EELS070
Thursday 13 Aug 2009

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 EELS070 [65:06m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dave, Mike and Kent get together for this week’s conversation.

Dave has a new headset (Plantronics DSP400). High fidelity ensues.

Mike has been preparing for The University of Adelaide’s Open
Day and enjoying Science
Alive.

Social media marketing for District
9,
complete with confiscation of cell phones. Tweets ensue.

The Newsome family’s trip to New Braunfels, and the Comal River. Cassidy is a daredevil.

The Palm Pre pulls an ET, and phones home. Outrage ensues.

Facebook and the happiness or lack thereof behind the walls. Kent sort of
defends Facebook. Pigs take flight.

Facebook buys Friendfeed. Slumber ensues.

Delicious founder rethinks sale to Yahoo. Is Delicious relevant anymore?
Dave shows A.Tinythread.Com to Mike and Kent. Are we seeing the rebirth of
the message board? Mike likes RSS and messy things, and finds the
in-between things wanting. Usability does not always define the experience.

RSS is wonderful, but does anyone care? Kent and Mike mourn the treatment
of RSS. Dave says RSS is the infrastructure, not so much the destination.

Are stand alone RSS readers dead? Kent says it’s about monetization and
Google’s big war chest full of free. Dave and Mike praise
NetNewsWire.
Mike likes the archival abilities.

Dave is looking at microphones. Various alternatives are discussed. SAMSON C01U, RODE Podcaster or BEHRINGER C1U. Samson get points for being social.

Kent and Dave talk about how to make everything
better.
They have many good ideas for developers to ignore in favor of another
useless sharing feature.

Profiles: Facebook, Google Profiles, or just a free range web page? Dave
and Kent explore Google Profiles. More on this next time.

Pre Microsoft DOS for sale on eBay. Kent misses DOS. Dave tells the story
of how Microsoft acquired DOS.

The problem with YouTube.
Another problem is the music labels. YouTube’s audio swapper is a somewhat
acceptable work-around.

Kids think outside the box. Maybe that’s why they are the innovators.

Acknowledgements

- Image by me
- Thanks for the show notes Kent
- Intro music “Wake Up Now”, by steck [Graham Steel; Scotland; macblawg], via macjams.com.

EELS069

Kookaburras have a gay life

Thursday Jul 30 2009

Just how gay is a Kookaburra’s life?

 

 Standard Podcast [92:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dave, Kent & Mike are joined by VinBrown and talk tech news – mostly. With the odd rant on Kookaburras and the Lifekludger wiki launch.

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree,Merry merry king of the bush is he.Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,Gay your life must be!

EEL 067

Thursday 18th June

The Extraordinary Everyday Lives Show #067 – Last Mile Communication Breakdown

 

 

 

 Standard Podcast [71:15m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

 
*Telstra should be shot

-is this me? http://xkcd.com/597/

 

*Genevieve Bell, Adelaide Thinker In Residence, Intel fellow. .. “the Internet has gone feral”

-Your invitation to a free public lecture by Dr Genevieve Bell in Adelaide early July -> http://bit.ly/13VQdJ #sastories (via @fang)

 

* Making Dave’s wheelchair a wifi hotspot SSID=LifeKludger

Get a battery powered device

Stick Telstra NextG card in

Rack up bills and get Telstra to pay em

- verizon mifi xyz

 

*Facebook vanity urls. Is it all vanity?

 

*Gran Torino was not overacted!  Gran Torino (3)- overacting and the unnecessary verbalization of the obvious makes a great concept only a pretty good movie (nice ride, though). 

-watch taken

-august rush

 

*iPhone 3S

 

*Rick Clise comment. Short head/Long tail discussions.

-http://extraordinary.thepodcastnetwork.com/2009/06/04/163/#comments

 
*LearnDog / PlanetMuse:
- and update from mike
- a possible skype interview with Dean
- an .mp3 or two

 

Senator Nick Xenophon at PlanetMuse launch party

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 8:28 PM

Last week I attended the PlanetMuse launch party courtesy of the LearnDog foundation. I have just been given a video recording of proceedings from which I extracted some audio of Senator Nick Xenophon speaking. I was quite impressed with the connections the good Senator made in relation to Gladwell’s tipping point and Winston Churchill’s wrestling with [...]

 

LearnDog and PlanetMuse – patterns beginning to emerge

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:50 AM

Just returned from the mysterious ‘PlanetMuse’ party at the Underground in Adelaide, supported by the LearnDog foundation. If you know me will you will understand this is of great interest to me because I left a great job at Microsoft and a 25 year career in I.C.T. to spend a very difficult year (2005/06) as [...]

 

*Mike’s iPhone 3.0 updated during the show.

 

Acknowledgements

- Image from flickr by dhutchman

- Intro music “Wake Up Now”, by steck [Graham Steel; Scotland; macblawg], via macjams.com.