Listen to SeroTalk Podcast 180: Full of Schmidt
Welcome to this week’s edition of the SeroTalk Podcast. Once again, Jamie, Ricky and Joe pontificate about the news of the week. Then, Jamie sits down with Mike Calvo, director of the AIR Foundation to discuss his recent trip to Columbia and the foundation’s efforts to provide tablets to blind school children in that country. Stories covered in this week’s podcast include:
News in A T
National Federation of the Blind Receives Grant from National Science Foundation
Latest from fleksy about the problem which has caused the app to become unusable
Delivery drones are coming: Jeff Bezos promises half-hour shipping with Amazon Prime Air
Thinking Outside the (Gift) Box
ATU131 – Holiday Shopping Special Episode – Part 1
Online Shopping – Tips from Online Shopaholics
Guide for Individuals with Vision Impairments
FSCast Episode 84, November 2013
This Blog Post is just FREEQING Awesome!
More from the “Comings and Goings” department. My departure from Mushroom FM
The End of an Era, Reflections and Explanations re #MushroomFM
Ringing in the Holidays with a Special Promotion!
Mainstream Matters
Holiday shopping season begins on Thanksgiving
How Shopping Malls Are Adapting In An Online World
Tablets dwarf other holiday tech gifts in CNET survey
30 Days with Microsoft’s Surface Pro 2: It’s a Keeper
The Everything Store, review: The rise and rise of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos
Android KitKat: It’s not so sweet for Nexus 4 users
Google chairman Eric Schmidt writes an Android switching guide
What is (still) wrong with Microsoft’s Windows Phone strategy
BlackBerry’s COO and CMO Are Leaving in Executive Shuffle
Mailbag
Blog comment from Mike
I’ve been listening to your show for quite a while, and I really love both the range of subjects and the format. However, halfway through this show I couldn’t help but wonder what got into you. Why do you provide a platform for a person who apparently feels the need to insult every person who for whatever reason takes a more critical position to TapTap See’s latest move, apparently beleiving that anybody who disagrees with his ridiculously oversimplified interpretation of the criticism just has to be mentally ill.
I find this sort of thing completely unacceptable. I’m not going to go into the underlying discussion, you covered a lot of it in the relevant podcast, but I would appreciate it if in the future I could listen to your show without becoming a target of the unreflected ragings of some Monday-morning-football-coach. In my opinion, mutual respect is essential in a public forum, and when you turn from people voicing their opinions to people raging at the rest of the world for not agreeing with their own point of view, then there’s not much point in listening any more. And at least for this episode I definitely lost my taste for it.
From Mario:
I think it’s worth mentioning that there is a petition to help Winamp stay alive, whether thru AOL making it open source via GPL3+, or improving/continuing it’s legacy. http://savewinamp.com/
there is a link to sign the petition. first/last name, email address, street address (or PO Box), city, state, zipcode are required and a comments area is optional.
allot of blind and sighted users I know use Winamp for more than just playing audio/video files.
Roundabout
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Check out @Dreamy_lyrics: Screen Locked, Screen Locked
App Saves the Day after Student Robbed at Gunpoint
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are you going to produce a holiday podcast with gift ideas similar to what you did last year? I liked that you had a mix of blindness and mainstream products.