Podcasting is cool
I read about podcasting and Adam Curry's (yes, from MTV history) contribution to it in Wired recently. I found the idea of putting content I selected based on my interests on my mp3 player for listening when it is convenient for me attractive. So, I have started subscribing to some podcasts and listening regularly. I am enjoying it immensely. I highly recommend it. My favorites so far are:
Keepers:
- Adam Curry's Daily Source Code : Entertaining and packed with podcasting info
- ITConversations (o-safe) : Straight up tech speak frequently from the so greats
June 18. 2005:
Brendan Eich, Mozilla Foundation spoke about Building and Surviving Remixable Applications. This presentation will most interesting to those using and, most particularly, contributing to Mozilla based browsers.
June 16, 2005:
Stewart Butterfield, Flickr on Web Servvices as a Strategy for Startups. This was a reasonably good presentation. Short, sweet, but not much new for me.
Tim O'Reilly and Rael Dornfest, O'Reilly Media, deliver a great presentation titled O'Reilly Radar: News from the Future. The talk about design patterns and one of the ideas they play with is the influence of open source on these patterns. Based on looking at what is a common practice and turn that into a prescriptive patterns:
* Design for participation
* Small pieces, loosely joined
-- Architect software or service so it can be added as a component
-- Document interfaces
-- Be modular
-- Using licenses that don't hinder recombination
* User-centered development
-- Release early, release often
-- Set up feedback loops - bug reports, patch submissions
-- Promote most active participants to more roles of more responsibility
* Glue together pieces of other and share
* Perpetual beta - show to the users frequently, react frequently
They deliver good examples and illustrations around each of these.
Doug Engelbart, Bootstrap Institute, on Large-Scale Collective IQ. A very interesting presentation on how we acquire, use, and transcend knowledge. Doug was heavily involved in some of the cornerstone developments of computers like the invention of the mouse. This is an excellent presentation. June 4-5, 2005: Catching up on some podcasts! - Thomas Malone, Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management -- offers us a Perspective on how the reduction in costs to communicate offer interesting opportunities for business. Namely, that the modern technology offers the opportunity for small groups and individuals to behave as they do best in regards to control (small, autonomous, creative, etc.) while interacting and behaving on the behalf of a larger organization. It is the speed at which information is shared that drives such innovation with in a large enterprise. Interesting perspective and a recommended listening.
- Don Katz, Audible.com talks about voice-based web content during a Web Talk. You can almost read this as a talk about podcasting. He talks about Audible's experience and about the future of this type of experience. Good talk.
- Charles Phillips, President, Oracle Corporation talked about, you guessed it, Oracle at Software 2005. This is an interesting presentation if you are interested in Oracle's on-going strategy or ERP architectural concepts in general.
- Paul Graham talks about Hackers and Painters. A good presentation, but after listening I found I was less interested in his thesis and its support. Others, could easily disagree with me.
- Alex Steffen and Bruce Sterling talk about fixing ecological problems at South by Southwest Interactive 2005. Extremely interesting presentation. One of my favorite points made in this presentation is how situations like Philadephia's experience with public wi-fi and Verizon's lobbying may take innovation to so-called developing nations where they would welcome the innovation. Don't get me started on stem-cell research and George W.'s arcane position.
- The Dawn and Drew Show! : Just hilarity
May 1, 2005: They have joined PodShow. This was announced by Adam Curry during his PodShow podcast. Apparently, a number of their listeners think they have sold out. There is nothing wrong with making a living from one's art. There is nothing wrong with being shaped by the receptiveness of others to your work (read as market forces). I find it amazing that some folks place so much credence to some notion that one must take a vow of poverty to be creatively "pure". Money is the medium by which we barter. There is no free ride and to earn a living doing what one loves is cool. - Tracks Up the Tree: Indie music, good variety and generally good choices.
Not for Me'rs:
- L0Life : The author and I share similar social/political bias, but our analysis styles differ. No slight intended at all, just not my cup of tea.
Warning: Some of the podcasts contain language and content some would find objectionable. I thought I should just warn you just in case. I put "o-safe" by those I suspect will never contain content some would consider objectionable.
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ITConversations Podcasts
ITConversations just keeps adding podcasts that I like and my list of likes is growing to be too many for me to list on the main entry. So, here's a list of good ones (I will list favorites in main entry):
Sound Policy: Corporate Blogging
Gordon Moore - Moore's Law, 40 years Later
Tech Nation - April 21, 2005 (especially the Dean Karnazes interview)
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April 23, 2005: Listened to a good speach by Clayton Christensen titled Capturing the Upside where he is talking about disruption and open source. Excellent content. More information including a *.pdf file of his slides.
April 21, 2005: Listened to a good speach by Jonathan Schwartz titled The Participation Age where he talked about how open source enables commerce and how the GPL may place barriers to this enablement.
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May 1, 2005: Listened to a good panel discussion about the The Architecture of Participation. These panelists discussed the importance of participation and things one can and should do to maintain the sense of community. They also discussed mechanisms one should include in the architecture to permit participation. Panelists included:
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Andrew Anker, Executive Vice President, Six Apart
Brian Behlendorf, Founder & CTO, CollabNet
Bob Morgan, Head of WW Business Development, Kodak Mobile Service
Allan Vermeulen, Chief Technology Officer & Vice President, Web Services engineering, Amazon
Also, listened to Mike Milinkovich during an interview about Eclipse including thoughts about the recent show, the path forward and reasons for its success.
April 29, 2005: Listened to a good panel discussion about the Future of Podcasting presented at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival. Panelists included Dannie Gregoire, Tom Parrish, Stephen Dulaney, and Matt May
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May 4, 2005: I listened to a good presentation by Lawrence Lessig titled Web 2.0. In this presentation, Lawrence reviews copyright laws in light of the digital age. His examples and discussion highlight the need for a balanced approach and highlights the impact of some of today's legalistic approaches. Specifically, that if the current trend for making the mixing of non-text material a get permission first approach, we can expect to see barriers that amount to the restriction of expression in ways that may not match our societal goals. It is a relatively short presentation packed with insight.
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May 7, 2005: I listened to Irving Wladawsky-Berger, IBM, talk about The Future of IT in an On-Demand World. He did a good job of not only introducing IBM's take on current technology and where it is going, but he noted the impact of major innovations and changes in society as well. He did not make specific, broad sweeping predictions, but correctly noted that with open source, globalization, and the general pace of technology innovation is shaping a revolution we haven't named nor understand yet. He said the "industrial revolution" was labeled long after it had begun (interesting observation). Good presentation.
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May 18, 2005:(contains a few objectionable words) I listened to a panel discussion titled The Platform Revolution. The panel members:
Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Adam Bosworth, Vice President of Engineering, Google, Inc. K
Kevin Lynch, Executive Vice President & Chief Software Architect, Macromedia, Inc.
John McKinley, Chief Technology Officer & President, AOL Technologies
Halsey Minor, CEO, Chairman, & Founder, Grand Central Communications
bandied about various influences that are influencing the next generation of the web. The notions of multiple devices, richer interfaces, and web service interface styles were amongst the topics. I found the notion that the standards emerging for web services may see less adoption then some seem to predict in the typical high-tech press (read as REST vs WSDL). One of the referenced examples used was the Google web service which provides 2 alternatives for access: XML over http and WSDL. XML over http are used in more the 80% of the existing cases. Why? Complexity. So, now let's pile WS-Security, WS-Reliability, SOAP 1.2, WS-I profiles, SOAP MTOM, etc on the stack and watch adoption climb! Another interesting analogy drawn was the notion that technical progress and innovation are moving forward faster then standards bodies deliver standards. The analogy was that of a animated cartoon character running off the edge of cliff and hanging in the air just briefly before falling. Given the current trends in service oriented architecture, the growing reliance or reference to standards, I find these observations and criticisms interesting and challenging.
May 16, 2005: I listened to a good presentation by Geoffrey Moore titled Open Source Has Crossed the Chasm...Now What? In this presentation, Geoffrey reviews the current state of open source, technical marketing and product strategies, and their alignment. His assessment of the global impact of network and the notion that we want as much of our software environment to be context and shared as possible, while focusing on core (read as where we make money) is right inline with my thinking. Great presentation.
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June 2, 2005: I listened to a good presentation by Lawrence Lessig, Professor, Stanford Law School -- Clearing the Air About Open Source . Copyright law and Disney, public wireless and Verizon, patents and Microsoft... Lawrence builds the case that those of using the software industry, especially those involved in open source need to get in the fight. The fights being waged by Disney, Verizon, Microsoft, and other huge players is rationally targeted at reducing future competition. These groups will play both sides of any argument depending on the issue and the time and its motivated by self-interest. But, it is it the best interest. This is an information packed presentation that should interest any techie with a mild interest in intellectual property.
May 31, 2005: I listened to a good presentation by Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation, titled All Complex Ecosystems Have Parasites. He delivered a hard hitting, accurate portrayal of the multiple viewpoints to intellectual property. I particular found his arguments that the big guys record companies, huge software houses and others are using the law and initiatives like DRM to squelch innovation. I think he's right.
May 24, 2005: I listened to Peter Yared talk about ActiveGrid. He built a great case for horizontal scaling and when it applies. I found his grasp of architecture and modern technology trends refreshing and insightful. I am definitely checking out ActiveGrid now. We are embracing XForms in a big way in my day job and I was happy to hear Peter include them in his mix of technologies for ActiveGrid. I think this is a must listen.
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