Podcast Notes: Congo, Loudness Wars and Throwing Yourself at Men

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• Kenyan Blogger Daudi Were of Mental Acrobatics spoke to us about the recent violence (the interview is short because of a poor mobile connection - please visit his blog for more information)


• Award winning photographer and multimedia podcaster Marcus Bleasdale tells us about living in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Thanks Graham for the tip)


• Grammy Winning record producer/mixer Charles Dye tells us about the Loudness Wars and why lack of dynamic range is bad for music. Thanks to John Ralston for permission to podcast a clip of his music - which is, we should stress, filled with dynamic range. (Thanks to Vince for the tip!)


• Lilly McElroy an artist who throws herself at men, told us why


• Nathalie of Philobiblon with this week's Brit Blog Roundup (WARNING contains a mildly rude word if that sort of thing upsets you)


• Professor Rob Fergus, part of a team lead by Antonio Torralba that developed the 80 Million Tiny Images site, explained it to us


• And Jamillah Knowles with a report on Second Skin a film about virtual life

As an added treat the video below is by Turn Me Up and very clearly illustrates their side of the "Loudness War".

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