Outriders

Outriders is BBC Radio 5 live's programme dedicated to exploring the frontiers of the web. It is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night.

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Episodes

South by Southwest conference

This week Jamillah is at the South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas. Find out who she has been talking to and who else is in attendance at the festival that has been nicknamed Geek-Christmas.

Mar 15, 2011•23 min

Girl-tech

Jamillah has an all female line up talking about the Turing Papers, giving voice to the homeless of NY and how best to look at our digital future

Mar 08, 2011•22 min

Hacking

This week Jamillah turns to the murky world of computer hacking. Kevin Poulsen is no stranger to hacking and has a new book out called 'Kingpin'. He explains what it's all about.

Feb 22, 2011•20 min

Histories, stories and current tales

Jamillah is joined by Andrew Back and Chris Vallance covering open source hardware, worlds created online, marathons and eating well.

Feb 15, 2011•24 min

Outriders and Egypt

Jamillah talks telecommunications and translation with Rebecca MacKinnon, Brian Conley and Telecomix.

Feb 08, 2011•25 min

Mixed treats

Mozilla on security, Make: Live, a safe haven for kids and researching the Wow raiders.

Feb 01, 2011•25 min

Global web access

This week Jamillah talks to her former editor who is currently exploring online activity in Ghana as well as learning about life a 100 mega bits per second in South Korea. Quite the contrast.

Jan 25, 2011•27 min

This week Jamillah and Chris Vallance talk to Evgeny Morozov, author of the Net Delusion: The Darker Side of Internet Freedom. Taking a look at foreign policy, protest organisation and authorities on the internet.

Jan 18, 2011•24 min

Myspace and social media theatre

This week's topics - Social media theatre, fuss about tablets, global advocacy and the state of Myspace.

Jan 11, 2011•25 min

Outriders 2010 roundup!

Happy New year to our Outriding listeners and guests. Jamillah takes a look back at a year online and the voices from the digital domain through 2010.

Dec 31, 2010•50 min

Hackers, seniors and advent advice

Jamillah talks to Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600 about the word hacker and what it really means. Tony Page describes social networking for older folk and Josh Russell has an advent calendar full of digital anecdotes and tips.

Dec 21, 2010•24 min

Wikileaks so far and a little light mathematics

This week Jamillah and Chris Vallance tease out the strands of the wikileaks story so far and chat with experts on the real meaning of cyber war and the future of leaked documents. Oh - and there's a great song about maths too.

Dec 14, 2010•25 min

Virtually assisted!

Jamillah explores the text based world with a documentary maker, searches the voicemail inbox of the web and finds out more about the characters within her operating system.

Dec 07, 2010•25 min

How green is your computer?

How green is your computer and how can you find out? What's the secret of the Laughing Squid and how can you get across Britain for free? All these questions and more on this week's edition.

Nov 30, 2010•24 min

Technological needs

Jamillah chats to the founding executive editor of Wired magazine, and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogue; Kevin Kelly about his new book, "What technology wants" and not a terminator robot in sight.

Nov 23, 2010•23 min

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