Content Tagged “podcasting”
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John C. Dvorak Has Passed Away
I just learned that John C. Dvorak has died on Monday. JCD had a heart attack earlier this year, but he was doing much better and I just listened to the last No Agenda episode he recorded on Sunday (episode 1887) this morning, so this comes as a bit of a shock.
I will miss John very much. He was one of my journalistic heroes. He almost single-handedly alerted me to all the bullshit that goes on in Silicon Valley and that it wasn’t an exception, but rather the standard modus operandi in that part of the tech industry. Calculated to mislead the public by generating a lot of overblown hype to sell more product. John stood up to this crap for decades. He was one of the journalists who, through his work, encouraged my natural scepticism and my inherent tendency to always ask questions when everyone around me would just accept something. He taught me that this is a good quality in a journalist — and every other human being for that matter — one that we want to encourage, rather than an annoyance that is to be chastised.
We need more people like John C. Dvorak in this world, not less. People who want to get at the truth of the matter, rather than placate other people’s emotional or financial needs. His tendency to always ask the next question, to never accept conventional “wisdom” and to just be the one stubborn old man in the room (even when he was quite young) who will always take the more unpopular — but probably closer to the truth — side of the argument will be sorely missed. This is a bad day. For tech journalism and for the world at large. Goodbye, John. I know that, wherever you are now, the powers that be over there are not to be envied. Give ’em hell!
John C. Dvorak (1946 - 2026) — journalist, podcaster, curmudgeon (Photo: No Agenda)
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Radio Nowhere
Photo by Jay HeikeToday, I’ve launched a new weekly podcast I call Radio Nowhere. What is it about, you ask? Let me quote right from the website:
RADIO NOWHERE is a political podcast that promotes free thought and independent research. The show is hosted by tech journalist and writer Fabian A. Scherschel. It is recorded in his home studio and on the road and released weekly.
Loosely inspired by such shows as No Agenda and The Daily, I pick a political topic every week to discuss in-depth. Could be anything really. Something that happened recently, something from the past few years or a development that’s been going on for a while. If it’s interesting to me, I will probably talk about it at some point. The first episode deals with Trump’s Ukraine phone call and the impeachment inquiry it has launched.
As is always the case with my shows, you get ample show notes and access to all the sources I have used in producing the episode. I am trying to encurage people to do their own research, think out of the box and stop believing everything they see and hear. The show also lives and dies by audience participation, so please go have a listen and tell me what you think. Contact details are in the show notes. I hope you like Radio Nowhere and it can add something meaningful to your podcast listening.
At this point I would be remiss if I don’t thank Dan Lynch, who’s arranged and recorded the wonderful version of the song Radio Nowhere that I’m using as this podcast’s theme. It just works perfectly for the show, I feel.