KUOW's The Works Podcasts

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Each week on The Works, John Moe interviews newsmakers, entrepreneurs, innovators and journalists to bring you a wide range of stories related to business and technology. Besides being the headquarters of Microsoft and many other powerful corporations, the Northwest is also home to many small and up-and-coming businesses with fascinating tales to tell. And while keeping up with the latest present-day technology is important, it's just as crucial to know what developments are going to have an impact on your life in years to come. Login to Add this to your PlaylistPrimary Format : Unknown Language : English Also Listed as: City : Seattle State/Province : WA 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 KUOW's The Works Podcasts Methings.com listings of KUOW's The Works Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of KUOW's The Works Seattle's Digital Disparity The mayor–elect, Mike McGinn, had proposed a city–owned broadband network to provide high–speed Internet access to everyone in the city. Currently, there are some major neighborhoods that can't get reliable access. Freelance technology reporter Glenn Fleishman looked into why that gap is occurring in a city known as a high–tech capital. KUOW's Megan Sukys asked Glenn to explain Seattle's digital disparity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Works: High Tech Textbooks Textbooks are one of the largest costs facing college students. But, they have not kept up with technology. While much of education has moved to digital form, textbooks are still mainly available in expensive, large print form. Glenn Fleishman talks about new ventures that may finally bring textbooks into the 21st century. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Works: What Happens when Tiny URL's Die? There are online services that can shorten hyperlinks you shares with other people. It's convenient, until that service goes out of business and the miniature URLs are rendered useless. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He joins Megan Sukys with a look at the shortcomings of URL shorteners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Works: Reading the Fine Print and the Extra Print Most any technology service you buy has a contract. And, most likely, you didn't read it all that closely. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. And, he didn't read his contract for Comcast broadband phone. He talks with Megan Sukys about what he learned to do when it comes to technology contracts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Works: Making Freely Available Information Truly Free The Internet gives you the illusion that all information is at your fingertips. In fact, accessing information that is freely available from the government can get pretty expensive. Glenn Fleishman, a freelance technology reporter, talks about the fight going on behind the scenes to make free information truly free. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Why Twitter Can't Beat the Telephone Yet Twitter is a silly, shallow form of communication — until it goes down. And then, you realize just how much you depend on those Tweets. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He joins KUOW's Megan Sukys with a look at what the recent Twitter outage reveals about how our communication infrastructure is changing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Appliances Smarter "Smart Appliances" used to mean refrigerators that could surf the Internet. But soon, smart appliances will use technology to conserve energy. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He joins KUOW's Megan Sukys with a look at the next generation of home appliances that are currently in development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Works: Think Like a Spy, Talk Like the Jetsons Smart phones let everyday people use the kind of technology that once only belonged to James Bond. But, if you want to have really private conversations, you'd be better off channeling The Jetsons. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He tells KUOW's Megan Sukys when the online computer to computer communication of Skype could serve you better than a Blackberry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Last Days of Snail Mail No part of our daily lives is free from the digital revolution. First newspapers began to falter — snail mail may be next. And a Seattle company could be ushering in the end. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He tells KUOW's Megan Sukys why the physical mailbox is on the way out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expressing Yourself on a Blog Versus Facebook Blogs allow people to create web pages to broadcast their thoughts, experiences and opinions. But with Facebook, a person knows that someone is actually reading it. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He tells KUOW's Megan Sukys the considerations to take into account when creating a personal presence on the Web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Portable Radio for the 21st Century Radio has been around so long that it's almost an antique technology. And yet, it's one of the hottest things in new technology. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He joins KUOW's Megan Sukys with a survey of where radio is popping up other than your radio. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amazon Unpublishes Orwell In the book "1984", George Orwell imagined a future where information was controlled by a totalitarian government. Recently, Amazon crossed over into that territory with Kindle readers. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He tells KUOW's Megan Sukys what happened — and why it probably won't happen again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Making Facebook your Online Face The Internet used to be a place where you could be anonymous. But, with new Facebook federated identity called Facebook Connect, you'll never be able to hide from yourself again. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He joins Megan Sukys to explain how and why to let Facebook be your online face. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Taking Barcodes to the Second Dimension Bar codes have stepped into the next dimension, and your smart phone could be the key to get you there. Freelance technology reporter Glenn Fleishman talks with KUOW's Megan Sukys about 2D bar codes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website How 'Natal' Will Change How We Play Video games do more than train us to kill zombies and dance our way to revolution. Gaming technology may inspire innovations in everything from email to virtual medicine. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter who joins us every week for a look at how high tech works in our lives. Today, we learn how Microsoft's latest video game innovation may affect the rest of technology, reflect on the Cute Cat Theory of the Internet, and we considered the refreshing austerity of writing on ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sexting, Deep Packet Inspection and Finding Strangers Online With great technology comes great responsibility. This is an emerging lesson as teenagers challenge decency and obscenity laws with cell phone photo messages. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter. He joins Megan Sukys every week with a look at how technology works in our lives. Today, he tells us how Internet companies are looking deep into your Internet activity. He also tells us about a new social networking site full of strangers. Also, the long term implications of sexting ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howling Over Copyright The big bad wolf of music copyright law may be running out of breath. As technology changes, the lawsuits over file sharing are shaking out in favor of consumers. Glenn Fleishman tells Megan Sukys about the evolution of music ownership, the temperature of Google's new flu tracker and how to get worldwide calling at local prices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Meaning of Microsoft's Layoffs Analysts are divided on the leading cause of Microsoft's recent layoffs. But whatever caused it, the company's reorganization could mean an entirely new approach to software and hardware. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology reporter who joins us every week with a look at how hi–tech works in our lives. Today, we ask what Microsoft's changes mean for the future of the industry. We also explore how whitehouse.gov is transforming under the Obama administration, and we toy with LG's ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Green Electronics The Internet used to be a thriving ecosystem of data hosting services. But with the economic hard times, many services are going extinct – and taking user's data with them. Glenn Fleishman is a freelance technology journalist. He joins us every week with a look at how hi tech works in our lives. He tells Megan Sukys about his online obituaries for hosted services. We also look into Apple's greening of technology and look for crazy ways to waste time online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Online Ownership You can buy music online, but until now, you didn't really own it. The latest development in digital rights management (DRM) could change that. Today, Glenn Fleishman talks with Megan Sukys about the end of DRM, explores micro–philanthropy and decides whether to test–run Windows 7 Beta. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website