It’s a special holiday edition of Spark, filled to the brim with some of our favourite treats from the past season! On this episode: teen texting tales, email sabbaticals and the hype around augmented reality. Click below to listen, or download the MP3 (runs 54:00).
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- Al Rae tries to text like a teenager
- danah boyd takes an email sabbatical (full interview)
- Cathi Bond explains two trends in augmented reality: games and advertising
- Augmented reality enthusiast and science fiction author Bruce Sterling contemplates the future implications of AR
- Nora and Jesse Wente try out the WiFi t-shirt (video)
- New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein explains how review aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic are affecting film criticism (full interview)
- Ethan Zuckerman tells us how to get off the web’s beaten path (full interview)
This episode features Creative Commons music and sound effects:
- “eighteen pieces (soda)” by soda
- “Wadidyusay?” by Zap Mama
- “Klezmer Nova” by The Alexandria Kleztet
- Clips from “The Age of Turmoil“
- “You Are on the Internet” by Chocobear McPanda
- “Gestalt” by echoed
- “ditto ditto” by DoKashiteru
- “Another Girl” by duckett
- “Freedom in Blue” by Herewave
- Clips from “Our Shrinking World“
- Clips from “Facing Reality“
- “Catscratch” by Windom Earle
- Music from Backtime by Lee Rosevere
- “Naughty Hula Eyes” by Andy Iona
- “Second Thoughts” by General Fuzz
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