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Find out how the digital revolution is changing our lives. Presenter Gareth Mitchell brings you the latest gadgets, novel uses of technology in the far flung corners of the world and analysis of the hi-tech issues that affect you. Primary Format : Language : Unknown Also Listed as: City : Unknown State/Province : Unknown Country : United Kingdom Region : EU 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 Digital Planet Podcasts Methings.com listings of Digital Planet Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

DigitalP: 16 Jun 09 - Blogging & censorship Online activism following Iranian election results. Plus we discuss blogging and censorship in China, Vietnam and Cuba. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: Venice Biennale 09 Jun 09 Gareth Mitchell talks to digital artists at the Venice Biennale, including the film-maker Peter Greenaway, the co-founder of Velvet Underground, John Cale, and Dutch interactive artists, Dropstuff. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 19 May 09 - Venezuelan mobile; ebooks; Wikipedia; DJ app Small Venezuelan phone causes big controversy; the effect of ereaders on libraries and bookstores; the history of Wikipedia; Paul van Dyk launches his own DJ phone app. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 12 May 09 - Microsoft Africa; Eyeborg; Evernote Windows 7; Microsoft vs open source in Africa; Eyeborg –the man with a camera in his eye; and Evernote, the memory tool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 05 May 09 French 3 strikes net law, Lawrence Lessig on creative commons, IBM's future retail lab and the bus that Tweets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 28 Apr 09 The programme discusses the threat from viruses – not just on your computer but on your phone. Scientists would like to borrow your computer for a while to help them with their experiments - a conference asks if computer-users in Asia are ready to adopt the idea. A techno laggard shares her survivor's guide for figuring out your Facebook from your Twitter. Clay Shirky, one of the best known digital natives says ‘Here Comes Everybody’ as he documents just how we ALL made the planet di ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 21 Apr 09 The Pirate Bay verdict; high tech campaigning in Indian elections; we ask 'is radio dead?’ And Gareth visits an art installation connecting London & Cambodia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 14 Apr 09 Using laser scanning to study earthquakes in Southern Italy; how Obama's government is using technology to get closer to the American people; GPS applications in Kenya; and part two of Gareth Mitchell's interview with Steve Wozniak. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 07 Apr 09 Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak; Daisyphone - a new collaborative music app; and Indian emergency services go high-tech in Hyderabad. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 30 MAR 09 - Tim Berners-Lee, east Africa broadband, Star-gazing The World Wide Web has turned twenty years old, so we’re turning our attention web-wise with words from its inventor, Tim Berners-Lee. Also, how fast web access is on its way to much of east Africa thanks to a highly ambitious new broadband cable that’s coming on stream this year. And if you have a minute or two to spare, there are some astronomers who could do with some help identifying a quarter of a million or so galaxies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 24 Mar 09 Mechanical horses and user-friendly circuit boards at the UK’s first Maker Faire; how to create a personalised font from your handwriting; and Microsoft’s new photo-sharing site that creates 3D pictures. With presenter Gareth Mitchell and studio expert Bill Thompson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 17 Mar 09 SXSW Special: Gareth visits the South by Southwest interactive festival in Austin, Texas. Steven Johnson talks about the ecosystem of news and Gareth sings internet karaoke. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 10 Mar 09 Thrill-seeking technology for fairground rides; why universities are using Guitar Hero for academic research; and Italian bishops ask Catholics to give up texting for Lent. With presenter Gareth Mitchell and studio expert Bill Thompson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 03 Mar 09 Privacy & Piracy - Cory Doctorow on our surveillance society; Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant hits back at file-sharers; the latest gizmos from Microsoft Techfest; plus Kinetic artist Rich Walker & his robotic hand. With presenter Gareth Mitchell & studio expert Bill Thompson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 24 Feb 09 Kevin Spacey on making short films for mobiles; More phone updates from the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona; And the latest news on the 'Pirate Bay' file-sharing trial in Sweden. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 17 Feb 09 Twitter parties go global, but has the microblogging site sold out? Plus - always forgetting your password? OpenID could be the answer. And finally tecnobrega - the Brazilian music scene that thrives on piracy. With presenter Gareth Mitchell and studio guest Bill Thompson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 10 Feb 09 Is Google's new geo-tracking service invading our privacy? Txt me ur money: why mobile phone banking is taking off in Kenya; txteagle - a service that translates foreign text messages; and Facebook is 5, how social networking is changing society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 03 Feb 09 How will Obama go from a digital campaign to a digital administration? How Wi-Fi networks could be easily infected; Granular computing: Why making computers think more like humans could increase their powers and biometrics saves day for Filipino pensioners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 26 Jan 09 Weekly magazine programme featuring the latest from technology and IT. This week, a special edition all about the Geographic web. How the internet links up to the where as well as the what. How the latest mapping technology is coming to your mobile phone; why GPS has made‘geocaching’ the treasure hunt for the 21st century and with increased global knowledge about where we are should we be worried about privacy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 19 Jan 09 Weekly magazine programme featuring the latest from technology and IT. This week the wireless network built by one man for remote mountainous villages in Nepal; the new digital radio system being used on the London Underground train network and how a new detailed digital map of soil across Africa accessible online could help farmers and soil scientists across Africa. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 12 Jan 09 Weekly magazine programme featuring the latest from technology and IT. This week two new web tools designed to help make sense of the conflict in Gaza - Debategraph and Ushahidi; accessibility to the web for all users under discussion at a meeting in Barcelona; and Mark Ward reports on 3D TV and the greening of the computer industry at the Consumer Electronics Show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 05 Jan 09 This week a look ahead to the digital trends in entertainment for the new year including a novel idea as some of South Africa's finest writers produce brand new literature for mobile phones. And something else to Marvel at - connectivity for cartoons as comic books cross to the net, as well as the latest gadgets e.g. 3D TV on display at the Consumer Electronics Show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: Dec 30 Gareth Mitchell and regular technology commentator, Bill Thompson, discuss the best of the DIGITAL PLANET year. Including wifi on a lamppost in Brazil and in a village in Nepal; Fergal Sharkey on illegal downloading music; Digg founder Kevin Rose; Andrew Keen on why the internet is killing culture; and artist Katie Pearson’s moon bouncing the Moonlight Sonata. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 23 Dec Citizen journalism & piracy in Somalia; New IT centre planned for Kenya; cutting car crime in Rio with anti-theft technology; and the New York hackers who are pimping their iPods. With presenter Gareth Mitchell and studio expert Bill Thompson. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website DigitalP: 09 Dec 08 Reporting conflict in Congo - a new web app lets citizens log eye-witness accounts. Plus the launch of the first Muslim virtual world, Muxlim Pal. And voice bots from Japan - robots that talk and even play the flute. Presented by Gareth Mitchell with studio expert Bill Thompson. 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