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Social dimensions of P2P and the semantic web

At the turn of our new century, during the heyday of Napster, the infotech conversation was all about peer-to-peer, or P2P, technology. There were elite gatherings of leading influentials to assess its potential, conferences to bring together ideas and money, new publications to chronicle its development. In September 2000 Dave Winer wrote a touchstone essay called [...]

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04.08.2008 17:48:47 - Jon Udell

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Lee LeFever reflects on the CommonCraft style

On this week’s Innovators show I spoke with Lee LeFever who, with his wife Sachi, runs CommonCraft. You’ve probably seen their clever animated videos explaining web topics like RSS and Twitter. If not, check out their most popular one, RSS in Plain English. It’s uncannily effective, and a real inspiration to those of us who’ve [...]

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01.08.2008 22:38:49 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Tony Hey about Microsoft External Research and the new breed of e-scientists

In my Perspectives series I’ve been exploring some key relationships between Microsoft and external partners: Mercy Corps, NASA, the Library of Congress, the community of scientific and scholarly publishers, and individual scientific researchers including George Hripcsak and Dennis Baldocchi. For this week’s show I spoke with Tony Hey, the VP of the External Research division of [...]

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01.08.2008 02:12:09 - Jon Udell

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Overcoming synthetic voice shock

To prepare for my interview with Susan Gerhart I tried using text-to-speech software to read menu choices and text selections aloud. As always, I experienced the reaction that Susan, in her latest post, calls synthetic voice shock. For those of us who don’t need to rely on synthetic voices, that reaction isn’t a problem, it’s merely [...]

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30.07.2008 15:25:08 - Jon Udell

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A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack

By an odd coincidence, my interview with Joshua Tauberer, founder and operator of GovTrack, went live just as the bill I’d been tracking using that system made headlines. Had I not been doing some investigation into legislative support for alternative biomass heating systems, I’d never have known that the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 — [...]

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28.07.2008 15:06:48 - Jon Udell

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Kudos for MAPLight’s visualization of Congressional activity

In yesterday’s essay on my efforts to relate what our New Hampshire senators say about renewable energy to what they do or don’t do about it (and why), I left out a crucial step. It’s a nice illustration of the subtle and powerful data visualization provided by MAPLight.org. I’d found references to a crucial NO vote [...]

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24.07.2008 01:30:52 - Jon Udell

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Net-enhanced democracy: Amazing progress, solvable challenges

Last week I spoke with Joshua Tauberer for an upcoming interview about his project, GovTrack.us, which is one of several efforts to make official sources of information about Congressional legislation available in more useful and actionable ways. On Sunday, my local newspaper ran an article that sent me scrambling to GovTrack, to OpenCongress, to the Washington [...]

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22.07.2008 19:35:19 - Jon Udell

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John Faughnan’s amazing Outlook hack (and why it matters)

Although I’ve conversed online with John Faughnan since my days at BYTE, we’ve never met, and we had not even spoken on the phone until last week when he joined me on an episode of my Interviews with Innovators podcast. It was a great pleasure to finally connect in realtime with the prolific author of [...]

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21.07.2008 16:36:24 - Jon Udell

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How to wire up a timer-triggered WPF event handler in IronPython

In the last installment of my little series on turning Internet feeds into TV feeds, I had decided to use IronPython to fetch data from the Internet, but C# to drive the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) application whose display my local public access TV station will broadcast. This division of labor between C# and IronPython [...]

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17.07.2008 19:29:16 - Jon Udell

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Dan Bricklin on becoming a Happy Caster

The Conversations Network is embarking on a new phase in which it will expand its ambition to capture, publish, and curate spoken-word audio from a wide range of sources. One of the challenges will be to help more people effectively capture audio to a reasonable standard of quality. Dan Bricklin, my guest for this week’s [...]

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17.07.2008 16:08:33 - Jon Udell

Jon Udell

Social dimensions of P2P and the semantic web

Lee LeFever reflects on the CommonCraft style

A conversation with Tony Hey about Microsoft External Research and the new breed of e-scientists

Overcoming synthetic voice shock

A conversation with Joshua Tauberer about GovTrack

Kudos for MAPLight’s visualization of Congressional activity

Net-enhanced democracy: Amazing progress, solvable challenges

John Faughnan’s amazing Outlook hack (and why it matters)

How to wire up a timer-triggered WPF event handler in IronPython

Dan Bricklin on becoming a Happy Caster

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