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January 31, 2011

186 – Egypt, Shaq, Smoot and Sailing

Author: Michael Martine - Categories: Podcast
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While Andy is in Australia at linux.conf.au , and Michael R is in San Francisco at MacWorld, this week’s show is more of a discussion between Michael M and special guest Kirk Nelson.  Starting with the breaking news on Egypt’s unplugging of the Internet, Michael and Kirk say “like” almost as much as a 1980’s valley girl, debating the pros and cons of pressing that little ‘like’ button.  The discussion on Kindle lending prompts them to consider whether the Kindle lending library process could be (should be?) extended to other forms of media, such as music and video.  Kirk shares some interesting use cases for his iPad, including using a compass on the screen while sailing, and his success in truly going paperless.

Michael M, on behalf of his co-hosts, hopes you “like” this departure from the usual show format, “like” Dogear Nation on Facebook and lend us your tags for next week’s episode.

Breaking News / Social Networkin’
Egypt Leaves the Internet
finding Sadam via Social Networking
like = advertising? shocker!  billsweeney1
Kindle lending club

Going paperless
Navionics iPad application
Evernote
Instapaper
Fujitsu ScanSnap 1500
Word Lens augmented reality translation

Shaq & Smoot
Shaq-o-meter 2011 Boston snowfall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
Google’s calculator converts to Smoots

Some of the links for this week from our listeners included the following:

Simple phones that make calls & not much else — andypiper
Social analytics — Viralheat using tweets to predict purchases — duckboxxer
Talk to the hand! Or maybe take a bat to it — allerhed & billsweeney1
Google periodic table visualization of APIs — heidigoseek
donothingfor2minutes.com — lx5

bonus links
Schramm Drilling
Fullsteam Brewery
Dogear Nation on Facebook
To Hate Like this is to be Happy Forever
Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War
Dropbox version control

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February 15, 2010

Episode 140 – Great Buzzing Arc

Author: Michael Martine - Categories: Podcast
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Andy and Michael M hold down the fort on a wide range of listener tags — starting (and arcing back at the end) with Google Buzz. Mobile Social Networking, Gamification of business (hmm… where have we heard that before?), and that innovation really takes place in the social area between corporations. Michael shares a couple of interesting visualizations and Andy gives some pointers to creating an out-of-the-box Boxee setup.

We’re holding off on a full MacWorld report pending Michael R’s return.

What’s Cool

Andy — Google Buzz
Michael R — going to hear Leo, Photoshop classes and more at MacWorld 2K10, MacWorld not quite the same w/o Apple
Michael M — Animator vs Animation

Obligatory 3-D Internet

Flicker founder’s new game: Glitch lx5
Game Neverending

Lego 3 year deal with Unity Technologies
epredator

Tech-no-tronic
chrome canopy fractal visualization z303

vanity barcodes heidigoseek

#Musicblogocide2k10
rickmans

Social Networkin’

cloud, multi-touch, mobile, agile to have big impacts in 2010 allerhed

IBM Global Innovation Outlook

gamification, mobile social networking, more predictions from Global Human Capital Journal epredator

Final thoughts

Andy — out of the box boxee
Michael M — inudge via Phil Hartman

Announcements
http://oggcamp.org
OggCamp is a free software / free culture unconference organised by the presenters of the Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws. This year’s OggCamp will take place at The Black-E in Liverpool on the 1st and 2nd of May.

UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities is organizing the inaugural Collaborations: Humanities, Arts and Technology (C.H.A.T.) Festival (http://www.chatfestival2010.com ) next week from February 16-20 on UNC’s campus. The festival will seek to explore the impact of technology on the arts and humanities, including the evolution of “how we learn, think, know, teach and express ourselves both as individuals and as communities”.

Mac-a-rooni
while we didn’t get to these during the show, we found them intriguing…
iPhone as IE6 wideawakewesley

make your own iPad out of paper heidigoseek

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