Podcast Update

• Anne Thomas Manes talked about Web Services and Open Source. As she normally does, she did an excellent job of quickly, accurately, and thoroughly covering the topic. However, the presentation is from August 2003 and if you follow web services and open source, you can tell the material is dated. However, many of the issues the viral influence of the GPL and corporate embracing of open source are still current. Good presentation.
• Bran Ferren, CCO (Chief Creative Officer - cool title), Applied Minds, Inc., delivered a presentation titled Web2.0 High Order Bit. He built the case that really good devices are frequently specifically designed for their targeted use. And, that the notion that a general purpose device withy general input devices like the mouse dramatically limit the usability of the computer for many of its current uses. He is right! Try to draw a picture with a mouse. Or, how many of use have drawn something on paper to scan it in. I know I have done it. Great presentation.
• Daniel Golding and Trent Henry, Senior Analysts at the Burton Group, delivered a presentation on Security and Network Perspectives on Spam. This was a great informative presentation about what is happening to prevent spam and its influence on business and our mailboxes. They mentioned the Sender Policy Framework, an open source project for adding some safety by registering email producers and setting up some sort of reputation service accordingly. This presentation will be of interest to anyone listening to the Daily Source Code and gaining interest in this issue as a result. Adam Curry has started a thread in his podcast on this email issue and the economy developing around it. Great presentation.
• Danny O'Brien, Activism Coordinator for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, delivers a geekish funny keynote On Evil. If you closely follow open source (and I do mean closely), this is a very funny presentation. If you sort of follow it, then you won't get many of the punch lines. The presentation was right on target for its venue, O'Reillys 2005 Open Source Convention. For the general techie that I know, I suspect you will have more questions about the material behind the jokes. No slight to Danny. I believe he did a great job and for this venue, this was a great presentation. I enjoyed and missed many of the punch lines. :(
• Dr. Moira Gunn talks to Scott Ritter, a former UN Weapons Inspector in Iraq. This was a very interesting presentation. What I found most interesting was Scott's assertions that the Bush administration was not really interested in the "real" findings of the weapon search given is bend toward regime change. I think he also validates that Saddam didn't help but not disclosing information in a manner that easily garnered trust from anyone.
• Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Tiffany Schlain, founder of the Webby Awards. This conversation included reminescing about what the web was like several years ago and how that contrasts with today. Tiffany has clearly been intimately in line with the journey and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to her perspectives. It was also interesting to her defend why Al Gore recently received an award for his real contributions to the Internet. Apparently, he didn't fully deserve the ribbing he got.
• Jamais Cascio, WorldChanging, talked about Personal Memory Assistants. This is the best presentation I have listened to in some time. Jamais talks about how technology is creating a situation where we can basically have TIVO for our live not just our TV's. He alludes to Orwell's 1984, but points out that what is happening is that little brother and little sister are the ones really watching each other. He notes several happenings in recent times that demonstrate attempted misuse of video recordings that were debunked by the milieu of other recordings of the same event. He builds on this theme to build the case that the time may becoming when dishonesty will be difficult. What if your finance and google your "real" history! Great job Jamais.
• Joichi Ito talks about The Future of Blogging. This interesting presentation talks about how the edges of mainstream are taking on more and more importance. Further, he notes that people no longer want the information sources to come from centralized giants. They want to participate and view the information of other participants. I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation.
• Larry Magid, Larry's World, talks with Saul Klein, VP Marketing at Skype, about (OK, you can guess) Skype. It was nice to listen to a Skype insider talk about its emergence and future. Very interesting.
• Leslie Lamb, Risk Manager at Cisco Systems, talks about Managing Risk in an Uncertain World. It was an interesting presentation, but mostly if you are a risk manager. She definitely knows her stuff. She stepped to deliver the presentation as the original speaker, from Cisco as well, was doing volunteer work to help Katrina recovery. Cisco is a great company and this presentation demonstrated why in more then one way.
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