Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
Our second podcast pt 1: A conference roundup
We recorded this on Sunday night, but I’ve really struggled with Odeo’s upload tool. In the end, I gave up, uploaded to the Internet Archive and just linked to it via Odeo. (Note: It does take a second or two to load into the Odeo player) The Creative Commons publisher worked a treat, and I’m happy that we’re using CC licencing anyway.
Suw has been on the conference circuit lately. I so glad that she got a new MacBook so we can do video iChat. Otherwise, I’d rarely see her. She’s been to FooCamp, EuroFoo, and EuroOSCON. It’s got her excited about Second Life among other things. And we talk about the devloper-as-journalist Adrian Holovaty.
She just left this morning to go to Shift in Lisbon.. We’ll have to talk about that later.
You can always simply download the podcast here. (20:28 9.8 MB)
We started off thinking that we really didn’t have much to talk about, but in the end, we talked so much that we decided to break up the podcast into two parts. I’ll add the show notes in a bit and post the second part in a bit.
UPDATE: Show notes:
00:30 EuroFoo recap Suw talks about FooCamp and EuroFoo, including talking about the Google Flyover, making a crashed Cylon raider out of beanbags
03:25 Suw talks about a presentation on chocolate. Remember, only losers chew. Real people suck.
07:00 Other topics at EuroFoo, future of spying, Ryan Carson talks about working a four-day week, and ‘Could we build a tricorder?’
08:56 EuroOSCON. Suw discusses Tom Steinberg of MySociety presentation about democratising government. I talk about distributed journalism. I space on the details, but Glyn reminds me in the comments.
11:52 Adrian Holovaty talks about adding structure to the data that journalists gather. Adrian talks about the developer as journalists.
16:40 It’s like Tom Coates who talks about a ‘web of data’. Journalism now is a web of news, Suw says.
The first half ends a bit abruptly, but I’ll post the second half now.
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September 27th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Hey Sue!
Enjoy your podcasts. Sorry to hear that you are having trouble with Odeo. They have a really nice service. Another service I use is ClickCaster (www.clickcaster.com), which provides audio and video podcasting support including hosting, podcast sharing etc. I think you’ll like their service.
Keep up the great work! Talking about Chocolate makes me hungry
Cheers,
PJ Ford
September 27th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
PJ,
Kevin here. Suw’s just arrived in Lisbon. Yeah, last time, I was able to get to Odeo to work only by uploading the audio using Internet Explorer on the PC. This time, no such luck. I read about ClickCaster when I was looking around for alternatives. Thanks for the advice.
k
September 27th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
You forgot to mention the senator who was caught doing the secret hold was Senator Ted Stevens. Mr network neutrality tubes man.
If you don’t have time to watch all 7 mins of it, jump 3:40 into the stream.
http://www.mobuzztv.com/uk/shows/net_shaming_from_craigslist_to_creeps/
September 27th, 2006 at 11:17 pm
Interesting information… I visited Adrian Holovaty’s blog and found it very fascinating. It is great when people like him get employed by companies like the Washington Post who are willing to let them expand horizons.
September 27th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Ah yes, Glynn, distributed memory. There have been a couple of instances of this kind of networked journalism, but this is one of the them.
Chalk up my forgetfulness to a couple of glasses of wine. It was old Ted Stevens.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/08/30/secret.senators/
The identity of the blogosphere’s “secret senator” has been revealed.
CNN has confirmed that Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, has placed a hold on a bill that would require the government to publish online a database of federal spending.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/washington/entries/2006/08/31/byrd_admits_he.html
Looks like Sen Byrd of West Virginia also had a hold on the bill before lifting it.
It looks like NZ Bear and Glenn Reynolds from Porkbusters worked hard on this:
http://porkbusters.org/secrethold.php
I love the quote from Senator Trent Lott getting tired of hearing from them. Damn straight Mr Senator. Go Porkbusters. You only get to vote once every six years for your senator but you can call them up and ask for accountability every single day!
September 28th, 2006 at 2:13 pm
Kevin:
I saw your article after I read Pods and Blogs by Chris. Just wanted to send you a copy of my new blog at blogster.com. It was Chris’s Idea and I am thankful to him and BBC Five Live.
I wrote a blog about Dengue its available at
http://alvarezgalloso.blogster.com/
Please feel free to visit and offer critiques since I am new at this.
Hope everything is great where you are. My Wife and Daughter are doing great.
Best wishes from Miami.
Roberto
PS: I also have another E Mail Address:
rcag62@gmail.com
September 30th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
Aaaah yes, memory. I’m getting forgetful in my old age, so always thankful when someone else fills in the gaps for me.
Just sitting in the hotel in Lisbon, waiting for a taxi to the airport. Been thinking a lot about this first joint podcast and why, if I’m honest, I wasn’t very happy with it. To me, it doesn’t really quite capture the feel of the conversations that Kevin and I usually have… it turned into a bit of an interview, really. Next time, I’m going to ban Kevin from asking questions and see if we can’t improve things. And we should try to cover less ground and talk more in depth about things.
But this is all a learning curve. And despite the fact that I’m convinced it’s more fun to make a podcast than listen to one, we shall carry on.
October 1st, 2006 at 6:42 pm
I have never had luck with Odeo. May I encourage you to try out Evoca. They are a relative newcomer but a fine service. I use them for several purposes. Cheers!