In Conversation A weekly talk show for nerds

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A very special In Conversation

In Podcast on 2 March 2008 with no 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 no 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 […]

The sum is less than the parts

In Podcast on 4 February 2008 with no comments

This week on the show we discuss the potential Microsoft-Yahoo merger, Flickr and Microsoft Photosynth, the pricing and rationale of SMS texting, Word War II weaponry, the Super Bowl, password security and password management applications, Apple’s .mac service, Minneapolis, Al Franken, and Norm Coleman. Please post a comment and let use know what you think. […]

The nerdalocalypse has begun

In Podcast on 27 January 2008 with no comments

In the inaugural episode of In Conversation, we talk about the meaning of brunch, the origins of Blomquist, the vagaries of online dating, reputation systems, online anonymity, Dethklok (the most awesome fake metal band in the world), medieval times, the excruciatingly long decline of Wired magazine, the Amazon Kindle, and much more. Please post a […]