4.5 stars
feb 12 - good stackoverflow podcast mostly on why email is bad. insightful, funny conversation
- "supporting e-mail too aggressively will break the bonds of your social community"
- "that's why I have such a hate-hate relationship with e-mail"
- joel seems to be retiring his blog, nice to see people move on in their projects
- "if all my e-mails were 140 characters, I would be much happier"
- "e-mail etiquette: don't send a person you don't know a wall of text"
- "kids born in 1987 view e-mail as a way to talk to old people"
- "don't get me started about twitter" (spolsky)
- "I have a secretary read me my tweets" (spolsky)
- "stackoverflow is one of few websites that does not require e-mail for registration"
- "we only know who you are by your browser cookie"
- "what's the difference between wave and buzz? it's like it's the same thing and they don't know it"
- "I don't think google is very good at social software"
- "friend, what's a friend? we just have similar interest sets"
- "why e-mail won't go away: everyone has an inbox and they always check it"
- "he's this old guy and he spent the whole time in the recovery room on facebook"
- "this new concept of friends is broken, we're just people with shared interest sets, is there not a word for that?"
- "getting e-mail through to hotmail was tough"
Notes on other podcasts:
- apr 5 - good colin marshall podcast with seth godin on Linchpin, a book about art, life and making a difference
- mar 10 - awesome podcast: david siegel talking on the semantic web in a way that finally makes sense
- mar 10 - good podcast interview with Michael Steinbecker on decline of french cuisine
- mar 9 - good colin marshall podcast interviewing Ian Ayres on coming importance of supercrunching and statistics
- mar 8 - nice Colin Marshall interview with Edward Champion on interviewing, authenticity and the cultural/intellectual scene
- mar 5 - very informative podcast on copyright law in software/music business, brad frazer eloquent and knowledgable on topic
- mar 2 - very interesting podcast on the ZBS Foundation, makers of quality radio fiction, never heard of them before
- feb 28 - entertaining dan carlin history podcast on the age of discovery: globalization 1.0
- feb 27 - interesting podcast on ways to deal with large amount of info, feeds, tweets in our lives, lots of ideas
- feb 27 - good dotnet rocks podcast on the #vs2010 launch in april and what's new in .NET 4
- feb 27 - good podcast on the role of a chief cultural officer and why companies need one
- feb 26 - good colin marshall podcast with author of book on why time moves forward
- feb 12 - good stackoverflow podcast mostly on why email is bad. insightful, funny conversation
- feb 11 - good herding code podcast on IOC, Git vs. mercurial, clojure's relationship to lisp
- feb 9 - good podcast on how to approach philosophy and the big questions from the standpoint of math and physics
- feb 1 - good herdingcode podcast with rob conery, part1: nosql, part2: asp.net mvc good / webforms bad
- feb 3 - very interesting podcast on reactive extensions for .NET (Rx) aka linq to events, i.e. event-based programs using observable collections
- jan 28 - another podcast on the ipad aftermath, nice conversation, also on the mobile space (Phil Windley, Scott Lemon)
- feb 8 - good philosophy podcast discussion on the relationship between hume and rousseau, good conversation, lucid
- feb 8 - good stackoverflow podcast, lots on apple, generally positive toward the ipad
Most of what I currently listen to is .NET related and quite a bit on technology in general and how it is impacting society. I listen to an occasional historical or philosophical podcast.
I record these notes as a way of extracting the gems and remember facts from these podcasts: phrases that ring true or new terms that I look up later. If you see someone walking around Berlin speaking short phrases into his cell phone every couple minutes, that's me.
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