Genre Technology Talk Show Country United States Home station WNYC Studios | Running time ca. 30 min. Language(s) English Hosted by Manoush Zomorodi | |
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Note to Self is a podcast hosted by Manoush Zomorodi that focuses on the impacts that technology has on everyday life. Before she began hosting Note to Self, Zomorodi was a television reporter for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Note to Self debuted in September, 2012 under the name New Tech City, and changed its name to Note To Self in 2015.
Contents
Note to Self is produced by WNYC Studios and releases new podcast episodes every Wednesday. A shortened version of the podcast airs Wednesdays at 5:50am and 7:50am on 93.9 FM and AM 820.
Format
Manoush Zomorodi describes Note to Self as "the tech show about being Human". The content of the podcast is a combination of facts and research as well as real life experiences and personal stories.
Topics covered range from racism on Facebook, to a neuroscientist's view on information overload, to a piece by performance artist Marina Abramović which involved an audience sitting in total silence wearing noise-canceling headphones for 30 minutes before a live performance of J.S. Bach's The Goldberg Variations.
History
Zomorodi has worked as a journalist for 20 years, and before joining WNYC, she reported for Reuters and the British Broadcasting Corporation. While working for the British Broadcasting Corporation, Zomorodi lived in Berlin for two years.
Note to Self debuted on September 10, 2012 under the name New Tech City.
On May 27, 2015 New Tech City changed its name to Note to Self, in response to listener suggestions. The name was inspired by the audience communicating to Zomorodi that they listen to the show because they are interested in the "purposeful use of technology."
Zomorodi is set to release a book entitled "Bored and Brilliant: Rediscovering the Lost Art of Spacing Out" with St. Martin's Press in late 2017.