2013

    Fred Ritchin [Bending the Frame] [0:00:00] Ivan Sigal [White Road] [0:29:09] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51321

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    The Act of Killing / Crime (The Animated Version) from Jul 8, 2013

    Joshua Oppenheimer [Joshua Oppenheimer on the The Act of Killing] "The Act of Killing" Alix Lambert [Alix Lambert on Crime: The Animated Series] Crime: The Animated Series https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51411

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    Cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt, Writer Tim Kreider from Jun 24, 2013

    Lisa Hanawalt [Author of "My Dirty Dumb Eyes"] Tim Kreider [NYT Contributor, Author of "We Learn Nothing."] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51222

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    Anonymity Chic and Skyjackings from Jun 17, 2013

    Brendan I. Koerner [The Skies Belong to Us] [0:00:00] Stuart Jeffries [Is being ungoogleable the new black?] [0:30:55] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51123

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    Annalee Newitz from io9 on Surviving Mass Extinction from Jun 10, 2013

    Annalee Newitz [Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction] [0:00:00] Pharmakon - "Milkweed/It Hangs Heavy" [0:22:27] Annalee Newitz [Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive A Mass Extinction] [0:22:40] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/51029

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    Susan Crawford from Jun 3, 2013

    susan crawford [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50934

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    Kio Stark from May 6, 2013

    Olivier Assayas - "Something in the Air" Kio Stark - "Don't go back to school" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50540

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    Richard Hell from Apr 22, 2013

    Richard Hell - "talks about his book "I dreamed I was a very clean tramp"" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50354

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    Invasion! 10 years later... from Apr 8, 2013

    - "Too Much Information" [0:00:00] - "Lt. Timothy McLaughlin" [0:27:57] - "Lt. Timothy McLaughlin" [0:30:28] - "Tim McLaughlin’s American flag used to cover a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, 2003." [(Photo: Jerome Delay/Associated Press)] [0:36:49] - "Invasion: Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq by Peter Maass" [0:48:12] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50160

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    Douglas Rushkoff: Present Shock from Apr 1, 2013

    Douglas Rushkoff - "Present Shock" [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/50073

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    Guided By Voices from Oct 17, 2011

    Daniel Heller-Roazen - "Pythagoras and the Fifth Hammer" [0:00:00] your host - "The Inner Voice (i)" [0:08:25] Nina Mitchell - "Mind Pop" [0:17:18] Quintan Ana Wikswo - "Voices from the Past" [0:24:35] Paola Antonelli - "Talk to Me" [0:34:43] your host - "The Inner Voice (ii)" [0:38:56] Daniel Heller-Roazen - "Pythagoras, Kepler and the Disharmony of All Things" [0:44:58] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42310

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    October Surprises from Nov 5, 2012

    your host - "Intro" [0:00:00] Adrian Tomine - "New York Drawings" [0:01:10] Silvain Gire - "Mitt Romney: The France Years" [0:26:36] Scott Carrier - "Jesus... my neighbor?" [0:37:54] TMI's "Chris" - "Poll Fighting" [0:46:02] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/48058

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    doing it for the LULZ from Apr 9, 2012

    TMI's "Chris" - "Doin it for the lulz" Weev - "Lulz: The Beginning" Gabriella Coleman - "LULZ Theory (i)" Brian Knappenberger - "Moral Fags" Daniel Hernandez, Shauna Dillavou - "Narco Lulz" Molly Sauter, Gabriella Coleman, Weev - "LULZ Theory (ii)" Jón Gnarr - "The Mayor of Lulz" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44638

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    Making It Real from Oct 15, 2012

    your host - "The Lehrer, Blair and Miller Show" [0:00:00] Aaron Bobrow Strain - "White Bread" [0:07:55] Zoë Sheehan Saldaña - "Matches" [0:17:51] Josh Glenn - "White Skin" [0:22:36] Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe - "Stray Light Grey" [0:32:57] Chris - "White Horse" [0:42:54] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47799

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    Studio visit with Gary Panter from Oct 8, 2012

    gary panter - "Dal Tokyo: Texas fundamentalism, Japanese Cultural mash ups and LSD 9-11 insanity" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/47702

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    HOT from Aug 6, 2012

    Bill McKibben - "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (i)" [0:00:00] Chris Haley, Curt Thompson, Clint Keely - "Atlanta's HOT lanes" [0:23:23] Josh Glenn - "HOT Codes" [0:30:26] Laura Mayer - "HOT Bikes" [0:39:24] TMI's "Chris" - "HOT Topic" [0:46:49] Bill McKibben - "Global Warming's Terrifying New Math (ii)" [0:56:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/46832

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    TMILY from May 28, 2012

    your host - "TMILY (i)" [0:00:00] L.R.Mayer - "TMILY's Marketing Plans" [0:08:22] Tim Hwang - "Hype Up Weekend" [0:13:00] your host - "the wastelands of nothingness" [0:18:07] your host - "TMILY (ii)" [0:22:35] T.R.G - "TMILY's Financials" [0:24:11] your host/C.B - "TMILY's Technology" [0:27:17] Michael Wolff - "Facebook’s Marketing and Financials" [0:35:46] your host - "AD supported" [0:42:31] your host - "TMILY (iii)" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45305

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    That's Not The Way It Goes, That's The Way It Went! from May 14, 2012

    Peter Choyce - "To glee or not to glee" Conrad Ventur - "Screen Test: Ivy Nicholson" Peter Choyce - "Hollywood 2005 (i)" Damien Macdonald - "Moebius Summer" your host - "the way it goes..." Peter Choyce - "Hollywood 2005 (ii)" your host + J.P. - "the way it went..." Herbert G - "Conan O'Brien Memories" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/45116

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    Are we having Mainstream yet? (A conversation with Bill Griffith) from Apr 23, 2012

    Bill Griffth [0:00:00] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44831

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    POWER from Mar 5, 2012

    Mitch Epstein - "American Power" Nichola Raihani - "Fish Power" Sara Marcus - "Girrrl Power" "David" - "Foucault Power" Valterri Viljanen - "Spinoza's Geometry of Power" Joseph Turow - "Advertising Power" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/44169

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    Black And White and Red All Over from Aug 23, 2010

    Bruce Gilden - "Siberian Bad Guys" [0:00:00] Ivan Boiko - "Old Believers in Siberia" [0:12:41] Julia Tulovsky - "Nonconformist Soviet Art" [0:18:44] Your Host - "Russian Photo Books" [0:37:30] "chris" - "Red Dawn II: China's Revenge" [0:43:12] Your Host - "Hitler/Goebbels/Benjamin" [0:49:15] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/37036

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    Better Dead Than Red from Jul 12, 2010

    Nurangiz Khodzharova - "Lost In Translation" [0:00:00] Sonya S - "Andrei Platonov (part I)" [0:12:20] Your Host - "Ugly American" [0:17:43] Sonya S - "Andrei Platonov (part II)" [0:31:06] Alina Rudnitskaya - "Bitch Academy" [0:34:47] "chris" - "Red Dawn II: Russia's Revenge" [0:39:45] Sonya S - "Andrei Platonov (part III)" [0:47:24] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36523

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    Mistakes Were Made from Jun 21, 2010

    Wisdom Of Harry - "Sports Pod" Anonymous Lady - "Experimental Revenge Novel" Kathryn Schulz - "Being Wrong (part I)" [0:08:24] Mishka Shubaly - "Wicked Hot" [0:12:24] Kathryn Schulz - "Being Wrong (part II)" [0:23:25] William Kleinknecht - "Ronald Reagan's Mistakes" [0:28:38] Cheryl Rogers - "Absence of Time" [0:34:11] Kathryn Schulz - "Being Wrong (part III)" [0:46:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36255

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    Occupy Siberia (the Truth about Social Media) from Nov 28, 2011

    your host - "Doing It Wrong" [0:00:00] your host - "Social Media Workshop" [0:30:39] your host - "Face Control" [0:50:59] your host - "Social Media Workshop (ii)" [0:54:35] your host - "Occupy Siberia" [0:58:36] social media expert (Sean Cole) - "the Truth about Social Media" [1:02:08] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42876

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    PIRATES from Oct 3, 2011

    Tim Kreider - "Errol Flynn/In Like Me" [0:00:00] David Cálek/Somali Pirate - "Escape From Somalia" [0:04:31] Adrian Johns - "The Pirate Listener" [0:13:27] Olga Sezneva - "Piracy, Russian Style" [0:17:10] Adrian Johns - "Death of a Pirate" [0:28:19] Mzwakhe Mbuli - "Shoot the Pirate!" [0:38:24] Jérémie Zimmermann - "The War on Sharing" [0:41:45] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42137

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    Pseudonyms from Sep 19, 2011

    Jillian York, Andy Carvin, and Meg Worley - "Nymwars!" [0:00:00] Carmela Ciuraru - "Nom de Plume" [0:16:36] Laura Mayer - "@MayorEmanuel and Dan Sinker" [0:24:26] Chris Collins - "Tyepilot and Luzy" [0:36:30] TMi's Man in DC "Chris" - "reBranding" [0:47:56] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/41969

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    Man Without A Country (part I) from Jul 4, 2011

    your host - "the man without a country (i)" [0:00:00] Howard Zinn - "American Exceptionalism" [0:15:52] Dave Dudley + Dave Isreal - "1814!" [0:22:58] Energumino Garcia - "Operation Faster and Furiouser" [0:38:11] your host - "the man without a country (ii)" [0:45:48] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/40977

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    Anonymous from Feb 15, 2010

    Anonymous - "Greatest Hits (Vol I.)" [0:00:00] Jaron Lanier - "Anonymous Sucks!" [0:05:03] Cindy Cohn - "Defending Anonymous" [0:17:05] Anonymous - "Greatest Hits (Vol II.)" [0:29:00] Peter Choyce - "Anonymous Donor" [0:34:49] Anonymous - "Voice Mail" [0:43:30] Anonymous - "Greatest Hits (Vol III.)" [0:47:39] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34745

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    MOST PRECIOUS THING from Jan 4, 2010

    Johnny Angel - "Electric Crosses" [0:00:00] Andrea Silenzi/Lenore - "Gold" [0:06:36] Ed Burtynsky - "Oil" [ Click for large image] [0:19:22] Desmond Ayim-Aboagye - "A Cure For War" [0:26:56] "John" - "DDT" [0:32:51] David Feng - "iPhone" [0:42:03] "Tracy" - ""SoBro"" [0:47:37] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/34264

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    The Power Of Negative Thinking from Dec 7, 2009

    Stacey Chillemi - "The Power of Positive Thinking" [0:00:00] Peter Choyce - "Couchsurfing!" [0:07:44] Andre Owl - "Hot Chicks Smiling at Ground Zero" [0:16:47] The Coon Sanders Nighthawks - "Little Orphan Annie Radio Song (1928)" [0:24:21] Jeet Heer - "The Real Little Orphan Annie" [0:26:55] Barbara Ehrenreich - "Bright Sided!" [0:37:25] Tom Ziglar son of Zig - "Positive Tweeting" [0:46:14] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/33923

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    Too Much Internet (TMI SXSW special) from Mar 21, 2011

    Paul Ford - "WWIC" your host - "SXSWi" Annalee Newitz - "What can Science Fiction tell us about Social Media?" Greg Marra - "Twitter Bots" Brian Cuban - "Viral Hate Speech" your host+ Matt Di Paola, Pawan Deshpande, Gary Kim, Evan Jones, Jonty Kelt, and Tricia Han - "Brands, Coupons and the Future of Media" Tricia Wang - "the next 300 million" "Chris" - "Operation Persona" https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/39639

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    The Island from Jun 14, 2010

    Wisdom Of Harry - "Sports Pod" your host - "the island" [0:15:22] Kevin Wallen - "Being Selfish (from 2005)" [0:32:28] "MG" - "Voice of the Revolution (from 2002)" [0:38:54] Christina Xu - "The Island/First Time" [0:50:47] Wayne Marshall - "Island Rhythm" [0:56:19] "john" - "Island for Sale" [1:02:44] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/36167

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Too Much Information is the sober hangover after the digital party has run out of memes, apps and schemes. Host Benjamen Walker finds out that, in a world where everyone overshares the truth 140 characters at a time, telling tales might be the most honest thing to do.

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