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Favoriting April 9, 2018: Henry Lowengard, aka Webhamster Henry, on tech at WFMU and beyond

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This week: Henry Lowengard, aka Webhamster Henry, on tech at WFMU and beyond.

Pointers to Webhamster Henry's work:

• Henry's Droneo app for iOS

• Henry's Yes Session iOS app

• The AUMI iOS app (as Henry says, this is for disabled people, "temporarily abled" people, as well as birds, cats, goldfish, turtles, clouds, fire) - see also aumiapp.com - AUMI stands for Adaptive Use Musical Instruments, associated with the Deep Listening Institute, which says the "Adaptive Use Musical Instruments (AUMI) software interface enables people who have very limited controlled (voluntary) movement to independently engage in music making. The Adaptive Use Musical Instruments software interface enables the user to play sounds and musical phrases through movement and gestures." Here's a video demo of AUMI.

• Henry's Only A iOS app and the Only A repository Henry mentions in the interview. (And all of Henry's iOS apps.)

• Here's a video profile of Henry Lowengard by MX Creatives. "He uses sound to create digital apps which allow persons with diverse physical abilities to make music."

Henry's drones on Soundcloud (scroll down to see "Swoopster at Kingston, NY" - made by the Droneo app)

• Pauline Oliveros, composer - here's her NYT obit: Composer Who Championed ‘Deep Listening’

• A selection of Henry's mp3s

• Henry's homepage and his more general website.

• And about our outtro tonight, Not Programmed for Love - Henry used to be guest host on the "Nitecaps" show (1AM-3AM) and used this as his theme song.

In other tech news:

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak deleted his Facebook account. You should, too: deletefacebook.com

Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook: "Facebook’s 2 billion users are not Facebook’s 'community.' They are its user base, and they have been repeatedly carried along by the decisions of the one person who controls the platform."

“We Had To Stop Facebook”: When Anti-Muslim Violence Goes Viral. "Extremists in Sri Lanka used Facebook to organize deadly violence against Muslims. Facebook is accused of not doing enough to prevent it," reports BuzzFeed - by Megha Rajagopalan.

Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation: "The surveillance imposed on us today far exceeds that of the Soviet Union. For freedom and democracy’s sake, we need to eliminate most of it."

Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patient data: "Facebook was in talks with top hospitals and other medical groups as recently as last month about a proposal to share data about the social networks of their most vulnerable patients. The idea was to build profiles of people that included their medical conditions, information that health systems have, as well as social and economic factors gleaned from Facebook."

YouTube Is Improperly Collecting Children’s Data, Consumer Groups Say: remember that Google, too, not just Facebook, is conducting surveillance of you (and your kids).

How to scam a Gmail user: "The dots [in the email address] do matter," writes James H. Fisher.

• Harvard postdoc Moira Weigel posts: "*walking by my old dorm room in Kirkland House* hey remember that time some boys hacked our college directory, put our faces up on a website so other boys could rate if we were pretty, and then became the richest people in the world?"

• ...Weigel then adds: "a global empire built on the faces of awkward teen girls what could possibly go wrong"

Geoffrey Fowler: "It’s really amazing that Facebook continues to downplay this even during the apology tour." He's referring to Drew Harwell's comment: "When Zuckerberg says third-party companies were 'able to access some information' about users' friends (see WaPo piece), this is what he actually means: Location, romantic partner, work history, interests, photos, notes, videos (and much more!)"

• MIT researchers have found that Lies spread faster than the truth.

• Oh, and Zuck ate some toast.

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Listener comments!

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listener james from westwood:

Ah hah hah, that bingo card! Hey, Mark and all!
Avatar 6:01pm
Linda Lee:

Good evening Mark & listeners!
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Number Six:

Good Evening, Mark & All!
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Linda Lee:

Webhamster Henry!
  6:04pm
melinda:

Yay, Henry!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:04pm
Webhamster Henry:

Available for chattery!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:05pm
Webhamster Henry:

I already destroyed the world in one of my old jobs. I'm past that stage.
Avatar 6:05pm
ledzeppelinsucks:

我在圣克拉拉的电脑仓库里。
Avatar 6:07pm
TDK60:

Wow, W.H. involved with Pauline Oliveros, love her music.
Avatar 6:07pm
βrian:

Oh, this is like a fern bar interview on VHS!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:08pm
Michael 98145:

◄ ◄ ◄ whoa. lotsa links to explore nextdoor.
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Linda Lee:

**this** will be fun.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
dale:

the people behind the magic curtain.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
listener james from westwood:

Infobot was a nifty feature!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Webhamster Henry:

Dr. PO was a Kingston resident when she was not running around the world doing various residencies and concerts.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:09pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I'm already hoping this becomes a multi-episode interview. Lots to discuss here.
Avatar 6:10pm
βrian:

I remember sitting in the computer lab at Michigan, burrowing down Gopher pathways. The ambient audioscape of key clicks was hypnotizing.
  6:10pm
Listener Robert:

Wow, I used to dial in to a couple of BBS that carried Echos.
Avatar 6:11pm
Linda Lee:

really lovely hearing about *positive* tech!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
cosmic matrix:

super cool! loving the show. @linda, i agree!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:12pm
Michael 98145:

like this playlist/ comments board. which i really do like.
Avatar 6:14pm
βrian:

When the playlist shows the most recent track at the top and quits its infernal reloading, a new quantum level of consciousness will have been reached.
Avatar 6:14pm
Linda Lee:

as a 30+ year listener i'll tell you: the playlist/comments add a beautiful dimension to the station. honestly.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:15pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

If the comments boards were to go away, I really don't know what I'd do. I'd feel so adrift.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:16pm
cosmic matrix:

the comments board makes this thing higher-dimensional.
Avatar 6:17pm
TDK60:

The Archive is great. Many other radio stations have no archives, or do, but remove them after a time.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:17pm
Webhamster Henry:

I go to other stations and look for the non existent chat boards. I think chat boards are part of the Audience Engine, which is WFMU tech for other organizations.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:18pm
Michael 98145:

those archives are our money well-spent
  6:18pm
Listener Robert:

I programmed a DOS script that chained to a WordPerfect script to download all my new content from the echos I was interested in, plus my Echomail, so I could read offline to save time dialed-in, which counted against my quota at the BBS, and also tied up my phone line -- with call waiting disabled so as not to knock off my connection. IIRC I even programmed in the DOS script a command to the modem dialer to send the code to turn off call waiting, then turn it on again at the end of the session.
Avatar 6:18pm
Linda Lee:

other stations now seem dead-ish without chat, listener interaction.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Michael 98145:

there are people around who have forgotten DOS and dialers. or never knew them.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:19pm
Webhamster Henry:

ATDT FTW
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Linda Lee:

can't wait to see the aumi app!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:20pm
Webhamster Henry:

Echo is still going (not to be confused with "echos"), at echonyc.com!
Avatar 6:21pm
Tom Miller:

Thanks for filling in the backstory. Media historians might be interested in an interview I did with Ken for the Audio Engineering Society here: www.aes.org...
Avatar 6:22pm
Linda Lee:

@Webhamster Henry ~ had no idea you were so fantastic. :-)
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Tom Miller:

Recording of the presentation is behind AES paywall, but if anyone's interested let me know and I can DropBox it to you
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
listener james from westwood:

w00t! Hear, hear, Mark—thanks, WH!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:22pm
chris:

keep up the great work, Henry! great interview.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:23pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yes! Cogent-ified by ruthless editing on the part of Mr. Hurst!
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Linda Lee:

like the idea of the encouragement app. i just text at people ~ then take screen shots of what i said :-D
  6:24pm
JakeGould:

So Echo’s gopher server is still active?
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Anthony:

There is nothing wrong with using information to influence public opinion as long as people are aware once they are signing up. "Misinformation" cannot be regulated under the first amendment. One's person's misinformation could be another person's 'truth'.
Avatar 6:25pm
TDK60:

<- Thanks for all that info. too. // I'm not on Facebook but a sister and friend are.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:25pm
Michael 98145:

this is pretty funny : www.qwerkywriter.com
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

I just received a spam text message on my phone. Something about a sale on Ray-Bans that came from 516-340-4451. I reported it to the phone company. So there!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:26pm
Webhamster Henry:

Technically - that's the desktop AUMI app, but the ios app sounds and works the same.
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Linda Lee:

oh no! too much fun!
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βrian:

Shouldn't that be qwertywriter.com??
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Linda Lee:

what a beautiful thing to do for people with limited mobility. fantastic.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:28pm
Webhamster Henry:

AUMI is free! no reason not to try it out!
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Linda Lee:

Bravo!!!!
  6:29pm
A.M. Barrett:

Really enjoying the information about access. More shows like this!
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Linda Lee:

we don't want to be reduced to less than human, as individuals. we want to expand our humanity. either our technology serves one or it serves the other.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:31pm
Michael 98145:

what @LL said
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TDK60:

Right on LL!
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geezerette:

Linda Lee nails it again.
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J J F:

Tech need to adopt an ‘Opt in’ bias rather than an ‘Opt out’ bias..
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βrian:

I deleted my account before I created it. Do I have cred, now, or what?
  6:32pm
JakeGould:

iPhones are great. Social media is not all bad. And Facebook could be great if the focus was not so focused on harvesting data to profit a few.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:32pm
listener james from westwood:

I'm mildly surprised Woz even had a FB account. I figured he was still jamming 80s on his telecom solutions, possibly on a heavily modded Apple I.
Avatar 6:33pm
TDK60:

Is the WFMU comments board "social media"?
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geezerette:

Brian,same!
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βrian:

During the largest labor protests in the history of the United States, Twitter proved really useful to follow court proceedings.
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Anthony:

Be careful...nobody complained when Facebook shared the personal information of every American on the platform in 2012 to certain political candidates for no charge. It only became a problem in 2016 when this was information was monetized and certain people did not like the results of this information sale.
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geezerette:

TDK60, yep!
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βrian:

@geezerette: Well, that makes two of us.
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Linda Lee:

@JakeGould ~ well sure, but without its current function it wouldn't exist.
  6:35pm
Patty D:

You ever notice how Zuckerberg keeps apologizing that people's data was shared but he never accepts responsibility?
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Linda Lee:

he was absent that day.
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geezerette:

Brian, talk about sales resistance.
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Anthony:

Zuckerburg is the third worst person in technology.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:37pm
Michael 98145:

Just finished this book ... www.penguinrandomhouse.com...
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Anthony:

How about live suicides?
Avatar 6:39pm
βrian:

We need open-source tools, above all.
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Anthony:

A 14 year old girl in Florida broadcast her suicide live on Facebook and there was no nationwide outcry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:40pm
Michael 98145:

cripes, @Anthony. that is truly horrible.
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Anthony:

nypost.com...
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Anthony:

why isn't this something we talk about? it's becoming more common
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βrian:

Can you imagine a transaction fee, accruing to the individual, for every exchange of personal information??
Avatar 6:41pm
Linda Lee:

we're generally inured to suffering that appears to us within certain contexts. period.
Avatar 6:42pm
Linda Lee:

it's not actual. it's virtual. we're not required to respond as if it's actual & so we don't.
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geezerette:

Love this hour of calm lucidity.
Avatar 6:42pm
TDK60:

Surveillance has grown and grown. Cameras everywhere. Those new "link" things in NYC. Is there a new Orwell writing? Or Orwells?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
geo in jc:

The current market cap for Facebook as of April 06, 2018 is $456.67B.
  6:43pm
JakeGould:

Mark, I think honestly saying these apps should be shut down is really paranoid. Shut down all existing social media apps. New ones will come up. The internet and computing is what it is. It can be used for bad or good.

I have no issues with social media to that level. I block what I want to block, expose what I want to expose and honestly I am not that torn up.

What I am more upset about is the modern media landscape where standalone websites and blogs have no viability. That is the reason social media is so central to the Internet nowadays; it all works only for the big players. 10 and even 20 years ago smaller players could have a humble existence.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Michael 98145:

@LL, a 'two-dimensional" non-reality
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Anthony:

A 12-year-old girl live-streamed her suicide. It took two weeks for Facebook to take the video down. why isnt this talked about? www.washingtonpost.com...
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
Webhamster Henry:

This is a job for ... BLOCKCHAINMAN!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:43pm
dale:

you just know he's got a boardroom full of people and whiteboards and 'ideation generation' flying all over the place prepping for his day in the hot seat.
Avatar 6:44pm
Linda Lee:

a@TDK60 ~ all Orwell did was to understand how social control mechanisms generally take form & then he extrapolated.
@Michael 98145 ~ that's right.
  6:44pm
JakeGould:

@geoinjc: Wonder how much they dodged in taxes? Just tax these folks through the nose. THAT would change the business model pretty quickly. Tax the rich. Period. That will solve lots of problems.
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geezerette:

Webhamster Henry, hahaha!
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Linda Lee:

why should we be more affected by a single young girl's suicide than we are by stories about hordes of suffering and dying people in foreign war zones? we're not touched by any of it, in actuality. none of it is actual.
Avatar 6:45pm
TDK60:

Tax the rich?! My word such subversion. hee..
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ardentvoice:

My household has been glued to the radio for this whole great broadcast.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:45pm
melinda:

I agree with previous comments about the comments board. It is one of the reasons I started listening to more WFMU.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
melinda:

@Jake agree about the sad lack of viability for standalone websites and blogs.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
Michael 98145:

is Swoopster on Napster?
:)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:47pm
Webhamster Henry:

The drones have no beginning nor end, so I don't generally record them.
Avatar 6:48pm
Linda Lee:

lovely sound, for sure.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
northguineahills:

Missed Henry's interview :(. Got 5"s/13cm of rain in the last 2.5 hours and the creek overflowed the main road. Had to plow through 2'/61cm of water taking a detour. 1/3 of the stop lights were out. But I made it back to work and Techtonic!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:48pm
northguineahills:

Moar drone!
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Linda Lee:

thank you for giving us sounds that are actually nice to listen to!
Avatar 6:49pm
TDK60:

I didn't "need" the comments board, was already a woofmoo eccentric. But it does *extend* the radio experience. A technics I can use and support.
Avatar 6:49pm
βrian:

Going to see the Joe Frank doc this week.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:49pm
Michael 98145:

whoa, @ngh. didn't know that was happening in FLA ...
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Linda Lee:

no one needed the comments board. now we do! :-D :-D
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Linda Lee:

Yes Session, are you queer?
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geezerette:

Webhamster Henry, gorgeous drone. Great interview.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:51pm
Webhamster Henry:

You might have to fiddle with the sensitivity sessions on Yes Session!
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Linda Lee:

'more work'? how dare you, Yes Session!
  6:52pm
deedoo:

what does yes session do with your recorded ideas?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
melinda:

I would feel so adrift without the comments board.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:52pm
Webhamster Henry:

Yes Session records this exchange and you can email your brainstorm to whomever needs to hear it.
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βrian:

** Oh, Ken, you're such a drift! **
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Linda Lee:

Yes Session, are you really Lou Reed?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
Michael 98145:

( this is like a distracted spouse :)
  6:53pm
Mike in Wayne:

Facebook is as much a financialization problem as it is a tech problem. Don’t expect too much action from Congress because to attack Facebook is to attack Wall Street. That ain’t happening. Everyone on the committee questioning Zuckerberg will likely have a healthy number of FB in their portfolio.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:53pm
ultradamno:

I think this much positive feedback would make me defensive.
  6:54pm
Bobby:

That was great, yes!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Webhamster Henry:

You can add your own encouragements (or turn it into Debby Downer).
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Another story for paranoia: The popular Slack program apparently lets you boss spy on what you've been typing.
  6:54pm
Listener Robert:

Yes Session: Not quite up to the quality of AI Ken & Andy, but as good as their previous "automated" exchanges.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:54pm
northguineahills:

@Michael: There's an occluded front stalled right over us and sucking moisture from the Gulf of Mexico.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
cosmic matrix:

Hey, that tickled me hearing my name.... that app reminded me of Eliza.... anyhow thanks for an interesting show!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:55pm
Michael 98145:

How about that Sinclair Broadcast Group power grab ?
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Fredericks:

That did Not sound like Jeff Sessions at all, sorry.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Michael 98145:

stay safe, @ngh !
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geezerette:

Michael, eeeeeeeeek!!!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
chris:

i think if any of us became billionaires, fmu wouldn't need pledge drives any longer
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Folsom:

the archives are great, even BBC doesn't keep all of their archives
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βrian:

That occluded front is gonna have to get some release before long.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:56pm
Webhamster Henry:

Hmm billionaire .. I wonder where I put that cash.
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TDK60:

The other Mumford, not "and Sons."
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Webhamster Henry:

Thanks Mark and Techtonites! I can blab forever!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Liz Berg came up with the radio icon for Swag For Life pledgers.
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βrian:

Not programmed for luff!
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Linda Lee:

love the idea of adding my own encouragements and/or cooling!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
Michael 98145:

all my wealth was in Netscape/Mosaic stock

:)
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:58pm
cosmic matrix:

Wasn't there a show called Nightshift at some point?
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TDK60:

This show is important, thanks Mark!
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Linda Lee:

thanks so much Mark!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
listener james from westwood:

Many thanks, Mark and WH!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
cosmic matrix:

super cool
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Michael 98145:

lotsa hearts on this board
Avatar Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
northguineahills:

Ok, will obey and listen to Dan Bodah!
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Linda Lee:

had to laugh! first note of a synthetic love song sounds just like a fart.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 6:59pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

Turn those tax refunds into pledges!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
cosmic matrix:

oooh peepers!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:00pm
Michael 98145:

turn those pledges into tax deductions
  7:00pm
Bobby:

My heart is out of the phone app, but I have one!
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Linda Lee:

haha! i love this. 'neither of us was neutered'??? LOL
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Linda Lee:

i'm laughing my ass off, kids.
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Fredericks:

Another good show, Mark. And thanks for all the links Webmaster. Going for a deep dive.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 7:01pm
Michael 98145:

- we can add up in space -
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh, hi.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:03pm
Webhamster Henry:

And ... I don't monetize any of my websites. HI Kenzo! Namedropped you at least!
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Linda Lee:

hi Kenzo! thanks for everything you've done here! amazing.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:04pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

The last ever!
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Webhamster Henry:

The everlasting last ever!
  7:05pm
Listener Robert:

ATH0.
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:06pm
Webhamster Henry:

Sounds like Robert hung up.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I grew up using chat systems in the 70's and 80's so I was eager to bring some here. I credit Mike Lupica for the nudge, who said one day, we should allow comments below the playlist after it's over. I said, we should allow live chat while it's happening! And then I got to work... I also credit Tumblr for making me realize scroll control in the browser was viable.
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Linda Lee:

enabled comments has been absolutely great for creating this community ~ ultimately strengthening station support! bravo!
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

I created live playlist commenting in 2006, and implemented the Ajax live scrolling in early 2010. My notes say that took two sleepless weeks from conception to debugged implementation.
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Linda Lee:

best sleepless nights you ever spent, right?. ;-)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Oh but of course
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Linda Lee:

you're the Man. that's all. :-)
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Linda Lee:

Mr Hurst has gone as far to say that what we have here, what' you've created, is what social media *should* be.
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Linda Lee:

beautifully low signal-to-noise ratio. :-)
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

No sign-in required! That was important to me.
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Linda Lee:

yeah that's beautiful.
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Linda Lee:

assuming he'll shut down this board sooner or later. i'm headed to work! :-) hope to see you soon!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

The boards for shows can be commented on years after the show's termination!
Avatar 🤖 Swag For Life Member 7:29pm
Webhamster Henry:

The conversation tends to thin out though.
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Kenzo (Ken's Last Ever):

Thanks for giving a fun interview, Henry!
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