The Pangalactic Interwebs

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Question for the week:

• Why has this podcast taken so long to appear? (See below)

What have we been doing?

• Helen - Swancon/natcon  http://2011.swancon.com.au/  
• Aurealis awards - http://www.aurealisawards.com/winners2010.pdf
• Tama - Artificial Culture Book http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415899161/

What have we been reading / viewing / consuming?

• Helen:  More CJ Cherryh Foreigner series; Justina Robson,  Heliotrope; Tansy Rayner Roberts: The Shattered City; Love and Romanpunk;  Ted Chiang, The Lifecycle of Software Objects; Connie Willis  Blackout / All Clear;
• Tama (& Helen): Doctor Who Season 6 Opener ‘the Impossible Astronaut’
• BOTH!: Game of Thrones

The interwebs will eat itself? (aka rant of the week)

• Lady Gaga breaks the interwebs   http://mashable.com/2011/05/23/lady-gaga-amazon-2/

The Internet Will Save Us.

• Not this week it won’t!

Feeding Back

• Kevin Chiat: gives us our question for next time - ‘what do we think of Avatar?’...

Feedback
What would you like to hear us talk about? We’d love to hear your thoughts, so either leave a comment here or drop us a line at pangalacticinterwebs@gmail.com

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• Tauel Harper, Kevin Chiat, Dan Beazley & Wendy White

Question for the week:

• What do we think of Portal 2? http://www.thinkwithportals.com/
• Recommendations for each other: Above/Below http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com/abovebelow Earth 2: http://www.amazon.com/Debrah-Farentino-Clancy-Jessica-Antonio/dp/B0009JE6G6/

What have we been reading / viewing / consuming?

• Helen: Last Chance Cafe; Above / Below; Plague of Angels; MS - Love and Romanpunk; Terminator 1 & 2; mainlining podcasts: Galactic Suburbia; The Writer and the Critic; Coode Street;
• Tama: Source Code http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/ , Dr Who BBC US http://doctorwho.tumblr.com/

News ‘n’ stuff

• Flip’s Demise http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/13/technology/13flip.html?_r=1&hp
• Social media for ‘da ‘yoof: New Facebook and Twitter accounts that put students in touch with Centrelink and Medicare information have been launched by the Department of Human services http://www.psnews.com.au/Page_psn2602.html  … http://twitter.com/StudentUpdateAU
• China Bans time  travel TV shows http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=3259Feedback
• SFnews - natcon50/swancon 36 coming up http://2011.swancon.com.au/

New(ish) segments
Helen’s Hell & Tama’s Torment (aka rant of the week) AKA The interwebs will eat itself?

• Creepy http://www.tamaleaver.net/2011/04/01/creepy-educational-tool-or-privacy-nightmare/

The Internet Will Save Us (Maybe!).

• Amazon Cloud Drive https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore

Stuff We mentioned

• Timetravel movie - Timescape (1992) (alt.title ‘Grand Tour: Disaster in Time’ in U.S.) with Jeff Daniels http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104362/    based on CL Moore story, “vintage Season” (1946)
• Spezify   www.spezify.com

Feedback
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• What media thingy (book, film, app) are you looking forward to or fearing the most to in 2011?

What did consume for the past three months?

• Helen: a lot of books. no, really a lot of books (brought to you by her new love, Goodreads): http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4740992?shelf=read&per_page=50 and Merlin season 3 (i know!); but Fringe was abandoned.
• Tama: Outcasts - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00x8fw4; Oscars Wrap-Up: Black Swan, King’s Speech, and NOT Tron: Legacy. Tama also became the proud owner of an  ANDROID smartphone, which he loves, but ROVIO should be punished for Angry Birds Rio’s Amazon US-Only release.

News ‘n’ stuff

• Latest issue of Transformative works and cultures out: special issue on fan  communities http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/issue/view/7 and the contraband incident: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/236/191
• Rebecca Black - ‘Friday’ - 40 MILLION views. (#31 US iTunes Singles Chart) - and the hater commentators. (Groundhog Day remix.)
• Australian Cyber/bullying - "Little Zangief" (Street Fighter) - and the hugely questionable “reporting” by Australian current affairs shows.
• Blog Worth Watcing: Minimal Movie Posters - http://minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com/

A Request for your Feedback
Your suggestions for new theme music for 2011 would be appreciated, as would suggestions for new segments and perhaps our questions for the week.  What would you like to hear us talk about? We’d love to hear your thoughts, so either leave a comment here or drop us a line at pangalacticinterwebs@gmail.com

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• Tama: Kermode and Mayo's Film Review http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00lvdrj
• wittertainment code of conduct: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/5live/2010/10/wittertainments-rules-of-cinem.shtml
• Helen: Galactic Suburbia http://web.me.com/aifinch/TPP/Galactic_Suburbia/Galactic_Suburbia.html

Year in review - Xmas viewing / watching/ listening round up

• Tama’s unrated gem of the year: Misfits http://www.e4.com/misfits/
• Helen - Alaya Dawn johnson - Spirit Binders triology and Moonlight http://www.alayadawnjohnson.com/; Tansy Rayner Roberts Power and Majesty http://tansyrr.com/tansywp/books/ ; N.K. Jemisin The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms http://nkjemisin.com/

Other stuff

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/harrypotterandthedeathlyhallows/mainsite/index.html
• True Blood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood
• (Looking forward to) Tron: Legacy http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1104001/combined

Wikileaks
the articles helen was going to talk about if we had talked about wikileaks properly

• the beginning: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/aug/24/assange-wikileaks-swedish-prosecutors-charges
• the bayesian view: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/a-bayesian-take-on-julian-assange/
• Doctorow on Klein - yes of course its political: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/12/14/naomi-wolf-on-rape-j.html
• but but but … feminist cautions: http://bitchmagazine.org/post/douchebag-decree-wtf-naomi-wolf
• http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2010/12/07/julian_assange_rape_accuser_smeared/

We’d love to hear your thoughts, so either leave a comment here or drop us a line at pangalacticinterwebs@gmail.com

*Happy Holidays!*

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• Kate Raynes-Goldie's web presence is www.k4t3.org and there you can find her post 'The Philosophy of Facebook (or, the real reason Facebook doesn’t care about privacy)'
• Tama Leaver's Flow TV column: 'The Anti-Social Network'.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, so either leave a comment here or drop us a line at pangalacticinterwebs@gmail.com

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