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GC067 — A 1-year anniversary “Best Darn Government Money Can Buy” podcast

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:32:23 +0000

This time I explore the real-life embodiment of “the parting on the left is now parting on the right” lyric by the Who (bonus points for the name of the song). Y’see, I’m starting to think that the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street people could actually find themselves agreeing with each other if they’re not careful. Far be it from me to bring that up, though.

Click HERE to listen to this 11-minute podcast.

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GC066 — A “layered” tune, annotated

Mike O'Connor — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 16:19:07 +0000

A friend of mine asked that I explain my latest parlor-trick approach to music making. There are lots of different ways of making tunes on computers, but I’ve been fiddling around with a sortof “live layered jam” approach where I cycle through a loop, adding an instrumental part each time through. Loads of fun to do.

So click HERE to listen to this 11 minute podcast of a little 12-bar tune being built up layer by layer.

GC065 — What if Google turns evil?

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 08 May 2011 16:46:35 +0000

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All kinds of news from the farm (big new-bird news for Marcie, big new-fiber news for me). Plus the big story of the last few weeks — online privacy. Which then morphs into my personal story of moving myself off of Google services as much as I can. I tell a bit about what’s been bothering me about all that information that Google collects, plus ruminating about the delicious application-candy they use as bait to draw me in.

Click HERE to listen to this 17 minute podcast.

GC064 — ICANN .XXX and Japan Tsunami

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 20:59:27 +0000

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This Geezercast is a reflection on my recent trip to the ICANN meetings (in San Francisco this time), the huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan that happened just as I was flying out there and the continuing hijinks of the Republican governor and legislature here in Wisconsin.

Click HERE to listen to this 13 minute podcast.

GC063 — Madison protests

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 18:19:43 +0000

This Geezercast focuses on the giant labor protests in Madison, WI over the last week. Takes me back to the days when I lived there (early ’70′s) and all the community organizing stuff that was going on.

Click HERE to listen to this 14 minute podcast.

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GC062 — Best Darn University Money Can Buy

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 17:21:33 +0000

Ah. The government isn’t the only place where I can find examples of the power of corporate money. The University of Minnesota had a rough go with the way they squashed a pretty innocuous film about the impact of Big Agriculture on the Mississippi River. I explain the situation to my unborn grandchildren.

Click HERE to listen to this 15 minute podcast.

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GC058 — Give Obama a break, polling expose

Mike O'Connor — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:30:45 +0000

A long hiatus in Geezercasting — but now the deadlines and holidays are past and here’s a Geezercast to celebrate.

Two topics — the need for us whiners to give Obama a freekin’ break for cryin’ out loud, and a nice expose of a major national polling company by Nate silver of FiveThirtyEight.com fame.

Click HERE to listen to this 10-minute podcast.

GC057 – Fixing stuff, and a good deal for congress-critters

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Couple ideas in this one. First, why the heck does Congress get to ignore insider trading laws that all the rest of us have to follow? Second, ruminating about fixing stuff.

Click HERE to listen to this 14 minute podcast.

GC056 — Community media

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:39:08 +0000

The media is full of stories that remind me why I worked so hard to set up community radio stations back in the ’70′s.

Click here to listen to this 13 minute podcast

GC055 — Cyberwar and reality TV

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:31:12 +0000

Huh. Pretty short interval between Geezercasts here. But Marcie and I had a couple pretty interesting conversations on the Morning Walk and I thought I’d share them. One is about cyber-war and the other one is about how people are treated on reality TV shows. You’ll have to listen to hear how that all goes together.

Click HERE to listen to this 13 minute podcast.