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Everyone's got a story to tell. What's yours? Interviews with people from all walks of life from all over the world. Primary Format : Blogs Language : English Also Listed as: City : San Diego State/Province : CA Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of small WORLD podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of small WORLD podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Logan's Run LEGO Diorama Hey, everybody, got a great show for you today! Our guest is Keith Goldman and he builds amazing LEGO dioramas. Today's show is an enhanced podcast so you'll get to see his dioramas on your iPad, iPhone, iPod or on iTunes and see for yourself how amazing they are. Come to think of it, you might have already seen dioramas based on the Logan's Run movie last week on the web on blogs like Make and io9, which is how I found out about Keith. I think the reason why people got so excited abou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ultra Rigs of the World Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cory Doctorow & Ian McDonald Hey, everybody, I've got a great show for you today! We're going to talk with Ian McDonald about his book, The Dervish House, that will be released in July through Pyr. The Dervish House combines Islamic mysticism, political and economic intrigue, a terrorist threat, and a nanotechnology with the potential to transform every human on the planet. The Dervish House takes place in Istanbul in 2027. The Dervish House is seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one centr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cory Doctorow & Ian McDonald Hey, everybody, I've got a great show for you today! We're going to talk with Ian McDonald about his book, The Dervish House, that will be released in July through Pyr. The Dervish House combines Islamic mysticism, political and economic intrigue, a terrorist threat, and a nanotechnology with the potential to transform every human on the planet. The Dervish House takes place in Istanbul in 2027. The Dervish House is seven days, six characters, three interconnected story strands, one centr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Gondek Today's show is unique for two reasons: I recorded it on location rather than over Skype in the small WORLD studios. Okay, that's not so unique but any excuse to get outside and get some sun is good enough for me. The other reason today's show is unique because my guest is Chris Gondek who is a net friend. We all have net friends these days but they are scattered across the country and across the globe that's rare that you'd ever meet any of them. So let me tell you about Chris. I moved t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Whuffie Factor Today on the small WORLD we'll talk with Tara Hunt, the author of The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business. Unless you've read Cory Doctorow's novel, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, then you have no idea what Whuffie is. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom takes place in a post-scarcity world: energy is not just cheap, it's free, and all the necessities of life are also free for the taking. In the novel, Cory imagines that will all our basic needs met ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website In the Belly of the Fail Whale On today's show we're going to talk with Rob Gokee, author of In the Belly of the Fail Whale: How Twitter Changed My Life in One Year. But before we do I want to apologize for getting this week's show out so late. I do freelance web design and social media strategies and thankfully work has been picking up. In fact, I'm almost at the point where I have too much work coming in. Unfortunately, I've been so busy that I wasn't able to get the show out on it's regular schedule. On top of that, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Hayes, singer/songwriter Today's guest on the Small World is singer/songwriter Michael Hayes. I met Michael back when we both worked in the design team producing presentations for an investment company. Looking back, that team was the best group of people I've ever worked with. We were a tight knit group not only because each person's strengths made up for another person's weaknesses but because we all really liked each other and hung out with each other outside of work. As you might imagine, because we were the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steampunk Steampunk combines science fiction elements from the Victoria era with the edginess of Cyberpunk of the 1980s. So why is Steampunk exploding in popular culture in the 21st century? To find out, today on the Small World, we'll talk with Bruce Sterling who, along with William Gibson, wrote The Difference Engine, the book that first pushed Steampunk into mainstream culture. Photo credit: Kyle Cassidy. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. We'll also talk with David Simkins, a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A/V Happy New Year! I hope you had fun bringing in 2010 because 2009 sure was a bitch, wasn't it? For today's New Year edition of the Small World I was going to do a segment on Steampunk. The show was going to feature an interview with Bruce Sterling, who along with William Gibson, pushed Steampunk into the mainstream with their novel, The Difference Engine. We were also going to talk with David Simkins, one of the writers and executive producers of the Syfy channel's Warehouse 13 and also ta ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Natalia Paruz, the Saw Lady Music Monday was a regular feature on the Small World where each week I'd interview a musician and feature three of their tracks of their choice. Since relaunching the Small World on Alterati I've wanted to return to that segment but was uncertain how to do it now that the Small World is a bi-monthly show. I still haven't resolved this problem but I decided to move forward anyway. Today on the Small World our guest is Natalia Paruz who plays such novelty musical instruments as the music ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Science Fiction and New Media We live in a world that increasingly resembles the science fiction stories of our youth. For example, nearly all of us have mobile phones that are wery much like the communicators that appeared in the Star Trek television series in the late 60s. But in fact, our mobile phones are not mobile phones. They are hand-held computers that we can watch movies on or surf the web or check our email that also happens to be a phone. The world we live in is pretty amazing and is rapidly changing in as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joseph Matheny, Alterati On the last edition of the small WORLD I announced that the small WORLD had found a new home on Alterati. But what is Alterati? That's the topic of today's show. Our guest on today's show is Joseph Matheny, the founder of Alterati. Joseph has been on the small WORLD twice before: once to talk about The Incunabula Papers: Ong's Hat and once to talk about Grey Lodge. Joseph has also worked for Adobe. Joseph has also written and contributed to many books and magazine articles, is involved ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cory Doctorow, Makers interview: Nov. 16, 2009 Monday 16th at 9:00 AM EST I will be interviewing Cory Doctorow about his new novel, Makers. If you would like to ask Cory a quesiton about Makers or anything else, for that matter, email me your question to smallworldpodcast@gmail.com. Even better; call my voice mail at 1-619-717-6322 and I will play both your question and Cory's answer during the show! You can buy Makers on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/Makers-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765312794 or download a free electronic version at http: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Lackey & Chad Fifer, H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast Hello! I’m back! Yep, after nearly two years the Small World is back in action. We just heard an excerpt from The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast (http://www.hppodcraft.com), which is actually an excerpt from H.P. Lovecraft’s short story, The Picture in the House. Chris Lackey and Chad Fifer are the host of the H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast and we’ll talk with them shortly. But before we talk with Chris and Chad I’m going to very quickly bring you up to speed with what I’ve b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! The Varimezov Bulgarian Ensemble Long-time listeners of the Small World know that I've only done a handful shows in the last few months. The Small World website was hacked by some kids in Turkey a while back and no matter what i did they kept hacking back into the site. That was a headache but on top of that, the Small World website acts as a kind of calling card when I invite people to be guests on the show. By viewing the website they can get an idea of the kind of show I produce as well as getting a sense of the histor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marilyn Johnson, The Dead Beat A journalist who's written obituaries of Princess Di and Johnny Cash, Johnson counts herself among the obit obsessed, one who subsists on the "tiny pieces of cultural flotsam to profound illuminations of history" gathered from obits from around the world, which she reads online daily—sometimes for hours. Her quirky, accessible book starts at the Sixth Great Obituary Writers' International Conference, where she meets others like herself. Johnson explores this written form like a scholar, d ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Most People Are DJs This episode is work safe. The title comes from the song "Most People Are DJs" by the Hold Steady. A lyric from the song goes "Everyone is a critic and Most People Are DJs" which has become the tagline and mantra. For 30-35 minutes a week Mikel O.D. plays great indie music - usually with an electronic/new wave influenced beat while reviewing the media latest from the outer edges of pop culture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! subQtaneous This episode is not work safe.Described as a "stick of dynamite strapped to reality," (Scenery Zine), subQtaneous is a diverse conceptual, collaborative album. It carves new soundscapes ranging from brutal, pounding industrial to sarcastic hip hop set over carnival music to delicately layered trance. It has been compared to Pigface, probably due to its format, as well as Coil, Mr Bungle, the Tapeworm project, and Frank Zappa.Interview with James Curcio and P. Emerson Williams of subQtaneous ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Kraddy Known for his intuitive ability to carve beats out of the bits, Kraddy has made a name for himself internationally as a producer and a DJ. His releases on Muti Music, Bless Records, Blunted Funk, Digital Distortions and his own label, Refiner Records have set him apart as a producer with a truly extra-ordinary sound. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Domino Records This episode is work safe.Domino Recording Company, generally known as Domino Records, is an independent record label based in London. There is also a wing of the label based in the United States, releasing Domino artists' music from the label's Brooklyn offices. In addition, Stephen Pastel presides over the subsidiary label Geographic Music, which releases more unusual British and World music.Interview with Morgan Lebus of Domino Records.We discuss doing today's interview at a grocery stor ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Kush Arora This episode is work safe.Bubbling out of the S.F. underground, From Brooklyn to SF is an adventure of Dread Bass,dubstep/dub, and desi dancehall featuring North America's most adventurous vocalists.The singers on this release are Juakali, Zulu, N4SA, Blacksmith, and Gurmeet - this diverse group of talent coming together for this project. This follows the recent release of MC Juakali's 12" EP, where Kush appears alongside dubmasters Alpha & Omega and NYC's Drop The Lime. Kush teams up w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Rob Szabo This episode is not work safe. Rob tours across North America in his beat up '89 Dodge whose odometer he recently pushed past 450,000 kms (281,250 miles). He plays well over 100 dates a year in Canada and the U.S., from Toronto to Vancouver to the Alaska Highway, from San Francisco to New York City to Washington D.C. ... and everywhere in between. His live shows are garnering him an increasingly devoted fanbase of hardcore music lovers who often travel great distances to see him play in per ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Robert Rich This episode is work safe.Robert Rich is an ambient musician and composer based in California, USA. With a discography spanning over 20 years, he is widely regarded as a figure whose sound has greatly influenced today's ambient, new age, and even IDM music.Interview with Robert Rich.We discuss the msuic he created for the film Atlas Dei; his revious works that were incorporated into Atlas Dei; what Atlas Dei is about; how he and artist Dan Colvin through Global Mindshift; his relationship w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Genius of Soul This episode is work safe.Sleep Now is a refreshingly jazzy album that illustrates how powerful talented live instrumentation can be in hip-hop.Interview with Id and Timeless of Genius of Soul.We discuss their song, "Sleep Now"; how Genius of Soul is different and siliar to Id's solo work; what led to the formation of Genius of Soul; Stop Paving Roads; how being in a band has changed Id's lyrics; how the sound of Genius of Soul has changed since the band first formed; why Timeless orgianly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website small WORLD Weekend Mix 78: The Synth Pop Edition The Synth Pop EidtionThis episode is work safe.Kick off the weekend by kicking out the jams with the small WORLD Weekend MIX!This edition of the small WORLD Weekend Mix features the following artists... Von Iva "Do It!" Space March "About To Explode" I, Synthesist "Red Clouds" Oliver Future "Happiness Machine" Alan Replica "A Broken Eve" The Calculators "Dead Is Dead" Charlie Slick "I Know You Love My Synthesizers" Thomas Dolby "Europa and the Pirate Twins (Live)" Gar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aimee Baldridge, The Camera Phone Book This episode is work safe.Marketing experts predict that by 2009, nearly 90% of all cell phones will contain a camera, as manufacturers race to create cheaper, easier-to-use models with more sophisticated cameras, more pixels, flash units and even multiple lenses. Already revolutionizing audiovisual communication, it's a trend that will only grow more explosively—and who better than National Geographic to create a how-to book aimed directly at the millions who carry a camera phone everywh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Beatropolis This episode is work safe.San Francisco natives Beatropolis lay down soulful downtempo perfect for the hippest clubs and lounges in the nation. "Drop" is something that DC downtempo group Thievery Corporation would absolutely covet. With ethereal and otherworldly vocals, inventive rhythms, and magnificent song arrangements Beatropolis layers on the soulful bleeps and blips with bubbly bass lines that keep it all intact. Dub heads will love songs like "Cowboy Song" while drum&bass kids w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website J.C. Hutchins, 7th Son This episode is work safe.7th Son is a free serialized audiobook. It chronicles the story of seven strangers who have been brought together after the recent assassination of the U.S. president. These men quickly discover they all appear to be the same man ... with identical childhood memories.Interview with J.C. Hutchins, author and narrator of the 7th Son podcast.We discuss the story so far of 7th Son; the unknown motivations of the novel's antagonist, John Alpha; meeting the real John Alp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website small WORLD Weekend Mix 77: The Hip Hop Edition The Hip Hop EditionThis episode is work safe.Kick off the weekend by kicking out the jams with the small WORLD Weekend MIX!This edition of the small WORLD Weekend Mix features the following artists... Tableek - NY Minute Panama, Big Dan, Rico aka Filthy Rich - Mi Barrio Serengeti & Polyphonic - Puppydog Love Infinito 2017 & Unagi - A Day That Don't End Wise Intelligent - I'm Him Grand Analog - I'll Walk Alone Simon T aka Young Ivy, Will Bracy, Divas Harmony - Rise Up B ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kay Kenyon, Bright of the Sky This episode is work safe.Kay Kenyon, nominated for the Philip K. Dick and the John W. Campbell awards, began her writing career (in Duluth, Minnesota) as a copywriter for radio and TV. She kept up her interest in writing through careers in marketing and urban planning, and published her first novel, The Seeds of Time, in 1997. She is the author of numerous short stories, including those in I, Alien; Live Without a Net; and Stars: Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. She lives in Wenatc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Ooah This episode is work safe.Ooah the turntable junkie is a master at the art of turntablism and a wizard on the wheels of steel. He's a southern fried kid from New Orleans bombing the west coast underground with style and grace. Residing in Los Angeles and now connected with the Los Angeles Breakbeat Association, he rocks the dance floor hard with a mix of original tracks along with the hottest cuts out on wax. Dropping a variety of flavors from bass grinding mid-tempo tech-hop to electronic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mayor Mike Haeg, Mount Holly (Population 4) This episode is work safe.You can find Mt. Holly on Google Maps, one lonely dot near the center of Shakopee. Zoom in and see that the city resides entirely on the corner of Third Avenue East and Holmes Street, across from the Scott County Jail. The town consists of a tidy 1940s bungalow and a single pine tree. Until very recently, Mt. Holly had but one resident: its mayor, Mike Haeg. The minuscule municipality experienced a three-hundred-percent population increase when Haeg’s wife and tw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Walt Ribeiro This episode is work safe.On October 4, 2006, Ribeiro's CD I.I debuted, and in such a short time created an incredible buzz in the greater Philadelphia area. Over the years Walt has taught over a hundred students - everything from orchestration and ear training to guitar and recording techniques. "You don't know something well enough unless you can teach it to somebody, and that's where I learned things the most, was through my students."Interview with Walt Ribeiro.We discuss why he had the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website small WORLD Weekend Mix 76: The Reggae Edition The Reggae EditionThis episode is work safe.Kick off the weekend by kicking out the jams with the small WORLD Weekend MIX!This edition of the small WORLD Weekend Mix features the following artists... Country Speng - Intellect & Charm Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Shakedown Party AJ Brown - Real Rock Nadine Sutherland - Big Tingz Ras Kimono - Natty Get Jail Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey Sugar Minott - Half A Love Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Gailey, J!NX Clothing Company This episode is not work safe.Formed on 29 December, 1997, Jinx.com is an online store targeted at gamers, geeks and hackers. The site features a wide variety of T-shirts, "hoodies", stickers, and other apparel. It is also well known for its forums. The company publicizes themselves with their name stylized as "J!NX", and the tagline "Clothing for Gamers and Geeks".Interview with Sean Gailey, co-founder of J!NX Clothing Company.We discuss how J!NX began and why he decided to create clothing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Extreme Records This episode is work safe.Extreme releases genre defying experimental works that dip into and out of electronic, soundtrack, world/ethnic, ambient, free jazz, noise and musique concrete, often mixing and matching combinations of all of these styles. Extreme has a catalogue numbering over 60 titles. All are notable for their high standard of audio production and design, in conjunction with innovative music that often eludes categorization.Interview with Rogers Richards of Extreme Records.We ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeffrey J. Kripal, Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion This episode is work safe.Esalen Institute is a combination alt-think tank, academic community and sensual retreat perched on the Pacific-facing cliffs of Big Sur, California. Its thinkers formed the leading edge of American culture for decades. Here was ground zero of the 1960s social revolution: the sweaty hot-tub commingling of free love, tantric yoga, Buddhist meditation and Gestalt therapy-as well as the academy for the propagation of the human-potential movement. Outlaw all-stars like ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Music Monday! Aja West and Friends + Foot Foot This episode is work safe.Aja West, producer of hybrid funk jazz and soul presents his long awaited masterwork, Total Recall 2012. After leading super group The Mackrosoft through ten fantastically successful albums, Aja West takes a solo turn bringing along his most talented and prestigious friends.Interview with Aja West.We discuss vocalist Reggie Watts; mastering Total Recall 2012 at Capitol Records; recording with Fred Wesley, Mike Clark and Paul Jackson; musicians he'd love to record ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website small WORLD Weekend Mix 75: The Afrobeat Edition The Afrobeat EditionThis episode is work safe.Kick off the weekend by kicking out the jams with the small WORLD Weekend MIX!This edition of the small WORLD Weekend Mix features the following artists... Fela Kuti - Swegbe & Pako Seun Kuti & Fela 'Egypt80 - Na Oil (Radio Edit) Mr. Something Something - Di Bombs (Ft. Ikwunga) Tony Allen - Progress (Ft. Fela Kuti) Gecko Turner - Afrobeatnik Afrobeat Down - Yemaija Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben's video of Nominal View a clip of the electonica band, Nominal, that he will later incorporate into a video. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website