Carbon Trading in the US and Minnesota

If you caught the NPR/National Geographic segment on the European carbon trading efforts you may have gotten the impression that: the price of being carbon neutral is so low (+2%) that it’s irresponsible not to pay it. a market for carbon dioxide, mandatory or otherwise, didn’t exist stateside. True on the former, false on the …

Why Buying Local, Frontier House, and the Trade Deficit are All Silly

Russ Roberts’ EconTalk is consistently interesting and engaging podcast covering economics as a perspective and a practice. I spent the first half of this week listening to his hour long conversation with colleague Don Boudreaux on the economics of buying local for the sake of buying local. Boudreaux and Roberts expand on many of the …

Betch’ll Listen

Mark Kermode’s film reviews are quickly approaching ‘must listen podcast’ status. Not only are the reviews hilarious, Mark is at his best when he’s terribly off-topic, like this insightful tidbit from the 23 Feb 2007 installment: “He’s a Methodist, we don’t bet” Huh, I wonder if that’s why I’m not a fan of gambling.

Doc and Hugh, To the Rescue

Because I’m such a Doc Searls and Hugh MacLeod fan, I re-subscribed to a podcast I long ago dismissed (only because I couldn’t download the individual files from the podsh** website.) Looks like I’m not the only one regretting this decision: “Attention Doc Searls: if you ever create your own podcast, please let us know. …

Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting

I’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now – the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed. Unfortunately, in today’s – #166 – the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’. Lame. What’s a …

Introducing the HijackingWP Script

One of my biggest problems with podcasting is the production process. Even without editing the audio, the process is far too manual to repeat without inherent discouragement (65 podcasts in year 1 and 20 in year 2 should speak to that). In an effort to publish more and make podcasting as effortless as writing this …