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Martin Hepp - Using GoodReleations In this conversation with Martin Hepp, host Jon Udell explores GoodRelations, the e-commerce ontology that was also discussed in an earlier interview with Kingsley Idehen. When annotated using GoodRelations, pages describing products and services can be found and compared far more effectively than is possible on today's web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Downes - The Laws of Disruption In The Laws of Disruption, Larry Downes, author of the best-selling Unleashing the Killer App, provides an invaluable guide for these confusing times, exploring nine critical areas in which technology is dramatically rewriting the rules of business and life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 74 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates backstage at the Business of Software 2009 conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gunnar Hellekson - Open Source Principles and the Federal Government The Obama administration is trying to create a new model where governmental openness is the norm, and collaboration between the open source community and the federal government may be a key to its success. Gunnar Hellekson says that by encouraging the government to adopt open source practices, the open source community can help the government do its job better, to everyone's benefit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Richard Whitt - Tinkering without Tampering: Wrestling with Convergence and Communications Policy What are the key pieces policy makers must understand about the intersection of technology trends and digital economics to create broadband policies that make sense? What are the best roles of regulators, users, and industry in creating a rich environment for the powerful convergence of media and communications? Richard Whitt, Senior Policy Director at Google, provides a new framework for building better broadband policy in this Emerging Communications Conference 2009 presentation. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gavin Bell - Social Web Applications Gavin Bell's new book, Building Social Web Applications, synthesizes a wealth of practical knowledge gleaned from his own long career as a web developer and from interviews with fellow practitioners. In this conversation he reviews the key principles and patterns that define what we today call the social web but will soon simply refer to as the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ted Morgan - How Consumers are Really Using Location In this Where 2.0 talk Ted Morgan, co-founder of Skyhook Wireless, has three things to say about the explosion of location based applications: the breadth of apps now available is excitingly diverse (and he has examples to prove it), fascinating usage patterns are emerging (and he has the data and analysis to demonstrate it), and web developers interested in adding location into their websites should know about Skyhook's new service Loki. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carmine Gallo - Great Public Communications Skills Communications coach Carmine Gallo discusses his new book, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, in which he shows how people can improve their public speaking skills. He first presents an overview on why he chose Steve Jobs as a subject and continues with specific pointers and methods that anyone can use to communicate to groups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Armstrong - A Conversation with Lance Armstrong Seven time Tour de France winner and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong and serial entrepreneur Richard Rosenblatt have at least one thing in common: they both believe in social connections in social media. Rosenblatt interviews Armstrong at the 2008 O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference about how they connected, how useful and positive social media can be and how it can be spread across everything, including health and wellness issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 73 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the meaning of "professionalism" online, the divide between ad-subsidized and pay business models, and the five things everyone should hate about their favorite programming language. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Maass - Crude World:The Violent Twilight of Oil Peter Maass speaks with Moira about his book on the global state of oil, and how technology plays a role. Oil is central to our world, but what role does it play in violent conflicts and the divide between rich and poor? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Geddes - Where's the Money in Voice 2.0? There is big money to be made in the telecommunications industry by optimizing how businesses connect, interact and complete transactions with their customers. In his keynote address at the Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) 2009, industry futurist Martin Geddes shares his thoughts on how a complete transformation of the prevailing business model is needed in the telecom industry and how companies could take advantage of a new model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Palm Apps Ben and Dion join Scott and Phil to discuss their move from Mozilla to Palm. They review how Palm uses web technologies to build Palm Pre apps. They also assess developer programs and talk about Palm's to present examples of good ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Surman - Where Next for Openness? The web - vast, open, participatory, independent - is an unprecedented human construction. But could forces already be at work to rob it of its very essence? In this presentation from the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention Mark Surman discusses how this marvelous, open, self-governing resource - taken for granted by so many - may not stand the test of time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Po Bronson - NurtureShock Po Bronson talks with Moira about what science has learned about parenting. Co-author of NutureShock, which asserts that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring because key twists in the science have been overlooked. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marco Barulli - JavaScript Improvements Clipperz is an online password manager that knows nothing about you or your data, and transmits no secrets over the wire. How? In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Clipperz co-founder Marco Barulli explains that recent improvements in JavaScript engines have enabled a new generation of zero-knowledge web applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 72 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Jon Skeet, software engineer at Google London, and the first Stack Overflow user to achieve a reputation of 100,000. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sramana Mitra - Entrepreneurship Sramana Mitra believes in the importance of entrepreneurship to the world economy. As a writer and entrepreneur, she assists others in learning how to build an organization. She joins Phil and Scott to discuss her strategies. In addition to presenting her thoughts on entrepreneurship, she also offers useful details about how to create jobs, how to find money to fund company creation and some of the factors important for success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lance Hill - Health 2.0 There's a revolution in the way doctors and medical researchers share information outside of annual conferences. At Health 2.0, Scott speaks with Lance Hill, whose company, Within3, announced the first year-round forum for a medical society, the 11,000-member American College of Gastroenterology. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Perry Evans - Will the Promise of Location Based Ad Models Ever Get Off the Ground? Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, discusses the differences between the daydream of LBS advertising and the reality in this Where 2.0 presentation. If 'more precision is better', then highly targeted geographic advertising that location based services (LBS) and applications allow should mean greater returns for small businesses and application developers. Yet very few local advertising ecosystems have emerged, and Evans, with over 10 years experience in developing LBS application ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ray Anderson - Confessions of a Radical Industrialist Moira speaks with Ray Anderson, the founder and chair of the world's largest manufacturer of modular carpet. He discusses his book, "Confessions of a Radical Industrialist", and talks about his personal epiphany around the environmental impact of carpet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peggy Willcocks - The Parkinsons Pipeline Project Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Peggy Willcocks, a Parkinsons patient and advocate, about The Parkinsons Pipeline Project and helps those who wish to volunteer for scientific studies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 71 - StackOverflow A collection of clips recorded at the San Francisco DevDays conference including Joel Spolsky, Mark Harrison, Jeff Atwood, Scott Hanselman and Rory Blythe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Quinlan - Storage at Scale Google's web scale problems are too large to rely on physical hardware. In this talk from the 2008 Velocity Conference, Sean Quinlan of Google describes their software-based approach to reliably retrieving data that's distributed across millions of machines around the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris DiBona - Your Work in Open Source, the Numbers Everyone knows Google crawls websites - but did you know they also crawl your source code? Google's Open Source Programs manager Chris DiBona provides a quick but insightful look into the state of open source code on the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rob Shanks - ArcGIS and the Web: Better Sharing of Geographic Information Rob Shanks discusses web based GIS technology and the features available in Arc GIS online. Showcasing the free databases and webkits available within the online community for publishing and sharing data this short talk gives a small preview on the future of GIS within the cloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Maney - Trade-Off Moira speaks with Kevin Maney about the trade-off we make when we buy products. Are the products hip, cool, or high-quality? Or is cheap and easy more important? This is the subject of his book "Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 70 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss DevDays, the diversity of Stack Exchange sites, the debut of CVs and careers on Stack Overflow, and the viability of WiFi at tech conferences. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirk Hohndel - Intel and Open Source: Netbooks Built for portability, netbooks may represent the first computers conceived from the outset with Linux in mind. Intel's Dirk Hohndel describes the firm's strategic vision for Open Source using the netbook OS Moblin as an example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Debow - How to Get Honest Feedback How can you solicit honest feedback from friends and business associates? Rypple co-founder Daniel Debow says that his company's new service is the answer. It's quick, it's easy, and it's anonymous. It's true that online anonymity can often lead to trouble online. But Daniel Debow tells host Jon Udell that when used appropriately it can be a key enabler of interpersonal feedback. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Papadopoulos - Citizen Engineer Moira speaks with Greg Papadopoulos, co-author of Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. The book focuses on two topics that are becoming vitally important in the day-to-day work of engineers: eco engineering and intellectual property (IP). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eve Maler - User-Managed Access (UMA) Eve Maler discusses her work on User-Managed Access (UMA). In addition to discussing the concept of UMA, she gives examples of its use, as well as her work with the User Managed Access Working Group at the Kantara Initiative and how UMA relates to Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), part of the U.S. Government's work in overseeing the government-wide activities related to Cybersecurity and Identity Management. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Florent Stroppa - Creating New Opportunities from Android Openness Mobile application developers usually groan at having to support yet another operating system, so in this eComm 2009 talk why does Voxmobili's Director of Product Management, Florent Stroppa, applaud the arrival of Android? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Victoria Stodden - Reproducibility of Computational Science If you're a writer, a musician, or an artist, you can use Creative Commons licenses to share your digital works. But how can scientists license their work for sharing? In this conversation, Victoria Stodden -- a fellow with Science Commons -- explains to host Jon Udell why scientific output is different and how Science Commons aims to help scientists share it freely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell - Total Recall Moira talks with Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell about what it means to digitally record everything in our lives. The authors of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything discuss how new technologies allow average people to record their entire lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Bill Cheliak - Environmental Effects on Genetics Moira speaks with Dr. Bill Cheliak, Vice President for Business Development, Neurodyn about how the environment can affect genetics and contribute to disease. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 69 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Peter Seibel to discuss his new book Coders At Work, the effect of listening to music while coding, and the future of programming books. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lawrence - Fiddler Microsoft's Eric Lawrence describes Fiddler, his free Web Debugging tool that enables capture, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Lopp - A Brief History of Software In this OSCON presentation Michael Lopp, author of the blog Rands in Repose, takes a trip down memory lane to 1992, and brings a few lessons in software development back to the future. He discusses the well intentioned 'forces of evil' that can make us stray from the path of tight coding, and how, in software development, the small decisions are just as important as the bigger ones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stefano Mazzocchi - Freebase Much of the web's implicit connectedness is never made explicit because we refer to the same things in many different ways. In this conversation, Metaweb's Stefano Mazzocchi explains to host Jon Udell how Freebase reconciles web namespaces to expose useful connections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Reichs - 209 Bones Moira interviews Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author of the popular Bones detective series. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Drance - Cocoa Programming Matt Drance of Bookhouse Software discusses Cocoa, Apple's name for the collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X and also used for iPhone Apps. He reviews the process of developing for the iPhone, including some of the mistakes that software writers make. He also reviews the issues related to the recent Snow Leopard upgrade. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Allen - iPhone in Action: Web Development or SDK? There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apple's iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year, with either web apps or native programs using the iPhone SDK. In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Christopher Allen of iPhoneWebDev.com encourages developers to consider the choice a continuum and pick the right tool to create each individual program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 68 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss outsourced DNS, virtual machine "appliances", and programmers as library users versus library writers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Littman, Marc Hershon - I Hate People Moira interviews Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon about their book I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job. In it they have selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people likely to appear in the workplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Goldsmith - AOL Pagetest Improving performance is impossible without good measurements, especially on a complex platform like the Web. In this presentation from 2008 Velocity Conference, Eric Goldsmith of AOL demonstrates their browser plug-in AOL Pagetest, which gathers and displays data about web requests and page loading. It's an open source project for Internet Explorer 6 and 7 that combines the strengths of several other monitoring tools. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Geraci - DIY City: An Operating System for Cities From tracking flu outbreaks to traffic updates a tremendous amount of information available within a city is open to exploitation by savvy citizens. Adapting the decentralized chaotic morass of the Internet to the modern city John Geraci discusses adapting rich data about the city through the open source website DIYcity for citizens and city planners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hugh McGuire - BookOven Inspired by the success of LibriVox, a project in which collaborators record free audiobooks, Hugh McGuire has embarked on a commercial project: BookOven. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about how the new venture enables writers, editors, and proofreaders to work on long-form texts that can be published in traditional or new ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 67 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the ethics of Craigslist, the pitfalls of customer-installable software, and caching for anonymous web users. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Mooney - Unscientific America Moira interviews Chris Mooney, co-author of Unscientific America, in which he and Sheril Kirshenbaum plead for scientific literacy. The book lays the groundwork for reintegrating science into the public discourse. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russ McGuire - Cutting the Cord on Big Bell Dogma For over 100 years, telecom has been ruled with a monopolist mentality. Russ McGuire, VP of Strategy at Sprint, calls this the Big Bell Dogma and tells how mobile communications break the monopoly and will free us from the past. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ellen Miller - A Conversation with Ellen Miller Tim O'Reilly's advice: pay attention to the disruptive forces of Ellen Miller and the Sunlight Foundation. Why? Because, as Executive Director Miller explains in this Web 2.0 Expo keynote, the Sunlight Foundation is using the internet to create greater transparency and openness, and in turn greater accountability, in Government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kingsley Idehen - RDFa and Structured Data Kingsley Idehen thinks the semantic web should make us masters of our own search indexes. Structured data, in other words, is the new SEO (search engine optimization). In this conversation with host Jon Udell, you'll learn how a web-friendly format called RDFa, along with business-friendly vocabularies like GoodRelations, can help our personal and business About pages tell the world what services we offer, and what services we need. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Arthur - The Nature of Technology Moira speaks with Brian Arthur, author of The Nature of Technology. The former Stanford professor discusses his theory of technology's origins and evolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 66 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss reverse proxies, the pitfalls of self-support communities, and designing for engagement. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anup Murarka - The Open Screen Project Imagine a world in which a single runtime application dynamically publishes your content and services to the mobile, desktop and TV screens. In this eComm 2009 presentation Anup Murarka, Director of Technical Marketing for Mobile and Devices at Adobe, tells developers this dream is becoming a reality, thanks to the efforts of The Open Screen Project - an industry-wide initiative led by Adobe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - The O'Reilly Radar What's on the O'Reilly Radar this year? In this OSCON keynote Tim O'Reilly, co-founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media Inc., peers into the crystal ball to foretell a future of sensor driven interfaces combining with co-operating cloud databases; the unlikely emergence of Government as an ally of open data platforms; and a rethinking of Gov 2.0 as a platform and means for collective action. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ian Forrester - BBC Backstage BBC Backstage is the umbrella term for an evolving set of feeds and APIs that the BBC has been offering since 2005. Ian Forrester updates Jon Udell on what progress has been made, and what obstacles remain, as the BBC navigates toward its digital future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eddy Littler - Large Molecules Moira interviews Dr. Eddy Littler, CEO of DomaineX about the process involved in dissecting large, complex molecules. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zack Lynch - The Neuro Revolution Moira interviews Zack Lynch, co-author of the Neuro Revolution. The book reviews how history has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically transform how we all work, live and play. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Ellin, Doug Kaye - RPX and Identity Systems Brian Ellin from JanRain and Doug Kaye of the Conversations Network discuss some of the technical issues related to implementing OpenID and other identity systems. Doug first talks about some of the problems he experienced when trying to add OpenID to SpokenWord.org and how he was able to solve issues using RPX. Brian then gives the background of RPX and how it works compared to other OpenID implementations. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nat Torkington - Ignite Oscon What would you talk about if you had only 5 minutes? This group of talks from the first Ignite event at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention covers an eclectic range of topics, from hacking the Amazon Kindle to DIY wheelchair hacks to repairing a rigged election. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Hagel - Shift Index Report 2009 Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloitte's Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Belinda Clarke - Healthy Aging Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Belinda Clarke, Life Science Manager of the East of England Development Agency. She discusses the issues of biotech and healthy aging. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silona Bonewald - Data Ownership Silona Bonewald discusses the issue of data and how it can be used and shared. Beginning with how it is used or misused by banks, she reviews the problems of transparent vs. accessible data and talks about how defining the terms is likely part of the problem. She also discusses the concepts behind open government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Christensen - Codec Evolution and Industry Proposal Jonathan Christensen is Skype's General Manager for Video and Audio. Listen in as he discusses the history of audio compression, the human voice and Skype's new audio codec to be released for free. Achieving higher quality sound at a more efficient rate included partnership with hardware and software manufacturers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Silona Bonewald - Citability.org Silona Bonewald wishes that every government website would offer stable permalinks for all published documents. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, she describes her proposal for making that wish come true. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Douglas Rushkoff - Life Inc. Moira speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the role that corporations have started to play in every aspect of our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Malcolm Devine - Robust Plants Moira interviews Dr. Malcome Devine of Performance Plants, a Canadian firm that is tinkering with plants to make them more robust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 65 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss lessons from a year of building Stack Overflow, the mysteries of COBOL, some YSlow website optimizations, and magic numbers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen Elop - A Conversation with Tim O'Reilly For those who thought Microsoft had become a sleeping giant resting on the laurels of its popular Office franchise, Stephen Elop has news for you. In this frank discussion with Tim O'Reilly, Elop discusses Microsoft's intention to embrace interoperability and apply the results to its business model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Roettgering - The Economics of Mobility: The Communications Value-System at the Dawn of a New Era Is the traditional economic structure of the wireless communications space finally coming to an end? In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mark Roettgering, Lead Director of Corporate Strategy at T-Mobile examines the fundamental sources of value creation in the mobile value system and considers what changes are on the horizon. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simon Perkins - HTTPWatch HTTPWatch is a commercial add-in for Internet Explorer that provides detailed statistics on HTTP traffic. In this presentation from the 2008 Velocity conference, Simon Perkins of Simtec Limited demos HTTPWatch and outlines its key features, including the ability to see the effect of local caching and HTTPS traffic before it is encrypted. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sarah Dunant - Sacred Hearts Moira speaks with Sarah Dunant, the bestselling author of The Birth of Venus and In the Company of the Courtesan. Her new novel, Sacred Hearts, takes place in a 16th century Italian convent. The story helps to give a view of the medical science and technology of the day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Andrew Balber, Dr. Nicholas Goeders - Biotech Advances Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Andrew Balber, Chief Scientific Officer of Aldagen about the concept of banking mature stems cells, as well as LSU professor Dr. Nicholas Goeders about a new approach to treating addictions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 64 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the disappointment of Google AdWords, the difference in skillset between programmers and testers, and the value of standards groups to working programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brandon Martin-Anderson - Maps in Four Dimensions One drawback of most maps is that they only show two dimensions. In this program from Where 2.0, Brandon Martin-Anderson discusses examples of maps which attempt to depict events in three or four dimensions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cathy Marshall - Personal Digital Management Cathy Marshall is fascinated by how people manage, and avoid managing, their digital stuff. In this conversation with host Jon Udell she discusses her research on the efficacy of Flickr tags for image retrieval, and explains why we're rediscovering the virtues of loss and forgetting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sir Michael Rawlins - Health Care in Great Britain Moira talks with Sir Michael Rawlins, the chair of the United Kingdom's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence. He discusses how Britain makes decisions on how medical treatments are determined for individuals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lars Hansen - Corn Ethanol Dr. Moira Gunn discusses corn ethanol with Lars Hansen, President & CEO of Novozymes North America. He reviews how corn ethanol can affect the overall price of food. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 63 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the Mythical Man Month problem, keeping communication in check, Windows 7, and web scaling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Carges - Accessible Business "Code against the eBay and PayPal APIs; make money," is Mark Carges' message to developers. About eight years ago eBay realized that there was a huge business potential in providing an economic opportunity for developers to leverage their API. Today, there are 85,000 developers that code against the eBay developer API and make money; some of them make lots of it. Last year alone, the sellers on eBay sold $60 billion worth of goods worldwide, and developers who provided real v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Fontana - Interval of Interest and the Mobile Experience Like Wile E. Coyote running off a cliff, the banking, real estate, and other major industries in the U.S. are realizing too late that their inability to take into account changing demographics has caused the economy to suffer. In this program, Ed Fontana shows the need to look ahead and examine processes for ways to improve agility, and how focus on a specific interval of interest can improve mobile experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Harald Prokop - How to Accelerate Non-cacheable, Dynamic Sites Leveraging a Globally Distributed Platform In this talk from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, Harald Prokop of Akamai describes the design principles and architecture of the Akamai network and how it enables the Internet to deliver large libraries of HD content and accelerates dynamic transactions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael S. Dunn - Semantic Technology Conference Mike Dunn, a veteran technologist in the media industry, recently attended and spoke at the 2009 Semantic Technology Conference. In this episode he and host Jon Udell review the highlights of the conference and discuss some emerging practical uses of semantic tools and techniques. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bruce Jennett - Defining Biotechnology Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Bruce Jenett, Co-Chair, Global Life Sciences Sector of DLA Piper about his a definition of biotechnology that anyone can understand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Larry Lessig - Current Laws and the Internet Moira speaks with Stanford Law professor Larry Lessig about trying to make our old laws work with the new technology of the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Zimmermann - The Zfone Project Moira speaks with Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP, Pretty Good Privacy, the most-widely used email encryption software in the world. In his latest effort, the Zfone Project, Phil enables any two individuals to carry our a secure telephone call over the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 62 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss software updates, the power of APIs and plugins, and leading by example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Browser Wars Revisited Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer of Mozilla discuss the status of browser development, particularly as it relates to Firefox. They review a number of current open development tools as well as the specifications for HTML 5, particularly as they relate to video. They also talk about Google Chrome, both as a browser and an operating system. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Ann Cotter - Cooking Capsules and the New Digital Lifestyle Android is the new player in the smartphone segment and the Android Developer Challenge gave its winners cash and exposure from the launch of the platform. In this talk from 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Mary Ann Cotter, founder of one of the top 20 applications, Cooking Capsules, describes her journey from idea to launch and shares tips for mobile application developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Douglass, Steven Lees - XML iCalendar There's a new effort to define an XML representation for iCalendar, the venerable standard for exchanging calendar information. In this interview, host Jon Udell talks with the authors of the proposed specification -- Mike Douglass and Steven Lees -- about why it's needed, what kinds of problems it will and won't solve, and how the capabilities that iCalendar enables compare to those enabled by the newer CalDAV standard. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Fisher, Tony Cass - Nanotechnology Moira Gunn discusses nanotechnology with Dr. Mike Fisher of Bio Nano Consulting and Tony Cass, professor of chemical biology at the Imperial College, London. They review both its reality and its potential. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Lovelock - The Gaia Theory Moira speaks with author and scientist James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia Theory. Once controversial, it has reached mainstream acceptance, and he has more predictions now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 61 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Miguel de Icaza of the Mono project to discuss Mono, Silverlight / Moonlight, and the pros and cons of open sourcing your code. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael DeHaan - Cobbler Michael DeHaan discusses Cobbler, a Linux server that can be used to set up networks quickly. He gives the background of the project and reviews how it is installed and used. He talks about developing software in an open source environment. Michael also discusses where he wants to go with the project in future versions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luke Hohmann - Translating In-Person "Innovation Games" to On-Line Tools Luke Hohmann thinks teams should engage more productively and creatively in the product design and development process. His career commitment to agile methods complements his latest professional focus: Innovation Games, originally designed as in-person, goal-directed, serious games. Now, Luke is translating the games to a new, on-line, serious gaming platform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Carter - Fire Your Boss and Start Consulting There are many ways to go about consulting, but how do you do it, and how do you do it successfully? Engineer and consultant John Carter says most consulting companies fail because they can not attract the clients who need their services. Failed strategies include calling on their former associates, attending networking events, and cold calling, and waiting for the phone to ring. The key to successful consulting is marketing, not selling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rich Wolski - EUCALYPTUS - Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your Programs To Useful Systems Cloud computing can be a powerful tool in academic research but the costs associated with commercial implementations and the established hardware available at most universities has left a gap in the development of solutions for academic environments. Join Rich Wolski, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbra, as he discusses the challenges involved with building an open source project that gets scientists' heads into the (computing) cloud. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dara O'Rourke - GoodGuide.com Moira speaks with UC Berkeley professor Dara O'Rourke, founder of GoodGuide.com. He tells us what it takes to understand the impact of everything we use, requiring the tracking of the global supply chain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jay Keasling - Managing Malaria Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Jay Keasling, Professor of Chemical Engineering and BioEngineering at UC Berkeley and first recipient of the Biotech Humanitarian Award. They discuss the growing worldwide challenge of malaria and a completely new approach which may make it manageable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter O'Toole - Electronic Medical Records Can electronic medical records really help us deliver better care at lower cost? Maybe, says Peter O'Toole, but it'll require plenty of clueful cooperation between software and medical professionals. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses expert systems, knowledge representation, data interchange standards, and the subtle art of balancing constraints and freedom in the gathering of clinical information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Greenwood, Steve Sherwin - BIO 2009 In these two interviews, Dr. Moira Gunn reviews the recently concluded International Biotechnology Conference (BIO 2009). She first talks with former Congressman Jim Greenwood, the President of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, sponsor of the conference. She then speaks with Dr. Steve Sherwin, Oncologist & CEO of Cell Genesys and also incoming Chair of the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ewing Duncan - BIO 2009 Review Dr. Moira Gunn reviews the recently concluded International Biotechnology Conference (BIO 2009) with David Ewing Duncan, chief correspondent of Biotech Nation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Monty Widenius, Brian Aker - Open source cultures, the Sun/MySQL acquisition In the conversation with Tim O'Reilly at the 2008 O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Monty Widenius and Brian Aker discuss the integration of MySQL into Sun Microsystems. Some of the biggest surprises have come from watching the ways that MySQL's open source culture has spread throughout Sun's workforce, and into their projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jonathan Taylor - Tropo Jonathan Taylor's company, Voxeo, was started so that anyone could create applications for the phone. In this short program, Taylor introduces his company's new API, Tropo. With Tropo, developers will not be limited to XML based telephony but will be offered a core API that allows application developers to choose from five general purpose programming languages to write code in. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Portigal - "We did all this research ... now what?" User research often catalogs findings and implications, but stops short of generating specific design improvements. Designers increasingly involved with contextual research may find themselves holding onto a trove of raw data but with little awareness of how to turn it into design. Steve Portigal introduces a framework for synthesizing raw data into a fresh, contextual understanding of a customer's unmet needs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daniel Goleman - Ecological Intelligence Moira interviews Daniel Goleman about his new book, Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything. His book discusses the hidden environmental consequences of what we make and buy, and how with that knowledge we can drive the essential changes we all must make to save our planet and ourselves. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Coles - One Drug Pharmaceutical Companies Moira Gunn interviews Dr. Tony Coles, President and CEO of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, about the challenges to a company that depends on a single drug for business success. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Helvarg - The U.S. Coast Guard Moira talks to author David Helvarg about his book, Rescue Warriors: The U.S. Coast Guard, America's Forgotten Heroes. He tells the story of the Coast Guard and how their missions range from saving fishermen in the icy waters off Alaska to rescuing thousands in the wake of Katrina. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website JJ Bienaime - Orphan Diseases Dr. Moira Gunn talks to JJ Bienaime, President & CEO of BioMarin Pharmaceuticals about the problem of orphan diseases, diseases not yet under research by pharmaceutical companies because of a lack of financial incentive to market new medications for treatment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 60 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the value (or lack thereof) of meta-discussion, how much "big iron" popular websites need, and whether code forking is sometimes inevitable. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sheeri K. Cabral - How to be a MySQL Community Superhero Even without deep technical knowledge or a fat Rolodex, you can be a community superhero. In this talk from the 2009 MySQL Conference, Sheeri Cabral, the 2007-2008 MySQL Advocate of the Year, shares some pointers on things anyone can do to help the technology and community of your favorite open source project. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Hastings - Cancer Stem Cells Paul Hastings, president and CEO of Oncomed Pharmaceuticals, discusses the controversial topic of cancer stem cells, what he calls the root of the tumor. He also talks about how his company is working with other pharmaceutical companies who are helping with Oncomed's biotech work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geoff Nunberg - Talking Dangerously Moira speaks with Fresh Air commentator and linguist Geoff Nunberg, who discusses his book The Years of Talking Dangerously and assesses the impact of words in a dynamic, changing world. In the book, he explains why grammar buffs are drawn to sarcasm, and deftly unpacks the telling phrases of our national conversation, from progressive to elite to change, as well as the national conversation itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Kelly - Believing in the Impossible It's been approximately 6,500 days since Tim Berners-Lee created the first Web page. In such short a time, the Web has achieved far more than could be thought of at the time. What will the next 6,500 days bring us? Noted author, and former editor of the Wired magazine, Kevin Kelly, speculates on the future of the Web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Kessler - The End of Overeating Moira speaks with former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler about his book The End of Overeating, in which he discusses what has been invisibly added to the American supply, leaving some of us obese, and many of us, unexpectedly overweight. He tells us the science behind what happens to our brains when we eat food laden with salt, fat and sugar. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Gardner - California Biotech Companies Moira interviews Matt Gardner, President & CEO, BayBIO, the Northern California Life Sciences Organization, about the organization's the new free online Impact 2009 Report about all the biotech companies in California and everything they are working on. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rory Cooper, Jim "Oz" Osborn - Quality of Life Moira speaks with Rory Cooper and Oz Osborn about quality of life technology. The Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) who's mission is to transform lives in a large and growing segment of the population, people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 59 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Damien Katz to discuss non-conventional databases, non-conventional programming languages, and taking on non-conventional programming projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dave Winer - Tweeting the News Dave Winer discusses how Twitter and other social networking tools are changing the way that people read and react to the news. He talks about how the new ways to keep track of events have changed over the years and how these new methods are also likely to change. He also reviews his work in Twitter stats and what we can learn from them as well as where things may go next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Bergelt - Open Invention Network The Open Invention Network is a collaborative enterprise formed to promote Linux, and protect the open source community from the threats of patent assertion and litigation. Keith Bergelt's job as the CEO is to ensure that the edges of this network are not intruded upon, and that the self-regulatory nature of open source has an opportunity to spread beyond Linux and the 300 plus programs that exist today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Heinemeier Hansson - Rails 3 and the Secret To High Productivity Ruby on Rails has been around for five years and three major versions, and while many small things have changed, the major principles are still the same. In this talk from the 2009 RailsConf, David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Rails, lists some of the things that failed to "kill" Rails, the philosophy and details of the upcoming Rails 3 release, and the key to productivity in software development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Willmott - Online Data Access There's growing awareness of the need to publish data online, and to support programmatic access to that data. In this conversation, host Jon Udell talks with Steven Willmott about how his company, 3Scale, helps businesses create and manage application programming interfaces to their data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 58 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss HTML encoding, designing "safe by default", whether a question can be too simple, and the art of beta testing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sachin Agarwal, Garry Tan - Posting With Posterous As more individuals have an online presence, developers continue to come up with new ways for people to post items. Sachin Agarwal and Garry Tan discuss Posterous, a rich microblogging platform. They talk about how the service was developed, the architecture of the process, and the security methods in place to protect people. They also review their business model and their product roadmap. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Diedrich - Mobivox CRM Launch Voice is the most natural, comfortable form of communication, but most customer interaction is done through text. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Peter Diedrich of Mobivox describes their new voice CRM platform that improves customer satisfaction and retention by including sales messages into typical customer interactions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alexander Saint-Amand; Thomas A. Desmond - Social Networks and Financial Markets Alexander Saint-Amand and Thomas A. Desmond describe how their firms use social networking techniques to meet the unique challenges of investment research and online trading. Saint-Amand explores how Gerson Lehrman Group qualifies & engages a global network of experts. Desmond details how TradeKing uses community features and user-generated content to change trading from a solitary experience to a social one. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Ruthfield - Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation Scott Ruthfield describes Jiffy, a new open source performance measurement tool for measuring true client-side performance of web sites. Ruthfield identifies the components of website performance problems and the decision process that led WhitePages.com to develop their own solution. Jiffy's goals, components, and a sample implementation provide a thorough introduction to the toolkit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 57 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the relationship between speed and skill, iPhone development, and the value of programming fundamentals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Toeman - Protecting Your Digital Assets What happens to your online assets when you die? How can you make sure that your family can gain access to your digital identity? Jeremy Toeman, founder and CEO of Legacy Locker, talks about how the company has developed a way to protect your online assets. He discusses the background of the service and the information Legacy Locker is meant to protect, as well as examples of the kind of options users have, as well as the security issues included. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dirk Hohndel - Moblin, Linux for Next Generation Mobile Internet If you're looking for a Linux initiative that is truly open source, where you can download the source, contribute without censorship, and drive the project, check out Moblin.org. The Moblin project was conceived in order to drive innovation on the new breed of Internet-enabled mobile devices, to foster community participation, and to avoid locking into a proprietary platform. Dirk Hohndel, the helmsman, woos open source developers to take this platform to its next level by participatin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Vik Chaudhary, Abelardo Gonzalez - Keynote Internet Testing Environment Today there are tools for testing web applications, but they are difficult to use, costly, and poorly integrated with web browsers. In response to these limitations, Vik Chaudhary and Abelardo Gonzalez of Keynote Systems announce their new web testing product, the Keynote Internet Testing Environment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Madsen - Using Open Source BI in the Real World As Business Intelligence becomes more and more popular as a way for companies to achieve an advantage, some companies ahead of the curve are adopting open source BI software. Analysts have not been positive in their predictions of open source use, but they may be mistaken. Mark Madsen describes the results of his study showing who is using open source BI software, why they're using it, and what the benefits are. His results indicate that while open source BI is not widely accepted yet, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 56 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Jason Calacanis to discuss the business side of software, including Mahalo's "Skee-Ball" economy, when VC funding is appropriate, and whether SEO matters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website George Reese - Cloud Applications Cloud computing has become the most discussed methods of infrastructure deployment. George Reese, author of Cloud Application Architectures, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the style. In addition to giving an overview, he reviews the specific issues related to it, including storage options, security and privacy, and how to deal with disaster recovery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Siminoff - Frictionless Mobile Services with GRID.com Anyone who has developed applications for mobile phones knows that dealing with the phone companies takes much longer than writing the software. In this presentation from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Jamie Siminoff announces the launch of GRID.com, a service made to replace the tedious one-off negotiations over services with a frictionless, pay-as-you-go model. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Douglas Rushkoff - How the Web Ate the Economy and Why This Is Good for Everyone Capitalism and society have developed the way they have over the last several hundred years because of a few outdated assumptions. In this presentation from the Web 2.0 Expo, author Douglas Rushkoff explains how currency and corporations have warped society and how the internet has given us a chance to make a living by creating value sustainably. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jamie Heywood - PatientsLikeMe.com At PatientsLikeMe.com, people share data about their illnesses, the drugs they're taking, and the effects (and side effects) of their treatments. In this conversation, co-founder Jamie Heywood tells host Jon Udell that selling this data to drug companies is more than a good business. It aims to put patients into more direct contact with those companies, and help ensure that drug discovery and development meets their needs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 55 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss killer IDEs, how much interview feedback is appropriate (for both parties), and how to teach young programmers who think they know it all. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Coleman - Green Data Centers Data centers are becoming more costly and complicated, and that rate is only going to continue increasing. In the presentation from the O'Reilly Velocity conference, Bill Coleman describes the unsustainable path data centers are on and the ways that they can be managed in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Callaghan - This is Not a Web App MySQL is not quite ready to run enterprise scale Internet applications, but Mark Callaghan and the MySQL team at Google are working on addressing its shortcomings. In this presentation from the 2009 MySQL Conference, Callaghan describes some of the requirements that Google's scale creates, the improvements they have made to MySQL, and their open questions to guide future development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Ackerman; Eric Christiansen - Sure, Data, Data Everywhere, But Is Any of It Any Good? In the current web-based data explosion, buyers and sellers of financial data are struggling to stay relevant and ahead of the competition. What data matters any more? What doesn't? How do you know? Where do you look? Keith Ackerman and Eric Christiansen answer these questions during this talk from the O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Rodenbeck - Data Visualization Stamen Design's data visualization projects bring a Tuftean sensibility to the realm of fast-moving realtime online information. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, founder Eric Rodenbeck talks about how his studio creates interactive experiences that enable people to ask, and answer, unforeseen questions. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 54 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss bespoke software development, URL routing, the God Algorithm, and getting your database under version control. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine Peterson - Open Source Physical Security: Can We Have Both Privacy and Safety? Christine Peterson is a founder and Vice-President of Foresight Institute, and focuses effort on educating the public on nanotechnology issues. In this emotionally-charged presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Peterson lays out the potential privacy concerns of using nanotechnology and closed-source software to monitor for a future terrorist attack. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Malcolm Matson - The Battle to Win LOCALnet Neutrality Entrepreneur and evangelist Malcolm Matson traces the evolution of today's captive network access model and describes the nature of an intriguing alternative: the open public local access network. Matson posits a simple, but profound question: will our conversations be truly ours, or will they be subject to the governance of a monopolistic access provider whose interests may not align with our own? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Otellini - Enterprise Collaboration Intel has built its business by creating new markets with advanced technology. In this talk from the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference, Paul Otellini talks about Intel's plans for the next few years. He says that two major businesses that will be created are enterprise collaboration and the personal internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Philip Rosedale - Virtual Successes and Failures For Linden Lab's founder and chairman Philip Rosedale, the open-ended social experiment that is Second Life doesn't end at the borders of the virtual world he envisioned and brought to life. The company itself is an evolving social and organizational experiment. In this conversation, Philip Rosedale tells host Jon Udell how mechanisms like the Love Machine and the Rewarder have succeeded -- or sometimes failed. And he discusses the ways in which Second Life supports the decentrali ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Leinweber - If You Had Everything Computationally, Where Would You Put It, Financially? Quantitative analysis of market data produced great returns in the past, but what should computing power of the future be used for? In this presentation from the O'Reilly Money:Tech conference, David Leinweber of UC Berkeley explains how the future edge in financial markets will come from extracting information from online textual sources like news and reports. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 53 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Wil Shipley of Delicious Monster to discuss the shifting sands of Apple and Microsoft APIs, the value of software development conferences, intuition versus empiricism for developers, and"parrot programming". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dan Bricklin - Bricklin on Technology Dan Bricklin discusses his new book, Bricklin on Technology, in which he talks about the human aspect of technology: how it is created, how it is used, and how it evolves. He talks about how the book came about and how he decided what content to include. He also reviews the particular issues in trying to adapt a book for the Amazon Kindle. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawrence Lessig - Trust and Independence Only 9 percent of the electorate thinks the U.S. Congress is doing a good job. Lawrence Lessig talks about the damage that arises from politicians focusing on raising funds to get themselves reelected. This constant attention to making money feeds the Washington 'economy of influence'. The morally destitute behavior, foretold by Thomas Jefferson in The Founders' Constitution, undermines the trust of the electorate in the institution of the government. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Fowler - Innovation That Drives Opportunity for the Web Infrastructure New Web software applications perform and are used differently. Consequently, the hardware and infrastructure of yesterday is insufficient. In this presentation from the O'Reilly Velocity Conference, John Fowler of Sun Microsystems discusses the new Web application architecture components that Sun is working on, and how they work with the latest Web software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Glazer - Google and OpenSocial: Let's Get This Shindig Started David Glazer says that people are the killer app of the web. That is, finding ways to connect people easily and seamlessly is the next great wave in computing. There are barriers to overcome, but the desire to see it happen is great. In this presentation Glazer offers a snapshot of how we got to this point and where things will need to go from here. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judith Orloff - Emotional Freedom Moira speaks with UCLA psychiatrist Dr. Judith Orloff about the psychology and biology of our emotions. Orloff discusses her book Emotional Freedom, a road map for those who are stressed out, discouraged, or overwhelmed as well as for those who are in a good emotional place but want to feel even better. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Damien Conway - Temporally Quaquaversal Virtual Nanomachine Programming In Multiple Topologically Connected Quantum-Relativistic Parallel Timespaces...Made Easy! In this humorous talk from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Damien Conway combines quantum mechanics and general relativity with Perl to write code that executes in constant time, zero time, and finally backwards in time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 52 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the launch of Server Fault, how you determine if your code is smelly (or just aromatic), how programmers learn by doing, and how good ideas are too crazy to copy until it's too late. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doc Searls - Reframing the Net: Moving Past the Language and Concepts of Telecom Language is the way we understand things. In his 2009 Emerging Communications Conference (eComm) presentation in San Francisco, widely-read blogger, columnist and open source advocate Doc Searls examines how we talk about the Internet and how we can move past the outdated language and concepts of the telecom industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joan Peckham - Computational Thinking for Everyone In this conversation with Joan Peckham, host Jon Udell continues a discussion about computational thinking that began in an earlier episode with Jeannette Wing, who now heads the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. Joan Peckham, who is on leave from teaching computer science at the University of Rhode Island, is working with the NSF to define and promote computational thinking as an intellectual style that everyone can usefully le ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Artur Bergman - Importance of Operations and Performance Artur Bergman, VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia, talks about what it really means to be a player on the Internet. Bergmen believes that here is a real value in reliability and operations that is not always clear to the service providers. Operations is as much a part of the brand as the content. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summit on Grand Challenges - The Big Ideas Panel Moira speaks with a panel of nationally-recognized engineering deans and professors, eliciting big ideas to meet the National Academy of Engineering's grand challenges. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craig Wheeler - Biologics Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Craig Wheeler, CEO of Moementa Pharmaceuticals, who discusses biologics and the new biosimilars bill in Congress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 51 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Joel's business partner Michael Pryor to discuss the wonders of the Computer History Museum, the value of meta, the D.I.Y. ethos, and whether studying black hat techniques is important to programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tony Hsieh - Building A Brand That Matters Under Tony Hsieh's leadership as CEO, Zappos.com has grown gross merchandise sales from $1.6 million in 2000 to $840 million in 2008. In this presentation at the Web 2.0 Conference, Tony Hsieh talks about his initial business background and how those experiences influenced him to focus on corporate culture. He discusses why he thinks culture is so important, and provides numerous examples that reinforce the importance of culture at Zappos. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Messina - DiSo and The Web Citizen: Distributed Social Networking Starts Here Chris Messina has been an advocate of an open, social Web for many years. In this talk at the Graphing Social Patterns conference, Chris outlines potential problems with the current "walled garden" ideology of the major social networks and how the DiSo project aims to tackle them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John J. Barton - Profiling Dynamic Web Applications with Firebug You know you've been there! You're pulling your hair out trying to debug some Javascript code that's making your company's home page crash, but you just can't find the error. Before you end up bald, or balder, then maybe Firebug can offer some help. With a powerful, yet easy-to-use web-site inspector, Firebug can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. In this session John J. Barton demonstrates Firebug's JavaScript performance analysis and debuggin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Irish, W. James Au - Geo-location and Gaming Do virtual worlds provide us the best tool to learn about the real world? While geo-location technologies let us create and play GPS-enabled adventures in the real world, they also allow us to simulate and model real physical geography within the virtual worlds of MMO's. Jeremy Irish, CEO of Groundspeak, and W. James Au describe how the latest geo-location applications are expanding the pathways between real and virtual geographies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlie O'Donnell, Hilary Mason - Path101.com When the economy turns sour, websites for job seekers and career changers become more popular then ever. At Path101.com, the tagline is community-powered career discovery. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Path101's CEO Charlie O'Donnell and Scientist/Data Wizard Hilary Mason discuss how the site's users contribute data about themselves, learn about one another's career trajectories, and connect with recruiters. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alan Boss - The Crowded Universe Moira speaks with Dr. Alan Boss about his book The Crowded Universe and how NASA's Kepler Mission expects to discover possible life-supporting planets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ewing Duncan - A Personalized Medicine Project Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Ewing Duncan about his work in trying to help develop a personalized medicine project. He talks about how it is possible to have a project in place within ten years, using the human genome project example, where scientists worked together on a worldwide basis to accomplish a complex task. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 50 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Steve Yegge to discuss his JavaScript compilation project, a generalized "Google-y" approach for plugging language support into editors, and the overall importance and philosophy of language tooling. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jason Hall, Clint Savage, Will Smith - Regional Tech Communities Three participants in the Utah Open Source Foundation discuss how smaller local computer user groups can build into organizations that reach people in larger areas. They give some background about the foundation and talk about how the Utah Open Source Conference has become a useful way for interested participants to get more involved. They also review some useful methods to start a conference and how best to grow it from year to year. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rocky Nevin - Human-friendly Computing through Natural Language Inferencing Today's human-computer interaction paradigms are not enough; they are clunky and not very efficient. We should instead follow Mother Nature and approach it in a more 'neural-like' way to make the human-computer interaction experience as smooth and natural as possible. Robert Nevin believes he has the right tool for the job at hand and introduces his take on this exciting field. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ed Humes - Eco Barons Moira Gunn interviews Ed Humes, Pulitzer Prize winning author, about his book Eco Barons: The Dreamers, Schemers, and Millionaires Who Are Saving Our Planet. The book features profiles of visionaries who have dedicated their lives and their fortunes to saving the planet from ecological destruction. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Doerr - A Conversation with John Doerr John Doerr discusses a range of topics including technology policy in the new Obama administration and his thoughts on the economy and the effect on innovation. He also gives specific advice for startups in the current economic climate. He also talks about recent VC investment direction in the Internet and green technology, the importance of the iPhone as a platform, and includes specific examples of companies and technologies to watch for in the near future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Kemper - Optimizing Performance Jeremy Kemper, one of the largest contributors to the Ruby on Rails framework, talks about various techniques to improve performance in this presentation at the O'Reilly European Rails Conference. This is a must-listen presentation for anyone who is interested in optimizing the performance of Rails-based web applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Thompson - Going Global Moira speaks with Scott Thompson, the President of PayPal. He tells us what it takes to make PayPal global. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Joe Miletich, Carlos Riva - DNA Technologies, Ethanol Usage Moira interviews Dr. Joe Miletich, Senior Vice President, R&D, Amgen, about how new DNA technologies are changing on-going scientific studies. She also speaks with Carlos Riva, CEO, Verenium Corporation, about how ethanol is moving from small farms to full commercialization. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 49 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff, with guest Alex Papadimoulis of The Daily WTF, discuss the distinction between IT/sysadmins and programmers, online justice for webforums, user-friendly IDs for databases, and the future of software distribution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cydni Tetro - The Scrum Methodology Cydni Tetro of NextPage discusses the Scrum methodology of software development and how it is used at her company. She talks about the various phases and the responsibilities of each person on the development team. She also talks about the use of Twitter in marketing, as well as the role of women in the technology industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michel Bauwens - Middle Way Between Open and Closed Economic activity is now driven by creativity. More value is created by communities than by companies, but much of this value is not monetized. In this talk from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Michel Bauwens of the P2P Foundation discusses the balance between openness and proprietary in a world ruled by community participation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charlene Li - The Future of Social Networks We play many roles in our daily lives: colleague, friend, parent, consumer, family member. Yet, says Charlene Li, our multidimensional lives are not currently accessible or integrated in any significant way. In this presentation Li discusses what she sees as the future of social networks, where the media we use will both reflect and inform the lives we lead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erin Kenneally - Online Forensics When a crime occurs in cyberspace, how do you cordon off the scene and process the evidence? Erin Kenneally is a lawyer who helps law enforcement agencies think about forensics in a connected world. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, she discusses how existing practices do -- and don't -- translate to the online digital realm. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Alva Noe - Out of Our Heads Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Alva Noe, author of the book Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, in which he challenges the assumptions underlying neuroscientific studies of consciousness. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Ewing Duncan - Experimental Man Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Ewing Duncan, author of the book Experimental Man: What One Man's Body Reveals about His Future, Your Health, and Our Toxic World, in which he became the ultimate guinea pig, putting every aspect of his physical makeup under the microscope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 48 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss planning your career, the importance (or not?) of localization, what makes a good moderator, and dealing with programmers who lack interpersonal skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Timothy Fitz - Continuous Deployment Timothy Fitz joins Phil and Scott to discuss the concept of Continuous Deployment in software development. He believes that it is better to send out constant small changes, allowing for problems to appear quicker and be solved easier. He gives real world examples of how the process works and also talks about the concept of Lean Startup and how it relates to Continuous Deployment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nathan Eagle - Inference in Complex Social Systems Nathan Eagle describes the research he has been conducting with mobile phones beginning with his PhD program at MIT and since. The work has included analyzing data coming from mobile devices in order to model and predict social behavior. For the past two years Eagle has been teaching mobile phone programming in computer science programs in Africa. He presents his case for the mobile phone industry paying more attention to the huge market in the developing world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Seth Grimes - Business Analytics Seth Grimes is a business intelligence expert with a special interest in text analytics. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he discusses how a new breed of tools is enabling companies to build"voice of the customer" applications that extract useful signals from the noisy chatter that's erupting everywhere online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cliff Reid - Large Scale Genome Studies Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Cliff Reid, Chairman of Complete Genomics about DNA data and large scale genome studies. He discusses how his company's high quality, affordable DNA sequencing enables commercial-scale research of the genetic mechanisms underlying drug responses and complex diseases. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Dychtwald - With Purpose: Going from Success to Significance in Work and Life Moira speaks with psychologist and author Dr. Ken Dychtwald, about re-writing the script for aging, especially in these economic times. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rajesh Jain - Made In India, Made For The World The market for Internet and mobile use is growing at a rapid pace in India, which makes it ripe for solutions aimed at its unique population. Rajesh Jain is at the forefront of this growth, seeking out ways to reach as many users as possible. In this presentation he outlines how his companies address cost and complexity issues in Internet usage, and how mobile data is being used to reach more subscribers than ever. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Cramer - Blogs, Boo-yah, and the Future of Financial Media Jim Cramer, co-founder of TheStreet.com, talks about the democratization of financial data access and its impact of on the investment landscape. He discusses how the information advantages that once underpinned hedge fund activities have given way to a freer flow of data. Cramer dissects the fate of players that failed to grasp the significance of the changes caused by the web. He also shares why he regards tech stocks as poison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mario Livio - Is God a Mathematician Moira speaks with Astrophysicist Mario Livio, who asks and answers the question: "Is God a Mathematician?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Holaday - New Drug Applications Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with John Holady of QRX Pharma. He reviews the company's work in creating new applications for old blockbuster drugs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Rasiej - Rebooting America Andrew Rasiej is a social entrepreneur who believes that the abundant connectivity we're creating and experiencing can transform education, politics, and society as a whole. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he discusses several of the projects he has founded, including MOUSE, an educational non-profit that helps students computerize and network their schools, as well as the Personal Democracy Forum, a way to allow technologists and politicians to explore connected information a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 47 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss Eclipse, plugin architectures, sketching mockups, and optimizations that don't optimize. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Heinemeier Hansson - Legacy Software Legacy software is usually seen as a burden, but in this talk from RailsConf Europe, David Heinemeier Hansson flips that idea on its head. In order to recognize bad software, you have to become a better developer, so if your old code is "legacy", that means you have progressed. Legacy should be a badge of honor. After discussing the concept of legacy code in general terms, Heinemeier Hansson does some detailed analysis of his own old Rails code. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert "r0ml" Lefkowitz - Exceptional Software Explained: Embrace Error At some point while trying to get companies to adopt open source practices, Robert Lefkowitz realized that there was no specific open source software development methodology. In this presentation Lefkowitz discusses how he used Quintilian's Institutes of Oratory as a starting point to establish a framework for software development. With humor and insight, he outlines issues specific to open source, and shows how companies can create exceptional software by embracing a process where err ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rohit Shukla - Biotech Startups Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Rohit Shukla, CEO of the LARTA Institute. He discusses how some governments are helping struggling biotech start-ups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phil Windley - Contextual Browsing This week host Jon Udell interviews IT Conversations executive producer Phil Windley. His new company, Kynetx, provides structured, contextualized browsing experiences. In this interview Phil explains how Information Cards, jQuery, a universal browser extension, and a cloud-based ruleset work together to connect otherwise isolated web episodes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 46 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff record a podcast in front of a live audience at MIX09. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl Malamud - Public Printing Carl Malamud discusses his campaign to be appointed as the Public Printer of the United States. As the head of the Governmnent Printing Office, he would continue the work he has done at Public.Resource.Org, where he has made easily available millions of pages of government documents, as well as video and photographic material. He also assesses the work necessary to include more material on government websites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adrian Cockcroft - Millicomputing Adrian Cockcroft has coined the term'Millicomputer' to cover any computing device that uses less than a watt of power; small enough to fit in your pocket, cool enough not to burn your leg. In this presentation, he takes us on a tour of the amazing technologies that already exist and gives us a glimpse of where this rapidly developing area of technology might take us next. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Stonebraker - Data and Capital Markets Changes in the size, speed, and capabilities of databases underlie every major technology change in capital markets. Investors want to store more, do it faster, and be able to compare the present to any arbitrary period in the past--and do it all in real-time. While that has never been possible, entrepreneur and computer scientist Dr. Michael Stonebraker gives a talk about data, traditional database vendors, the next generation of database engines, and what it all means--on and off Wall Str ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Shuttleworth - Free Software and Wealth Creation There is an interaction between changes that happen in technology, changes in economics, and changes in society. The software industry is at the heart of these fundamental economic and social changes. More than any other time in history, software matters. In his keynote speech at the 2008 O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention (OSCON), Ubuntu founder and Open Source guru Mark Shuttleworth discusses how free software is the best way to drive wealth-creating opportunities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Turner - Geospatial Design Neocartography, neogeography, the geospatial web: These words and phrases evoke the unfolding drama at the intersection of physical and virtual space. Andrew Turner is in the thick of the action. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he discusses GeoCommons, pocketmaps, collaborative data curation, and the evolution of design in a world of networked spatial and temporal data. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Simons - Darwin Slept Here Dr. Moira Gunn interviews Eric Simons, author of the book Darwin Slept Here, a portrait of a young Charles Darwin. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 45 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss what a program manager does, the value (or lack thereof) of a functional spec and vision statement, building developer community, and planning your development time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Lemon - TopFollowFriday Scott Lemon discusses TopFollowFriday, a website that can be used to filter and choose to trust or not trust something, based on the reputation of the person who created the content. Based on #followfriday, a growing Twitter ad-hoc event that occurs each Friday, Scott's new site tracks #followfriday, and then records the endorsements, allowing users to chart the changes. Scott also reviews the Twitter AP and how he is using it for his site. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Simonie Wilson - Weapons Against the VUI Backlash Simonie Wilson, a senior speech scientist working at Intervoice, shares her thoughts about, and experiences in the field of VUI's (Voice User Interfaces). Today's VUI's aren't really that good, and people know this; or do they? Simonie, an expert in the field, would like us to believe something else; that the majority of the systems in use today are merely patchworks; that there are, in fact, much better technologies just waiting to be put to use to provide people with s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sara Nelson - Publishing: True or False Sara Nelson of Publishers Weekly takes a closer look at some of the things you think you know about the book business. She also raises the questions,"Why should we care about books any more?" and doesn't anyone read books for pleasure today? Topics range from what kinds of books we read, how the book industry advertise its products, the issue of piracy in today's electronic society, and why we are a long way from doing away with books completely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adam Nash - LinkedIn: The Business Social Network LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, is building an application platform aimed at maximizing user value and business success. In this presentation from O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns conference, Adam Nash describes LinkedIn's strengths as a professional communication tool and how their application and advertising platforms will reach and serve professionals and business owners. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Susan RoAne - Face to Face Susan RoAne, author of the book Face to Face: How to Reclaim the Personal Touch in a Digital World, talks to Moira Gunn about how basic conversational and social skills have deteriorated. RoAne's book offers simple steps to more effective communication. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith - Bespin Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith discuss the status of Bespin, a project of Mozilla Labs. The company states that Bespin aims to increase developer productivity and promte the use of open standards. Dion and Ben talk about the development of the project and its early prototype. The group also discusses Amazon frontends and how they are being used on the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 44 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the enduring influence of C, the questionable value of the title "Software Architect", and the evolution of Java. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Van Meggelen - Dinosaur Telecom Jim Van Meggelen gives a talk about Asterisk, the world's leading open source PBX telephony engine and telephony applications toolkit, as well as the tough challenges of running a telecom business and how one can deliver telephony infrastructure to small companies. He shares with us his insights into the telecom industry, its current state, and where he wants it to go in the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Ingram - The Supply Chain Evolution John Ingram, Chairman of Ingram Book Group, discusses the challenges facing the publishing industry today. How do publishers decide how to divide investments between the physical printing of materials and digital publishing? What questions must be asked in order to effectively allocate resources toward these two goals? Is there a way to incorporate both goals into a cost efficient strategy? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mary Meeker - Technology Trends Global technology team leader at Morgan Stanley Mary Meeker gives her update on all things tech and internet in her presentation at the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. In this short, data-rich presentation she also gives her thoughts on the economy and the current recession. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Douglas Purdy - The Oslo Initiative Microsoft's "Oslo" initiative aims to make it easier for developers, for IT professionals, and for ordinary computer users to define, share, and reason about the data representations that underpin software, services, and business logic. In this conversation, Doug Purdy and host Jon Udell discuss modeling, Smalltalk, domain-specific languages, and the ongoing quest for better ways to reduce the impedance mismatch between humans and computers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Neil Degrasse Tyson - The Pluto Files Moira speaks with Neil Degrasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium Director and author of The Pluto Files. He talks about all the flack he took for downgrading Pluto from a planet to a dwarf. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Andrew Hopkins - Biotech Pharmaceuticals Most people would rather take a pill than deal with injections. Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Andrew Hopkins about why this issue is affecting the field of biotech pharmaceuticals. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 43 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss dealing with incompetent programmers, whether salaries should be public, dealing with technical debt, and programming for small businesses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Kaye - SpokenWord.org Doug Kaye joins Phil and Scott to discuss the recently launched SpokenWord.org, a free service that helps you find, manage and share audio and video spoken-word recordings. In addition to giving a basic description of the site, Doug also discusses the technical aspects of the project, including how it was developed and what kind of challenges he is facing now that it is operational. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Kaye - SpokenWord.org Doug Kaye joins Phil and Scott to discuss the recently launched SpokenWord.org, a free service that helps you find, manage and share audio and video spoken-word recordings. In addition to giving a basic description of the site, Doug also discusses the technical aspects of the project, including how it was developed and what kind of challenges he is facing now that it is operational. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heinemeier Hansson, Kemper, Koziarski - Q&A with the Rails Core Team In this Q&A session the Rails core team discuss trends in the Rails community, the challenge of SproutCore, framework competition, and how to pick a Ruby implementation. Along with insights into the team's personal technology interests and the folly of micro-optimisation, the dangers of over abstraction and other areas are explored. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Heinemeier Hansson, Kemper, Koziarski - Q&A with the Rails Core Team In this Q&A session the Rails core team discuss trends in the Rails community, the challenge of SproutCore, framework competition, and how to pick a Ruby implementation. Along with insights into the team's personal technology interests and the folly of micro-optimisation, the dangers of over abstraction and other areas are explored. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Baker - REST Mark Baker has always worked with distributed systems, starting with DCE and CORBA. When he learned about the Web's REST architectural style, he embraced it as a better way. When the Web Services movement veered away from key RESTful principles -- a uniform interface, hyperlinked representations -- he campaigned vigorously for them. Now, he tells host Jon Udell, REST has won the web, although not yet the enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Baker - REST Mark Baker has always worked with distributed systems, starting with DCE and CORBA. When he learned about the Web's REST architectural style, he embraced it as a better way. When the Web Services movement veered away from key RESTful principles -- a uniform interface, hyperlinked representations -- he campaigned vigorously for them. Now, he tells host Jon Udell, REST has won the web, although not yet the enterprise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Brill - An Energy Paradox Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Ken Brill about a paradox of modern life. He discusses how we traded in our big gas-guzzling automobiles, while dealing with the surprise energy downside of surfing the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Young - Breast Cancer Detection Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Young of FermiScan, a company that is developing a new method of breast cancer detection using a snip of hair. He talks about the benefits of the test and its current market status. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ken Brill - An Energy Paradox Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Ken Brill about a paradox of modern life. He discusses how we traded in our big gas-guzzling automobiles, while dealing with the surprise energy downside of surfing the Internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Young - Breast Cancer Detection Dr. Moira Gunn interviews David Young of FermiScan, a company that is developing a new method of breast cancer detection using a snip of hair. He talks about the benefits of the test and its current market status. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 42 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss ethical email, backup strategies, how to learn new programming languages, and dealing with underperforming developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 42 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss ethical email, backup strategies, how to learn new programming languages, and dealing with underperforming developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Stay - SocialToo Jesse Stay joins Phil and Scott to discuss SocialToo, described as "your companion to the social Web". Jesse talks about how the site can help you become a social power user by using SocialToo's tools to help members of such sites as Twitter and Facebook better take advantage of the continuing growth of social relationship sites. Jesse also discusses some technical aspects of Twitter and how he is using it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Stay - SocialToo Jesse Stay joins Phil and Scott to discuss SocialToo, described as "your companion to the social Web". Jesse talks about how the site can help you become a social power user by using SocialToo's tools to help members of such sites as Twitter and Facebook better take advantage of the continuing growth of social relationship sites. Jesse also discusses some technical aspects of Twitter and how he is using it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath - Fire Eagle Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath of Yahoo! Brickhouse, gives a brief talk about the very exciting work he is doing on Fire Eagle, a Yahoo! owned service that acts as a store for user location (in real-time!) information. A backbone for other location and geo-aware based services and applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Evan 'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath - Fire Eagle Evan'Rabble' Henshaw-Plath of Yahoo! Brickhouse, gives a brief talk about the very exciting work he is doing on Fire Eagle, a Yahoo! owned service that acts as a store for user location (in real-time!) information. A backbone for other location and geo-aware based services and applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Hughes - Waiting for the Great Leap...Forward? In this talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit, James Hughes predicts that while artificial general intelligence is likely, it is also likely to seem alien to our way of thinking and difficult to control. He also discusses some of the rarely mentioned negative impacts AGI could have on society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website James Hughes - Waiting for the Great Leap...Forward? In this talk from the 2007 Singularity Summit, James Hughes predicts that while artificial general intelligence is likely, it is also likely to seem alien to our way of thinking and difficult to control. He also discusses some of the rarely mentioned negative impacts AGI could have on society. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Magoulas - Facebook Apps: Big Picture Stats and Trends While the number of Facebook apps is increasing, activity is flattening out and concentrated in the most popular apps. In this presentation from O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns conference, Roger Magoulas of O'Reilly Media breaks down some statistics and opportunities on Facebook apps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Roger Magoulas - Facebook Apps: Big Picture Stats and Trends While the number of Facebook apps is increasing, activity is flattening out and concentrated in the most popular apps. In this presentation from O'Reilly's Graphing Social Patterns conference, Roger Magoulas of O'Reilly Media breaks down some statistics and opportunities on Facebook apps. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nathan Torkington - fork() && exec(): Spawning the Next Generation of Hackers Nathan Torkington gives a very humorous talk about how we can spawn (pun intended) the next generation of open source hackers and teach kids how to use computers. He talks about various aspects of teaching kids and teachers alike. He further explores many different facets of a modern computer environment, including why pictures of people getting their legs bitten of by sharks are fun, why robots are lame, and the effective use of a new programming language called Scratch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nathan Torkington - fork()&&exec(): Spawning the Next Generation of Hackers Nathan Torkington gives a very humorous talk about how we can spawn (pun intended) the next generation of open source hackers and teach kids howto use computers. He talks about various aspects of teaching kids and teachers alike. He further explores many different facets of a modern computer environment, including why pictures of people getting their legs bitten of by sharks are fun, why robots are lame, and the effective use of a new programming language called Scratch. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zachary Shore - Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Zachary Shore of the Naval Postgraduate School about blunders, looking back through history and gleaning insights on life in the present. The techno-snafu's start with no other than Thomas Alva Edison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Greenwood - The State of Biotech Jim Greenwood, President of BIO, joins Moira Gunn to discuss the state of biotech today. In particular, he talks about what we can expect from the new Obama administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Zachary Shore - Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Zachary Shore of the Naval Postgraduate School about blunders, looking back through history and gleaning insights on life in the present. The techno-snafu's start with no other than Thomas Alva Edison. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Greenwood - The State of Biotech Jim Greenwood, President of BIO, joins Moira Gunn to discuss the state of biotech today. In particular, he talks about what we can expect from the new Obama administration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 41 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Robert Martin aka "Uncle Bob", and discuss software quality, the value of software engineering principles, and test-driven development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 41 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Robert Martin aka"Uncle Bob", and discuss software quality, the value of software engineering principles, and test-driven development. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Thomas Manes - Is SOA Dead? Anne Thomas Manes joins Phil and Scott to discuss whether Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is dead. In addition to talking about why people are bad at architecture, she reviews examples of concrete architectural practices and makes it clear that spectacular gains come from spectacular efforts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anne Thomas Manes - Is SOA Dead? Anne Thomas Manes joins Phil and Scott to discuss whether Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is dead. In addition to talking about why people are bad at architecture, she reviews examples of concrete architectural practices and makes it clear that spectacular gains come from spectacular efforts. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Javier Soltero - Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence Javier Solter talks about the importance of measuring the health of any cloud solution that might be entrusted with the running of mission critical applications. He talks about the problems inherent in the current generation of cloud computing offerings and why comprehensive, transparent performance and health monitoring is necessary. Solter goes into detail on how his company has been monitoring Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine and how this can help both the cloud consumer and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Javier Soltero - Clouds Are No Substitute for Competence Javier Solter talks about the importance of measuring the health of any cloud solution that might be entrusted with the running of mission critical applications. He talks about the problems inherent in the current generation of cloud computing offerings and why comprehensive, transparent performance and health monitoring is necessary. Solter goes into detail on how his company has been monitoring Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine and how this can help both the cloud consumer and the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kenneth Brooks - Making the Digital Leap Ken Brooks of Cengage Learning discusses the challenges of mixing digital and print media publishing together efficiently and economically. He also discusses how moving from a low scale craft process to a high scale impact process model improves not only productivity but profitability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kenneth Brooks - Making the Digital Leap Ken Brooks of Cengage Learning discusses the challenges of mixing digital and print media publishing together efficiently and economically. He also discusses how moving from a low scale craft process to a high scale impact process model improves not only productivity but profitability. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Singleton - Managing Commercial Software Projects Andy Singleton is an entrepreneur who has long studied and practiced the art of distributed software development. Influenced by the open source and agile movements, he has arrived at some startling conclusions about how to manage commercial projects. Among them: don't interview people, don't estimate schedules, and don't spend time in teleconferences. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he explains why not to do these things, and what to do instead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andy Singleton - Managing Commercial Software Projects Andy Singleton is an entrepreneur who has long studied and practiced the art of distributed software development. Influenced by the open source and agile movements, he has arrived at some startling conclusions about how to manage commercial projects. Among them: don't interview people, don't estimate schedules, and don't spend time in teleconferences. In this conversation with host Jon Udell he explains why not to do these things, and what to do instead. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Carolee Barlow, Dr. Paul Rubin - Business Startups for Bio Discoveries Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with two scientists involved with new companies formed to work with new medical discoveries. Dr. Carolee Barlow discusses newly updated knowledge about anti-depressants and how they work. Then, Dr. Paul Rubin talks about the science of fish oils. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darrel Rhea - Marketing During an Economic Meltdown Moira speaks with Darrel Rhea, the CEO of Cheskin Added Value. He tells us that even in an economic meltdown, we need to study the marketplace. They also discuss the importance of user-centered design and the current state of innovation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Don Elmer - A New Approach for Fighting HIV Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Don Elmer about a new approach for fighting HIV now being developed by Koronis Pharmaceuticals. The company is pioneering the development of a new class of anti-viral therapeutics based on a novel mechanism called Viral Decay Acceleration (VDA). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Carolee Barlow, Dr. Paul Rubin - Business Startups for Bio Discoveries Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with two scientists involved with new companies formed to work with new medical discoveries. Dr. Carolee Barlow discusses newly updated knowledge about anti-depressants and how they work. Then, Dr. Paul Rubin talks about the science of fish oils. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Darrel Rhea - Marketing During an Economic Meltdown Moira speaks with Darrel Rhea, the CEO of Cheskin Added Value. He tells us that even in an economic meltdown, we need to study the marketplace. They also discuss the importance of user-centered design and the current state of innovation. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 40 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Michael Lopp, aka Rands, to discuss how a geek manages other geeks, the dangers of working remotely, the pitfalls of offshoring, and some techniques for continual learning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Aaron Iba - EtherPad Aaron Iba joins Phil and Scott to discuss EtherPad, a real-time collaborative text editing tool currently in beta. In addition to giving details about EtherPad, Aaron talks about how it uses AppJet as a platform. He gives a great deal of technical background information and reviews the future of the product. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Sisson - Search Dialing? Now you're talking! Just as the PC subsumed the typewriter, Peter Sisson predicts the inevitable integration of the phone and PC. He describes a PC phone integration model for the small office, home office huge market. The model is simple and requires only a PC, a phone, and a hosted service, allowing the customer to do local search dialing online using keywords such as coffee shop or plumber. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Laughlin - The Crime of Reason Robert Laughlin talks about his new book "The Crime of Reason and the Closing of the Scientific Mind." Professor Laughlin explores the inherent conflict between the government's efforts to support and protect the commercialization of Intellectual Property and the scientific researcher's need for free access to information in order to expand our knowledge in critical areas. Will ignorance be the price we inadvertently pay for safety and commerce? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Danese Cooper - Why Whinging Doesn't Work From the Greeks to the geeks, everyone loves to complain says former Sun chief open source evangelist Danese Cooper as she uncovers the role of whinging in the open source ecosystem. She paints the current state of open source cooperation and delivers a snapshot of beneficial directions for the community to adopt. Danese references the Helsinki Complaints Choir, Billie Jean King and baseball in relation to FOSS development in this conference talk. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phillip Long - Technology-Enabled Active Learning Phil Long is on a five-year mission to find out more about how technology can enhance active learning. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he reviews lessons learned from MIT's TEAL (technology-enabled active learning) initiative, and discusses the related work he and his team are doing at the Center for Educational Innovation and Technology at the University of Queensland in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Phillip Long - Technology-Enabled Active Learning Phil Long is on a five-year mission to find out more about how technology can enhance active learning. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, he reviews lessons learned from MIT's TEAL (technology-enabled active learning) initiative, and discusses the related work he and his team are doing at the Center for Educational Innovation and Technology at the University of Queensland in Australia. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 39 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss database design and the shell game of performance, the value of short, focused presentations, and the importance (or not) of a prestigious degree for software engineers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 39 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss database design and the shell game of performance, the value of short, focused presentations, and the importance (or not) of a prestigious degree for software engineers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Van Jones - The Green Collar Economy Moira speaks with Van Jones about what it takes to build a green collar economy. Remember that 10 pounds each of us Americans put on over the last decade? Well, he's computed what it's costing us in terms of gas in our cars and fuel in our jets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Van Jones - The Green Collar Economy Moira speaks with Van Jones about what it takes to build a green collar economy. Remember that 10 pounds each of us Americans put on over the last decade? Well, he's computed what it's costing us in terms of gas in our cars and fuel in our jets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Larry Brilliant - Hybrid Philanthropy How would you react if a company you owned shares in decided to invest 1% of its equity, 1% of its profit, and 1% of its manpower to solve big problems? Larry Page and Sergey Brin included these provisions into the original IPO for Google. This seeded Google.org with nearly $1 billion. In this session from the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit, Dr. Brilliant converses on Google's hybrid philanthropy and describes Google.org's major initiatives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr Larry Brilliant - Hybrid Philanthropy How would you react if a company you owned shares in decided to invest 1% of its equity, 1% of its profit, and 1% of its manpower to solve big problems? Larry Page and Sergey Brin included these provisions into the original IPO for Google. This seeded Google.org with nearly $1 billion. In this session from the 2008 Web 2.0 Summit, Dr. Brilliant converses on Google's hybrid philanthropy and describes Google.org's major initiatives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allen Hurff - MySpace Developer Platform Technical Overview Allen Hurff tells the inside story of the creation of the MySpace platform, the genesis of OpenSocial. Hurff discusses MySpace's focus on developer relations and the APIs available and gives some clues to future enhancements. He emphasizes the balance required to provide powerful developer tools without compromising the user experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Allen Hurff - MySpace Developer Platform Technical Overview Allen Hurff tells the inside story of the creation of the MySpace platform, the genesis of OpenSocial. Hurff discusses MySpace's focus on developer relations and the APIs available and gives some clues to future enhancements. He emphasizes the balance required to provide powerful developer tools without compromising the user experience. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dev Khare - Venture Capital: What's Hot and What's Not on the Geoweb Geo is impacting many industries including automotive, retail, telecom and advertising. Emerging from these current technologies are applications for the GeoWeb, GeoMobile, GeoCar, and GeoVoice. These entrenched industries are wide-open for investments and this presentation provides some guidance and perspective for those looking to cash in. In this show, Dev Khare, partner at VC firm Venrock, discusses the current landscape on the GeoWeb from a VC perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Kogge - Exascale Computers Peter Kogge of the University of Notre Dame discusses the obstacles to reaching exascale computing and the benefits of achieving it. He describes how supercomputing researchers have set a goal to increase computing power by one thousand times by 2015, but that won't be possible with current hardware architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dev Khare - Venture Capital: What's Hot and What's Not on the Geoweb Geo is impacting many industries including automotive, retail, telecom and advertising. Emerging from these current technologies are applications for the GeoWeb, GeoMobile, GeoCar, and GeoVoice. These entrenched industries are wide-open for investments and this presentation provides some guidance and perspective for those looking to cash in. In this show, Dev Khare, partner at VC firm Venrock, discusses the current landscape on the GeoWeb from a VC perspective. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Kogge - Exascale Computers Peter Kogge of the University of Notre Dame discusses the obstacles to reaching exascale computing and the benefits of achieving it. He describes how supercomputing researchers have set a goal to increase computing power by one thousand times by 2015, but that won't be possible with current hardware architecture. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Boutin - Residential Heating With Solid Fuels When Andy Boutin couldn't find a wood-fired boiler compatible with the steam heating system in his new home, he decided to mate a pellet burner to the existing boiler. Now his company, Pellergy, has brought the solution to the market. In this interview with host Jon Udell, the former marine engineer and naval architect offers a unique perspective on the modern rediscovery -- and reinvention -- of residential heating with solid fuels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andrew Boutin - Residential Heating With Solid Fuels When Andy Boutin couldn't find a wood-fired boiler compatible with the steam heating system in his new home, he decided to mate a pellet burner to the existing boiler. Now his company, Pellergy, has brought the solution to the market. In this interview with host Jon Udell, the former marine engineer and naval architect offers a unique perspective on the modern rediscovery -- and reinvention -- of residential heating with solid fuels. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Recordon - Supporting the Open Web David Recordon announces the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The open web is all about the data and protocols behind the web services in the cloud; the open web needs open data, and open data needs open specifications. Modeled after the Apache Software Foundation, the Open Web Foundation's goal is to do for specifications what open source has done in its arena, build community around specifications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Recordon - Supporting the Open Web David Recordon announces the creation of the Open Web Foundation. The open web is all about the data and protocols behind the web services in the cloud; the open web needs open data, and open data needs open specifications. Modeled after the Apache Software Foundation, the Open Web Foundation's goal is to do for specifications what open source has done in its arena, build community around specifications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 38 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss YSlow optimizations for large websites, the value of unit testing, and the hidden pitfalls of asking questions to programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 38 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss YSlow optimizations for large websites, the value of unit testing, and the hidden pitfalls of asking questions to programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - A New Year and New Projects At the beginning of the new year, Phil, Dion, Ben and Scott discuss new products and projects, including business startups, new computers and computing devices, and other upcoming activities. Beginning with the problems with funding new companies, they move on to talk about some of the new CES and Macworld devices. Finally they review the upcoming digital TV changeover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dion Almaer, Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - A New Year and New Projects At the beginning of the new year, Phil, Dion, Ben and Scott discuss new products and projects, including business startups, new computers and computing devices, and other upcoming activities. Beginning with the problems with funding new companies, they move on to talk about some of the new CES and Macworld devices. Finally they review the upcoming digital TV changeover. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amit Desai - Spoken Location Services Amit Desai describes the first nationwide voice-activated phone service for delivering driving directions to cell phone callers available from Dial Directions. In his short talk, Desai explains the usage model and then touches on two other spoken location services available from the company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amit Desai - Spoken Location Services Amit Desai describes the first nationwide voice-activated phone service for delivering driving directions to cell phone callers available from Dial Directions. In his short talk, Desai explains the usage model and then touches on two other spoken location services available from the company. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Sierra, Tim O'Reilly - Creating Passionate Users Kathy Sierra and Tim O'Reilly discuss the principles behind"creating passionate users" and how this energizes and increases consumers. They discuss how in today's competitive marketplace, every business is looking for an edge. This typically forces business leaders to face the challenge of making their products different. However, that can be more difficult than it sounds and the business landscape is littered with the carcasses of companies who failed to differentiate t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Sierra, Tim O'Reilly - Creating Passionate Users Kathy Sierra and Tim O'Reilly discuss the principles behind "creating passionate users" and how this energizes and increases consumers. They discuss how in today's competitive marketplace, every business is looking for an edge. This typically forces business leaders to face the challenge of making their products different. However, that can be more difficult than it sounds and the business landscape is littered with the carcasses of companies who failed to differentiate ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luiz Barroso - Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities Luiz Barroso discusses the opportunities for improvement in energy efficiency in three areas of computer operations: data center efficiencies, server energy efficiencies, and computing efficiencies. What should we look at before energy cost in computing becomes a constraint? Based on his research into server efficiency at varying utilization levels, he focuses on an idea for energy-proportional machines that can exhibit a wide dynamic power range. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Luiz Barroso - Energy Efficient Operations: Some Challenges and Opportunities Luiz Barroso discusses the opportunities for improvement in energy efficiency in three areas of computer operations: data center efficiencies, server energy efficiencies, and computing efficiencies. What should we look at before energy cost in computing becomes a constraint? Based on his research into server efficiency at varying utilization levels, he focuses on an idea for energy-proportional machines that can exhibit a wide dynamic power range. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Jennings - Alternative Heating Systems In this conversation with Bob Jennings, a longtime user and designer of alternative heating systems, host Jon Udell reviews the rationale for his own recently-installed wood gasification boiler. And Bob Jennings explains why trees and the sun will be key ingredients of New England's renewable energy mix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Jennings - Alternative Heating Systems In this conversation with Bob Jennings, a longtime user and designer of alternative heating systems, host Jon Udell reviews the rationale for his own recently-installed wood gasification boiler. And Bob Jennings explains why trees and the sun will be key ingredients of New England's renewable energy mix. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 37 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the expansion of Stack Overflow into non-programming IT topics, the pernicious problem of "systemitis", and how to reach the next generation of programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 37 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the expansion of Stack Overflow into non-programming IT topics, the pernicious problem of "systemitis", and how to reach the next generation of programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Ness - Infrastructure 2.0 Greg Ness talks about how the internet network infrastructure may have serious issues in supporting the new services and products now being offered to users. He reviews how the current system may be handling the load, he gives examples on why upgrades and changes are needed. He also discusses how to look forward and make the necessary changes for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Ness - Infrastructure 2.0 Greg Ness talks about how the internet network infrastructure may have serious issues in supporting the new services and products now being offered to users. He reviews how the current system may be handling the load, he gives examples on why upgrades and changes are needed. He also discusses how to look forward and make the necessary changes for the future. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ignite ETech - Your Chance To Tell The World Twelve speakers, five minutes each, speak what's on their minds on topics as varied as email apnea, how to be successful, a digital fairy tale, and nine other sessions in this hour of mind jamming discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ignite ETech - Your Chance To Tell The World Twelve speakers, five minutes each, speak what's on their minds on topics as varied as email apnea, how to be successful, a digital fairy tale, and nine other sessions in this hour of mind jamming discussion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine L. Peterson - Preparing for Bizarreness: Open Source Physical Security As Christine Peterson, cofounder of the Foresight Nanotech Institute puts it, "It is a scary world ahead." With threats possible by traditional, biological, and nano-technological means, Peterson questions the current approaches to security in this speech from the 2007 Singularity Summit. Instead, she proposes using lessons from the open source software model in a bottom-up approach might provide more effective security sensing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christine L. Peterson - Preparing for Bizarreness: Open Source Physical Security As Christine Peterson, cofounder of the Foresight Nanotech Institute puts it, "It is a scary world ahead." With threats possible by traditional, biological, and nano-technological means, Peterson questions the current approaches to security in this speech from the 2007 Singularity Summit. Instead, she proposes using lessons from the open source software model in a bottom-up approach might provide more effective security sensing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top Tech Cars Q&A - IEEE Spectrum Radio In this IEEE Spectrum Radio Special, automotive editor John Volker gives his list of the top 10 tech cars for 2008. While most of the tech is about the environment, some are not, like the $2,500 Tata car meant to put India on wheels or the 200mph Corvette ZR1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Top Tech Cars Q&A - IEEE Spectrum Radio In this IEEE Spectrum Radio Special, automotive editor John Volker gives his list of the top 10 tech cars for 2008. While most of the tech is about the environment, some are not, like the $2,500 Tata car meant to put India on wheels or the 200mph Corvette ZR1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Murray - Social Media and Crisis Management In the wake of the epic December 2008 ice storm, the majority of New Hampshire's homes and businesses fell off the power grid. The best source of information about the outage, and the ongoing effort to restore service, was Martin Murray's @psnh Twitter feed. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Martin explains how and why Public Service of New Hampshire used social media to help manage the crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Martin Murray - Social Media and Crisis Management In the wake of the epic December 2008 ice storm, the majority of New Hampshire's homes and businesses fell off the power grid. The best source of information about the outage, and the ongoing effort to restore service, was Martin Murray's @psnh Twitter feed. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Martin explains how and why Public Service of New Hampshire used social media to help manage the crisis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 36 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff, with special guest Eric Sink of SourceGear, discuss source control present and future, why writing a compiler is an important rite of passage for programmers, and how budding software engineers should be educated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 36 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff, with special guest Eric Sink of SourceGear, discuss source control present and future, why writing a compiler is an important rite of passage for programmers, and how budding software engineers should be educated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Burger - Copyright in a New Light Bill Burger describes the social disruption happening in the publishing industry because of new technologies and business models for content distribution. He shares several examples of these disruptive new models for content publishing and gives advice to publishers on staying relevant in these changing times when people value the technology that brings them the content they want as much as the content itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bill Burger - Copyright in a New Light Bill Burger describes the social disruption happening in the publishing industry because of new technologies and business models for content distribution. He shares several examples of these disruptive new models for content publishing and gives advice to publishers on staying relevant in these changing times when people value the technology that brings them the content they want as much as the content itself. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel Discussion - Mobile Voice Mashups While some believe that the Web 2.0 wave is winding down, in this panel discussion from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, there are clear signs that Web 2.0 is spreading and reaching new markets and users. As it spreads, it is moving into new industries and encompassing more applications. In this session, Jon Arnold, a leading VoIP blogger, moderates a diverse panel of experts on the evolution of Web 2.0 into voice and mobile voice mashups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Panel Discussion - Mobile Voice Mashups While some believe that the Web 2.0 wave is winding down, in this panel discussion from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, there are clear signs that Web 2.0 is spreading and reaching new markets and users. As it spreads, it is moving into new industries and encompassing more applications. In this session, Jon Arnold, a leading VoIP blogger, moderates a diverse panel of experts on the evolution of Web 2.0 into voice and mobile voice mashups. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Jonas - IBM Entity Analytics On this edition of Interview with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with the Chief Scientist of IBM Entity Analytics, Jeff Jonas, who discusses a set of themes woven through his work, explored on his blog, and captured in a series of evocative phrases: perpetual analytics, non-obvious relationship awareness, sequence neutrality,"data finds data", and anonymous resolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Jonas - IBM Entity Analytics On this edition of Interview with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with the Chief Scientist of IBM Entity Analytics, Jeff Jonas, who discusses a set of themes woven through his work, explored on his blog, and captured in a series of evocative phrases: perpetual analytics, non-obvious relationship awareness, sequence neutrality, "data finds data", and anonymous resolution. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Maria Giudice - Human Centered Design Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Maria Giudice, CEO and founder of Hot Studio, about the democratization of the internet, and the principles of human centered design. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jesse Schell - Video Game Design Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Professor Jesse Schell, from the Entertainment Technology Center, about the serious task of designing video games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website San Diego Biotech Cluster - BioTech Nation Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with various leaders of industry of the biotech industry in the San Diego BioTech Cluster and asks them how to attract biotech venture capital in a place where the venture capitalists don't live. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 35 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the mysteries of server hardware, anomalous voting patterns, change fatigue, and whether or not Joel is the Martha Stewart of the software industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Jurvetson - Dichotomy of Designed and Evolutionary Paths to AI Futures Design or evolution? In building complex, artificial intelligence systems, is it best to use top down design, a gradual evolutionary process, or a combination of the two in order to maintain some level of control? Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, is placing his money on iterative evolutionary algorithms as the best path to the future of artificial intelligence. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Jelley, Eric Lindstrom, Matt Locke, Jeremy Silver - The Future of Media Steve Jelley, Eric Lindstrom, Matt Locke, and Jeremy Silver discuss digital media in the context of teen social networking, books, activism, and predictions of what the digital future will look like. Because we are a social race and need to communicate, content will remain even when platforms mutate and we create and talk about content in new ways. Each panelist gives his predictions of the dramatic changes which will define the digital world just ten years from now. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Jacobstein - Operator-Friendly VoIP: No Longer an Oxymoron Mark Jacobstein discusses a solution that brings together VoIP and mobile like peanut butter and chocolate. Mobile voice does not mean running VoIP over the cellular data channel. Instead Jacobstein reveals how the iSkoot solution uses the voice-optimized, circuit-switched network for delivery of voice communication to a mobile device, bringing IP telephony to mobile. He describes the huge success of the"3 Skypephone", powered by iSkoot, in a handful of countries so far. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim O'Reilly - The O'Reilly Radar Bionic people, facial scanners, and artificial organisms: What do these things all have in common? They're all on "the edge" - new territory just waiting to be explored, and they might be closer than you think. That's exactly what O'Reilly Radar is all about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Anderson - DIY Drones: Making Minimum UAVs What do you get when you apply Moore's law to robotics and GPS? Chris Anderson, of Wired magazine, explains what you get in this Where 2.0 presentation. Cheap and ubiquitous location technologies combined with robotic toys have given birth to a thriving amateur Unmanned Aerial Vehicles community. Though these sophisticated spy toys, which are powered by open source software, are usually flying just for the fun of it, the federal regulators are trying to figure out what is even legal, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Craig Burton - Innovation and the Secret Sauce Craig Burton discusses innovation by reviewing three of his essays on the topic. He talks about how to distinguish innovation myths from realities, reviews how technology companies make mistakes with customer demographics, and how Novell created software infrastructure as a new software category. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elizabeth Churchill - Place Matters: Social Encounters between the Physical and Digital Elizabeth Churchill, researcher at Yahoo, discusses a project to connect online community activity with offline community activity in the physical world toward a goal of building relationships and trust between two groups of colleagues in different time zones. She shares observations about people's behaviors around the project, challenges faced, and ponderings about what the future business success of such installations might be. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anna Domyancic & Darren Gerber - Nintendo Wii as Therapeutic Tool Although host Jon Udell isn't an avid gamer, and neither is his wife Luann, he was intrigued when she came home from a physical therapy session raving about the Nintendo Wii. In this episode Luann talks about how the Wii, the Balance Board, and the Wii Fit application are helping her retrain the proprioceptors in her legs. Then we'll hear from Anna Domyancic who, with Darren Gerber, runs Keene Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine. Like other physical therapists, they're findi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Herbert Needleman - Lead Poisoning in Children Herbert Needleman has received numerous awards for his work in documenting the effects of lead poisoning in children. Dr. Moira Gunn asks Needleman why we have unleaded paints and gasoline, and how neuro-developmental changes are caused by lead poisoning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Wayne Pisano - Flu Vaccines Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Wayne Pisano, the CEO of the world's largest flu vaccine producer Sanofi Pasteur, and asks him whether Americans receive the same vaccination as Europeans do, and how you can prepare for a global flu epidemic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 34 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss whether programmers should spend time working with customers, the value of easter eggs, and how to define elegant code. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Norlin - The Implicit Web Eric Norlin is an expert on how social networking data from one source is broken down and being reaggregated in other ways. He talks about how tools and websites, such as Twitter and Zemanta, are being used to create new concepts and how this new information is being used. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brough Turner - Own the Network Brough Turner describes residential internet speeds of 100 MB per sec for only 16 dollars a month in Sweden as illustration of how we are falling behind in the United States. Turner, a telecommunications expert, believes there is only one thing we should fight for - owning the dark fiber ourselves or controlling who lights the dark fiber that comes into our homes. He gives three examples of this model from Quebec and Sweden as what we can fight for and why. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu Expands Its Vision Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, discusses the growth of commerce around Ubuntu and the key drivers and themes for the coming year. Shuttleworth makes announcements and delivers commitments from Ubuntu in the commercial ecosystem, the consumer market, and the developer community. Their goal is to build a new model for the entire industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kathy Sierra - How to Kick Ass Kathy Sierra talks about expertise and neuroscience. The study of the differences between the world class performer and the average performer reveals something more important than genetics. Sierra shares several tips on how everyone can improve their performance and the most important factors in getting really good at something. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Judy Estrin - Closing the Innovation Gap Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Judy Estrin, author of"Closing the Innovation Gap" and Cisco's CTO, about the state of the innovation ecosystem in the United States following the dot-com bust. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Robert Walsh - Renewable Petroleum Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Robert Walsh, the president of LS9 Inc., about their innovative new process of turning any kind of biomass into biodiesel. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 33 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with special guest Babak Ghahremanpour, the lead developer for FogBugz. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John Hanke - The State of the Geoweb Five years from now, chances are you'll be dependent upon web-based GIS applications at home and in the office. And it's likely that those GIS applications will evolve from the work of John Hanke. In this session from the 2008 O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference, Hanke discusses the progress and tremendous growth of the Geoweb. In describing Google's response to this growth, Hanke introduces a new partnership with ESRI. The new initiative will allow developers to pull data fro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Stephen O'Grady - Ubuntu's Unique Strengths Ubuntu has emerged in the last few years as the most popular Linux distribution, but despite its potential, it is a long way from being a dominant presence. In this keynote from the 2007 O'Reilly Ubuntu Live conference, Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst at RedMonk, describes some of the opportunities and futures for Ubuntu in coming years. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Silver - Music and the Future of New Media Jeremy Silver discusses why the world of music in the internet age is on the edge of enormous change, but not on the edge of disaster. Silver reviews the recent difficult history of the music industry since the growth of the internet. He sees positive signs in the many areas of experimentation in music activity. Although the new business models are not proven, there is tremendous energy at work. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyler Whitaker, Dion Almaer - Travels, Trials, and Browser Tribulations Mozilla is developing new open web tools for developers that will make it easier to deal with browser differences. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith discuss their new jobs with the company and what they hope to achieve both short-term and long-term. Tyler Whitaker also talks about his internet troubles and Scott Lemon reviews his travel problems and how a website helped him better understand the airplane issue. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Michael Crichton - 2003 Interview In this 2003 archive interview, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the late Michael Crichton about his then latest book, Prey. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gregory Mitchell - Economics of Algae Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Gregory Mitchell, a research biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, about the economics of algae, and why it forms to basis of most bio-fuel research. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 32 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss software piracy, dealing with public criticism, how to get people to answer your questions, and the ideal programmer office. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Elias Torres, Ben Adida - RDFa RDFa helps bloggers and website authors make their web pages smarter by adding computer-readable information to a site. RFDa provides a set of XHTML attributes to augment visual data with machine-readable hints. Elias Torres and Ben Adida discuss RFDa, including its history, what problems it is meant to solve, and the technical details of how it works. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website John McCarthy - Elephant 2000: A Programming Language for the year 2015 Based on Speech Acts Much of the meaning behind what people say comes from the context, not just the words. Elephant 2000 is a computer programming language project designed to incorporate the meaning of language, not just its structure. In this talk at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, John McCarthy, creator of Elephant, describes the language and how it will move work from computer programmers to compilers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Charles L. Harper, Jr. - Superintelligence, the "Dilemma of Power," and the Transformation of Desire Dr. Charles L. Harper, Jr. asks some "off the wall questions" to challenge readiness of the scientific community to recognize the potential risks and implications of rapid human technological development. Where should our concerns lie given the potential ofsuper intelligent machines that could far exceed human intellectual capabilities? Are we up to the task of proper stewardship of such powerful new advances in technology, or more significantly will that role even be ours? ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Gary Small - iBrain Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Gary Small, the director of the UCLA Memory & Aging Research Center, about gaining understanding of the technological alteration of the modern mind through FMRI. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Lyle Armstrong - Stem Cell Science Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lyle Armstrong, a stem cell researcher and senior lecturer at Newcastle University, who reminds us what stem cell scientists actually do. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 29 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the productivity loss of being both a gamer and programmer, relying on Google as your primary site search provider, non-English programming languages, and hiring great programmers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Russel Shorto - Decarte's Bones Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Russel Shorto, author of "Descarte's Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict between Faith and Reason," about the peculiar role played by Descarte's bones. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Scott Jenkins - Dell, in Biotech What many Dell customers don't know is that the company is making a major effort in biotech, as Dr. Moira Gunn finds out when she speaks with Scott Jenkins, the director of the Dell's Healthcare & Life Sciences program. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 31 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the importance of pure math to the average software developer, the importance of status reports, SQL parameterization and pulling yourself out of a programming slump. Now with one more Turkey than usual! Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Andre' M. Di Mino - Shadowserver Andre' DiMino of the Shadowserver Foundation discusses the darker side of the Internet and how Shadowserver is working to gather, track, and report on malware, botnet activity, and electronic fraud. In addition to giving its background, he talks about methodology and presents examples of some of the major security issues and how the problems are being solved. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Frankston - Achieving Connectivity from the Edge We've become so used to the idea of telecom as a service in the style of the railroads that we don't realize that we don't need depend on service providers to assure that we can communicate. It's just the opposite - the Internet has demonstrated that it's hard to prevent connectivity. In this talk from the Emerging Communications Conference, Bob Frankston discusses the potential of the open internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking with IEEE Spectrum: Harold McGee - IEEE Spectrum Radio Harold McGee, a gastronomic guru and author of On Food and Cooking, discusses his background and inspiration for writing the book. He shares a cooking experiment which involved a copper bowl, his reason for not having a fancy kitchen, his favorite kitchen tool, and his connection to the molecular gastronomy field. He ends with a preview of his next two book projects. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Saul Griffith - Energy Literacy Saul Griffith relates two intertwined energy stories, the impersonal story about climate change, global energy consumption, and fossil fuels, and the personal story about how every decision you make impacts the planet. Griffith lays out a logical approach to conversations about energy and presents a game plan for what we can do to make the difference in energy sources and personal energy consumption. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Carl Hewitt - Interdependent Message-Passing ORGs Just over 35 years ago, Carl Hewitt and his graduate students published a model for computation based on concurrent message-passing Actors. Now the demands of many-core computers and cloud-based software are thrusting that model to the forefront. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, Hewitt explores hardware-enforced cloud privacy, paraconsistent logic, and scalable semantic integration. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode Thirty - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff sit down with Richard White of UserVoice.com to discuss software bug and feature tracking, Web 2.0 style. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sean Gorman - From Data Chaos to Actionable Intelligence In this session from the 2008 Where 2.0 conference, Sean Gorman discusses Finder!, the browser-based application for finding and sharing GeoData. Gorman gives a bit of history about GeoCommons, a product which brings geo-content to the web. He proposes a federation of the data of all the companies doing the same, with the goal of an ecosystem where users can combine GeoData with other web data to create semantic relationships and solve meaningful problems such as where to buy a house. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Christopher Allen - iPhone News Christopher Allen, founder of the iPhoneWebDev community, provides an update on the success of the iPhone today, new features added this year to support the Enterprise market, and details about the release of the iPhone SDK. Allen outlines Apple's iPhone apps business model, the questions that remain about iPhone apps, and the future of iPhone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Lindstrom - Video and the future of new media Eric Lindstrom, cofounder of VideoJuicer, believes that story telling in the television industry is going to change because of the Internet. He talks about what a hub site and an aggregator site is, and which one you'd need at which stage in building your brand. He also talks about the impact of time-shifting in daytime programming, and how the television industry perceives the Internet as a solution to their problem known as the DVR (digital video recording). Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean Bubley - Who Controls Wireless Access? Dean Bubley addresses the challenges facing innovators looking to create openness and choice in the mobile communications market. Bubley, an analyst specializing in the field of mobile and wireless, reminds mobile communication innovators who hold a Utopian view of openness that they must consider the constraints posed by regulations, laws of physics, commercial practicalities, and especially the psychology of the Normob, the normal mobile user, who doesn't care about openness and will ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Cooking with IEEE Spectrum: Homaro Cantu - IEEE Spectrum Radio Most people don't think of liquid nitrogen or ink jet printers as kitchen utensils, but most cooks aren't like Homaro Cantu. In this special edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, follow Chef Cantu from his family's fast food kitchen to his restaurant Moto, one of the most innovative in the world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Adrian Holovaty - A News Feed for Your Block Have you ever asked yourself, "What's happening in my neighborhood?" If you think your local newspaper has the answers, think again. Adrian Holovaty, who created one of the earliest Web mashups, believes there is a better way to find the answers. In this presentation from the 2008 O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, Holovaty describes his new project, EveryBlock.com, which aims to collect hyper-local news and deliver it through a "news feed" for your neighborhood. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Keith Devlin - The Unfinished Game Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Keith Devlin, author of"The Unfinished Game," who talks about the letters exchanged between two mathematicians -- Pascal and Fermat -- changed our lives. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Joseph DeRisi - The Virus Chip Viruses are everywhere, so how do we identify the ones that are problematic? Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Joseph DeRisi, professor in biochemistry and biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, about the promise of an innovative new technology: the virus chip. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nova Spivack - Twine Twine is a new service that"helps people track their interests using the Semantic Web and collective intelligence." In this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell interviews Nova Spivack, CEO and founder of Radar Networks. They discuss how Twine works and where it's headed. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Waugh - History and Future: Giants, Values, and Cultures Jeff Waugh reaches back to the Middle Ages to bring the lessons that three giants of distant history can teach the free software community. A passionate advocate for software freedom and open source, he speaks about the historical influences on Ubuntu. Waugh also describes how the modern giants Python, Debian, and GNOME have each lent something to the values and culture of Ubuntu. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 27 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff interview Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman, the founders and co-creators of Reddit. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Robert Laughlin - The Crime of Reason Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin, about the value of the information we get for free from the internet, and that which for scientists is not out there for any price. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Patrick Gruber & Dr. Bill Gerwick - On Biofuels Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Patrick Gruber, CEO of Gevo and the inventor of plastics derived from corn, about corn derived biofuels. Also, Dr. Bill Gerwick and his graduate student Cameron Coates talk about producing fuel from algae. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Chris Melissinos - Project Darkstar: Putting the Massive in Massive Multiplayer Computer gaming is a fast growing market and an important means of expression for an entire generation, but new online games are unstable and expensive to develop. In this presentation from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Chris Melissinos, Chief Gaming Office of Sun Microsystems points out some of the problems and opportunities in the online gaming market and how Sun's Project Darkstar will help make better online games. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 28 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss Windows Azure, full text search in SQL Server 2008, Bayesian filtering, porn detection, and project management -- among other things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mike Moran, Bill Hunt - Search Engine Marketing Effective search engine optimization and search engine marketing is now crucial to the success of a modern business. Authors Mike Moran and Bill Hunt discuss their book Search Engine Marketing, Inc., giving the fundamentals of search engines as well as guidance on how organizations can better reach people through search engines. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Rodenbeck - Information Visualization is a Medium While many recall Marshall McLuhan's prophetic pronouncement that the "medium is the message", few people and companies are actively involved in examining how this concept applies to today's Internet-centric world. In this session from the 2008 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, Eric Rodenbeck, founder and creative director for Stamen Design, offers several examples of how computers, massively large databases, and visualization can be combined to create beauti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eric Dishman - Preparing For the Age Wave Compounding the health care crisis is a huge wave of aging populations. Health care needs tech-based solutions based in communities and homes, focused on empowering patients to manage their own health and change their behavior as necessary. Eric Dishman of Intel describes the new technology and platforms being built to improve this health care. Dishman also discusses longer-term efforts including regulatory approvals and reimbursement reform. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Ben Rushlo - Better Internet Performance Ben Rushlo of Keynote Systems discusses how organizations should work to make their websites better. He talks about the status of the web and reviews how perceived performance is often different from actual performance. He gives tips for better operation and gives a number of suggestions that companies can use to improve their sites. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nitzan Shaer - Voxgirl and Speech Recognition for Rough Conditions Despite major advances in technology, the experience of using a telephone hasn't changed much over the last 100 years. In this presentation from the 2008 Emerging Communications Conference, Nitzan Shaer, COO of Mobivox, tells how modern speech recognition technology and personalization can make telephones both easier to use and easier to communicate with. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A Nuclear Family Vacation - IEEE Spectrum Radio Defense journalists Nathan Hodge and Sharon Weinberger have traveled globally to visit sites where the infrastructure of the nuclear arms race still remains. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, Hodge and Weinberger, who are husband and wife, talk about nuclear tourism and their motivations for writing the book A Nuclear Family Vacation which chronicles an array of discoveries from a one-eyed baby in Kazakhstan to radioactive deer hunting in Tennessee. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Eliezer Yudkowsky - The Challenge of Friendly AI How do you create a friendly Artificial Intelligence? Eliezer Yudkowsky, Co-Founder & Research Fellow at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, has focused his work on overcoming some of the mathematical impediments to building a self-improving AI. In this presentation he discusses the very speculative possibilities of creating an artificial mind infused with a sense of direction, and capable of learning from its own mistakes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tom Spengler - Granicus Jon Udell speaks with Granicus co-founder Tom Spengler, who explains how his company's streaming media system enables governments to manage the capture and synchronized presentation of video and text, making the proceedings usefully transparent. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Robert Martensen - A Life Worth Living Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Robert Martensen, author of"A Life Worth Living," about the good and bad of technology in healthcare in general and as we approach the end of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tjerk de Ruiter, Thomas Videbaek - On Cellulose Dr. Moira Gunn talks cellulose with Tjerk de Ruiter on a"trade-up" kit for Iowa farmers to cellulosic ethanol, and Thomas Videbaek on a surprising cellulosic ethanol plant in China. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Johann Groenewald - Tracks4Africa On the Tracks4Africa website, travelers pool their data, enrich it with textual and pictorial annotations, and collectively create a GPS map that natives and tourists alike can use and enhance. Jon Udell interviews one of the co-founders of Tracks4Africa, Johann Groenewald, who describes how a community of GPS enthusiasts evolved into -- and still exists in a symbiotic relationship with -- a 21st-century mapping business. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steven Baker - The Numerati Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Business Week journalist and author, Steven Baker, about his latest book, "The Numerati." In his book, Baker discusses the impact of digital technology in the world: toll booths, credit cards, and immediate access to information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lori Andrews - DNA in Court Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Lori Andrews, the director of the Insititude for Science, Law and Technology in Illinois, about the use of DNA in a court of law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 26 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff answer five listener questions, mostly about social software design. Warning: this podcast features a cowbell. Really. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tyler Whitaker - Prototype and jQuery What are the benefits of using Javascript frameworks such as Prototype and jQuery? What are some of the challenges? Tyler Whitaker joins Phil and Scott to discuss software development and other related technology issues. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Toeman - Personalizing Devices with Open Source Hardware Hardware has not seen the same level of innovation and variety that software has, due to the high costs of manufacturing and distribution. In this presentation from the Emerging Communications Conference, Jeremy Toeman, Head of Marketing at Bug Labs discusses the emerging open source hardware movement and how it will impact the $10 billion consumer electronics industry. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Erin McKean - Dictionaries and Other Book-Shaped Objects Dictionaries may look like books, but they don't act like them. In this presentation of the O'Reilly Tools For Change conference, Erin McKean, Chief Consulting Editor for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, explains the characteristics of books, why the book isn't a good form for dictionaries to take, and how the information in dictionaries could better be disseminated. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rainbows End - IEEE Spectrum Radio The Technological Singularity - the moment when artificial intelligence overtakes human intelligence - is coming. According to Vernor Vinge, who invented the term, it will occur sometime around 2030. In this interview with Spectrum Radio's Harry Goldstein, mathematician and science fiction author Vernor Vinge discusses his latest novel "Rainbow's End" and the concept of the Singularity as depicted in his book. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Karl Susman - Risk, Liability, and Web 2.0 Insurance expert Karl Susman discusses how bloggers and other Web 2.0 users are beginning to deal with and better minimize the financial risk of their activities. He talks with Denise about how the industry is now offering ways for people and businesses to protect themselves in this age of instant communications with its problems of rumors and sometimes incorrect information. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Asay - The Tortoise and the Hare Matt Asay of Alfresco discusses the continuing issues related to the economy of open source software. He talks with Phil and Scott about his current projects and characterizes Microsoft as a possible software development underdog. They also review an article about DNS poisoning and assess a web tool that will check a DNS server for vulnerabilities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Matt Locke - Television and New Media The media has changed drastically in the last ten years, both in the explosion of choices and the ability for interaction and self expression. In the presentation from the Thinking Digital conference, Matt Locke of Channel 4, one the UK's primary television channels, discusses the blurring of public and private communication and the six kinds of social spaces online. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Converting to Digital TV - IEEE Spectrum Radio On February 17, 2009, all analog television broadcasting in the United States will convert to digital. Millions of households will need to either replace their televisions, sign up for cable or satellite service, or install a digital signal converter. While the Federal government has subsidized these and assured that the switch will be cheap and easy, a reporter for IEEE Spectrum radio who tries it herself finds that for her, it is neither cheap nor easy. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Doug Fisher - Advancing Technologies Through Open Source Doug Fisher of Intel speaks about Intel's joint efforts with Ubuntu to deliver rich capabilities in a MID, a mobile internet device. After giving a summary of Intel's activities in support of the open source space, Fisher focuses on the growing relationship between Intel and Ubuntu to innovate the platform and the operating environment for the MID and to create together new usage models in new markets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Derik Stenerson - RFC 2445, the iCalendar Specification November 2008 marks the tenth anniversary of RFC 2445, the iCalendar specification that governs the exchange of calendar information on the Internet. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell invites one of the authors of RFC2445, Derik Stenerson, to reflect on the history of the venerable standard, and to consider new ways it might be applied in our era of personal publishing. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Christian Weyer - Combined Diabetes Treatment Gaining weight leads to increased risk of becoming a diabetic. Dr. Moira Gunn asks Dr. Christian Weyer, of Amylin Pharmaceuticals, to explain their new combined treatment for diabetes and obesity. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 25 - StackOverflow It's a Yeggethon! Joel and Jeff sit down with Steve Yegge to discuss Google, programming languages, writing code, and just plain writing. This episode runs long as a tribute to Steve. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Micah Sifry - The Sunlight Foundation Micah Sifry discusses his work with the Sunlight Foundation, an organization using the power of the Internet to strengthen the relationship between citizens and their elected officials and to foster public trust in Congress. He talks about the technical details of the site, including its API and how it makes its data available. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Frank Wilczek - Lightness of Being Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Frank Wilchen, Nobel laureate and professor at MIT, about his latest book, "Lightness of Being," and how the recently activated Large Hadron Collider might confirm or dispel some of his most recent theories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Nat Torkington - Open Source Therapy Using a touch of black humor and irony to convey a noble idea, Nathan Torkington, the chair of OSCON, lightens up the mood as he wraps up the conference, frequently throwing his audience into fits of laughter. He rapidly weaves three keynote messages together into a refreshingly therapeutic open source tonic. Due to brief profanity, this program may not be appropriate for work or family listening. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jock Gill - Part 1: Residential Alternatives to Fossil Fuel Jock Gill is an entrepreneur who's thinking broadly and acting decisively to help create an decentralized energy system that makes appropriate use of biomass. In part one of a two-part interview, he and host Jon Udell discuss alternatives to fossil fuel for residential heating in New England, including wood, wood pellets, and a new approach that uses compressed tablets made from grass. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Greg Bear - The City at the End of Time Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Greg Bear, about his latest book, "The City at the End of Time." Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brett Erickson - The Farm Bill Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the Industrial and Environment Technology VP of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, Brett Erickson, about the recent farm billed passed by the United States Congress. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 21 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss Rock Band 2, the "big universe of dumb programmers", and the general anthropology of developing social software. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tim Sanders - Saving the World at Work Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Tim Sanders, author of "Saving the World at Work," and asks how to combine doing good, with working. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mari Baker - A Lifetime of DNA Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Mari Baker, CEO of Navigenics, about their latest service: they take your DNA, examine it with current and future science, and inform you about any possible health risks for the rest of your life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 24 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff conduct a special NYC roundtable discussion with every member of the Stack Overflow team present: Jarrod Dixon, Geoff Dalgas, and Michael Pryor. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bob Blakley - Relationships Bob Blakley of Burton Group discusses relationships and how they are important to identity, privacy, and digital security. He gives an overview of how relationships and identity are related, as well as his belief that the primary purpose of a digital identity is to enable relationships. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Anders Carlius - Ad-hoc Mesh Networking with GSM TerraNet hopes to bring cell phones to villages in developing nations. CEO Anders Carlius describes TerraNet's ad hoc GSM mesh networking technology and business model. He envisions local entrepreneurs rolling the technology out one village at a time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jim Lukaszewski Q&A - IEEE Spectrum Radio Behind every successful boss there is a trusted advisor. The TV series "West Wing" illustrated just how important and exciting this role can be. At last, someone has written a book about it. Spectrum Radio's Susan Hassler interviews management guru Jim Lukaszewski about his new book "Why Should the Boss Listen to You: The Seven Disciplines of the Trusted Strategic Advisor". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Norvig - The History and Future of Technological Change The Singularity is near; it will arrive in 10, 50, or 100 years depending on whom you talk to. Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, examines the value of expertise in predicting the future, and discusses his thoughts on artificial general intelligence, based on his past experiences at NASA and current work with Google. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mark Luckevich - Microelectromechanical Systems One of the presentations at the DEMO fall 2008 conference was not like the others. Amidst a flock of Web 2.0 startups, Microstaq showed a MEMS (microelectromechanical system) device that controls the flow of coolant in air conditioners. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with, Microstaq's VP of Engineering Mark Luckevich, who explains how silicon-based MEMS valves can improve process efficiency and reduce cost in a wide range of flow control applicatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Brian Greene - Icarus at the Edge of Time Brian Greene is well known for writing about our universe. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Greene about his latest book "Icarus at the Edge of Time," and asks him why it is an entirely different book than we are used to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Kevin Giese - Treating Multiple Sclerosis BioMS is working on a number of ways to treat multiple sclerosis. Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the President & CEO of BioMS Medical about two of the most promising ways of treating MS. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Deborah Eppstein - What is Multiple Sclerosis? Dr. Moira Gunn asks Deborah Eppstein, from Q Therapeutics, to explain what exactly having multiple sclerosis (MS) means for a patient. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 23 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff discuss the Stack Overflow team's expedition to NYC, the seven crucial mistakes we made during development, and how to bridge the skill spectrum between beginning and expert software developers. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website David Heinemeier Hansson - The Great Surplus Other frameworks have cloned features of Rails. But according to its creator, David Heinemeier Hansson, the Rails philosophy of convention over configuration and abstracting the user from making choices, continues to give its developer community a competitive advantage. The only parallel that can compete will have to be something that is significantly better than Rails which, although it is a possibility, doesn't seem very likely. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Clayton Christensen Q&A - An IEEE Spectrum Radio Special Clayton Christensen tells all about his work at a semiconductor fabrication plant which was in a need of a rethink. On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, the Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration, and author of "The Innovator's Dilemma," outlines his principles for making the world more efficient. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Paul Saffo - Machines of Loving Grace: Anticipating Advanced AI Do you appreciate when someone brings a fresh perspective to a complex and daunting issue? Well can you imagine an issue more impenetrable or discouraging then the Singularity? From the "How Far are We from Advanced AI?" session of the 2007 Singularity Summit, Paul Saffo offers some new advice. He recommends that we find some poets and novelists and whisper in their ears about this stuff. Then hopefully they will help shape what the Singularity should be, rather than what we hope ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jock Gill - Part 2: On Energy, IT, Markets and Society Jock Gill is an entrepreneur who's thinking broadly and acting decisively to help create a decentralized energy system that makes appropriate use of biomass. In part two of a two-part interview, he and host Jon Udell discuss zero-energy houses, micro combined heat and power, peer-to-peer resource sharing, and the relevance of Thomas Malthus, Benjamin Franklin, and John Nash -- among others -- to our current energy predicament. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeff Howe - Crowdsourcing Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the author of "Crowdsourcing," Jeff Howe, who explains the concept of sourcing work or requests out to a crowd on the internet. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dr. Patrick Casey - Growing New Tendons Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Patrick Casey, from Therapy Cell Limited, about the new technique of growing tendons from our own cells -- it's being done right now on horses. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Episode 22 - StackOverflow Joel and Jeff cover the launch of Stack Overflow, and have an extended discussion with Josh Millard of MetaFilter on how to design social software on the web. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Peter Semmelhack - Personalizing the Device The economic realities of hardware development often stifle innovation. Peter Semmelhack, CEO of Bug Labs, discusses a change in approach, similar to the open source software model, that will promote innovation in the hardware space. Based on the Lego model, Bug Labs is creating a set of tools they believe will eliminate some of the cost and creative prohibitions, and enable a community of users and developers to experiment with the creation of new gadgets. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Crick Waters - Building the New Voiceware Open the telephony network and create a platform accessible to a community of developers. Crick Waters, co-founder, SVP Strategy and Business Development for Ribbit, believes this vision will lead to a new generation of hybrid communication tools and high value applications, and deliver on the premise that voice has value. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Steve Cousins - An Open Source Platform for Personal Robots Steve Cousins, President and CEO of Willow Garage, wants to build an open source platform that will allow enthusiasts to get inside the code and experiment with robotic devices in the same way that early automobile enthusiasts were able to tinker with their cars. The goal is to provide more opportunity for individuals and groups to build practical robotic applications. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jeremy Kemper - Rails 2 Rails 2 has a lot of things to feel happy about. Jeremy Kemper, one of the earliest and one of the largest contributors to the Ruby on Rails framework, gives a detailed explanation of the new features in Rails 2.0 and 2.1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amra Tareen - Geolocated Citizen Media Allvoices bills itself as "the first open media site where anyone can report from anywhere," but two things that really set it apart are its geolocated citizen media posts from any device, and the zeal of its founder, Silicon Valley veteran Amra Tareen. Learn how her journey from computer scientist to venture capitalist to stereotyped Muslim woman to startup CEO shaped Allvoices. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Howard Bloom - The Global Brain Many of us feel that the Web is ushering in a new era of global consciousness. But Howard Bloom thinks life has been a collective mind from the very beginning. He made the case in his book "Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From the Big Bang To the 21st Century." Host Jon Udell speaks with Bloom who reviews the themes of that book -- group selectionism, complex adaptive systems, collective learning -- and considers what has, and hasn't, changed since the book was publi ... 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 busin