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ComputerTalk with Dave Mason
The official archive of all available ComputerTalk with Dave Mason radio shows. Spend some time with Dave. Listen to a full show or explore clips by topic.
3,475 unique clips. Each clip appears in one section. Historical conversations, not current advice. Full episodes remain available separately by date.
364 clips, strongest first.
Dr. Dave calls blogs and the Internet's free flow of information genuinely revolutionary even while admitting that the material can be ugly, inconvenient and hard to corroborate. He then points listeners to an edited interview transcript and asks them to read the visible cuts and decide for themselves whether context changes their view.
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Faced with reports that a Windows 7 disk-check bug made the new operating system dangerous, Dr. Dave says news is often overstated, understated or misstated and works through the difference between a real issue and apocalyptic framing.
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Tom and Jerry use internet television, shortwave radio and foreign newspapers to seek perspectives missing from domestic coverage. Dr. Dave predicts media convergence, remembers his study and friendships connected with Africa and says access to distant sources can make a person a citizen of the world.
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Dr. Dave reads past celebratory headlines about a hacking contest and finds the critical omitted fact: researchers did not attempt to attack the browser reported as the only one left standing.
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442 proposed broadcast dates, plus 2 undated entries. Dates are based on archive filenames and may be approximate. Some broadcasts survive as separate parts or incomplete recordings.
