Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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Hugh McGuire - BookOven
Inspired by the success of LibriVox, a project in which collaborators record free audiobooks, Hugh McGuire has embarked on a commercial project: BookOven. In this conversation he tells host Jon Udell about how the new venture enables writers, editors, and proofreaders to work on long-form texts that …
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Episode 67 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss the ethics of Craigslist, the pitfalls of customer-installable software, and caching for anonymous web users.
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Chris Mooney - Unscientific America
Moira interviews Chris Mooney, co-author of Unscientific America, in which he and Sheril Kirshenbaum plead for scientific literacy. The book lays the groundwork for reintegrating science into the public discourse.
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Russ McGuire - Cutting the Cord on Big Bell Dogma
For over 100 years, telecom has been ruled with a monopolist mentality. Russ McGuire, VP of Strategy at Sprint, calls this the Big Bell Dogma and tells how mobile communications break the monopoly and will free us from the past.
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Ellen Miller - A Conversation with Ellen Miller
Tim OReillys advice: pay attention to the disruptive forces of Ellen Miller and the Sunlight Foundation. Why? Because, as Executive Director Miller explains in this Web 2.0 Expo keynote, the Sunlight Foundation is using the internet to create greater transparency and openness, and in turn greater ac …
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Kingsley Idehen - RDFa and Structured Data
Kingsley Idehen thinks the semantic web should make us masters of our own search indexes. Structured data, in other words, is the new SEO (search engine optimization). In this conversation with host Jon Udell, youll learn how a web-friendly format called RDFa, along with business-friendly vocabulari …
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Brian Arthur - The Nature of Technology
Moira speaks with Brian Arthur, author of The Nature of Technology. The former Stanford professor discusses his theory of technologys origins and evolution.
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Episode 66 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss reverse proxies, the pitfalls of self-support communities, and designing for engagement.
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Anup Murarka - The Open Screen Project
Imagine a world in which a single runtime application dynamically publishes your content and services to the mobile, desktop and TV screens. In this eComm 2009 presentation Anup Murarka, Director of Technical Marketing for Mobile and Devices at Adobe, tells developers this dream is becoming a realit …
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Ian Forrester - BBC Backstage
BBC Backstage is the umbrella term for an evolving set of feeds and APIs that the BBC has been offering since 2005. Ian Forrester updates Jon Udell on what progress has been made, and what obstacles remain, as the BBC navigates toward its digital future.
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Eddy Littler - Large Molecules
Moira interviews Dr. Eddy Littler, CEO of DomaineX about the process involved in dissecting large, complex molecules.
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Zack Lynch - The Neuro Revolution
Moira interviews Zack Lynch, co-author of the Neuro Revolution. The book reviews how history has already progressed through an agricultural revolution, an industrial revolution, and an information revolution. The Neuro Revolution foretells a fast approaching fourth epoch, one that will radically tra …
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Brian Ellin, Doug Kaye - RPX and Identity Systems
Brian Ellin from JanRain and Doug Kaye of the Conversations Network discuss some of the technical issues related to implementing OpenID and other identity systems. Doug first talks about some of the problems he experienced when trying to add OpenID to SpokenWord.org and how he was able to solve issu …
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Nat Torkington - Ignite Oscon
What would you talk about if you had only 5 minutes? This group of talks from the first Ignite event at the OReilly Open Source Convention covers an eclectic range of topics, from hacking the Amazon Kindle to DIY wheelchair hacks to repairing a rigged election.
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John Hagel - Shift Index Report 2009
Moira speaks woth John Hagel about the long term trends in technology and the economy. Hagel is Co-chair of Deloittes Center for the Edge and the lead author of the Shift Index Report 2009: Measuring the Forces of Long-Term Change.
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Dr. Belinda Clarke - Healthy Aging
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Dr. Belinda Clarke, Life Science Manager of the East of England Development Agency. She discusses the issues of biotech and healthy aging.
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Silona Bonewald - Data Ownership
Silona Bonewald discusses the issue of data and how it can be used and shared. Beginning with how it is used or misused by banks, she reviews the problems of transparent vs. accessible data and talks about how defining the terms is likely part of the problem. She also discusses the concepts behind o …
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Jonathan Christensen - Codec Evolution and Industry Proposal
Jonathan Christensen is Skypes General Manager for Video and Audio. Listen in as he discusses the history of audio compression, the human voice and Skypes new audio codec to be released for free. Achieving higher quality sound at a more efficient rate included partnership with hardware and software …
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Silona Bonewald - Citability.org
Silona Bonewald wishes that every government website would offer stable permalinks for all published documents. In this conversation with host Jon Udell, she describes her proposal for making that wish come true.
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Douglas Rushkoff - Life Inc.
Moira speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about the role that corporations have started to play in every aspect of our lives.
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
