http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/?refid=0 A blog for conversation about the Minnesota Public Radio News program In The Loop. Copyright 2010, Minnesota Public Radio Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:24:29 -0600 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=4.21-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jeff Horwich Built our last In The Loop song from that phrase Sanden and I heard many, many times over the past two weeks. As I said on the podcast, you can feel patronized...or you can embrace it and feel better. This... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/last_tune_you_had_a_good_run.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/last_tune_you_had_a_good_run.shtml Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:24:29 CDT Jeff Horwich Time to call it, Doctor. Download MP3 (audio help) Featuring an interview with a South Pole blogger, a chat with the famous "Marc in Paris," podcasting wisdom from Sanden, a final song from Jeff, plus lots of Loop-love and a... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/the_last_show.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/the_last_show.shtml Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:02:08 CDT Jeff Horwich Could I ramble unproductively about this? You bet! So here's a handy FAQ to keep things under control: Q: Wait...you're really ending? When? A: We'll do one more show, probably coming out around March 19. Q: What??? WHY??? A: There's... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/in_the_loop_is_ending_there_i.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/in_the_loop_is_ending_there_i.shtml Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:27:37 CST Jeff Horwich * A talk with the creator of ChurchRater.com * Father Maurice Alvarado on the Chilean national character * Faron Williams with details of the revenge-fantasy also called the "Securities Transaction Tax" * Sanden stops by with odd things correlated with... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/the_chilean_priest_the_stubbor.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/the_chilean_priest_the_stubbor.shtml Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:11:35 CST Sanden Totten When the earthquake struck last week, it shocked the people of Chile. The looting that followed was also terribly shocking according to Pastor Maurice Alvarado. He described it as a "moral quake." Father Alvarado is a Catholic priest in Valparaiso,... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/one_pastor_describes_the_moral.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/one_pastor_describes_the_moral.shtml Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:52:08 CST Jeff Horwich A tune for the man of the week. Turned into kind of a gospel-y thing. Catchy, eh? ( Missed what this is about? http://bit.ly/aC1l0j ) Browse the NewsTune motherlode on our YouTube channel.... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/newstune_jim_bunnings_placed_a.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/newstune_jim_bunnings_placed_a.shtml Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:19:23 CST Sanden Totten In these days of Yelp and Angie's List, it seems like the quality of every business and service is up for debate. But there are certain things that you just can't objectively rate, right? Like art or affection. Well, how... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/rate_your_church.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/03/rate_your_church.shtml Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:25:51 CST Sanden Totten We just wrapped up our latest Starving Artist Interview. This time we spoke with singer / songwriter Heatherlyn. She graced our studio and even played us a couple of songs. Here's how it went down. Say, you want to hear... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/playing_your_heart_out_and_hop.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/playing_your_heart_out_and_hop.shtml Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:51:06 CST Jeff Horwich It's a big ol' episode, featuring Olympic snowboard racer (and first Eskimo Olympian -- we think) Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, an attempt to interview people using ChatRoulette.com, Sanden's Week In Geek, Congressional power expert Scott Adler, and our latest "starving artist," poet... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/a_singing_tiger_a_dancing_fren.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/a_singing_tiger_a_dancing_fren.shtml Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:42:16 CST Sanden Totten Some Winter Olympic Sports are calming to watch, like the graceful figure skating competitions or curling. Snowboard cross isn't one of them. It's an intense sport with fast action and quite often, a good deal of spills. So it makes... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/surviving_snowboard_cross.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/surviving_snowboard_cross.shtml Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:46:09 CST Jeff Horwich No time to listen to the 15-minute Tiger Woods apology speech? You're in luck: Here's a condensed version, buried in some kind of country song or something that I made up as I went along. If it feels like anybody... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/newstune_lyrics_by_tiger.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/newstune_lyrics_by_tiger.shtml Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:10:34 CST Jeff Horwich Sometimes my ideas are so stupid, they're awesome. I got the notion the other day to try to conduct interviews on the seedy distraction-of-the-moment, Chat Roulette. This is one of those interviews. Download MP3 (audio help) Note: Contains one borderline... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/the_chat_roulette_interview.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/the_chat_roulette_interview.shtml Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:06:48 CST Jeff Horwich This morning we talked with Minneapolis poet Cole Sarar about art as an (admittedly flimsy) financial safety net. As usual with these, we live-streamed it (thanks for the online questions, Marc!). Here you go: The interview includes two awesome readings... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/starving_artist_poet-slash-pho.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/starving_artist_poet-slash-pho.shtml Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:58:41 CST Jeff Horwich Welcome to the In The Loop "Member Drive" Experiment, Phase II. Last time around, all we could offer was a bit.ly link that made us feel good (130 hits -- that was awesome) but didn't tell us much else. This... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/psst_like_in_the_loop_want_to.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/psst_like_in_the_loop_want_to.shtml Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:01:00 CST Sanden Totten Learning to live without . . . With Jeff out of town, Sanden and Anna take over the show to bring you stories of "living without ____." Download MP3 (audio help) Listeners call in to talk about life without all... http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/learning_to_live_without.shtml?refid=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/loophole/archive/2010/02/learning_to_live_without.shtml Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:33:10 CST