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By Brian Suda and Matt Riggott
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Podcast Description
For fifteen minutes every three weeks, Brian Suda and Matt Riggott discuss their own and others' ideas about the web and web technologies. Visit us on the web at http://www.northatlanticradio.com/.
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Episode 16 | 3D Printing is on the cusp of going mainstream. As parts get cheaper and cheaper, it is inevitable that access to these tools will become common place. How does this affect the way we shop, build parts or even make movies? Jay Leno Iron Man suit Thingiverse | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 15 | Brian talks about his new book Designing with Data and all the little places that atomic chart types make a sneaky appearance. The book covers much of the basics of charts and graphs and gets you started in a world which you might not be so familiar. Designing with Data Five Simple Steps | 8/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 14 | In this episode, I interview Drew Neil about his site all-sorts.org and his collection of collective nouns. In the podcast he explains how you can submit your own and some of the stranger submissions he's gotten. If you have an extra 6:20 seconds, you can also watch's Drew's Pecha Kucha presentation on the topic and see some of the prints that have been made of the various works. | 7/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 13 | In episode two, Brian talks about a book he recently read entitled, Web Forms Design: Filling in the Blanks by Luke Wroblewski. It is all about how to imperially design better forms based on years of research and hard evidence. Rosenfeld Media Publisher Luke Wroblewski | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 12 | This is the beginning of a 6 episode North Atlantic Radio mini-series. In this first episode, Brian looks into the history of the first talking computer, the IMB 704 and its relation to 2001's HAL. Daisy Bell on Wikipedia Bicycle built for two thousand IBM 704 on YouTube | 6/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 11 | Here it is, the final episode of our first series. In episode 11 we cover newspaper paywalls, Google and China, TweetCC, software patents, data.gov.uk, and — as always — the books we’ve been reading. We hope you enjoy this last episode of the series as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. All and any feedback is welcome. Paywalls How the New York Times should construct its paywall The Financial Times, the paper that doesn’t want to be free New Scientist paywall, an open letter Amazon charges for reading blogs on the Kindle The Guardian iPhone app Heroes Google, for standing up to China TweetCC, for allowing people to free their Twitter messages Villains Google, for their map reduce patent Software patents in general Site of the episode Data.gov.uk Books we’ve been reading Unseen Academicals, by Terry Pratchett Letters from High Latitudes, by Lord Dufferin Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Married to a Bedouin, by Marguerite Van Geldermalsen | 2/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 10 | You lucky lucky people, you have an extra long episode for those long winter evenings over Christmas and New Year. A veritable cornucopia of topics awaits, including Google’s latest software, HTML 5-based games, web site pay walls, the differences between reporting and journalism, and, bizarrely, mid-nineteenth century British politics. Google’s recent releases First, SPDY, an upgrade for the HTTP protocol. It looks good, even though we don’t think it’s likely to make an impact. And why would the search giant release Google DNS? To speed up page loading time, or for some as-yet-unknown reason related to Google Chrome OS and Android? Finally, we talk about the new labs feature of Google’s webmaster tools, the site speed checker. HTML 5 games HTML 5 is still only a draft but we’re seeing some real innovation here. From only a few months ago when games written in HTML 5 were just a twinkle in our eye, we now have two real-world games, Pie Guy and Some Adventure Guy, you can play right now. We talk about these games along with some of the problems that have yet to be overcome. Pay walls Pay walls can only work if just about everyone promises to implement one. How are the companies that want pay walls going to manage to get everyone to agree? What about free options like the BBC News website? Are pay wall advocates just doing what the music industry did ten years ago, and fighting against the inevitable? Should they not be looking into new and sustainable business methods? Reporting versus journalism Reporting is something social media can be good at (although there are still problems with trust and authenticity), but journalism is different. Journalism takes time, effort, and more than 140 characters. Can newspapers survive by admitting they’ll never win at the former, but can do the latter better than anyone? Heroes The Guardian, for their new iPhone app. Wikileaks is my hero for standing-up to The Man. Books The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby: Volume II: Achievement, 1851-1869, by Angus Hawkins Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension, by Michio Kaku | 12/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode nine | This episode sees us talking about open government data, including the soon-to-be-released web site from the UK government as headed by Tim Berners-Lee. We also slam Adobe for trying wheedle to wheedle their way in to open data with their distinctly unopen Flash. Along with that we mention games, NASA, and the books we’re reading. Open data Newspaper Club and their data.gov.uk newspaper Making Ordnance Survey data public Þjóðfundar Heroes Amanita Design, for Machinarium NASA, for debunking the 2012 conspiracy stories Villains Adobe, for their “open data” ploy Verizon, for their Droid fees Site of the episode After last episode’s chat about native gaming in browsers we were very impressed to see Gil Megidish implement part of the old classic Another World using Javascript and canvas. Books The Forgotten Prime Minister: the 14th Earl of Derby, by Angus Hawkins Iron Fists: Branding the 20th-Century Totalitarian State, by Steven Heller | 11/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode eight | Heroes and villains Matt thinks Flickr are being particularly heroic this time around for their work integrating OpenStreetMap with geo-located photos. But Royal Mail are bad bad boys for their insistence on keeping UK post codes for themselves. And Brian? He loves Mozilla for standing up to Microsoft and their buggy Firefox plugin. He’s not so impressed with Twitter though, for introducing the cop out that is lists. Legal deposit and the web For background, see Matt’s ideas on legal deposit and the web. We discuss why web sites aren’t covered by national legal deposit laws, why as a culture we seem so comfortable with losing so much of our contemporary written culture, how this would have affected the US Declaration of Independence, and what we can do solve this. Site of the episode: If only because it’s beautiful to look at, out site of the episode is Midtone Design. Books we’re reading Imprimatur, by Monaldi and Sorti The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England, by Ian Mortimer Index on Censorship Blue Ocean Strategy, by W Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques with Java Implementations, by Ian Witten The picture above, Old books in Valldemossa, courtesy Astrid Walter. | 10/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode seven | Join us for episode seven: native 3D graphics in your web browser, web hooks and APIs for SMS messaging, our heroes and villains, site of the episode, and the books we’re reading. WebGL Native 3D graphics are coming to your web browser: the development versions of Webkit and Firefox now include support for WebGL, a Javascript binding for the OpenGL graphics library. It’s early days but very exciting, and we talk about what you might be doing in you browser in a few years time. A preview of Webkit’s WebGL and canvas 3D WebGL in Firefox nightly builds Taykt Taykt is a service that allows you to send SMS messages programatically. There’s an API and you can use web hooks to interact with your users over SMS. We talk about potential uses for the service and how in the future you might use it to make money. Taykt Taykt API Heroes and villains Matt says Google Chrome Frame is heroic but Google Sidewiki is villainous. Meanwhile Brian is too pessimistic to come up with a hero but calls Apple as his villain. Listen to find out why. Google Chrome Frame Jeff Jarvis on the dangers of Google Sidewiki Site of the episode Next time you’re making up some slides for a presentation, pause before you use Powerpoint, Keynote, or Google Docs and try 280 Slides instead. Books we’re reading The Image of the City, by Kevin Lynch Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely Imprimatur, by Monaldi and Sorti European Architecture 1750–1890, by Barry Bergdoll Those TED talks Brian mentioned Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice Dan Ariely asks: ‘Are we in control of our own decisions?’ The picture above, Edison telephone, 1879, Science Museum Collection, Hallway, courtesy Science Museum London. | 9/30/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Episodes |
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