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The pontificating

The gnashing of teeth

Articles, blogposts, interviews

All about the downfall of Gmail

The “I told you so’s”

The endless tweets

The endless texts

And in the end maybe we’ll all realize

That

“ish”

just

happens

Without a doubt this interview affected me down to my soul.

I had the opportunity to talk to Claudia Leimgruber-Neukom of Women’s Hope International about the work her organization does to educate women in Africa about obstetric fistulas.

A fistula is a hole that develops in the between the vagina and the bladder or the vagina and the rectum through childbirth injury or rape (warning: the rape details are harrowing). Due to the injury, the women can’t control their fecal waste or urine: The excrement comes out through their vaginas.

Due to the smell and stigma, women with fistulas (who are more often than not young girls) are usually banished from their villages, often to live out in the fields as beggars.

You can find the podcast here.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Paine a few weeks ago:

Thought of in the past as eccentric and impractical, the electric car is set to make a comeback and Chris Paine, director of ‘Who Killed the Electric Car’ says he couldn’t be happier.

You can find the podcast at ISN Podcasts.

From The Guardian:

Facebook intends to capitalise on the wealth of information it has about its users by offering its 150 million-strong customer base to corporations as a market research tool. The appearance, later this year, of corporate polls targeted at certain parts of the Facebook audience because of the information they have posted on their pages, is likely to infuriate privacy campaigners.

Last week Mark Zuckerberg, the company’s 24-year-old founder and chief executive, showed the audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos how the social networking site could be used to poll specific groups of users.

Read full story here.

Not that I’m shocked in the least.