Internet
Feature Guest - Paul Fenwick
Australian Paul Fenwick, on getting more people involved in open source software and how difficult it is to have privacy in this high tech age. Audio
Photographer quits instagram after change to terms
The award-winning Hawke's Bay photographer, Richard Wood, says he is closing down his Instagram account after a change to the terms of service which lets the social media service, owned by Facebook… Audio
eBird.org
Citizen science meets birdwatching and technology on the eBird website. It's a massive online database creating a giant global birdwatching community that updates in real time. With Marshall Iliff… Audio
Urbanist - Tommy Honey
Tommy looks at the threat to traditional bricks and mortar university with the rise and rise of MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses. The idea started in Silicon Valley with two start ups offering free… Audio
Spam
Do you get spam? How modern day spammers are using social networks to harvest our personal data to make their requests so much more convincing, it's called 'spear phishing'. Finn Brunton has just… Audio
Quinn Norton
The US-based tech journalist and blogger is best known for her work covering the hacker collective Anonymous. Audio
One In Five for 12 May 2013
These days, you name it, the Internet has got it, but some people living with disabilities may only be enjoying a fraction of what's available. Katy Gosset gets on line with the Royal New Zealand… Audio
Tech news: the Bitcoin boom
Peter Griffin with bit and bytes from the hi tech world. This week, we look at the digital currency, Bitcoin. Audio
Timothy B. Lee : Bitcoin
Writer about technology and public policy for Ars Technica, and Forbes, discussing the rise of the new digital currency, Bitcoin. Audio
Aleks Krotoski: social interaction on the World Wide Web
Aleks Krotoski, Doctor of Philosophy in Social Psychology at the University of Surrey. She examined "how information spreads around the social networks of the World Wide Web" in her PhD. She has a… Audio
Tim Berners-Lee: the internet
Creator in 1989 of the World Wide Web, now a professor at MIT and the University of Southampton, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation. He visited… Audio
Susan Chalmers
Susan Chalmers from the non-profit organisation InternetNZ talks about possible changes the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement could bring to NZ copyright law, with a focus on the arts and creative… Audio
Online learning
First it was music and films, then journalism and shopping. Now tertiary education is set to be disrupted by the internet as many universities start putting their content online for free. Dennis… Audio
Ideas for 16 September 2012
MIT - which was ranked the world's top university by QS University Rankings earlier this week - has led the way in making its course work freely available on the internet. Audio
The Soup Hub
The Soup Hub's like a soup kitchen ladling out free access to computers and the internet for the homeless and the needy. With founder Sibylle Schwarz, volunteers Gaelyn Douglas and Don O'Neill, and… Audio
Vint Cerf
Famed US computer programmer Vint Cerf speaks out about the battle for control of the Internet. Audio
New Technology with Steve McCabe
Technology developments in education, and how to get schooled online. Audio
Virtual World with Jules Older
Topics, edX - a transformational new partnership in online education provided by MIT and Harvard universities and the 'Menubar Countdown'. Audio
Tech news: Spotify
Peter Griffin on the news that Spotify, the online music streaming service, has opened for business here in New Zealand. Plus why are people suing Facebook after its IPO last week? Audio
Google's privacy changes
Peter Griffin talks online privacy, and with Google changing how it collects data about you and what you're doing on the internet we ask what the changes mean for people using Google's services. Audio