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I miss IT Conversations. I should call Doug Kaye just to have him say "Sathyaish Chakravarthy" to...
read articlePodcast Queue Update
As of March 23 2011, here is where my podcast queue stands. I'm still working off the long baby listening layoff. I'm at a cool 10 week, 70 day backlog. Right now I'm listening to Good Clean Fun from January 12th. My trusty script that tells me the playtime of my queue just blipped under 16 days...
read articlePodcast Quality Vs. Engagement
A few years ago there was a blog frenzy on here about podcast production. I listened to a podcast where the host was demonstratiing how he made his show sound professional, with his Heil microphone and his compressor and effects chain. I listened to that show and in fact I thought that his show...
read article"You Can't Solve Business Problems with the Legal System"
I heard an interesting session from the O'Reilly Tools of Change conference via my IT Conversations podcast feed. One of Google's senior copyright lawyers William Patry spoke about how you can't use copyright law to solve your business problems - not by altering the enforcement of it or lobbying for...
read articleSaul Griffith on the Wattage of a Lifestyle and Energy Literacy
Perhaps my favorite presentation ever on IT Conversations is this session from ETech with Saul Griffith (presentation hardcopy here). He discusses some assumptions on how carbon dioxide levels could be stabilized at non-catastrophic levels and then what the energy requirements of the maximum average...
read articleThe Coup in America
I am tentatively pleased that the attempted coup in the United States of America, the one that would install Hank Paulson as acting leader of the American Junta, is running into problems. The first laugh I've had from the whole situation came from the image attached to this NPR story. I'm very proud...
read articleAround the Podosphere
Here's some more things of note from my recent podcast listening, as I slowly work off the backlog. Some of this stuff is a month or more old (some of it is years old but I'm just discovering it) but all good. I heard Justin Kownacki on MacVoices #676. In it, he was talking about PodCamp Pittsburgh...
read articleEGC Clambake For September 9, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for September 9, 2006. Today is a clip show and a live bootleg show. I play bits of other podcasts that have struck my fancy later and several songs that are freely available out there on the internet. I start with a song from...
read articleEGC Clambake For June 20, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 20, 2006. A spontaneous show! I play a song by the Decemberists; I play two snippets from the Web 2.0 conference panel on "Future of Entertainment" and throw in my commentary; I play a song by the Magnetic...
read articleBruce Sterling on the Internet of Things
I had previously blogged about and quoted bits of the Bruce Sterling "Internet of things" talk as it was edited and aired on O'Reilly's Distributing the Future. Yesterday I heard the full talk from IT Conversations which I found superior. It's a really good talk, and it made me feel better...
read articleFuture of Work
I heard an interesting talk on IT Conversations, Thomas Malone on the future of work. The basic thesis is that democracy is a function of the cost of communication, and that as communication costs dropped in society democracy emerged in governance. He posits that we will see democracy in business...
read articleVoices Lives!
Just when you thought Voices in your Head was defunct, out comes a new episode. In this I interview Scott Sigler about using podcasting to promote his books. Interesting...
read articleSeeing and Hearing
Here's some stuff lately that has interested me, bothered me or amused me in citizen media. Today's episode of Rocketboom mostly reruns this thing some guys in Berlin did where they stuck a projector outside a train and showed movies on the subway walls. Although the project is kind of cool, I think...
read articleClambake Episode for August 5, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 5, 2005. I play a song by Bullet Called Life and talk about them thanking me for playing them; I talk about the punditosphere as represented on IT Conversations; I play a bit from the "X-Rated Hour of...
read article2.0
In a weird coincidence, just this morning I was thinking about how annoying the "any frigging thing 2.0" nomenclature has become. Web 2.0, Life 2.0, My Left Butt Cheek 2.0, it has all become tiresome. Here is Tim Bray talking about the same subject. He seems to be approaching it more from...
read articleClambake Episode for July 9, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for July 9, 2005. I send out what cold comfort I can to our friends in London; I play a song by Nathan Sheppard; I play my interview with Rocket City Riot drummer Mark Reiter and this week's song; I play a promo from...
read articleI Interview Cory Doctorow
My interview with Cory Doctorow for Voices in your Head is now live. Enjoy! Because of the Cory's fame and the built-in BoingBoingability of interviewing him, without a doubt this will be the most listened to episode of Voices so...
read articleBloggerati
I've been blogging for almost three years and podcasting for almost a year now, but often I feel really disconnected from the "bloggerati" or whatever else you might call them. I'm not going to use the letter-grade rankings that I hate so much. When I listened to Halley Suitt interview Meg...
read articleClambake Episode for June 9, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for June 9, 2005. I talk about being low energy; I have a VOIP box in my house, named "the Batphone"; I play a song from Chub Creek about how poor I am at answering email; I talk about passing on the Spoleto festival;...
read articleRob Glaser on RealAudio
I listened to the Larry Magid interview with Rob Glaser of Real. They were talking about the tenth anniversary of streaming RealAudio. I'm pretty sure I heard Glaser claim that they were the first to do it, which is patently false. Both WREK in Atlanta and WXYC in Chapel Hill were streaming 6 months...
read articleDon Katz on Podcasting
Yesterday I listened to Rob Greenlee's interview with Don Katz of Audible.com. I remain kind of befuddled by Rob's approach to the podcasting world. He cannot talk about the subject without trying to point out that aspects of it existed previously, to the point that it has become a tic. It's like...
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