youdigest
About this original series
a digest of news, entertainment, and information to keep you culturally conversant and to help make sense of the digital deluge.
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# Episodes
18 episodes -
Rating
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Episodes of youdigest
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High ROI
We're digesting stories about high return on investment. Special credit for anyone who gets the Seinfeld reference in today's webisode! Paranormal box office returns | 10 Tactics for Turning Information into Action | 2 Legit to Quit | Twin bomb blasts in Baghdad | The portable NASDAQ | The Book of Odds | Indigestion: stupid Halloween costumes To view the stories featured in this digest visit www.youdigest.com.
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Release date
Oct 27, 2009
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Runtime
03:57
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FuturePastTense
Today’s digest isn’t an arcane exercise in declining verbs (I’m dorky but I’m not that bad!). Rather, our theme today is about the tension between the parts of the world speeding headlong into the future and the parts for all intents and purposes still living in the past. I also suggest a few small gestures at easing that future-past tension, because I think it’s both morally and practically imperative that we do.Jetpacks! | Twitter me this | The Chalkboard Times | Why I won’t go to Kentucky |...
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Release date
Oct 23, 2009
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Runtime
03:16
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no regrets
Today’s digest is an antidote to my last webisode, about humanity’s obsession with wondering “What If?” When you live without regret, you’re never left with that nagging sense of what might have happened, in an alternate reality, if only you’d… Entertain these examples of regret-free action with me!Missed Connections 2.0 | Missed Connections 1.0 | 350.org | NaNoWriMo | Tsunami drill | Everything Matters |Fail Harder
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Release date
Oct 22, 2009
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Runtime
02:59
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all about the interface
Navigating life requires finding your way around increasingly sophisticated interfaces. Whether bad or benign, they govern how we interact with each other and with the objects that define our day-to-day experiences. Interface with me as I digest recent stories about the past, present, future (and even the paleofuture) of interfacing as we know it.Happy Birthday, telescope | Meet you in Second Life | Sudan policy reboot | Googling gives way to real-time search | Look Ma, no hands! | Paleofuture
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Release date
Oct 22, 2009
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Runtime
02:54
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april 23 | predicting outcomes
Today's digest is about the difficulty of predicting outcomes in this wild, crazy world of ours. Today's globalized, networked, technologically souped-up world is infinitely complex, with many more determining factors than just the two sides of a coin. And calling the shots is a bigger challenge than ever. Many of the stories you'll find in the digest today illustrate the difficulty of anticipating consequences because of the lag time between imagining and implementing policy, or between makin...
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Release date
May 1, 2009
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Runtime
05:14
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april 20 | turns out...
Today’s digest is about the impact of unexpected information--especially in an age where information saturation can lead us to believe we’ve already heard or seen everything there possibly is to know on any given subject. Given the critical sophistication of a 2009 public, people might not respond well to something that was initially suppressed and then released.To view the articles in today's digest, visit www.youdigest.com
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Release date
Apr 21, 2009
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Runtime
03:55
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from the inside
Today’s stories touch on a strategy that smart artists, criminals, marketers, and scientists all use to increase the effectiveness of their work. They’ll very quietly plant the seeds of something—a social revolution, maybe, or an ad campaign, a nanobot, or a computer virus—right inside the heart of the circulatory system they want to change. And before you know it, everything’s blown from the inside right out.To view the digest for today's episode, visit www.youdigest.com.
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Release date
Apr 20, 2009
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Runtime
03:58
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can't stop that leak!
Today’s digest focuses on the difficulty in our flat, interconnected world of plugging up leaks of all kinds: information, movies, political movements, and water (the kind released by our melting poles). A dovetailing of relatively young social networking technologies and relatively young worldwide populations mean that all kinds of things travel faster, which is why recalling the leaks—of knowledge or news—is virtually impossible.To see the digest related to today’s digest (curious?), check o...
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Release date
Apr 17, 2009
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Runtime
04:09
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Fehl Am Platz
Today I'm borrowing from a great German phrase that's literally translated as out-of-place. (Sometimes other languages just express what you mean better, ya know?) We’re living in an age of incredible disruption, from paradigm-breaking technologies to disruptive exertions of power in a multi-polar order. As a result, we're hypersensitive to incongruities of people, places, and things. And when things seem out-of-place, we're shaken out of the space-time continuum we like to think of as our dai...
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Release date
Apr 15, 2009
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Runtime
03:52
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april fools' fun
I’ve taken some liberties because of the day and I have to admit, this webisode came together after April Fool’s Day itself had passed.Visit www.youdigest.com for a digest of the day's best (and worst!) pranks.
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Release date
Apr 7, 2009
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Runtime
03:01
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