Podcast Update # 7

More ITConversations

• JonathanSchwartz, president of Sun Microsystems, participates in an interview during which he talks about how technology has influenced more and more decentralization thought the work place and society. He also talks about blogging. In fact, he doesn't see how one can lead these days without it. Interesting idea. I know there are many executives that do not blog today. Good presentation.
• Zoe Trippi, former campaign for Howard Dean, talks about how blogging and the internet has created more opportunities for grass root political movements. Some surprises include his reference to overloading the accounting folks when a campaign has to comply with a law that indicates you have to provide paper evidence for each contribution. That system works well, perhaps, when all the donations are large and from a relatively small number of contributors. What happens if the they are small and from many contributors as was the case with Dean's campaign.
• Gurinder Shahi talks with Dr. Moira Gunn about biotech in India. Interesting demonstration of India's continued movement into high tech and industry.
• David Coursey, tech journalist and author, was interviewed by Rob Greenlee. David had some rather terse and negative comments about the future of blogging and podcasting. Basically, he believes they will become domains for what will essentially become part of the main stream media staffed by "pros". Further, he does think RSS and its use to support a subscription model is all that innovative or new as it applies to podcasting. I think David speaks for a few. Yes, a few folks will put their toe in the water and find that it's too cold to continue. But, I suspect he is missing the mark in general.
  
  Equally interesting in his presentation is where he refers to the over exuberant, naive promoters of podcasting If he isn't thinking specifically of Adam Curry, I would be extremely surprised. David also mentions how most of the things he have been involved in ceased to exist, hum... Anyway, Adam commented on this podcast during one of his podcasts as well. Obviously, he disagreed. However, he did not get defensive or offensive. Adam does a very good job responding to criticism if you ask me.