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Internet Retailer Conference 2008: Keynote by Mike Boylson
I'm at the Internet Retailer this week at the McCormick Center in Chicago. I haven't been to an industry conference like this since 2000. The opening by Jack Love was, frankly, a throw away. Nothing like a Phil Becker... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 10, 2008 8:19 AM
Final: 2008 Utah State Republican Convention
Greg Curtis and John Valentine, House Speaker and Senate President(click to enlarge) I'm at the Utah State Party Convention this morning. There are literally thousands of people here. Traffic was backed up off the exit ramp near UVU (where... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 10, 2008 10:41 AM
Taking Search to New Frontiers: Dr. Harry Shum (Microsoft)
Harry Shum(click to enlarge) The Web can be divided into three components: content (pages, images, videos, blogs, feeds), people (readers, writers, creators, commenters), and actions (queries, clicks, pageviews). Current search engines have taken advantages of "keywords" to link those... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 23, 2008 7:32 PM
Dan Solove on Reputation
Clifford Thomson sent me a link to a talk Dan Solove gave at Google on his new book The Future of Reputation. I interviewed Dan on Technometria a while back about his earlier book The Digital Person. Dan's a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 29, 2008 9:51 AM
iPhones On Campus
Abilene Christian University has a program to give all students an iPhone. They've also got a video that shows how the iPhone might be used on campus (the video is conceptual, not factual). I found some of the ideas... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 11, 2008 9:10 PM
Kicking Ass
Kathy Sierra talks about kicking ass(click to enlarge) Kathy Sierra takes the stage again at ETech to talk about kicking ass. She says that people aren't passionate about things they suck at. Finding passion is a way to kick... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 5, 2008 12:52 PM
Change, Motherhood, and Apple Pie
When I worked at Naval Reactors, we had a shorthand for statements no one could argue with. Someone would say something and someone else would just say "motherhood." Everyone understood the shorthand: what you just said is like motherhood... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 5, 2008 5:47 PM
Ping vs Sun
A few days ago, someone at Sun made a video that poked some fun at Ping Identity (disclosure, I'm on their advisory board--I think--it's been a long time). Ping fired back with a humorous video of their own. Heck,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 29, 2008 1:55 PM
Time for Fry's in Utah
Now that CompUSA is closing, there are no decent places in Utah to buy electronics. Not that CompUSA was a dream store by any means, but at least it was something. There's BestBuy and Circuit City, but they're not... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 28, 2008 3:55 PM
How the iPhone is Changing the Wireless Industry
Apple iPhone(click to enlarge) The latest issue of Wired Magazine has a great article on the iPhone: The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry. Very interesting behind the scenes details and analysis. Here's the summary:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 10, 2008 8:46 AM
Bill Gate's Last Day
This video of Bill Gate's last date, from his real last CES keynote is quite funny. I think it's awesome that Billy G can make fun of himself like this. There are so many parts of this that just... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 7, 2008 9:24 PM
Getting Free HD TV Programming
As I mentioned before, I bought a new HD TV for Christmas (a Sony 40 inch XBR4). That put me on the hunt for good sources of HD programming. Something I overlooked for a while, and I'm sure I'm... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 7, 2008 2:19 PM
Working With Millenials
Robert Merrill, one of the regulars at the CTO Breakfast has a great post on working with Millenials, keying off yesterday's firing of Tiffany Fallon instead of Omarosa on Celebrity Apprentice. Good stuff! That's one of the things I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 4, 2008 1:28 PM
Reasons to Buy a Mac Mini
For Christmas, I bought a Sony XBR4 40" LCD TV from Amazon. I was thinking I ought to get an Apple TV to go with it, but then thought that a Mac Mini might be more versatile. While in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 27, 2007 2:59 PM
Here Comes Another Bubble v1.1
The Richter Scales have posted version 1.1 of "Here Comes Another Bubble" after Lane Hartwell filed a DCMA take down request with YouTube because a picture she'd taken at a party and posted online was used in the video.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 19, 2007 9:02 AM
Starting a High Tech Business: You Need a CTO
I'm starting a new business called Kynetx. As I go through some of the things I do, I'm planning to blog them. The whole series will be here. This is the sixth installment. You may find my efforts instructive.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 18, 2007 12:59 PM
Understanding OpenID
Here's a screencast that Dan Lullich sent me showing how OpenID works using a whiteboard cartoon. Very clever! Dan was also my guest on the Technometria podcast this week. We talked about reputation--go figure.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2007 10:48 AM
Scoble on Tech at Fast Company
Scoble is doing a video column at Fast Company called Scoble on Tech. Interesting format: Scoble and Ed Sussman from Fast Company are chatting on video. There's pretty high production value--it's edited down so that you see each person... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2007 3:34 PM
Exploiting Online Games
I had a fascinating discussion with Gary McGraw last week about his latest book Exploiting Online Games: Cheating Massively Distributed Systems. For the next two days I was telling everyone about it. The issues surrounding online game security are... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 13, 2007 4:44 PM
Riding the Alpine Loop
Timp(click to enlarge) At the beginning of the summer, I had two biking goals: ride a century and the Alpine Loop. If you've been following along, you know that I rode the ULCER Century in August. I rode the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 14, 2007 9:01 PM
New Series on the Conversations Network
This last week, the Conversation Network (IT Conversation's parent) launched a new channel: Media Conversations. The new channel, like IT Conversations and Social Innovations Conversations, produces high quality audio shows from a variety of sources. A first for us:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 11, 2007 2:21 PM
Using CCTVs to Make Movies
This is pretty cool: a group of kids made a movie using already installed CCTVs in a shopping mall in England. The teens are part of a group that regularly engages in "video sniffing," using electronic gear to sniff... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 4, 2007 12:20 PM
Think Similarly
This post at CrunchGear showing a 1989 Apple ad encouraging people to "think different" by challenging the status quo, followed by a video about Apple not allowing third party apps on the iPhone touched a nerve following the most... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 1, 2007 8:41 AM
NBC's Troubles
NBC has announced that it will open its own download site for it's programs after a dispute with Apple over the price and DRM for its programs on ITMS. There are a lot of people who think NBC is... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 20, 2007 12:17 PM
Matt Asay: Making Utah a Center for Open-Source Innovation
Matt Asay is something of a fixture here in Utah and clearly a big booster of open source (he founded the Open Source Business Conference). He's giving the first keynote of the evening on bring open-source home (to Utah).... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 6:44 PM
Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for August 2007
Here are the top ten shows (by downloads) for August 2007 on IT Conversations. Geoff Moore & David Thompson - Tech Nation (Rating: 3.60)Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Geoff Moore and David Thompson about how Web 2.0 is seamlessly... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 6, 2007 8:33 AM
Spook Country
I just finished Spook Country, William Gibson's latest novel. The book is a mystery, set in a world that could be today or the near future. Geolocative art is bigger than you might find to be the case today,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 30, 2007 8:52 PM
Debugging a New PC Build
It's been years since I built a PC and there's plenty that's changed, so since my lab needed a new PC, I decided to buy some components and out one together. I did it at home so my kids... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 25, 2007 11:19 PM
iPhone Copy and Paste
No, copy and paste isn't one of the new features in today's iPhone update, it's just a concept video from lonelysandwich. This is a pretty good way to show how it would work--much more effective that text could ever... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 22, 2007 9:46 PM
We're Planing on Beefing that Up
I'm listening to Jon Udell's interview of Mike Hudak about the video sharing service blip.tv. The interview is great--good quality sound and excellent discussion. There's some interesting riffs on design, sharing, economies of plenty, and even origami. What caught... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 15, 2007 9:47 AM
Whoa! Facebook Returning Free PHP Code...
I just clicked on the photos application in Facebook and got back some PHP code. I won't publish it here, for obvious reasons, but this is the header: <?php /* -------------------------------------------------------- My Photos - html/photos.php --- Author: Jared S.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 10, 2007 9:14 PM
Talking to Drew Major on Technometria
I just posted an interview Scott and I did with Drew Major, one of the founders of Novell and someone who's doing some very interesting things with video. Talking with Drew is really interesting because he has a long... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 7, 2007 6:18 PM
Green Pixel Plague on Apple Displays
Doug Kaye has been bitten by the green pixel problem. He blames the display, but I don't think it is that simple. Here's why. I too have been troubled by this problem since I got a 30 inch display.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 2, 2007 7:23 AM
Open Source: Locked Into Uncertainty
I was browsing the ZDNet blogs this morning and saw this ad: This caught my eye and I clicked through. The ad takes you to case studies from Microsoft, including one showcasing the State of Illinois' email consolidation project.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 1, 2007 10:52 AM
iPod Silence is Disconcerting
I've got a weird problem with my iPod. It won't play music, podcasts, or anything else I load on it. It's making sound--you can hear the clicks in the head phones. And it thinks it's playing the display shows... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 31, 2007 9:15 PM
Safari Resetting (Crashing) on iPhone
Has any one else experienced Safari resetting or crashing on their iPhone. Just the last few days this has happened to me several times. I'm trying to figure out if it's a Web site I go to, how I'm... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 11, 2007 9:48 AM
Blending the iPhone
If you've ever wanted to see the inside of an iPhone, then this video of an iPhone in a blender is for you. Or...maybe not.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 10, 2007 8:40 PM
Watching Bad Sinatra
Steve Gillmor on Bad Sinatra(click to enlarge) I'm watching the first edition of Bad Sinatra, Steve Gillmor's new video show. The show starts with Steve walking into Marc Benioff's office. There are a few segments with Dan Farber. I... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 10, 2007 8:22 PM
My Media Consumption Diet
Ian Forrester tagged me on a meme to share my media consumption diet. So here's my diet: Web: I'm on the Web all the time. Even more now that I've got an iPhone. I typically have a dozen tabs... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on July 10, 2007 6:50 PM
The Social Side of IT Conversations
Jon Udell's Interviews with Inovators submission for this week is a conversation with Simon St Laurent. St. Laurent isn't someone you'll necessarily meet at the next O'Reilly conference you go to. Jon singles him out as an innovator because... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 29, 2007 2:20 PM
Scoble on Kyte.tv at an Apple Store
Scoble's sitting in front of an Apple store and video blogging on Kyte.tv. Lots of fun.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 28, 2007 4:36 PM
iPhone Tour
I'm watching the 20 minute guided tour of iPhone that Apple posted today. While Amanda might be cheating the word "amazing" it's an excellent word to describe the phone this video shows off. Coupling a large multitouch screen with... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 22, 2007 3:55 PM
Why Does HP Software Suck Sooooo Bad?
I have an HP Scanjet 4670 that I've owned for 3 years now. I haven't used it for a year however, and a few months ago when I rebuilt my machine, I didn't reinstall the HP drivers on purpose.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 7, 2007 1:17 PM
Steve Gillmor on iPhonomics
I love talking to Steve Gillmor because he expands my world view several notches each time. I spent a whole afternoon at the Internet Identity Workshop with him and enjoyed every minute of it. He put up a post... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on June 6, 2007 8:21 PM
Follow Up To Seth Godin's Visit
I posted my notes from Seth's visit yesterday. Some related happenings might interest you as well. Phil Burns and Ash Buckles vowed that they'd let Seth shave their heads if enough money was raised to bring Seth to Salt... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 25, 2007 10:11 AM
At the May 2007 CTO Breakfast
We had the May CTO Breakfast today. There was a good group and some great discussion. I started off by talking about the Utopia install at my house. No one else at the meeting has Utopia yet, so there... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 24, 2007 9:58 AM
LunchMeet on IIW
Kaliya and I are on LunchMeet today talking about IIW. LunchMeet host Eddie Codel visited IIW yesterday and brought his camera.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2007 1:54 PM
Fungus and Stink Ants
Rohit Khare shared this bizarre piece about fungus and stink ants with me last night at dinner. Fascinating stuff.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2007 8:11 PM
I've Got Fiber to My House
Utopia truck ready for install(click to enlarge) Utopia is Utah's large-scale municipal-broadband project. My city, Lindon, was one of the first supporters of the project and all winter I've watched in anticipation as crews dug up the lawns in... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 3, 2007 10:09 PM
Fuse for OS X
A few months ago I posted a short article about using the SSH filesystem to mount an OS X directory from Ubuntu in Parallels. At the time, I had no idea what it was or how it worked. Yesterday,... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2007 11:51 AM
HD-DVD Processing Keys Getting Some Late Play
A few months ago, I wrote a post on HD Processing Keys and the futility of DRM. I pointed to an article on Engadget that talked about the AACS processing keys being retrieved. As a quick aside, the processing... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 2, 2007 8:51 AM
CTO Breakfast Report for April 2007
Today was bring your child to CTO Breakfast day. Not officially, but with today being Spring Break, there were a few here. I brought my son so he could visit a friend who lives south. Scott Lemon just got... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 20, 2007 10:47 AM
The Perfect Business
Scoble has a video showing one man's implementation of the perfect business. What's the perfect business? Simple: No inventory. No employees. No marginal cost of production. No rent. No business cards. It's all online and almost run itself.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 18, 2007 1:00 PM
Harnessing Decentralized Resources in Disasters
By now we know that the gunman responsible for yesterday's carnage at Virginia Tech was a South Korean student. A video-game crazed South Korean student, if you believe the other Dr. Phil. It's not too early to think about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 17, 2007 11:39 AM
Barnett from PopTech!
I just finished watching Thomas Barnett's talk from PopTech! I like reading Barnett, but watching him is another thing altogether. He's a very good presenter and very entertaining. If you want a gentle introduction, watch the video. I don't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on April 17, 2007 10:45 AM
Learning from Muggles
Danah Boyd is talking about learning from muggles. If we consider the technologists to be the wizards, that makes the normal user a muggle. There's a real danger in designing for ourselves. Danah describes four stages people go through... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 28, 2007 11:11 AM
Medieval Tech Support
Kelly Flanagan sent me a link to this video about medieval tech support teaching someone how to use a book. Just read the captions unless you speak Norwegian.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 7:27 PM
Kathy Sierra
Update: Read about Kathy Sierra, Chris Locke, and Due Process. Kathy Sierra, who's blog I've come to enjoy very much, canceled her tutorial yesterday and session this morning because of death threats (warning--this link goes to graphic material) she's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 27, 2007 10:26 AM
Utah Stories
Richard Markosian is the creator of a Web site called UtahStories.com. I love the idea and I love the execution. The site hosts a collection of short video documentaries about current events, people, and history in Utah. There's a... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 23, 2007 3:13 PM
Bugatti Veyron At Speed
Niels Makel sent me a link to this video of a Bugatti Veyron at top speed--407 km/h. This is the same car discussed in this IEEE Spectrum show on IT Conversations. Without taking away anything from Spectrum Radio, this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 20, 2007 11:38 AM
Jeff Barczewski on MasterView
Jeff Barczewski is talking about MasterView, a template engine for Rails. MasterView is a Ruby gem that enables the creation of Ruby/Rails views in standards-compliant XHTML. The problem with Rails views, at least in Jeff's view, is that you... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on March 16, 2007 3:22 PM
OpenID is a Lifehack
Lifehacked reposted a screencast (original from Simon Willison) today showing how to sign up for and use an OpenID. OpenID is now, officially, a way to make you live better, more efficient, and happier. Really.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 23, 2007 12:13 PM
Viacom, Joost, and YouTube
Today, Viacom stuck it to YouTube and Google by cutting a deal with Joost to host Viacom videos. So far no Comedy Central. Here's the question that this raises: what happens to cable companies when content owners like Viacom... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 20, 2007 10:04 PM
Community in Denial
Christopher Koch, who is the Executive Editor at CIO Magazine, has a provacative post on his blog about "community" being the code word of denial in the current burst of activity commonly called Web 2.0. He compares it to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 3, 2007 1:02 PM
Personal Businesses On the Rise
Number of US businesses with no employees (Intuit/IFTF study)(click to enlarge) Paul Kedrosky pointed out an Intuit/IFTF study on small business (PDF) that talks about the rise of the personal business. Tim O'Reilly has a nice riff on this... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on February 1, 2007 10:46 AM
Identity Crisis Book Forum
Jim Harper will be conducting a book forum on Thursday January 18 at 12pm EST at the Cato Institute in Washington D.C. on his excellent book Identity Crisis: How Identification is Overused and Misunderstood. The event will be streamed... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 16, 2007 10:23 AM
YouTube For eGovernment
David Stephenson's arguing that YouTube will prove itself a critical tool for emergency management. Government agencies could already make much better use of video, podcasts, and screencasts than they do. Once they catch onto their importance, they'll need to... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 11, 2007 10:59 AM
iPhone Is an OSX Computer
I'm reading Jason O'Grady's live blogging of the Jobs keynote. Jobs just introduced the iPhone saying "Today, we're introducing three revolutionary products 1. widescreen iPod with touch controls 2. revoutionary mobile phone 3. breakthrough internet communication device" But it's... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2007 10:56 AM
Detailed Windows Vista Review
Update: See my cheatsheet on Windows Vista Buying Advice for the easy answer of what you need to buy. Have you been wondering just exactly what Window's Vista is and when to upgrade? The most detailed review I've found... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on January 9, 2007 10:16 AM
Composition as a Programming Activity
When I started programming, you had four choices on the IBM 370 system that the University of Idaho made available to students: Cobol, Fortran, Basic, and APL. I learned Fortran and Basic, avoided Cobol because it was for "business",... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 21, 2006 9:50 AM
Images and Video in Collaboration
Last week I was working on a short piece for InfoWorld about collaboration--what companies spend too much money on and what they don't spend enough on. One inexpensive collaboration tool that is underutilized is video. I'm not talking about... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 20, 2006 7:38 AM
Top Ten ITC Shows for November
Here are the top ten IT Conversations shows for November (based on individual downloads of the MP3): Mark Thompson - Success Built to Last Sean Carroll - The Making of the Fittest More Than Just A Game - Supernova2006... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 13, 2006 6:59 AM
419 Scams, Black Money, and Greed
This piece about a former Congressman in jail because of Nigerian 419 scams caught my eye this morning. Amazing. It makes me wonder how gullible we all are. Clearly greed is the underlying culprit here. Be sure to watch... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 11, 2006 5:06 PM
TiVo and the iPod on OS X
Getting video from your TiVo to a iPod isn't as hard as it used to be. This hack shows how to do it all on the Mac and have it scheduled to run automatically.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 9, 2006 10:03 PM
Bohemian Rhapsody in the key of ID
On Tuesday evening, we were treated to the debut performance of Bohemian Rhapsody in the key of ID (lyrics by Eve Maler, Laurie Rae, Peter Tapling, Derek Fluker, Bill Johnson, and Wes Kussmaul). Conor Cahill shot a video:... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 8, 2006 1:12 PM
Firefox, Internet or Search Engine? You Decide
Firefox T-Shirt(click to enlarge) Today I was in REI. I had on my Firefox T-Shirt. The guy helping me with flashlights said "Oh, I love that search engine!" Contrast that with this story: When I first bought the shirt my... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 7, 2006 9:44 PM
Trusted Computing...Sounds Great. Is It?
Here's a great little video on trusted computing. Not much on the details, but well done and aimed at a less technical audience.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 6, 2006 10:09 AM
Speed Geeking
Chuck Mortimore demos XMLDAP(click to enlarge) Speed geeking turned out great. I saw some things that really interested me and I got it in a quick hit. The following projects or demos were done: Earthgrid.org - Video worth paying for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on December 5, 2006 5:07 PM
Violent Video Games Change Brains
A study looked at the direct effects of videogames on teen brains and documents functional differences between the brains of teens who play violent games and those who play non-violent games. This Newsweek article interviews the researcher behind the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 29, 2006 9:28 PM
EyeTV Hybrid for Macs
A week or so ago, I picked up one of these EyeTV hybrids, a little device that has a USB connector on one end and a cable connector on the other. Plug it into your computer, connect up the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 18, 2006 11:28 AM
Breaking Into My Mac
Over the weekend, I somehow unclicked the "Allow use to administer computer" box on my Mac for my own account. I was playing around with some account stuff, trying to set up a role account for SVN and didn't... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 13, 2006 7:27 AM
Hacking the Vote
There's an HBO documentary on tonight called Hacking the Vote (see the trailer on YouTube). I don't have HBO, but wish I could watch it.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on November 2, 2006 4:47 PM
Audio Podcasts: Competing with Non-consumption
Brett Nordquist likes IT Conversations better than the Scobleshow, although his reasons have little to do with content and much to do with format. Simply put, video podcasts compete with a different segment of the 'Net for user's time... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 23, 2006 3:47 PM
Pop!Tech Live
Pop!Tech is happening now in Camden Maine. We'll have all the sessions on IT Conversations later this year or early next year. If you're interested in listening live, Pop!Tech is streaming conference sessions with video. There's also a blog... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 20, 2006 10:34 AM
Computer History Museum
My post yesterday about Ralph Griswold's death sparked a comment by Chris Loosely about the Computer History Museum's founders series. David Berlind has a post, with video, from that event. Incidently, we're holding IIW2006B at the Computer History Museum... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 19, 2006 2:00 PM
TubeSock: In Honor of YouTube
In honor of the acquisition of YouTube by Google (which I wrote about on Between the Lines), the app of the day is TubeSock. Tube Sock grabs YouTube video and converts it to run on your iPod or PSP.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on October 9, 2006 9:47 PM
Tim Street on Producing Viral Video
Tim Street(click to enlarge) Tim Street is speaking about viral video. Viral video has some important things in common: Easy to share OK to share (no too explicit) Controversial - takes risks Emotionally engaging The last point is the most... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 28, 2006 3:05 PM
Craig Syverson on Video Podcasting and Production
Craig Sylverson(click to enlarge) Craig Syverson is giving a great talk on producing video for distribution on the 'Net. He breaks it down into a series of steps or concepts. First, what's the concept? What are you trying to accomplish?... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 28, 2006 2:09 PM
Denise Howell on Legal Podcasting
Denise Howell(click to enlarge) Denise Howell (who hosts Sound Policy on IT Conversations is speaking on the legal consideration in Podcasting. She mentions Collette Vogele (who Denise interviewed recently on Sound Policy). Collete's the force behind the Podcasting Legal Guide... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 28, 2006 12:20 PM
CTO Breakfast Report for September
Carl Youngblood told us of his experience as the sole technical person in a small construction loan wholesaling company. He's building a Rails application to automate the process and using an Indian outsourcing company to do much of the... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 26, 2006 2:40 PM
Scary Voting Videos
Diebold AccuVote-TS voting in Princetons Voting Studies Lab Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten have completed a security study using an Actual Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine. The study will no doubt provide some good information for... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on September 15, 2006 2:39 PM
Trusting Steve Gillmor
One of my favorite shows on IT Conversations was the Gillmor Gang. I say "was" because Steve's show hasn't been on IT Conversations for quite some time. That doesn't mean it's dead, however...The Gillmor Gang lives on at Podshow.com.... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 25, 2006 8:43 PM
Podcast Transcripts Via CastingWords
Jon Udell is transcribing his podcasts using CastingWords. (Also see Jon's earlier review of the service.) His bill? $260 for 620 minutes of audio. That's darn cheap. Jon reports that the results are surprisingly accurate, but he edits them... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 15, 2006 7:11 PM
Building Cars With Small Teams
Ariel Atom front view(click to enlarge) This video about the Ariel Atom is fun to watch. This would be a great car to drive. The best quote from the video: "anyone who wants to know what a car should be... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on August 8, 2006 10:54 AM
Teaching with Games
Russell Hunter sent me a link to this article about using games in the classroom. As I mentioned earlier, this is an issue that I've grown a little concerned about. In the article David McDivitt, a high school teacher... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 26, 2006 3:33 AM
Identity Management Panel
I attended an identity management panel moderated by Arnaud Sahuguet of Google. On the panel were Rick Hull, Bell Labs, Conor Cahill, Intel, Kim Cameron, Microsoft, Mike Neuenschwander, Burton Group, and Stefan Brands, Credentica & McGill University. Arnaud started... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 25, 2006 9:11 AM
Hardware Video Encoders and Decoders
I need to broadcast video, fairly high quality, line-of-sight. The basic idea is to broadcast an encoded signal over a 5.7GHz link using some Motorola Canopy gear. In February when I needed to do this, I hired a company... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 17, 2006 8:30 PM
Rocketboom
Amanda Congdon(click to enlarge) I went to Amanda Congdon's plenary session at the end of Syndicate. She's the host of Rocketboom, a videoblog that deals with serious and not so serious news. I've heard of Rocketboom, but hadn't seen it... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 16, 2006 3:56 PM
Clueless in SimLand
I was listening to Edward Castronova's PopTech! presentation (Gold From Thin Air: The Economy of Virtual Worlds) today and had a scary thought. I've never been into video games, but as I listen to presentation's like Ed's, I always... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2006 1:42 PM
TiVo's Got Podcasts
This weekend, I noticed that my TiVo could play podcasts. I don't know how long that feature's been there, months probably, but I just found it. Unfortunately IT Conversations isn't on their pre-populated list, but there were some that... [Continue reading]
Posted in Phil Windley's Technometria on May 8, 2006 8:27 AM