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Weekly Podcast Pick #06

Peter To — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:56:39 +0000

Time of the week I set down what I think people should listen. For all those who love IT and are going into security, I have always been a fan of CNET’s security bites. It used to be two guys, experts in IT security speak about security news, but now mainly consists of Robert Vamosi interviewing top-notch security experts or security vendors and the great thing is that it is not extraordinarily long, most clock in under 20-minutes.

Check it out here

Weekly Podcast Pick #05

Peter To — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 22:02:04 +0000

This week’s pick isn’t exactly a podcast, but rather a recording by one of the original podcasters, Doug Kaye. Lawrence Lessig, for those who don’t know is the foremost authority on IP law and father of the Creative Commons, a strong alternative to the US copyright laws. This week’s pick comes from the recording of Chapter 1 of Lawrence Lessig’s book, Free Culture read by IT Conversations own, Doug Kaye. It is an amazing listen to a very insightful book and great introduction for those who are interested in IP law. Here is the link to the individual chapter read by Doug Kaye. The link here is to all the different remixes for Lessig’s book Free Culture. All recordings are located here on AKMA’s website.

Weekly Podcast Pick #03

Peter To — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:37:02 +0000

Back when podcasts first sparked my interest in 2004, there was a this one particular podcast (it is actually just a recorded lecture) that launched my interest in programming to higher levels to the point that I wanted to actually be one.

Paul Graham, a renowned hacker, writer and entrepreneur author of Hackers and Painters and his speech (at the Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2004) on how to treat great hackers was quite inspiring to me. In it he describes what differentiates a good hacker to a great hacker and what a business needs to do to keep them around. Listen and enjoy this 30 minute podcast. There is also a written version on Paul Graham’s website linked here.

More info on Paul Graham here

Another recording for his book here.

Edit: Added some wikipedia links, as well as a link to another Hackers and Painters podcast.

Weekly Podcast Pick #02

Peter To — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:47:10 +0000

Week two’s pick is a new podcast series from two of the forefront’s in the tech/gadget world Peter Rojas, founder of Engadget, and Ryan Block, the right hand man to Rojas at Engadget. Both have served as Editor-in-Chief of the much lauded gadget blog, but have since parted ways with the seminal blog to pursue other endeavors, including a new project and website, yet to be fully realized called simply (and in the same name as Rojas’ other main pursuit rcrdlbl) gdgt. The podcast brings back the same flare and well produced quality and insight as the old Engadget podcast back in the day. At about an hour’s length every week, Rojas and Block discuss what is currently hot news during the week with mild sprinkles of special editions, centered around one topic and with more individuals chiming in. The podcast is currently at the 6th iteration of what will be my weekly staple with one special round table edition.

Weekly Podcast Pick #01

Peter To — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:10:56 +0000

New feature that I am trying to roll out, which will hopefully keep me blogging for a semi-regular period. I’m a pretty huge podcast freak and my goal is to choose one out of the tons of podcasts I listen to that I think is the most awesome for the week, it could come in the form of a recommendation for a series (which I will be doing today) or a single podcast recording. This week’s pick is one by 43Folders fame, Merlin Mann’s podcast entitled, “You Look Nice Today”. It is one of the most hilarious and well produced podcasts out there and is at its 18th incarnation. It reminds me of my former coworkers, they sound semi-serious, but are awesomely hilarious. Episode 18 is specifically about gas stations on Indian burial grounds. Episodes are interweaved with the intro classic upbeat jingle and crazed drunk sounding phrases. Give it a listen and if you don’t start laughing within the first minute, then you sir/madam have no sense of humor.