Elements of Madness – PODCAST THE 1ST

GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME – THIS IS ELEMENTS OF MADNESS: THE PODCAST

We’re very excited to present you with Elements of Madness: Podcast the First, and we promise to deliver them in a more timely manner….particularly as we work out the kinks. Below is every picture, video and link that we discussed during the podcast, so that you are able to see what we are looking at and better understand our perspective. Please feel free to comment and let us know where you agree/disagree on any subject and also, please let us know if there are topics you are interested in hearing us discuss or investigate.

Podcast the Second has been recorded and will be posted in the next few days, but for now please enjoy Podcast the First!

Elements of Madness – 3.23.03 Podcast (if you’re getting 503 errors, you can try this torrent)

In This Week’s Podcast:

Rolling Stone’s Endorsement of Barack Obama: a comparison of magazine cover photography & representation
Picture1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4

Hillary Clinton 3AM Ad (2008)

Lydon Johnson Flower Girl Ad (1964)

Hillary Campaign re-enacts OJ Simpson debacle, while everyone rests during Easter.

Anonymous vs the Church of Scientology
The Results of Anonymity as demonstrated by Penny Arcade:

Fox News Coverage

Church of Scientology describes alleged attacks by Anonymous

Message from Anon regarding Operation: Reconnect

Net Neutrality
MPAA: Net Neutrality an Assault on Creativity

The excerpt read on-air:

Net neutrality laws, he said, “would impair the ability of broadband providers to address the serious and rampant piracy problems occurring over their networks today.”

“Technology,” Glickman continued, “is handing us the opportunity to deal the first real body blow to online piracy, to begin to reach toward the day when we might be able to take it off the table and debug the system.”

But Glickman is mistaken to equate peer-to-peer services with copyright infringement. Obviously some content shared on peer-to-peer services is pirated. But an increasing amount is not. Companies like Qtrax, Joost and Vuze, to name just a few, rely on peer-to-peer technology to lawfully distribute music or video.

Comcast loves to flout the incredibly high speeds the service can maintain….
yet they just can’t help themselves by getting involved in monitoring how their service is used….

As promised – Stephen Colbert’s explanation of the AT&T Monopoly

Attribution:
The soundtrack for this podcast was provided by Nine Inch Nails under a Creative Commons license. The opening track was 21 off of Ghosts III, the closing track was 26 off of Ghosts III. Please go get the album Ghosts I-IV and support NIN.

~ by sprzzatura on April 3, 2008.