We’ve extended the deadline for the $50 early registration discount for the Podcast Academy at Boston University until April 1, 2006.
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New Programs Last Week
Here are the programs we’ve published in the last week, ranked in increasing order of listener ratings.
- Marty Ashby – The Future of Jazz (too late for ratings) The business of jazz music could borrow a page from NASCAR or professional poker according to Marty Ashby, the executive producer of MCG Jazz. Having produced numerous concerts and GRAMMY award winning albums, as well as being an accomplished musician himself, Ashby has a lifetime of experience to share. He sits down with host Tim Zak to reflect on his past and to offer some insight on the future of jazz, both as a business model and as a vital art form.
- Bill Strickland – Manchester Craftsmans Guild (too late for ratings) Bill Strickland is one of the world’s great social innovators. As head of both the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild and the Bidwell Training Center, located on Pittsburgh’s gritty north side just down the street from where he grew up, Strickland has created a youth development and adult training center like no other, in approach and results. Over nearly 40 years, he has melded an environment surrounded by stunning art, the sounds of jazz, beautiful orchids, and brilliant architecture with programs that get kids into college and adults a job with a future.
- Simon Phipps – The Zen of Free (rated 2.6 by listeners) When people say "Open source is fine but how do you make money?" you know they haven’t grokked the Zen of Free. Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems, describes the "virtuous cycle" model of open source in this keynote from OSCON Europe 2005.
- Jeremy Allaire – Transforming Video Distribution (2.8) The internet is starting to completely transform the distribution of multimedia content, and it’s more than just delivering video over IP. At the 2005 Syndicate conference, Jeremy Allaire of Brightcove explains how using the internet is revolutionizing the distribution of video and multimedia products, creating a richer user experience and allowing producers greater freedom and reach for their products.
- Dan Gillmor – Citizen Journalism (2.8) What does the future hold for citizen journalism? In a world where media is democratized, many organizations have responded by increasingly trying to control the message and the dissemination of information. In this edition of Sound Policy with Denise Howell, Dan Gillmor reveals that the distinction between the mainstream journalist and the citizen journalist has become increasingly blurred by the act of journalism itself.
- Bernard-Henri Levy – Traveling America (3.8) Dr. Moira Gunn interviews French author and journalist Bernard-Henri Levy. He gives us a different perspective about ourselves when she speaks with him about his latest book, "American Vertigo — Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville."
- Lynn Foster and Larry Bock – Nanotechnology (3.8) On a special edition of BioTech Nation all about Nanotechnology, Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Lynn Foster, the Emerging Technologies Director at Greenberg Traurig and Larry Bock, the Founder and Executive Chairman of Nanosys.
- Mary Meeker – Internet Trends (3.9) Mary Meeker’s signature fast-paced presentation from the 2005 Web 2.0 conference answers some crucial questions regarding the relationship between internet trends and global technology markets. In particular, she examines whether – and in which areas – the US is losing ground to other countries and which internet- related innovations will lead to areas of substantial growth in the next 10 years.
- Shyam Venkatesh – Nano-Tubes (4.0) Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Shyam Venkatesh, the Director of Technology Partnering at NASA Ames Research Center. He tells us all the things you might do with a nano-tube.
The O’Reilly Pick of the Week:
This week’s IT Conversations/O’Reilly Pick of the Week is from 2004:
- Joe Trippi – Connected Politics Joe Trippi, the former campaign manager of the Howard Dean presidential campaign from Pop!Tech 2004. This is the third of four IT Conversations audio recordings from the session on Connected Politics.
I’d like to extend my apologies to the listeners of The Conversations Network and IT Conversations for some glitches in our audio programs over the past four weeks. On February 18 we launched ASM, our new automated show-assembly system that allows us to rebuild all of our audio programs from components on a nightly basis. New programs and series that were produced using ASM are coming out fine, but some of the earlier programs that were produced partially using the new tools and partially using traditional techniques have been plagued by occasional problems such as portions of shows that either don’t play back on certain players or that play back incorrectly such as at double speed.
If you encounter a problem, first go back to the IT Conversations web site and download the program again. It could well be that we’ve fixed the program since your first download. If it’s still not correct, please email me directly at doug@rds.com. I promise we’ll fix and publish the show promptly.
We’ve had an embargo on admitting new audio engineers into our apprenticeship program while we debugged our new automated show-assembly system. Now that that’s done and working well, we’re ready to ramp up our post-production volume as we plan for new channels in The Conversations Network next month.
If you’d like to join The Conversations Network team as a part-time post-production audio engineer, and if you really do have the skills, experience and required software, just go to our volunteer signup page and tell us a bit about yourself. It won’t make your rich, but it’s pretty good beer money.
An important member Team ITC, Dorothy Yamamoto, has just been diagnosed with leukemia, and will be hospitalized at the UCLA Medical Center during her tests, chemotherapy and more for at least a month. Dorothy had been feeling week ever since having the flu late in 2005, and had undergone one test after another until getting this diagnosis. In fact, they still don’t know precisely which form of leukemia she has. That’s going to require some gnarly bone-marrow biopsies this week.
You may not know Dorothy by name, but you’d recognize her work, which includes The Conversations Network graphics and the logo for Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech (TWiT) podcast. Dorothy is a brilliant designer and a huge supporter of The Conversations Network, TWiT and podcasting in general.
Dorothy, we’re all thinking of you and hoping for your rapid recovery.