Podcast Update #2

This and all future podcast updates will simply be new posts; no more moving content to comments and updating the same post each time. I am not sure why I started out thinking that was better. Silly me.

I listened to the following podcasts from ITConversations:

Tom Hoffman and Tim Lauer talked about Remixing Wikis with Rendezvous, Web Services and SchoolTool. This was an interesting podcast about how they used Wiki and the other technologies listed in the title to help teachers assign work to students who subsequently used the same technologies to complete their work. Very innovative and interesting. They also mentioned a term called Instiki (corrected spelling thanks to Tom Hoffman, tks) that I will have to learn more about before I can say much.

James Goodnight, CEO SAS, talked about growing and sustaining a business perpetually. If you don't know much about the culture at SAS, this is a very interesting podcast. I am already familiar, not from first hand experience. Still, it was interesting to hear straight from the horse, if you will. Two take-aways: 1) Take care of your people, 2) charge for your license to your software. Interesting comments in these days when open source is so popular.

Bob Cox, Media Bloggers Association , talked about setting up and managing the Media Bloggers. I found the political implications and his discussions about the interaction between some of the mainstream media giants and his bloggers very interesting. He talks about the interaction between bloggers and mainstream media from a variety of aspects. Mainstream media is not always warm to the criticism from these bloggers. And, given the financial assets of existing media giants, they can apply legal pressure directly to individuals and in the shape of legislation. Let's hope it doesn't ultimately mean less free speech. Excellent podcast.

Finally, I am taking Tracks Up a Tree off of my subscription list. I subscribed to check out Indie music. This podcast doesn't pick music that matches my taste in general. I don't think that is a negative criticism, just not a match. I also think there is too little music and too much talk. That can be OK if I find the talk interesting. In this case, I don't. Sorry, Funtime Ben. I am sure many disagree with me. That's cool.