En iyi McGovern podcastleri (2024)

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Ben Schwarz: Is 5G a good thing or not? 56:48

10M ago56:48

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Ben's career spans IT to telecoms and the evolving media landscape. With a foundation in IT at Logica for a decade, he transitioned to being the CTO of a pioneering music start-up at the peak of the internet revolution. His journey continued at Orange for almost another decade, where he played a pivotal role in the convergence of telecoms with the …

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Vitaly Friedman 51:46

11M ago51:46

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Web design has rarely taken the environment into account. Over the last decade, web pages have become ten times bigger, and up to 80% of the weight of a particular webpage can be waste—content and code that is not required for the page to function. Do web designers and developers simply not care? Vitaly Friedman believes that they do care but that …

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Manuel Vexler: 5G: A symptom of the Growth Death Cult 42:03

1y ago42:03

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Manuel Vexler is the Executive Director at the Actionable Knowledge Foundational Institute (AKFI) and a Cornell Instructor and facilitator. He has a wealth of experience in leading and facilitating discussions on sustainability and digital transformation. Manuel believes that 5G doesn’t have a clear benefit and is rather a reflection of our growth-…

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Steven Gonzalez Monserrate 'Thirsty Data: Data Centers increasing impact on fresh water' 51:49

1y ago51:49

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Steven Gonzalez Monserrate is a postdoctoral researcher in the Fixing Futures research training group at Goethe University. As a graduate of MIT's History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society program, his dissertation project, "Cloud Ecologies", is an ethnography of data centers and their environmental impacts in the United States, Puerto R…

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Pietro Jarre ‘No such thing as sustainable mining’ 53:24

1+ y ago53:24

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Pietro Jarre has a doctorate in geotechnical engineering. He’s a specialist in geotechnical and environmental issues on waste rock deposits, mining infrastructures, landfills and brownfields. Since 2015, his focus is on the environmental and social impact of digital technologies. He’s founder of Sloweb association, something I’d highly recommend ch…

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Perk Pomeyie 'How bauxite mining destroys Nature and communities' 39:30

1+ y ago39:30

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Perk Pomeyie is a Ghanaian environmental activist from Accra, who is currently the National Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Environmental Movement-a leading youth-led environment and climate advocacy and campaign group in Ghana. I started by asking Perk to tell me more about how the youth movement works. https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-wa…

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Kaustubh Thapa E- waste : Ultimate Producer Responsibility 45:37

1+ y ago45:37

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People like Kaustubh Thapa give me hope. Kaustubh is finishing his PhD at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His collaborative research in Nigeria, China and Vietnam incorporates justice, equity, and sustainability for a fairer EU waste trade and a just circular economy transition. I starte…

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Dr. Melvin Vopson 'The environmental weight of data' 1:05:30

2y ago1:05:30

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Dr Melvin Vopson is a truly fascinating character and deep thinker. A physicist, he is the proposer of the mass-energy-information equivalence principle, has identified a technological singularity called the Information Catastrophe and has discovered the second law of information dynamics. Melvin is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of th…

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John Booth 'Data centers: Data theatre and the tsunami of frivolous data' 1:07:40

2y ago1:07:40

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John Booth is a well-known figure in EU data centre circles, primarily for his role as reviewer for the EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres and his work with the Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award. I started by asking John if he thinks data centers are doing enough to conserve energy, water and materials in this time of crisis. I gave an…

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Pat and Nuala Geoghegan 'Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural Ireland' 45:32

2y ago45:32

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Aluminum mining: jobs and death in rural Ireland Aluminum is a critical material for digital. Since 1970, there has been 559% increase in its mining. A typical smartphone can be 14% aluminum, while a up to 50% of a laptop can be made up of steel and aluminum. Pat and Nuala Geoghegan are farmers from Askeaton, County Limerick. Soon after the Aughini…

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Thea Kleinmagd 'Designing a smartphone that lasts' 39:34

2y ago39:34

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Thea Kleinmagd is a Circular Material Chains Innovator at Fairphone. When you are buying your next smartphone, please consider Fairphone. They make excellent, modular and repairable products that are built to last. I started our chat by asking Thea to describe the potential toxic impacts of some of the over 50 different materials found in a typical…

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Josh Lepawsky 'Pernicious myth of digital-as-ethereal' 1:00:27

2+ y ago1:00:27

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Dr. Josh Lepawsky is fascinated by connections between geography, technological systems, and their discards. He researches waste from the manufacturing of electronics to its end of life. He explores where e-waste accumulates and who it affects. He has a keen interest in “how maintenance and repair might offer lessons for figuring out how to live we…

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Gauthier Roussilhe 'The hidden costs of data centers' 50:38

2+ y ago50:38

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Gauthier Roussilhe has specialized in the environmental footprint of the digital sector for 5 years, and is certainly among the most knowledable people I have been lucky to chat with about these issues. He is currently doing a PhD at the RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) to explore which digital infrastructures and services are compati…

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Andy Farnell 'Perils of e-waste and benefits of being a digital vegan' 58:55

2+ y ago58:55

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Andy Farnell is a British computer scientist and author specialising in signals, systems and cybersecurity. His popular textbook "Designing Sound" (MIT) and pioneering research and development in audio DSP and synthesis defined the field of Procedural Audio. Consultant to leading technology companies, and visiting professor across Europe, Andy is a…

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Hannah Smith 'The hidden weight of code' 46:37

2+ y ago46:37

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Hannah is a freelance WordPress developer from Bristol with a background in Computer Science. Before freelance life, amongst other things, she honed her management skills at the Environment Agency, where she managed large business change projects. She’s co-founder of Green Tech South West and is on a mission to raise awareness about the environment…

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Sharon Richardson 'Blind belief in data and technology as bad as blind belief in belief.' 44:04

3y ago44:04

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'Earth Experience Design' course with Gerry McGovern Date: February 19 2022 Where: Online Tickets: https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022 About this episode Is technology a good thing? That was my first question I asked Dr Sharon Richardson, who is a senior scientist and lecturer in geocomputation at the University…

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Katie Singer 'The invisible, immaterial Internet is not what it seems' 52:29

3y ago52:29

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Earth Experience Design - Online training Course with Gerry - Jan 19 2022 https://www.thisisdoing.com/courses/earth-experience-design-january-2022 About this episode Some people live their ideas. Katie Singer is one of them. She writes about the energy, extraction, toxic waste and greenhouse gases involved in manufacturing computers, telecom infras…

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Anneli Ohvril 'Let’s talk about digital hygiene' 48:57

3y ago48:57

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If someone looked inside your computer or your Cloud account would they find a tidy, clean, well-maintained place? Or would they find a messy, chaotic dump. Imagine if old, waste content smelled. How smelly would your computer be? Anneli Ohvril is founder and CEO of Let’s Do It World, the international environmental organisation that engages leader…

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Virginie Guerin 'Digital hygiene: a recipe for cleaning up your digital life' 38:44

3+ y ago38:44

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Hear about the many digital sustainability initiatives that are happening in France from Virginie Guerin, an urban planner, who is co-founder of World CleanUp Day France. Learn about the recipe they used to get organizations and citizens involved in highly successful digital cleanup initiatives. Virginie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vir…

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Tom Greenwood 'Is digital the great accelerator of the climate crisis?' 49:19

3+ y ago49:19

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Join Gerry McGovern at the Doing Design Festival on June 18 / See http://www.doingdesignfestival.com The Website Carbon Calculator is a real go to tool for me when I want to find out how much CO2 a particular web page is creating. This, and many other great initiatives, comes from Wholegrain Digital, a company founded by Vineeta and Tom Greenwood i…

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Sarah Winters 'How COVID-19 drove panic publishing' 41:57

3+ y ago41:57

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When COVID-19 hit, many governments reverted to a panic publishing approach, getting as much content up on their websites as quickly as possible. Structure, organization, testing, it all got shoved aside in the rush to publish. Sarah explains how this sort of panic publishing culture can be avoided in the future because panicking serves nobody. Sar…

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Liam Nugent '99.9% of what you do is rubbish' 44:08

3+ y ago44:08

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When Liam Nugent closed down his digital agency he accounted for all the digital stuff they had created. Each employee was generating about 100 gigabytes of data a year. When they cleaned up all this data so as to give a quality hand-off to their clients, they found that 99.9% of the 8 terabytes of data they had created was useless. Buy the book by…

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Not Bad For A Christmas Special 29:29

4y ago29:29

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The gang are back with a Christmas special. Claire has had her baby, although it’s her alcoves she wants to boast about. And it turns out Geoff is a bit of a tinsel tart. Whereas Steph hasn’t even put any decorations up. They’ve got more work place funnies to tell you about and there’s even a bit of Strictly sparkle in the mix. P.S. This was record…

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Beth Stensen 'Netlife’s journey to be a Earth Experience digital consultancy' 37:12

4y ago37:12

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Netlife is one of Norway’s digital pioneers, having focused on usability and user experience when it was not exactly fashionable. Beth Stensen, their CEO, talks to Gerry McGovern about how Netlife is on a new journey which focuses on the Earth Experience. It’s exciting and challenging times. Digital can often accelerate very bad and wasteful human …

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Nick Evanson 'Big Data growth is not sustainable' 52:58

4y ago52:58

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By 2035, it is estimated that there will be more than 2,000 zettabytes of data produced globally. Based on current storage pricing, 2,000 zettabytes would cost $58 trillion to store. The global economy is currently worth about $80 trillion. The pace and quantity of data production is not even remotely sustainable. One zettabyte—just one zettabyte—w…

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Jono Alderson 'The unseen cost of poor web design' 49:22

4y ago49:22

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The growth in webpage size over the years has been astounding. It is driven by a culture of delivery, a project mindset, and a feeling that the Web is this unlimited space where you can essentially do anything you want without consequences. But good web design is a complex task that many organizations are either unwilling or unable to manage profes…

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Jared Spool 'We will run out of things. We will run out of time.' 1:07:52

4y ago1:07:52

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This episode was brought to you by https://www.thisisdoing.com - learn new skills in Design & Innovation via live online classrooms with the worlds best trainers Climate change is not seen by most as an immediate crisis, so we don’t act with urgency. The digital world is fairly blind to what needs to be done because in digital design we don’t think…

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Chris Coyier 'Easy to design, hard to use' 47:17

4+ y ago47:17

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This episode was brought to you by ThisisDoing.com Chris Coyier talks to Gerry McGovern about how many of the tools and resources out there make it easy for developers and designers to create bloated, heavy, energy-sapping digital designs. Chris says we need new thinking and new tools that clearly indicate when we are making design decisions that a…

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Shy Bairns Get Nowt 39:17

4+ y ago39:17

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Let’s be honest, when you listen to this podcast you never know what the 3 of them are going to come out with next. This week’s no different. With another batch of cringe-worthy tales from the workplace to get through, Geoff goes all shy, Claire weighs in on a heavy duty debate and Steph has that sinking feeling - and they all agree it's time for a…

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Scraps, Batter and Scrunchions 43:30

4+ y ago43:30

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This week our listeners tell us about the funny answers they’ve given to the most common job interview questions. This gets Geoff ranking his Robbies while Claire struggles to control her Buddha and Steph’s banging on about Bungle from Rainbow. The 3 of them have clearly lost it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Keys to the Door 45:37

4+ y ago45:37

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It's our 21st episode! And what better way to celebrate than by making an absolute almighty mess of it. The thing is... well, maybe you best just have a listen and find out, and have a guess at whose fault it was... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Private Parts 28:38

4+ y ago28:38

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If you get offended easily don’t listen to this week’s episode. Steph is not holding back with the x-rated stories from our listeners and their work-place shenanigans. It’s Geoff’s worst nightmare but Claire is the one who ends up leaving early. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Erika Hall 'Speed: the most important factor in the customer / user experience' 58:04

4+ y ago58:04

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This episode was brought to you by This is Doing - Design & Innovation Online Learning In this episode, Gerry McGovern speaks with Erika Hall from Mule Design. Gerry discusses with Erika if we've ruined web design, and if we have, what do we do about it? https://muledesign.com/speaking/erika-hall Buy Gerry McGovern's new book 'World Wide Waste' Sup…

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The Wrong Address 31:44

4+ y ago31:44

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Steph's got a job on her hands controlling her little fluff ball while Claire's busy fretting over her teenage Skips fiasco. All mixed up together with Barry's ostrich, Bev's paper round and Geoff's dodgy Yorkshire accent, it's another hilarious instalment of workplace mishaps and misunderstandings served up by the gang. Hosted on Acast. See acast.…

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Erudite 36:26

4+ y ago36:26

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When you go to work each day the aim is not to mess up.....but sometimes accidents can happen with hilarious consequences. This week our listeners' stories include tiger brows, cops facing cake fines, misplaced windows, incontinence wine and the great tale of the naughty scrubs. No wonder the gang are in meltdown. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pri…

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Camel Racing 37:02

4+ y ago37:02

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What connects a dirty sock, a nose bleed, some kids shoes and a camel race? Job interviews, that’s what. Claire, Steph and Producer Geoff discuss the latest listener horror stories, including the case of the flying pencil. Ouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Karen Peeters 'Discovering digital reliability and quality: the Toyota story' 17:06

4+ y ago17:06

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We need your support. Show some love by becoming a Premium Member. Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet and what to do about it. What is quality when it comes to web design, web development, web management? How do we know the customer is having a quality experience? How do we know as a web professional that…

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Foreplay 27:08

4+ y ago27:08

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The gang are through to the second round of interviews and things are only getting funnier. From role-play to roly-polies, the mishaps and miscommunications are enough to leave Steph in tears and Claire laughing all the way to the Beach Club. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Dead Leg 34:08

4+ y ago34:08

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Chronic dead legs, tumbling plants-pots and shadowy stationery cupboards - listener tales from job interviews have got the gang in bits this week.. Steph can't talk for laughing, Claire needs a lie down, and Geoff reckons it's the best episode yet. But what does he know? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Rambunctious 24:11

4+ y ago24:11

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After dissecting the newspaper headlines that came out of last week's episode and a row over who said what....the team talk cutlery chaos in the workplace. With over 50 stories sent in from listeners we find out that the emergency services are the Bermuda triangle for forks, there are building sites all over the country with spoon wars - and that C…

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Crab Sticks 26:46

4+ y ago26:46

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Just who is the crab-stick porn stasher? In an episode accidentally full of filth, a random chat about ‘misusing’ things at work leads to Steph’s story about the erotic office nanna, and Claire finally explains how the X-rated prep she did for Steph’s baby shower nearly ended up getting her the sack..... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for m…

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Sweaty Gruffalo 24:35

4+ y ago24:35

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With not enough sleep and too many shots at their work do, the team discuss funny things bosses have made their staff do. Steph’s all about bulls pizzles, Geoff’s ego is dented by a sweaty Gruffalo and Claire, well, she always makes a hell of an entrance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Eric Meyer 'Overcoming complexity’s invisible force' 1:07:52

4+ y ago1:07:52

1:07:52

Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. Eric Meyer is a passionate advocate of designing for humanity, of leaving no one behind when you create your design, of thinking deeply about how things work for everyone - not …

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Going Out Out 19:47

4+ y ago19:47

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The gang's off out on the tiles - pre-lockdown, obvs - but will Claire be able to stay on her feet for once? The lasses have got their bling on, god only knows what Geoff’s wearing. But first Claire needs to find somewhere to park. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Lovin' Love 21:13

4+ y ago21:13

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Steph's gone all Mills & Boon with mushy stories of work romance and Claire's in her element - nobody loves love like our Claire. Amour is in the air, but with resident whingebag Geoff on fine form there’s naff all chance of a happy ending. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Wonky Deirdre 24:50

4+ y ago24:50

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Claire’s gone full happy-clappy but Steph’s having none of it, while a fishy tale from Producer Geoff sees him facing a battering. More shenanigans from the workplace-in-lockdown from the three amigos. Namaste.. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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For Ruth 30:33

4+ y ago30:33

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Claire's rooting through the bin, Geoff's sticking his bit in and Steph's got a bad case of the Snumps - but who's got the best excuse for dodging the next online meeting? More laughter on lockdown from the team, but a tale too from the wards to put everything in perspective. This one's for you, Ruth. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more…

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Mullet 20:39

4+ y ago20:39

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‘Teacher, hairdresser, pet beautician....we’re all taking on second jobs we never expected to. As life in lockdown continues, Steph’s quiz-dodging is rumbled, Claire’s getting snappy with her delivery driver - and Producer Geoff can’t leave his penny whistle alone. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Jeremy Keith 'We've ruined the Web. Here's how we fix it.' 50:57

4+ y ago50:57

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Enjoy our content? Support This is HCD by becoming a Premium Member Welcome to World Wide Waste, a podcast about how digital is killing the planet, and what to do about it. In this session, I'm chatting with Jeremy Keith. Jeremy is a philosopher of the internet. Every time I see him speak, I'm struck by his calming presence, his brilliant mind and …

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Nessun Dorma 24:31

4+ y ago24:31

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After a busy week battling innuendo, Steph hopes for a smut free recording - but Claire has other ideas. Producer Geoff is bowled over by a sprout. And they all agree that no one wants to see the end of the rainbow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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