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Cool Zone Media
Better Offline
Better Offline is a weekly show exploring the tech industry’s influence and manipulation of society - and interrogating the growth-at-all-costs future that tech’s elite wants to build.  Combining narrative-form storytelling, one-on-one interviews and panel-based discussions, Better Offline cuts through the buzzwords and obfuscation of the tech industry, investigating and evaluating the schemes and scams of everyone from cryptocurrency scumbags to the greediest of the venture capital elite. Tech industry veteran Ed Zitron and a dynamic coterie of guests will help listeners...
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Ratings & Reviews
4.5 stars from 439 ratings
Love the show, but….
This show is amazing. It is well researched and really opens one’s eyes to some of the issues that are facing our generation today. The biggest problem is they talk a lot about how our online environment is being used to data mine and feed us advertisements while a 30 minute show averages close...Read full review »
Wylesco via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/29/24
Great show
Very informative. Entertaining. I’m glad someone is speaking out about the crumbling tech field. I’ve learned a lot.
Multi-Dimensional Toolbox via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/28/24
Insightful, acerbic, and funny
Ed is one of the few tech reporters out there who is willing to be critical of the tech industry and actually bring the receipts. Not only that he is incredibly funny and a joy to listen to.
foidulus via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 10/24/24
Recent Episodes
Recorded live at Web Summit Lisbon, Ed Zitron is joined by William Lazonick, professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts, who is also the co-founder and president of the Academic-Industry Research Network, to talk about how the incentives of shareholder capitalism and stock...
Published 11/13/24
In this episode, Ed Zitron is joined by Mike Masnick, CEO and Founder of Techdirt, inventor of the Streisand effect, and member of the board of Bluesky to...well...talk about quite literally that. A banger episode. https://www.techdirt.com/user/mmasnick/...
Published 11/06/24
Published 11/06/24
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