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Too Much Information with Benjamen Walker | WFMU
by Benjamen Walker and 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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