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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #247

StephenK — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:31:58 +0000

This week's program brings another retransmission from the Voice of America where the continuing cyber-snooping situation is discussed. Stephen tells a tale of how communications metadata can be used in a benign but contemporary way. A news miscellany is also presented.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #246

StephenK — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 03:41:34 +0000

This week's episode brings a brief essay, retransmission of an excerpt of a program from US government external broadcaster Voice of America concerning the cyber-snooping situation, and a news miscellany.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #245

StephenK — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:04:36 +0000

This special edition discusses the current news of revelations of government acquisition of Verizon cell phone customer call records and discusses some software solutions available for preserving privacy.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #244

StephenK — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 03:51:54 +0000

This week's program brings the annual warnings about hurricane season followed by Profile America mentioning an interesting new data release the Census Bureau is making and then a news miscellany.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #243

StephenK — Mon, 27 May 2013 03:25:37 +0000

This week's program brings a reading of some of the infamous lines from The LISNews Librarian Pickup Lines.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #242

StephenK — Mon, 20 May 2013 03:30:56 +0000

And we're back. The first episode after the production suspension has a series of brief essays followed by a news miscellany.

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Podcast Production Suspension

michaelk — Sat, 04 May 2013 16:27:10 +0000

Greetings from Ashtabula. My name is Mike Kellat and I am the owner of Erie Looking Productions. I am recording this on Saturday, May 4, 2013. This is for immediate release.

Stephen has received dispatch orders from the Director of the Ashtabula County Board of Elections herself this very morning. As you may or may not be aware, Stephen is thoroughly involved in local democracy by serving as a substitute precinct election official. We have a local election coming up on Tuesday and Stephen has been ordered to a new precinct to take up duty to serve the public by helping conduct the vote. Stephen first served as a poll judge during the November 2012 Presidential General Election.

Our producer continues to be away on medical leave and that is beginning its fourth week. Between that and the requirements placed upon Stephen between now and Tuesday to avoid taking positions on ballot questions which include library issues, I am suspending production of LISTen and the Burning Circle at this time. I am also factoring in the Ubuntu Developer Summit as part of this production suspension so that time is spent appropriately on that.

There shall be no episodes released on Monday, May 6th, or Monday, May 13th. Normal production releases shall resume on Monday, May 20th, which is the Victoria Day holiday in Canada.

Thank you for your patience and understanding. We'll see you on the other side of this production suspension.

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #241

StephenK — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:12:35 +0000

As aggravated circumstances have continued longer than expected, the engineer also took on duty as acting producer this week since we continue to be short-handed. In lieu of a news miscellany a commentary is presented about online vigilantism and the need for teaching Internet ethics in light of Zero Hedge reporting a falsely identified Boston suspect being found dead, PCMag.com reporting that Reddit apologizing for getting their bomber crowd sourcing wrong, and PJ Media's Chicago editor saying not nice thing about social media in the Boston incident.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #240

StephenK — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:51:34 +0000

Due to aggravated circumstances that have yet to abate, a truncated episode is presented with a news miscellany.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #239

StephenK — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 03:23:05 +0000

In light of the Air Staff being shorthanded with someone in hospital ICU, this week's episode brings only a news miscellany.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #238

StephenK — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 03:21:39 +0000

This week's program brings a telephone interview with author Dan Flynn of FlynnFiles.com who wrote a piece at The American Spectator that was commented upon by The Annoyed Librarian. After that there are a couple examples provided by federal agencies of how not to do public service announcements. There is no news miscellany this week and there is a bit of an explanation as to what went wrong one way or another.

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Schedule Disruption Notice for 1 April 2013

StephenK — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 01:37:16 +0000

We recognize conflicting civil scheduling surrounding the next regularly scheduled day for the release of LISTen: An LISNews.org Program and Burning Circle. These situations do arise from time to time. The Air Staff of Erie Looking Productions hereby provides notice that no programs shall be released on Monday, April 1, 2013. The release of programming shall be targeted to resume on Monday, April 8, 2013.

Dated at Ashtabula Township on Thursday, March 28, 2013. Unanimously signed off by the Air Staff.

LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #237

StephenK — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 03:58:30 +0000

This week's program starts off with a brief essay talking about the disintegration of having a coherent "popular culture" in the United States then turns to the strange case of the Harlem Shake in Oxford. After that the episode wraps up with a news miscellany.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #236

StephenK — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 05:18:27 +0000

This week's program starts off with a bite-sized edition of Tech for Techies led by the owner & engineer of Erie Looking Productions, Mike Kellat. News is also highlighted relative to Google Reader and its impending demise. The new comment line is mentioned as being 1-206-299-2120, extension 1580. For those willing to risk using a SIP client, sip:1580@sip.sdf.org is also usable addressing.

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LISTen: An LISNews.org Program -- Episode #235

StephenK — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:29:52 +0000

This week's program provides a news miscellany.

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