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Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:20:21 +0000

[...] -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. [...]

By: Mike Seyfang

Mike Seyfang — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:42:57 +0000

What is the SKU for LiveWriter?

By: Rick Clise

Rick Clise — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:48:10 +0000

Howdy team – Was pleased to hear Kent being a little less agitated this podcast – was worried that we’d have to engage the Blow Out Preventer during the previous episode – so many “frickin’s” that I was getting even MY blood pressure was rising.

Need your help about something – why is it that the owner/operators of cool technology sites like delicious (oops, can’t find my full stop key in time) Evernote, Live Writer, etc. can’t be bothered to write a little more bit about the app to explain to folks like me what the thing actually does and how it fits into the bigger tech world? Following Kent’s rave, Live Writer looks interesting, but can I live without it? Not sure from what little is written on the Microsoft Live website about it… Can’t they afford to hire a tech writer?

I know, I’m just an old grumpy bugger with a short attention span.

Re the on-line back-up discussion – I’ve been a Carbonite user for about 6 months or so. There’s about 80GB backed-up, but I’ve never had to do a restore. That will be the test! The initial upload from when I first signed-up and paid my $ took about 4 days before the back-up was completed. Wondering if I ever have to do a Restore if I can wait 4 days without the PC… Might just get a big second hard disk.

Read an interesting article about the organisation that was previously known as ‘Evil’ Comcast from a fairly recent issue of ‘Vanity Fair’ (wonderful investigative writing if you don’t know the mag) – someone wondered why their bit torrent-like transfers always bombed at the end. He did some packet sniffing and found and proved that Comcast was actually sabotaging transfers like this. Resulted in a big poo-storm with Comcast being outed as a network censor. Good news that they responded to Kent’s complaint about their service.

But I was wondering if you guys have become Short Head Influencers (vs Long Tail Noisemakers) as in, would someone complaining who wasn’t doing a regular podcast about technical stuff listened to by lots of people (many who might be raking their leaves – thanks Mike for the tip of the hat!) get the same executive level response from a large tech company like Comcast? I’m guessing the answer would be ‘no’ but I’d love to be wrong.

Carry-on the good work! Waiting with rake-in-hand for the next episode!

Cheers, Rick