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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 [...]

Cord-SPAN

In Podcast on 10 February 2008 with Comments

In this episode Cord tells us about his experience as a guest on C-SPAN TV’s The Communicators show (you can listen to the show on this MP3). We also discussed the reasons why neither of us vote, Ross Perot’s original copy of the Magna Carta, web applications and webmail, the Alphasmart Neo, primitive computing, and [...]