Episode 39
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23 March 2015
29 mins 17 secs
About this Episode
A weird Meerkat experiment in which Sam and Simon try live-streaming their conversation, and discuss how we act differently when we're being observed. It's all very meta.
Stuff mentioned in this episode:
- SxSW is happening, so expect new connected toilets any day now
- Actual meerkats, and why they're awesome, and why you should watch Meerkat Manor, a meerkat soap opera
- The Hawthorne Effect
- Selfie sticks
- The first rule of UX Design: "Don't Make Me Think" - hat-tip to Steve Krug
- Hearthstone
- Surgeon Simulator: the game, but more importantly, the videos of other people playing the game
- Sam's secret obsession with videos of people squeezing pimples (no link supplied, go Google it yourself YOU FREAKS)
- A 100 person LARP of Hamlet in Denmark
- AfrikaBurn and ephemeral experiences
- Why Ideocracy is wrong and people are actually getting smarter
- Snapchat Discover and what this means for how news is changing (again)
- Timeline, Vox and cribnotes for the news
- Blinkist, for 15 minute versions of non-fiction books
- Slack: the email killer
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