Re: RNZ Mediawatch--Geeks’ Gathering Goes Un der The Radar

I recommend RadioNZ news coverage for a higher ratio of real in depth news
- not just the latest attention-grabber headlines and sound bites. Nine to
noon, checkpoint, Saturday Morning (Kim Hill), Sunday Morning (Jim Mora)
and less often Jesse Mulligan (afternoon) and Nights (Brian Crump) all have
feature interviews going into more depth than usual on topics that matter
including Open Source and AI and their implications. They are pretty well
all available long-term as podcasts, so you can search back and then listen
at your convenience. Mediawatch is one of my favourites.
They are almost all available as Ogg versions, although the links default
to the MP3 versions. If you click on the Download link of the above link
you get an option to "Download as Ogg". You can then listen or right-click
to "Save link as" an Ogg file.
https://podcast.radionz.co.nz/downloads/mwatch/mwatch-20190213-1312-midweek_mediawatch_13_february_2019-02.ogg

Rod


On Fri, 15 Feb 2019 at 11:05, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Did you know that the annual linux.conf.au gathering was held in
> Christchurch last month? And that Linus Torvalds was there,
> wandering around the Canterbury University campus? Neither did I.
>
> Radio New Zealand’s Mediawatch program from a couple of weeks ago goes
> into the reasons why there was no media coverage of the event. Partly
> they might have been put off by some of the more esoteric and technical
> subjects being discussed. But in among them were some topics that should
> be considered more relevant to the “mainstream”, such as how automation
> could be doing away with many jobs being done by humans, leaving only
> the low-paying ones.
>
> The item includes an interview with NZOSS president Dave Lane, in which
> he incidentally mentions that Radio New Zealand’s online presence is
> built on Open Source, and that stuff.co.nz was, until recently, doing
> the same, and was also the one part of the Fairfax online media empire
> that was making money. Until that system was replaced with one based on
> expensive and proprietary Adobe products. And now they are not making
> nearly as much money. Coincidence? You be the judge.
>
> <
> https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018680533/geeks-gathering-goes-under-the-media-radar
> >
>
> By the way, it seems they have stopped making Ogg versions of items
> like these available for playback or download -- the links for the
> above one are only for an MP3 version.
>
> Also, I don’t agree that the distinction between “artificial
> intelligence” and “machine learning” is that clear-cut. I did a
> graduate course on AI back in the day, and it was already a pretty
> fuzzy concept back then. Except for one quite concise,
> mathematically-based definition I came across that appealed to me:
> “solving NP problems in polynomial time”.
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