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girijad83, February 17, 2006
Reviewer: girijad83
from India
This podcast by itconversations.com, with intermittent posts, provides a discussion on various topics related to technology, with each broadcast focusing on a specific technology, its application, and advantages and disadvantages. The latest clip (during the writing of this review) focuses on open source software, mainly the world of Linux, and the open source Helix products by RealNetworks. The previous broadcasts include topics like CD-R's, how reliable they are as a backup, the disadvantages of generic disks, the differences between a fast and a slow CD-R drive, to name a few things; and a conversation with Eric Rice, founder of Audioblog.com, who discusses the technology behind it, and its applications.
The content, like the content of other podcasts by ITC, are technically flawless and technologically enticing. However, as some other ITC podcasts that I have reviewed, this podcast takes the beating when one considers its audio quality. The sound of the host, once again, contains some static noise, and the voice of the person being interviewed is at a different volume level and quality due to him or her being interviewed through either telephone or net telephony.
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Dr. Marco Iacoboni - Mirroring People
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with UCLA's Dr. Marco Iacoboni about mirror neurons: the cells in our brains which enable us to comprehend how others are feeling. 
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Paul Goldstein - A Patent Lie
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Stanford Law School's Lillick Professor Paul Goldstein, about his latest legal thriller: "A Patent Lie."
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Dr. Colin Garner - Reducing Animal Testing
Thu, Jul 24, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Colin Garner, CEO at Xceleron, about new technologies which would reduce the need for animal testing.
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Episode Fifteen - StackOverflow
Wed, Jul 23, 2008
It's the special listener question show! Joel and Jeff answer questions from the audience on making the transition from developer to manager, how to Get Things Done, the hidden value of in-person code reviews, and more.
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Robert Scoble - Apple iPhone 3G
Tue, Jul 22, 2008
A year ago, Apple released the iPhone to both critical and consumer acclaim. On July 11, 2008, the company came out with an upgraded version that promised faster speeds as well as third party applications. Tech geek and blogger Robert Scoble joins Phil and Scott to discuss both the device itself, as well as the social phenomenon that has people lining up for a second year in a row.
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Vocal Joysticks, Shock Therapy & Mad Kayakers - IEEE Spectrum Radio
Mon, Jul 21, 2008
On this episode of IEEE Spectrum, learn about controlling a computer mouse by voice, a better alternative to electroshock therapy, and citizen clean water activism. A new software program designed to compliment voice recognition software lets users control a mouse by making vowel sounds and clicks. Also, magnetic seizure therapy has been as effective as electroshock therapy in patients who don't respond to medication, but without the threat of amnesia.
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Lada Adamic - A Closer Look at Online Social Activity.
Sat, Jul 19, 2008
Lada Adamic, assistant professor at the University of Michigan, discusses the psychological impact of online social communication on individual behavior. She relates how information flow and information diffusion through the channels of online blogs, question and answer forums, and email communication on the Web can influence the choices we make.
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John Faughnan - Knowledge Representation in Health Care
Fri, Jul 18, 2008
Physician and medical informatician John Faughnan is an eclectic and engaging thinker and writer. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, he converses with host Jon Udell about the progress of knowledge representation and information exchange in the field of health care, and about personal strategies for memory management and effective communication.
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William Gibson - Cyberspace, and the Post-Internet Age
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with William Gibson, author of the books "Neuromancer" and "Spook Country," about where we are headed in this post-internet age.
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Dr. Lee Goldstein - Diagnosing Alzheimer's
Thu, Jul 17, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lee Goldstein, from Neuroptix Corporation, about a problem five million Americans cope with, and for which there is no definitive diagnostic test - until possibly now. Goldstein explains what we know today about Alzheimer's, and that which we didn't five years ago.
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Episode Fourteen - StackOverflow
Wed, Jul 16, 2008
Joel and Jeff discuss hiding and disabling of menu items, whether conversational communication styles are destroying writing on the web, and the eternal flame of software engineering: the object to relational mapping problem.
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Ben Galbraith, Scott Lemon - Talking Browsers
Tue, Jul 15, 2008
Scott Lemon is not happy with Firefox 3.0 and he, Ben, and Phil use his dissatisfaction to begin a discussion of browsers and other tech topics. Phil gives some statistics of browser usage on his blog Technometria, and they talk about Canvas (the HTML element, not the material), as well as a number of other related subjects.
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Jonathan Christensen - Ten Years of Internet Communications
Mon, Jul 14, 2008
At the Emerging Communications Conference 2008, Jonathan Christensen, General Manager of audio and video at Skype, speaks about the development of IP communications over the past 10 years, giving a brief history of VoIP. He talks about its evolution from being a technology for geeks only, to a mainstream application, and concludes the talk by discussing the threats and opportunities for the IP communications industry.
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Tim O'Reilly, Bruce Chizen - The Future of Rich Online Documents
Sat, Jul 12, 2008
At the Tools of Change Conference 2007 Tim O'Reilly interviews Bruce Chizen, then CEO of Adobe Systems Inc., about the revolution in the publishing industry and Adobe's products. Through their publishing solutions, Adobe has a strong influence on both the print and online worlds. Listen to the story of the transition from Postscript and PDF to Adobe AIR and Digital Editions, which can be seen as the transition from print to electronic publishing.
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Dan Bricklin - Audio Recording Techniques
Fri, Jul 11, 2008
On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell speaks with VisiCalc co-creator Dan Bricklin. They talk about one of the key challenges of capturing and publishing spoken-word audio: enabling non-experts to make good audio recordings. Discussed are tools and techniques for recording, and strategies for getting other people up to speed with them.
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Carl Zimmer - On Ecoli
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with author Carl Zimmer about Ecoli: the good, the bad, and the under appreciated.
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Jim Greenwood, Josh Boger - BIO 2008
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
On BioTech Nation, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with BIO's Jim Greenwood, and Josh Boger from Vertex Pharmaceuticals during the anual International BIO Conference 2008.
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Paul Tan - Approaches to Diabetes
Thu, Jul 10, 2008
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Paul Tan, CEO of Living Cell Technologies, who have a new innovative approach to diabetes.
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Episode Thirteen - StackOverflow
Wed, Jul 9, 2008
Joel and Jeff discuss whether or not Joel is a Kiwi, how to have a meaningful beta (with versioning, even), some techniques for building engaging social websites, revisit the classic 12 part Joel Test, and the amazing-- but all too short-- life of Alan Turing.
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Luke Kanies - Puppet
Tue, Jul 8, 2008
Puppet is an automated administrative engine for systems, performs administrative tasks (such as adding users, installing packages, and updating server configurations) based on a centralized specification. Luke Kanies, who founded Reductive Labs, has been doing server automation for years, and Puppet is the result of his frustration with existing tools. He joins Phil, Scott, and Ben to discuss it.
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Steve Yegge - How to Ignore Marketing and Become Irrelevant in Two Easy Steps
Mon, Jul 7, 2008
If you're a software developer, you probably already know who Steve Yegge is. Developers all over the world spend a lot of their time reading or commenting on his blog when they're not writing code. A senior software engineer at Google, an ex-Amazon employee, one of the most widely read bloggers, an excellent hacker, and an outrageously funny chap, Steve talks about why branding is so important.
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Stephen M. Omohundro - The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence
Fri, Jul 4, 2008
Dr. Stephen Omohundro tells what characteristics a self improving artificial intelligence will need and how we can shape it to include human values. The economic rational theory that has trouble explaining many human actions is the key theory that will guide the actions of a self improving AI. He explains the emergent attributes such an AI with preferences and beliefs will exhibit, and how to prevent the nightmare scenarios that movies and fiction writers have long feared.
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Rick Falkvinge - Copyright Regime vs. Civil Liberties
Thu, Jul 3, 2008
Rick Falkvinge is a Swedish politician who recently founded a new party. Its values include freedom, upholding laws, and rights to privacy. These may sound like safe and just laws - things that are constant and don't need defending; so what's jeopardizing them? According to Falkvinge, that would be copyrights and patents.
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Episode Twelve - StackOverflow
Wed, Jul 2, 2008
Joel and Jeff discuss Macbook Air overheating and undervolting, constructive criticism, and engage in an extended discussion of Joel's management training program reading list. If you love classic books, this is the podcast you're looking for.
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Trojans, DVD Wars & Interactive Light Displays - IEEE Spectrum Radio
Tue, Jul 1, 2008
Sony's Blu-Ray defeats HD-DVD, but will downloadable movies make that victory moot? On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio, targeted trojan horse attacks are a growing security threat and have expanded the spyware vocabulary. Also, an interview with Ash Nehru of UnitedVisualArtists on their interactive light exhibits.
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Michael Shiloh - OpenMoko: Open Mobile Computing
Mon, Jun 30, 2008
Cell phone handset manufacturers don't know what features future applications will use, and developers can't build those applications without having hardware support. In this talk from the Emerging Communications Conference, Michael Shiloh of OpenMoko tells how their open hardware platform solves this "chicken and egg" problem.
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Jim Zemlin - The New Era of Linux
Sun, Jun 29, 2008
During the first stage of Linux, openness and a superior development methodology created a new technology product that changed the world. The next stage will be a battle between two platforms and ideologies, with Linux representing openness and Microsoft representing closedness. Jim Zemlin of the Linux Foundation tells how Ubuntu is leveraging the strengths of the Linux platform while buttressing its weaknesses.
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Jeff Patterson - Valuing Content in a Web-enabled World
Sat, Jun 28, 2008
With the web upending traditional distribution models, publishers need to understand how their content is valued by the audience. In this talk, Jeff Patterson, CEO of Safari Books Online, shares research on the information seeking habits of their client base of IT professionals. As users weigh the worth of information in exchange for their time, money and attention, publishers must grasp not just what is sold, but what is read, used and reused.
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Susan Gerhart - As Your World Changes
Fri, Jun 27, 2008
As macular degeneration erodes Susan Gerhart's vision, she's shifting into audio mode. On this edition of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks about what she has learned about adaptive technologies, and ask her about her blog, As Your World
Changes.
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Nicholas Carr, Chris Meyer - Technology's Potential to Reshape Business
Thu, Jun 26, 2008
Attempting to predict how technology will impact business in the future, is a daunting task. However, with the Internet, many consider the rate of change too rapid to even accept the challenge. Still, there are precedents to understand hyper-change and guide our expectations. Controversial analysts Nicholas Carr and Christopher Meyer offer their theories on the implications for business after everything is connecte |