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O’Reilly’s talks with IDEO's Arianna McClain about storytelling through data and the human-centered, data-driven design approach at IDEO. Jon Follett also talks with Involution Studio founder Dirk Knemeyer about the changing role of design in emerging technologies, and the convergence of the engineering and design disciplines.

O'Reilly's Jenn Webb chats with Riffyn founder Tim Gardner about the synthetic biology landscape and issues in research and experimentation that he's addressing at Riffyn.

This week, O'Reilly Radar editor Jenn Webb caught up with Mike Belshe, CTO and co-founder of BitGo, a company that has developed a multi-signature wallet that works with bitcoin. Belshe talks about about the security issues addressed by multi-signature wallets, how the technology works, and the challenges in bringing cryptocurrencies mainstream. We also talk about his journey into the bitcoin world, and he chimes in on what money will look like in the future.

O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum talks with Edd Dumbbell, VP of strategy at Silicon Valley Data Science, about the data lake, the opportunities the model presents, and the driving forces behind the concept. In the second segment, O’Reilly’s big data guru Ben Lorica chats with Rajiv Maheswaran, CEO of SecondSpectrum, about spatial-temporal pattern recognition — what Maheswaran calls “the science of moving dots.”

O'Reilly's Mary Treseler chats with David Rose, an instructor at MIT's Media Lab and CEO at Ditto Labs, about enchanted objects and finding sources of inspiration in fairy tales and folklore. In the second segment, O'Reilly's Nick Lombardi talks with Simon King, design director and interaction design community lead at IDEO, about human-centered design, where design intuition fits in to the creative process, and how design is evolving as projects become more and more complex.

Simon St. Laurent, O’Reilly’s strategic content director for O'Reilly's web space and co-chair of Fluent Conference, recently launched an investigation looking into the web’s potential to change not only computing, but the world in general. O'Reilly's Jenn Webb caught up with St. Laurent to talk about the timing, what he’s exploring, and why the web isn’t dead. In the second segment, O’Reilly’s Nick Lombardi talks with Tom Greever, UX director at Bitovi, about the evolution of experience design and how today’s designers are not only solving design problems, but business problems as well.

In this episode, Dr. Gilad Rosner talks about personal data privacy in the age of the Internet of Things, privacy as a social characteristic, an emerging design ethos for technologists, and whether or not we actually own our personal data. In the second segment, Alasdair Allan talks about the broken nature of the Internet of Things, why data is a local problem, and why he's obsessed with Kickstarter. For more on this episode, visit O'Reilly Radar: oreil.ly/1FqUDO5

With the rise of mobile phones equipped with GPS, we're meeting many more data scientists at start-ups and large companies who specialize in spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Analyzing moving dots requires specialized tools and techniques. A few months ago, I sat down with Rajiv Maheswaran founder and CEO of Second Spectrum, a company that applies analytics to sports tracking data. Maheswaran talks about the tools and techniques required to analyze new kinds of sports data. For more on our interview, visit O'Reilly Radar: http://oreil.ly/1t7EcOQ

In this episode, I chat with O’Reilly’s Mary Treseler about O’Reilly new investigation in to experience design and how it’s shaping our future. In the second segment, O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum talks with Trina Chiasson, co-founder and CEO of Infoactive, about typography and visualizations. Chiasson also shares interesting insights into whether or not everyone should learn to code. For more, visit O’Reilly Radar: http://oreil.ly/14iaKQL

Jim Stogdill, Jon Bruner, and Mike Loukides chat about personalizing all the things. This week in our Radar podcast, Jon and I both had colds. You'll be pleased to know that I edited out all the sneezes, coughs, and general upper respiratory mayhem, but unfortunately there is no Audacity filter for a voice that sounds like a frog caught in a mouse trap (mine). If that hasn't dissuaded you from listening, we covered some things that were really interesting, at least to us. For more on our chat and links to our chat fodder, visit O'Reilly Radar at http://oreil.ly/1h8zU7N.

Max Shron and Jake Porway talk with Jon Bruner about frameworks for making reasoned arguments with data. Max's recent book, Thinking with Data (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029182.do), outlines the crucial process of developing good questions and creating a plan to answer them. Jake's nonprofit, DataKind (http://www.datakind.org/), connects data scientists with worthy causes where they can apply their skills. For on this episode, visit http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/03/podcast-thinking-with-data.html. This episode is brought to you by Solid, O'Reilly's new conference about the intersection between software and the physical world--including hardware, manufacturing, design, and the code that makes sense of it all. For more information on Solid, and to reserve tickets, visit http://solidcon.com.

What happens if emerging technology and automation result in a world of abundance, where anyone at anytime can produce anything they need and there's no need for jobs? In his recent Strata keynote, James Burke warned that society is not prepared for scarcity (and the value it brings) to be a thing of the past — an eventuality Burke predicts will occur in the next 40 years or so. This topic kicks off a discussion between Jim Stogdill, Jon Bruner and myself that we recorded while at Strata. For more on our discussion and related links, visit http://oreil.ly/1gRiIR3.

We were snowed in, but the phones still worked, so Jon Bruner, Mike Loukides, and I got together on the phone to have a chat. We start off talking about the results of the Solid call for proposals, but as is often the case, the conversation meandered from there. For more on this episode, including links to the things we discussed, visit http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/01/podcast-solid-tech-for-humans-and-maybe-a-field-trip

Reporters, editors and designers are looking for new ways to interact with readers and with the physical world--drawing data in through sensors and expressing it through new immersive formats. In this episode of the Radar podcast, Jon Bruner and Jenn Webb talk with three people who are working on new modes of interaction: Mark Trammell, of Sonos (previously of Obama HQ and Twitter) Rebekah Monson, of the University of Miami Robert Hernandez, of the University of Southern California For more on this episode, including links to the things we discussed, visit http://radar.oreilly.com/2013/12/podcast-news-that-reaches-beyond-the-screen.html

At our OSCON conference this summer, Jon Bruner, Renee DiResta and I sat down with Alasdair Allen, a hardware hacker and O'Reilly author; Josh Marinacci, a researcher with Nokia; and Tony Santos, a user experience designer with Mozilla. Our discussion focused on the future of UI/UX design, from the perils of designing from the top down to declining diversity in washing machines to controlling your car from anywhere in the world. For more about this episode and links to a few things that arise in the discussion, visit http://oreil.ly/1cChZl2