Podcast Shoutout: Savage Lovecast, Gweek, QuackCast, Slate’s The Afterword & Dr. Karl and the Naked Scientist
I had been aware of podcasts for quite some time before I finally got into them about three years ago. I was under the impression that they were like amateur radio, in the unflattering sense of the phenomenon, but I was in for a surprise. Since that I’ve practically stopped listening to music when I’m commuting or otherwise on the move, and feeding my inner infovore with a bunch of interesting podcasts. I’ve been meaning to give a shout-out to my favourites for some time now, so here goes!
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Die, E-mail, Die! – Or Getting Rid of E-Mail Chaos
A decade ago it was still nice to be in a work environment, where people knew how to communicate by e-mail, but nowadays it’s more of a curse. E-mail should damn well die and depart as the main communication channel when working, especially when there are so many better and more appropriate alternatives nowadays. Here are some I’ve found – more hints are welcome!
The Dismal State of e-Book Editing – Case: Terry Pratchett’s “Snuff”
Ever since I bought the Kindle a year ago, I’ve been a big fan of e-books and this autumn I’ve spent quite some time learning to make them. One thing has started to annoy me about many commercial ebooks: far too many of them are littered with all kinds of encoding errors: extra line breaks, missing spaces between words, indents turning into empty lines, etc. It seems like this problem has been getting worse, not better, during this last year, and now I ran into the total nadir of this: the Kindle-edition of “Snuff” by Terry Pratchett.