January 18th, 2012, will be the largest internet protest in history. Thousands of sites across the internet, including some of the biggest in the world, will be blacking out and directing people to contact Congress to kill the web censorship bill, SOPA and PIPA. We want to get you involved.
In just 7 days, the Senate will vote on forever altering the free and open internet by instituting a new regime of extra-judicial, corporate-led website takedowns. This is a fundamental fight about who has power in society — the people with the means to communicate freely or the governments and corporations that feel threatened.
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Keram is joined by podcast regulars Aimee Lynn Chadwick and Truffle Jones in this special report on NAB 2011 – the biggest tech trade show in the world. Other topics include civil wars in the Middle East and Africa, the Cloud, Telepresence, Transmedia, Rango, Osama Bin Laden, hot dogs and Friendster’s revenge. Other features include listener mail and a rare bootleg of Keram live at the Hotel Cafe!
Keram is accompanied by podcast regulars Aimee Lynn Chadwick and Truffle Jones in this special episode of the Keramcast. Topics include the government-imposed Internet blackout in Egypt and telecom monopoly in Canada to the latest tech, social media marketing, the year’s best documentaries, Gaspar Noe’s Enter The Void, O2O business models, the Amazon Kindle, listener questions answered.
Independent video games are going through something of an Enlightenment period with the propagation of free development platforms, starter kits and online marketplace happily stocking up on the latest titles assembled in basements, garages and coffee shops. The time is right for this emerging medium that brings together graphic design, music, storytelling and interactivity in a world hungry for new content, interaction and storytelling forms.
In this year-end wrap up, Keram Malicki-Sanchez and co-host Aimee Lynn Chadwick cover the many extraordinary events and changes that took place in culture, media, technology and the world in 2009. From Obama to U2 streaming live in HD over the internet, Ebooks to Avatar, Iranian protests via Twitter to Canon’s groundbreaking HDSLR cameras and what is was like shooting with Christian Slater or a RED camera in the midst of a hurricane in Hawai’i, this episode has it all.
In this very special one hour episode, Keram interviews his own flesh-and-blood sister Vanessa on a stopover to Los Angeles during the course of an amazing journey that has taken her from a four-day trek along the Inca Trail to the ancient and magical cloud city of Machu Pichu in Peru to the polluted and technologically advanced cities of the Canton province in China and its wonders untold for a series of tech conventions.
