On this episode of Spark: Teen texting tales, accessible technology, and viral culture
- Terrifying teen texting tales
- Spark listeners call in with their terrifying teen texting tales
- Nora mentions a Nielsen survey that says US teens send and receive 2,272 text messages per month (NYT article)
- Al Rae tries to send and receive 80 texts in one day
- Nora mentions Ira Basen’s documentary radio series News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media, which will air on The Sunday Edition on June 21 and 28, 2009
- Nora visits the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto
- Bill Wasik on how the internet is changing culture (full interview)
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “Wadidyusay?” by Zap Mama
- “Irie Dub” by Neurowaxx
- Clips from Age of Turmoil (1953)
- “Klezmer Nova” by The Alexandria Kleztet
- “Just A Message” by Hank Penny’s Radio Cowboys (1940)
- “Birthday Party” by Kim & Buran from Swingin’ Singles
- “Get a Groove” by General Fuzz
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You asked at the end of the show about an email sabbatical. I'm currently taking a blog sabbatical, after writing on my blog almost every day since October 2000:
http://www.penmachine.com/2009/06/blog-break
But email isn't excluded from the process During that time, I'm trying to pare down the 1800+ messages in my Gmail inbox, unsubscribing from lists and notifications I don't really read, and so on.
But if I took on a full email sabbatical, I'd be completely overwhelmed when I got back, since I get at least 20 or 30 relatively useful messages a day, entirely excluding spam and such. My unsubscriptions will try to address that somewhat.
Some time ago I did declare email bankruptcy, and purge all old messages to start over. But it didn't take long to get back up to depressing speed again:
http://www.penmachine.com/2008/06/derek-and-amazi…
Wow, a blog sabbatical after nearly 9 years. How does it feel, Derek?