Looking to load your iPod with interesting content before the weekend? Check out the Social Innovation Conversation series, a project of Stanford’s Center for Social Innovation.

These podcasts feature social entrepreneurs – everyone from Jed Emerson discussing blended value to Ethan Zuckerman on “Why should we care about Africa?” (Side note – Ethan reports on the OLPC project at Worldchanging – a must-read). There are some great non-BOP offerings as well: Zack Warren, who recently set the World's Record for running the Philadelphia marathon – while juggling. I heard about the podcast series from Pablo Halkyard over at the PSD Blog; he mentioned that the World Bank joined the podcast world, too.

In an article published last month in the New York Times Magazine, Rob Walker explains how a group of hipsters are challenging consumerism by actually participating in it. As Walker reports, those who find a corporation’s business practices morally odious have turned to socially responsible brands and are now only consuming products made by these companies. “The marketplace itself is not the enemy in this situation” Walker writes, “it's a tool for expressing discontent.”

In the last several days we have talked a lot about our mapping project for the Inter-American Development Bank’s upcoming conference, “Building Opportunity for the Majority.” But as important as this conference is for the BOP, it should not overshadow other equally important events that we have penciled in on the calendar.