In Conversation A weekly talk show for nerds

Archive for March 2008

Wired and frozen

In Podcast on 30 March 2008 with Comments

In this episode, adventures at Tech Policy Summit 2008, Cord harshes on L.A., Ray Kurzweil, transhumanism and the singularity (book picks: Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition and Altered Carbon), life extension, Apple vs. Google (as if), airport time as a mini-retreat, and why children should be segregated on planes.
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The tech triad

In Podcast on 24 March 2008 with Comments

In this episode, renowned web personality Tim Lee joins us to discuss the sneaky Safari update for Windows, is the stimulus payment a welfare check, Twitter and other low-intensity, low-cost web technologies, Cord’s mystery conference, FriendFeed vs. Facebook and open vs. closed, the viability of Mahalo.com, Clay Shirky’s new book Here Comes Everybody, distributed campaign [...]

Nerd improvement

In Podcast on 11 March 2008 with Comments

In this episode, Cord wonders why websites can’t be truly off-the-shelf, while Jerry obsesses over goofy Web 2.0 stuff that Cord’s still skeptical about. Also: Murphy’s Law and the Peter Principle, Napoleon Dynamite vs. the Wes Anderson oeuvre, web ads, why Elliott Spitzer’s unsafe at any speed, and nerds can fix things, so why can’t [...]

A very special In Conversation

In Podcast on 2 March 2008 with Comments

In this episode, Cord, the PC user, tells us about his new Mac Pro while Jerry empathizes with the plight of Windows users, family origins, immigration and assimilation then and now, the future of past cultural references, internet illiteracy, and niche vs. mass appeal online. Please post a comment and let use know what you [...]