http://cdn.spokenword.org/images/SpokenWordOnBlack-125x125.jpg http://www.spokenword.org/playlist/14 The Conversations Network no development,digest,programming,technology The Conversations Network webmaster@conversationsnetwork.org (The Conversations Network) http://www.spokenword.org/playlist/14 Once in a while a real gem comes along that I want to recommend to people. You can expect this to be low-volume (maybe an episode a month), but (I hope) fairly interesting. en-us Copyright (c) 2008, The Conversations Network Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:17:06 EDT Mon, 13 Jul 2009 08:17:06 EDT Conversations Network Custom RSS Generator 4.0 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss webmaster@conversationsnetwork.org (The Conversations Network) webmaster@conversationsnetwork.org (The Conversations Network) http://www.spokenword.org/program/1804164 Mike Daisey was a self-described "worshipper in the cult of Mac." Then he saw some photos from a new iPhone, taken by workers at the factory where it was made. Mike wondered: Who makes all my crap? He traveled to China to find out. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1804164 Arts News & Politics Society & Culture no Sun, 8 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST 5 2 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1685220 Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1685220 Education no apple,jobs,pixar,speech,stanford,steve,university 5 1 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1619927 Could you be part of a computer simulation of reality? Sounds unlikely, doesn't it. But Nick Bostrom might make you think again about this. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast he discusses the Simulation Argument. Philosophy Bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1619927 Arts no Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:55:05 EDT 870 5 2 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1611910 Kevin Slavin argues that we're living in a world designed for -- and increasingly controlled by -- algorithms. In this riveting talk from TEDGlobal, he shows how these complex computer programs determine: espionage tactics, stock prices, movie scripts, and architecture. And he warns that we are writing code we can't understand, with implications we can't control. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1611910 Arts/Design Education/Higher Education Science & Medicine/Natural Sciences Technology no Thu, 21 Jul 2011 10:48:00 EDT ted 922 5 1 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1595132 Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1595132 Arts News & Politics Society & Culture no Sun, 24 Jul 2011 20:00:00 EDT 5 4 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1527145 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Om Malik, Patrick Beja and Amber MacArthur The free Internet and the eG8, Zuckerbeg's slaughter diet, digital reputation management, #weinergate, iCloud, Zynga IPO, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twit. For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode. Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious or in our Friendfeed Room. Transcript posted 24 hours after show release by PodsInPrint. Audio bandwidth is provided by Winamp, subscribe to TWiT and all your favorite podcasts with the ultimate media player, download it for free at Winamp.com. Running time: 1:43:47 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1527145 Technology/Tech News no Sun, 29 May 2011 23:13:20 EDT johnC.Dvorak,kevinRose,leoLaporte,patrickNorton,techtv,twit 6227 5 1 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1443305 This episode covers Bitcoin, a digital, decentralized currency. In our conversation with Gavin Andresen, the technical lead of the project, we cover basic economics of money, the way users interact with Bitcoin, as well as the technical implementation of the system. Bitcoin uses a couple of clever ideas about implementing distributed clocks and global ordering, and is a very nice example of applied cryptography. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1443305 Science & Medicine Science & Medicine/Natural Sciences no Sat, 19 Mar 2011 03:34:49 EDT podcast,podcasten 5339 5 1 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1441761 We talk to Stephen Wolfram, scientist, inventor, author, and business leader. Guest: Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram|Alpha Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Running time: 56:29 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1441761 no Thu, 17 Mar 2011 19:34:21 EDT 4 1 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1394510 Dr. Michael Brown of Caltech shares the inside story of how he discovered "other Pluto's" out there beyond Neptune, including Eris, which is now known to be about the same size as Pluto. He named that new world for the goddess of discord, because, as he describes with his characteristic humor, its discovery resulted in a private and public controversy that led to a redefinition of what a planet is. Recorded January 19, 2011. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1394510 Science & Medicine/Natural Sciences no Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:55:57 EST amesResearchCenter,andrewFraknoi,astronomicalSocietyOfThePacific,astronomy,cosmology,foothillCollege,nasa,publicLectures,setiInstitute,solarSystem,spaceScience,talksByAstronomers,universe 5 3 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1360998 Andy Glover talks with the former JBoss CTO, Sacha Labourey, about his new endeavor, CloudBees, a Java Platform as a Service for both enterprises and ISVs, from development to production. Sacha talks about Hudson (an open source Continuous Integration project), the importance of a complete set of tools for the application lifecycle in the cloud, and also shares his thoughts on the Google app engine, Oracle-Sun and Java politics, and more. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1360998 Technology/Software How-To no Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:00:00 EST andyglover,cloudbees,cloudcomputing,developerworks,googleappengine,hudson,ibm,java,jboss,opensource,sachalabourey,scottlaningham,software,softwaredevelopment 1773 4 1 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1383559 Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt Columnist and law professor at the University of Ottawa, Dr. Michael Geist, who exposed the details of ACTA to the public, is this week's guest. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 53:18 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1383559 Technology/Tech News no Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:28:20 EST 3198 4 1 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1310666 Out of all the elements on earth, why does gold hold such a privileged place in human history? Is it just a fluke, or is there something more fundamental going on? On today's Planet Money, we try to find out. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1310666 Business News & Politics Society & Culture no Tue, 16 Nov 2010 19:24:48 EST allThingsConsidered,districtOfColumbia,economics,elements,freshAir,gold,money,morningEdition,nationalPublicRadio,npr,planetMoney,washington 1155 4 2 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/353854 Lempel-Ziv data compression, one of the most prevalent computer algorithms of all time. Security Now wiki shownotes For 16kpbs versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com, also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Bandwidth for Security Now! is provided by AOL Radio. Hosts: Steve Gibson with Leo Laporte Running time: 45:50 http://www.spokenword.org/program/353854 no Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:50:29 EDT 4 1 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1162276 Podcast (MP3): Download Hosts: robert.blumen Guests: Dwight Merriman Recording venue: MongoSF 2009 Dwight Merriman talks with Robert about the emerging NoSQL movement, the three types of non-relational data stores, Brewer's CAP theorem, the weaker consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, document-oriented data stores, the data storage needs of modern web applications, and the open source MongoDB. Links MongoDB Brewer's presentation on the CAP theorem 10-gen NoSQL - the Shift to a Non-Relational World by Dwight Merriman A series of blog posts on consistency in a distributed database (see entries from March 26 to April 15, 2010) Slides and video from MongoSF 2010 NoSQL hub NoSQL mailing list on Google Follow Dwight Merriman on twitter 10-gen's blog http://www.spokenword.org/program/1162276 no Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:54:35 EDT architecture,concurrency,development,embedded,engineering,enterprise,languages,mda,mdsd,patterns,programming,scripting,soa,software,systems,testing 5 1 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1055004 The group discusses tablet-style computers, including the Entourage eDGe, comparing them with the newly released iPad. They also review various apps, as well as the App Store concept. In addition, they assess some recent JavaScript changes and issues. http://www.spokenword.org/program/1055004 Technology no Tue, 27 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EDT internet-web,personalTechnology,softwareDevelopment 2883 4.2 5 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1087079 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Cory Doctorow and Robert Scoble Facebook privacy and Zuckerberg's feedback, Google I/O TV and Android/Froyo announcements, Skyping naked, and more. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/twit. For additional show notes, visit the wiki page for this episode. Links to stories we covered (and then some) are available from Delicious or in our Friendfeed Room. Transcript posted 24 hours after show release by PodsInPrint. Bandwidth for TWiT is provided by AOL Music and Spinner.com and Cachefly.com Running time: 1:46:11 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1087079 Technology/Tech News no Sun, 23 May 2010 23:46:51 EDT dvorak,john,kevin,laporte,leo,norton,patrick,rose,techtv,twit 6371 4 1 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1053205 Last week while I was stranded by the volcano, I did an interview with the TVOntario Search Engine podcast about the iPad and why I thought that its policy and infrastructure should make it a no-go zone for publishers, users and authors. MP3 Link http://www.spokenword.org/program/1053205 Arts/Literature no Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:21:59 EDT audiobook,corydoctorow,doctorow,sciencefiction,stories 4.6667 3 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1003716 For our fourth episode, we decided to try making a long, in-depth show about those squiggly word puzzles you find all over the internet, called CAPTCHAs. This is our first show that contains interviews, including of the happy fellow you see above, Dr. Andrei Broder, the Chief Scientist at Yahoo!. You’ll hear from him quite [...] http://www.spokenword.org/program/1003716 Technology/Tech News no Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:32:48 EDT code,geek,geeky,hacker,linux,open,programmer,programming,software,source 4 3 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/1005862 Back in the days of yore, those of us of a certain (golden) age started our lives in computers with an ancient beige box which typically came pre-installed with BASIC. The old-school programming orientated environment gave many of us our first taste of programming, logic and an interest in our binary guzzling circuit-laden friends. Jono [...] http://www.spokenword.org/program/1005862 Comedy News & Politics Technology/Tech News yes Fri, 19 Mar 2010 06:00:31 EDT canonical,comedy,commentary,computers,debian,fedora,hat,linux,mac,novell,open,opensuse,operating,red,software,source,suse,systems,technology,ubuntu,windows 3.5 2 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/921647 IBM tech evangelist Turbo Todd Watson gives his thumbs up/thumbs down for 2009 http://www.spokenword.org/program/921647 Technology/Software How-To no Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:00:00 EST amazon.com,blackberry,bold,developerworks,development,drm,ibm,internet,ipod,laningham,media,privacy,scott,social,software,techmeme,todd,touch,turbo,twitter,watson 514 4.5 2 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/845806 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. http://www.spokenword.org/program/845806 Technology no Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT internet-web,softwareDevelopment 2680 4.25 4 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/866425 Today, Ammon Shea with Oxford University Press on why "unfriend" from the world of social media is the 2009 Word of the Year, and why "netbook," "intexticated," and "sexting" were also considered for the honor. http://www.spokenword.org/program/866425 no Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:13:34 EST computers,digital,jonGordon,news,npr,publicRadio,software 4 2 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/326562 Joel and Jeff sit down with Damien Katz to discuss non-conventional databases, non-conventional programming languages, and taking on non-conventional programming projects. http://www.spokenword.org/program/326562 Technology no Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:00:00 EDT internet-web,softwareDevelopment 4072 4 3 4 http://www.spokenword.org/program/368176 Hosts: Randal Schwartz "DHH" talks about Ruby on Rails, 37Signals, and how he came late to coding. TWiT Wiki for this show Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com. Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Running time: 1:17:39 http://www.spokenword.org/program/368176 Technology/Tech News no Sat, 25 Jul 2009 14:32:36 EDT code,linux,open,software,source 4.5 6 5 http://www.spokenword.org/program/317820 Hosts: Leo Laporte, Randal Schwartz, and Jono Bacon. Tim O'Reilly talks about open source and the future of web technologies. Guest: Tim O'Reilly. Tim O'Reillyis the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media. He works to spread knowledge on past, present, and future technologies though his company. Beyond publishing is recognized as a leading visionary for future technology trends. He is an advocate of open source, open standards, and is pushing for intellectual property reform. TWiT Wiki for this show Here's what's coming up for FLOSS in the future. Think your open source project should be on FLOSS Weekly? Email Randal at merlyn@stonehenge.com. Thanks to Cachefly for providing the bandwidth for this podcast, and Lullabot's Jeff Robbins, web designer and musician, for our theme music. Running time: 57:28 http://www.spokenword.org/program/317820 Technology/Tech News no Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:05:05 EDT code,linux,open,software,source 4.3333 3 5