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Trumix.com listings available of IT Conversations Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Jim Zemlin - The New Era of Linux During the first stage of Linux, openness and a superior development methodology created a new technology product that changed the world. The next stage will be a battle between two platforms and ideologies, with Linux representing openness and Microsoft representing closedness. Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation tells how Ubuntu is leveraging the strengths of the Linux platform while buttressing its weaknesses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Patterson - Valuing Content in a Web-enabled World With the web upending traditional distribution models, publishers need to understand how their content is valued by the audience. In this talk, Jeff Patterson, CEO of Safari Books Online, shares research on the information seeking habits of their client base of IT professionals. As users weigh the worth of information in exchange for their time, money and attention, publishers must grasp not just what is sold, but what is read, used and reused. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan Gerhart - As Your World Changes As macular degeneration erodes Susan Gerhart's vision, she's shifting into audio mode. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks about what she has learned about adaptive technologies, and ask her about her blog, As Your World Changes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nicholas Carr, Chris Meyer - Technology's Potential to Reshape Business Attempting to predict, or at at a minimum, anticipate how technology will impact business in the future, is a daunting task. It always has been. However, with the Internet, many consider the rate of change too rapid to even accept the challenge. None the less, there are still some who believe that there are precedents to understand hyper-change and guide our expectations. Controversial analysts Nicholas Carr and Christopher Meyer offer their theories on the implications for business after e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode Eleven - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff try to avoid talking over each other while discussing data generation, full text searching, cross-site scripting, Markdown, Microsoft's Silverlight, and how to get a job at Fog Creek software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Fling - Mobile 2.0 In a recent Business Week article, writer Olga Kharif discussed the changes to the mobile phone industry that will take place because of the iPhone. Brian Fling of Fling Media clearly agrees with Kharif's premise. In a discussion with Phil and Scott, he talks about his recent Web 2.0 Expo presentation and how he believes the everyday mobile phone user will be impacted by the iPhone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robin Hanson - Overcoming Bias We live in a world of cognitive biases and polarized opinions. We consider ourselves to be largely rational, yet we are often prone to systematic errors such as overconfidence, wishful thinking, and the attraction of strong opinions. This means decisions are often driven more by personalities and passions rather than technical merits. Economic theorist Robin Hanson explores common errors, and points to innovative tools such as prediction markets which can help overcome bias and promote tr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jean-Claude Bradley - Open Notebook Science Jean-Claude Bradley, an associate professor of chemistry at Drexel University, is a pioneering practitioner of open notebook science. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, Bradley explains to host Jon Udell that he believes scientific research happens better and faster when the entire process is transparently narrated online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode Ten - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the fine art of listening, source control, the risks of being an internal IT developer, and the state of current mobile platforms. Oh, and how to clean the toilet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tech Toys & Remote Telescopes - IEEE Spectrum Radio A high speed wireless network deployed throughout rural areas of San Diego county has changed both the quantity and quality of research done there. Most prominent is the repurposing of the Palomar telescope to rapidly respond to astronomical events. Following that is a review of some of the best tech toys of 2007. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rich Miner - Openness and the Future of Mobile Technology In this talk at the Emerging Communications Conference, Rich Miner, manager of the Wireless Platforms group at Google discusses the ways that increasing openness will bring an explosion of innovation in the mobile industry. Carriers, manufacturers, and software companies are beginning to open up the networks, technology, and business models, all of which is opening up new opportunities for entrepreneurship and services for consumers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Shuttleworth, Tim O'Reilly - Talking Ubuntu Mark Shuttleworth began Ubuntu in 2004 with a dedicated group of developers intent on creating a revolutionary new Linux desktop. Now, many in the Linux community are calling it the Linux desktop for real people. After three years of phenomenal growth, Shuttleworth sat down with Tim O'Reilly at the first ever O'Reilly Media sponsored Ubuntu Live Conference. During the interview, Tim asks Mark for insight into Ubuntu's meteoric rise and about key challenges for Ubuntu going fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Thiel - Financial Markets and the Singularity As we anticipate the possibility of a coming singularity, we ask "What shall our investments bet on and how will the financial climate differ?" Peter Thiel, investor and cofounder of PayPal, however, has a different view. He argues that singularity-like behavior is already here - as seen in the recent and seemingly accelerating cycles of boom and bust. In this talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit, Thiel discusses this and some unique strategies to manage risk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Mindell - Gravity's Rainbow David Mindell of MIT shares his experience with reading Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow. The novel, which tells the story of the design, manufacture, and use of the German V-2 rockets in World War II, shows the fruits of a complicated technical endeavor and contains symbols of bigger issues in society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Lee - Computer Modelled Biology Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peter Lee, CEO of UniServices, about the computers which model biology, some of which has reached all the way to Hollywood. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode Nine - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss Apple's WWDC (and the correct pronunciation of OS X), the use of JavaScript on modern web sites, affiliate programs, and much more. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Kaye - Happy Birthday, IT Conversations! On the fifth anniversary of IT Conversations, founder Doug Kaye joins Phil to discuss the past, present, and future of both IT Conversations and the Conversations Network. He reviews the technical aspects of how shows are assembled and also assesses the challenges with trying to produce quality programming in a non-profit environment. He also discusses how the Conversations Network will continue to evolve in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irv Shapiro - Phone Mashups Despite the increased visibility that the Web provides, many small businesses would rather receive a phone call from a customer than a page view or an email address. Irv Shapiro of IfByPhone demonstrates powerful, easy to create telephone services that take advantage of the ubiquity of telephones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rick Smolan - America at Home Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Rick Smolan, author of "America at Home," who tried to capture how Americans live through pictures of their homes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ewing Duncan - Funding the FDA On this edition of Bio-Issue of the Week, Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan discuss some interesting news from the United States' Food and Drug Administration. The US Congress believes the FDA is underfunded, but why might it need more money? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Ledeen & Harry Lewis - Blown to Bits Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis are co-authors (with Hal Abelson) of the forthcoming book "Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion." All three authors are veteran information technologists. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks to Ledeen and Lewis to reflect on the rapid and sweeping changes these technologies bring. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gerd Leonhard - The Next Stage of Online Music Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with media futurist Gerd Leonhard about the next stage of online music, and asks him to give a peek into the future of online media distribution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Barber - Comfortably Numb Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with psychiatry lecturer and author Charles Barber, who recently wrote "Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation." She asks him why Americans account for two thirds of the anti-depressant drug market. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 8 - StackOverflow In the first episode hosted by the IT Conversations, Joel and Jeff discuss Joel's keynote address at the recent Rails conference, the attitudes of some of those who don't use Macs, and Clay Shirky's recent book, "Here Comes Everybody". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Lemon - Bandwidth and Coming Exaflood Phil and Scott discuss the recent Telecosm 2008 conference, where attendees debated, discussed, decoded and deciphered the digital and communications technologies and policies vital to the build-out of the global Internet infrastructure. They also talk about a number of other topics, including Google's Android project and PlateSpin, a company that specializes in server consolidation and disaster recovery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stewart Kauffman - Reinventing the Sacred Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with biologist and author Stewart Kauffman, about his latest book "Reinventing the Sacred," which discusses a new way to look at science, the universe, and the mystery of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Kenyon - Ubuntu's Fierce Freedoms Lead to Striking Opportunities In this talk from the Ubuntu Live conference, Chris Kenyon of Canonical discusses the values of the Ubuntu project, the role of Canonical in promoting those values, and the importance of cultivating a partner ecosystem. What is already a successful project with millions of users and tens of thousands of contributors has the potential to be an even bigger disruptive force in the world of computing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel Discussion - 3D Data As the Geospatial Web evolves from two dimensions to 3-D we are seeing a host of rich new applications and uses appear. Six leaders in the field talk about the Geospatial web and 3-D applications, and how their individual organizations fit into the 3-D puzzle. Ranging from Tele-Atlas' creation of mapping data for GPS units through Microsoft's Virtual Earth on to Second-Life-like applications, this panel reports on developments at companies harnessing the explosive growth in availa ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Connected Innovators Showcase - New Business Ideas The Connected Innovators program showcases emerging technologies and new business ideas likely to make an impact on the networked future. After a competitive application process, Supernova's Kevin Werbach and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington invite a dozen top company leaders on stage to present their best, quick pitch. Then, a panel of start-up experts analyzes the offerings, judging their potential in the marketplace, and their meaning for the tech industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyler Whitaker, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Phoning Home Phil, Ben, and Scott are joined by Tyler Whitaker to discuss some of their current projects and activities. They first talk about alternate uses of mobile phones and how cellphone usage in other countries is quite similar to the United States. Scott then talks about the status of his work with Asterisk, an open source PBX, telephony engine, and telephony applications toolkit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Buckman - World-Changing Possibilities of Online Communication John Buckman founded Lyris, an email list management company, and more recently Magnatune, an online music service that uses Creative Commons licenses and pays artists 50% of its revenue. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Buckman about the common thread to his passion: the world-changing possibilities of online communication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wireless Innovation Panel - What will drive wireless innovation? In this panel discussion from the Emerging Communications Conference, experts from wireless carriers, application developers, and entrepreneurs discuss the potential, and the obstacles to wireless innovation. They present a range of viewpoints on topics from open networks to software for handsets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Wilson - High-Performance Computing Considered Harmful Greg Wilson recently gave a talk entitled High-Performance Computing Considered Harmful. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, Wilson explains why HPC can't be all about speed and power. Instead, we must also care, more than we have in the past, about human productivity, correctness, and reproducibility. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Cone - Power Lines: Words that Sell Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Steve Cone about his new book "Power Lines," in which he writes about words that sell, grip fans and sometimes change history. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Elaine Johnson - A Career in Biotech Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Bio-Link's Director, Dr. Elaine Johnson, about the easiest way to get a career in biotech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jimmy Wales - Free Culture and the Future of Publishing The explosion of free user generated content on the internet is both a threat and an opportunity to the traditional publishing industry. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, tells how his new company Wikia will "fill in the rest of the library" around the Wikipedia. Wikia is a collection of books, guides, and references much more thorough and exhaustive than the articles on Wikipedia and is creating new kind of content that has never been feasible before. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Voss - Increased Intelligence, Improved Life The goal of Artificial General Intelligence is to create a machine with the abilities to learn, use common sense, and solve general problems. And it must do this better than humans. Peter Voss has been working in AGI since the 90s and in 2001 started Adaptive A.I. Inc. specifically to develop a commercially viable AGI engine. In this talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit, he describes how AGI will be accomplished, what are the benefits, and projects a healthier, wealthier, and more moral wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Peyton-Jones - Transactional Memory for Concurrent Programming Software concurrency is hard to get right, and the main tools programmers have to deal with it are over 30 years old. Simon Peyton-Jones of Microsoft Research discusses a new technique called Transactional Memory that is simple to program and removes many of the possibilities for error inherent in traditional concurrent programming. Look for Transactional Memory to be more important as multi-core programming becomes standard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Glenn Zorpette - Reconstructing Iraq's Electricity Grid Reconstruction of the electric grid in Iraq is seen as the most important project in that country. Over $60 billion have been pledged, but even three years after the end of the war, there is still a long ways to go. IEEE Spectrum executive editor Glenn Zorpette discusses the progress and challenges, both technological and political, facing the reconstruction effort there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Arthur Benjamin - Secrets of Mental Math Mathematician, magician and lightening fast human calculator Arthur Benjamin delights and amazes the Etech crowd with some stunning numerical acrobatics. In an interactive, high energy performance, he demonstrates and explains the secrets of rapid mental calculation, providing a fascinating window into how the mind thinks. If you've been wondering how to square 73,542 in your head, be sure to listen through to the end of the show. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Shan Carter & Gabriel Dance - Enhancing Online News Content Shan Carter and Gabriel Dance create interactive graphics and multimedia for the New York Times. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks them to explain how some of their favorite projects were done, and discuss how these online tools enhance and contextualize the stories told by Times reporters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Hayes - Jump Point Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tom Hayes, author of "Jump Point," about how network culture is revolutionizing business in Silicon Valley. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Wilmut - After Dolly Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan interview Ian Wilmut, of the Scottish Center for Regenerative Medicine, and ask him about the progress which has been made since they cloned Dolly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Van Jacobson, Rick Hutley, Norman Lewis, David Isenberg - Does the Net Need an Upgrade? An esteemed and historic group of Internet professionals debates a compelling question: "Does the Net Need an Upgrade?" For some the answer seems elusive. What does it mean to upgrade something when it is in a constant state of change? For others, there are clear signals that strike at the root of the question and potentially deflowers it as worthy of debate. During the session the experts share their thoughts and examine pressing issues for everyone using the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mitchell Kapor - Open Source: The End is Not in Sight! The first generation of Open Source has been a wild ride unimaginable at the time it began. But Mitch Kapor, President of the Open Source Applications Foundation and chair of the Mozilla Foundation, thinks the end is not in sight and that we can influence the future of Open Source by our actions and contributions. Open Source has some great virtues that deserve to be spread through all of society, not just the computing industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Conference Travels Phil, Ben, and Scott discuss recent technology conferences. Phil talks about his visit to China for WWW2008, while Scott reports on the recent Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The group also has time to review other topics, including Wii remote programming using Java, using a cellphone to control realtime, multiplayer games, as well as Scott's video blog on QIK. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adam Jacob, Jesse Robbins - Automated Infrastructure In his recent presentation at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Adam Jacob talked about why a start-up needs an automated infrastructure. He covered the components necessary for any automated infrastructure to be successful and also presented use-cases. Along with Jesse Robbins, Adam joins Phil and Scott to talk about the automated infrastructure process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles Perrow - IEEE Spectrum Radio: Reducing Disaster Vulnerability According to Yale University Professor Charles Perrow, it is time to start learning from recent natural disasters in the United States like Hurricane Katrina. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Perrow asserts that instead of simply responding to natural disasters, we should be reducing our vulnerability to them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Greiner - A Look at MapQuest's Users MapQuest is one of the four leading map publishers on the Web. As part of its market research, the company conducted a customer survey on the Geo community with the aim of finding out what users truly want, as opposed to what they get. James Greiner, the company's Vice President and General Manager, summarizes the results of his survey into five simple principles whose usefulness cannot be exaggerated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lucas Gonze - Discovering, Sharing, and Experiencing Music Lucas Gonze founded the playlist-sharing site webjay.org, and currently leads the development of the Yahoo! Media Player. He's also an amateur guitarist who records and performs 19th-century parlour music. In this wide-ranging conversation on Interviews with Innovators with Jon Udell, Gonze reflects on the ways we discover, share, and experience music in the digital age. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Changing Biotech - Bio-IT World Panel Session Dr. Moira Gunn and David Ewing Duncan host a panel at the seventh annual Bio-IT World Conference on Changing Biotech. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website RJ Auburn - Creating Communication 2.0 Applications In contrast to the simplicity and ubiquity of the Web, developing telephony applications is complicated. RJ Auburn of Voxeo tells how their network interconnection stack will make it easier for developers to create new and creative telecommunications applications and gives a demo of how simple it is. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Janeway, Peter Bloom - Web 2.0 and Wall Street Many of the current attributes of Web 2.0 were first exposed in work done on Wall Street. Bill Janeway and Peter Blook, two Wall Street veterans, discuss some of the changes that have taken place over the last three decades in the investment banking and trading industries, like the shift from sales to use of proprietary information, the reduction of latency, and collaboration of ideas. The ideas in this discussion should give insight to anyone looking to the future of Web 2.0. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Janis Dickinson - eBird, Gathering World-Wide Bird Observations Janis Dickinson directs the citizen science program at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators with Jon Udell she discusses the lab's various projects. One of them, eBird, is an online system that gathers bird observations from recreational and professional birdwatchers around the world. Their efforts are helping scientists answer questions about the diversity and abundance of birds. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Hawkins - Why Can't a Computer Be More Like a Brain? Despite amazing strides, computers are still relatively poor at performing high level activities that come naturally to the human brain. Co-founder of Palm, Inc., Jeff Hawkins, describes recent breakthroughs in the modeling of brain functions based on the theory of Hierarchical Temporal Memory. New insights into how the neocortex supports cognition, inference and prediction can be applied to a variety of problems using Hawkins' Numenta computing platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Raymond Yee - Working with Data Sources Raymond Yee is a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Information and the author of "Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services." On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Yee about teaching students how to work with existing data sources, and on ways to expand the supply of available sources. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Roach - Science and Human Sexuality Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Mary Roach, author of "Bonk," and asks her how it is science and scientists go about the subject of human sexuality. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herbert Hauptman - Identifying Molecular Structures Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Herbert Hauptman, Nobel Laureate and mathematician, and asks how he and Dr. Jerome Karle opened a new era in research using data from crystallized material research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christian Gray, Craig Honick - Enterprise Social Software Enterprise social software is a term describing social software used in businesses and other enterprises. It includes such tools as blogging, people search, social network analysis, tagging, wiki, and collaboration/groupware. Christian Gray and Craig Honick join Phil and Scott to discuss their research. They define how ESS is different from traditional business models and why it is useful to study. They also discuss their initial findings and talk about how others can get involved. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eben Moglen - Licensing in the Web 2.0 Era In this philosophical discussion of principle and policy, Eben Moglen talks about the essence of GPLv3 and argues we've wasted the last ten years talking about open source without talking enough about freedom. There's a lot of work to be done on the distortion of the software market, prevention of monopolies, licensing and patents, and the correction of public policy to prevent the misuse of freedom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - Publishing in a Web 2.0 World Tim O'Reilly is known and respected in the technology community as a successful prognosticator of future trends. In 2004 he began referring to a variety of converging Internet trends as Web 2.0. While the phrase quickly became a lightening rod for attention and criticism, many believe that it accurately reflects a new wave of Internet innovation. In this presentation from the 2007 O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, O'Reilly turns his attention to how Web 2.0 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michio Kaku - Physics of the Impossible Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist and author of "Physics of the Impossible" about the improbable, and the very likely in the near future: phasers, force fields and time travel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Reinders, Dirk Hohndel - Exploiting Parallelism with Multi-core Technologies There has been a lot of talk about the difficulties of parallel programming, but Intel has decided to do something about it. Intel representatives announce the open sourcing of Threading Building Blocks, a product used to simplify parallel development. TBB has been around for several years as a proprietary tool, and Intel hopes that by opening it up, it will reach a broader audience and be adapted to more situations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Arbuthnott - Quakr: Building the World One Photo at a Time Quakr is building an on-line virtual world from user contributed photographs and metadata. Developer Peter Arbuthnott shares the inspirations for this project, and leads a whirlwind tour of its most compelling features. Given the converging advances in camera and geolocation technologies, and the interest people have in sharing their geo-coded photos on line, a fascinating 3D mashup is beginning to emerge. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deepak Singh - Web 2.0 in Science Deepak Singh is one of a new breed of life scientists who are bringing Web 2.0 methods to the practice of science. He co-founded BioScreencast.com, a site where scientists share screencasts that illustrate how they use bioinformatics software tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wagner Au - The Growth of Second Life Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Journalist Wagner Au, who embedded himself in the virtual 3D online world, Second Life, and talks about its incredible growth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. David Spencer - 170 Million People with Hepatitis C There appear to be a 170 million people in the world with Hepatitis C, and most people don't know they have it. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. David Spencer, from Biolex Therapeutics, and asks him how so many people could have Hepatitis C and not even know it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Werner Vogels - A Web-Scale Computing Architecture Developers are increasingly using Amazon, not only as a source of technical books, but also as a web services platform to build robust and scalable infrastructure. Amazon CTO, Werner Vogels, reveals how to make the most of the popular S3 service and uncovers some of the features underpinning the new EC2 (Elastic Computing Cloud) service. As a bonus for Conversations Network listeners, there's even a cameo appearance from our own Doug Kaye, who explains how Gigavox Media is exploiting t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Mobile Phones and Programming Ben Galbraith returns as co-host of Technometria and it gives Phil and Scott the chance to chat with him about recent travels and projects. Scott discusses his disappointing trip to the CTIA Wireless Conference. The group also discusses the iPhone and other current issues related to mobile devices. They also talk about Ben's recent work converting a COBOL application to a modern Java GUI, methods being developed to measure productivity, as well as issues with Python. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Hoffman - IEEE Spectrum Radio: King's Gambit On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, class A ranked chess player Paul Hoffman talks about his new book"King's Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game." Hoffman also discusses how he has been involved with chess, from playing in competitions, to using chess as an educational tool. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Liebhold - Myths and Promises of an Open Mobile Web Mike Liebhold has a dream -- a dream of a decentralized mobile web consisting of a mesh of distributed ad hoc networks. Realizing this dream could unleash a wave of creativity and new services, but there are powerful business imperatives holding it back. Is there a way out of this dilemma? Mike thinks there could be, and there are some compelling real world precedents that show how it can be done. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anthony Ravitz - Google's Solar Photovoltaic System Anthony Ravitz, Project Coordinator for Real Estate& Workplace Services at Google, talks about some initiatives undertaken at the company to foster a healthy and productive workspace. In particular, he focuses on the steps Google took in setting up solar power that it believes will last for decades and pay for itself in just seven years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Sigler - Infected Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Scott Sigler, who talks about his bioterror thriller"Infected." While it's based on the premise of a biological weapon on the loose, he's actually a modern day Charles Dickens. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Levy - The Best of Technology Writing 2007 Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Newsweek's Technology Editor Steven Levy, about the best technology writing of 2007, and how to submit your own work for 2008. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website KC Claffy - No Access To Internet Performance Data KC Claffy, the Principal Investigator and founder of Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), draws attention to a critical problem of the Internet. Maintenance of the robustness and stability of this critical communications infrastructure requires analysis of its performance metrics. The challenge - the empirical data required for such analysis is not accessible to researchers because of issues of Economics, Ownership and Trust (EOT). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Magid - Technology Current Events In his long career as a technology journalist, Larry Magid has written on many contemporary issues. He is also an expert on child online safety, particularly as it relates to social networking. He joins Phil and Scott to discuss his activities in making the internet less harmful for young people. He also talks about such current topics as net neutrality, solid state drives, and the potential of imap as a way to better control email. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jamais Cascio - Metaverse Singularity Technology is becoming more entrenched in every part of our life, and we need to be aware of where that might lead us. Jamais Cascio gives four possible scenarios based on whether technology is used to augment or simulate reality and whether it is internally or externally focused. Because of the human bias inherent in any technology, he argues that we need to democratically include all of the world's stakeholders to avoid having these scenarios become dystopias. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Libin - Personal Outboard Memory Phil Libin was the CEO of CoreStreet when he appeared as the first guest on Interviews with Innovators. Now he's back as CEO of EverNote, a company that aims to build the memex, or personal outboard memory, that Vannevar Bush famously imagined in his 1945 article"As We May Think." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Fred Krupp&Miriam Horn - Earth: The Sequel Today a complement of new energy technologies exist, but are they economically feasible? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn, from the Environmental Defence Fund, about their new book,"Earth: The Sequel." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Devra Davis - The Secret History of the War on Cancer The incidence of cancer today is vastly greater than a hundred years ago. To find out why, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Devra Davis, of the Center for Environmental Oncology, and author of"The Secret History of the War on Cancer." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Zimmerman - Ubuntu Technical Roadmap Matt Zimmerman delivers exactly what his title promises: a technical roadmap of where Ubuntu has been and where it is going. He discusses the collaborative development process, an overview of past and future releases, the expansion of Ubuntu from the desktop to server and mobile environments, and what's next for Ubuntu. Highlighting key features of the latest releases, this presentation will be of interest to existing Ubuntu users as well as anyone considering migrating to this popular ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joseph Smarr - Technometria In this edition of Technometria, Phil and Scott talk to Joseph Smarr, the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. Plaxo makes great use of AJAX in its product offerings and the conversation centers on techniques for overcoming cross-site scripting limitations along with performance considerations for Web sites making heavy use of Javascript. Finally the show ends with a discussion of the coming open social Web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Hanke, Bernhard Seefeld - The Evolution of the Geoweb Over the last year or two, the Geoweb has graduated from something that was off the side, to being at the centre of attention. In this presentation, John Hanke, Director, Google Earth& Google Maps, and Bernhard Seefeld, Geo Software Engineer at Google, open the lid on some of Google's new products in the Geo space, and advocate the need for open standards. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Spalding - Social Cataloging for Book Lovers Social networking is not just limited to making and maintaining personal and business relations. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with Tim Spalding, the founder and lead developer of LibraryThing, a popular service for cataloging, discovering, recommending, and discussing books, and people who love books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clay Shirky - Here Comes Everybody Social networking has been empowered by technology. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Clay Shirky, author of"Here Comes Everybody," about the power of organizing without organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karen Boezi - Investing in Neurotech On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Karen Boezi, partner at Thomas McNerney& Partners, about what makes neurotech such an attractive investment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jane McGonigal - Creating Alternate Realities If you haven't heard about ubiquitous games yet, now is your chance to get ahead of the curve. Jane McGonigal discusses this new genre of game that integrates alternate realities with everyday life. For developers of ubiquitous games, increasing happiness and the quality of life is the top priority. McGonigal cites some examples to illustrate the concept and challenges the technology industry to evaluate their own work in terms of the happiness it generates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Adler - Technometria: Data Governance Since data is the raw material of the information economy, it is increasingly important that it is properly controlled by organizations. Data governance is a quality control discipline for assessing, managing, using, improving, monitoring, maintaining, and protecting organizational information. Steven Adler, Program Director of IBM Data Governance, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the increasingly important issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Orban, Roberto Ostinelli - Technometria: Spimes Bruce Sterling suggested the creation of a new type of technological device, called "spime", that through pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track its history and interact with the world. OpenSpime, a project of WideTag Inc., enables individuals and corporations to better understand their environment, through the use of a series of GPS-enabled sensors. Co-founders David Orban and Roberto Ostinelli join Phil and Scott to discuss the concepts and technologies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Update from The Conversations Network - March 16, 2008 Doug announces a major new feature: the SmartPlaylist Manager. Now you can customize your Personal Playlist to receive and hear only the programs you select by keyword, series or channel. If you're a paid member, your Personal Playlist will automatically include the Premium Edition versions of our programs, and you can even subscribe to your Personal Playlist via RSS. Doug also delivers an audio version of his Algebra of Quality essay and announces new editorial policies guaranteed to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sam Adams - Superstition and Forgetfulness -- Two Essentials for Artificial General Intelligence In the quest for an artificial general intelligence (AGI), researchers should model their approach on human developmental psychology and neurobiology. Sam Adams of IBM Research led the development of an experimental AGI that would learn based on experience, bootstrap a mental model of itself and its environment, and cull associations that were poor predictors. He achieved impressive results by basing his architecture on the development of the human mind, the only successful path to human ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Bray - Showing Ruby Some Love Although Java remains one of the world's most popular development platforms, Ruby and Rails are picking up on a steep upward curve. Why then, should Sun shower its love on Ruby? In this keynote presentation, Tim Bray, the Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, covers a broad range of topics such as Sun's interest in promoting Ruby, the case for JRuby in the enterprise, the areas Ruby needs to improve on, features that may be good extensions to the Rails framework and Su ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website CTO Panel - Technometria Phil Windley regularly holds CTO meetings where IT professionals discuss current events in technology. In this show he talks with four individuals who work in and write about computing. The group reviews the current status of Twitter, whether companies are using blogging in useful ways, and other similar topics. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clean Coal, Google Going Solar & Super Cars - IEEE Spectrum Radio On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio: Energy and power. Hear how a Swedish energy company is burning Germany's dirtiest coal with clean emissions and testing a new way to reduce greenhouse gas. Learn how Google is using sunshine to power their search engine. Discover a car in Brazil that can run on almost any fuel, and how to build a super car that can keep up with an Italian dream machine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan York - The Black Bag Security Review "Practice safe VoIP," is Dan York's appeal to the new entrants in the digital telephony landscape. In a spicy, fictional anecdote, CISSP's Director of Emerging Communication Technology cleverly reveals the possible security vulnerabilities VoIP networks are amenable to. Like all happy tales, in the end, the bad guys lose; VoIP security tools are to the rescue. But in real life, Dan warns, the potential threats are only increasing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ward Cunningham - Interviews with Innovators: Creating Wiki Cultures On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with wiki inventor Ward Cunningham, who discusses the two most recent phases of his career. At the Eclipse Foundation in 2006, he pioneered a transformative new approach to making software-supported business processes transparently understandable both to developers and to users. Now, as CTO of aboutus.org, he's helping to create a new wiki culture for companies and organizations to explain themselves to the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luis von Ahn - Tech Nation: CAPTCHAs Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Luis von Ahn, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, about the origin of CAPTCHAs on the internet - those squiggly series of letters which help us prove we are human. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Terry Collins - Tech Nation: Endocrine Disruptors Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Terry Collins about endocrine disruptors, and a new technique used to take minute traces of these materials out of our drinking water. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Martin - BioTech Nation: Fighting Virulent Bacteria On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Avid Biotics' CEO Dave Martin, one of the many people looking to find solutions to rapidly rising staph infections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Shaver, Garrett Camp, Matthew Gertner - The Firefox Toolbar Ecosystem Extensions are small plug-ins that add functionality to Firefox, ranging from simple toolbar buttons to completely new features. In this panel discussion, strategists from Mozilla and two companies who've built successfully on the Firefox platform share their perspectives on the mutual benefits the extensions ecosystem provides. Through such openness, the browser continues to take a more prominent role in shaping the way users experience the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Gardner - BioTech Nation On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn takes a look at the state of BioTech in the world's largest BioTech cluster - the San Francisco bay area - together with BayBIO's Matt Gardner. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Lenczner - Interviews with Innovators: Community Wireless Michael Lenczner is one of the founders of Ile Sans Fil, Montreal's community wireless network which comprises over 150 hotspots and serves almost 60,000 registered users. By any standards the project is a huge success. On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Lenczner whether Ile Sans Fil has really enhanced community life in the ways the founders hoped it would. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download