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In the now classic Christmas movie "It's a Wonderful Life," George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) feeling trapped in "this crummy little town" has his world crash down around him. In Martini's bar, he talks to God praying to please "show me...

The topics of this week's show are: a) The Audible "new format" announcement and its impact on podcasters, b) Tapping in to the Collective Consciousness for Fun & Profit, c) Connecting (with people...not dots). Listen to or Download this week's...

With literally a day spent wandering along the south shore of Lake Superior and down through the middle of Wisconsin, I had a lot of time to think, experience, wonder and explore. Several of my musings were around internet connectivity...

Recorded on the M-Audio Microtrack...this week's show discusses Web 2.0-like web services and more about the "dirty little secret" of performance with them. I'm a user of several different web services (Flickr, Typepad, Gmail, Bigstep) and am growing increasingly anxious...

It's all about Dad (my 79 year old computing father). This week's show is about dumping an old PC with a HUGE old 17" CRT in favor of a new Mac mini and a 19" Acer LCD monitor (less than...

All the top superheroes listen to Connecting the Dots Apple's Aperture, Who is controlling the internet?, Quantum Dots and LED lighting plus a brief audio demo of microphones (AudioTechnica's ATR55 and Pro24 mikes) to complement my new field recorder (the...

This week's show from New York City comes comments about the ZDNet Digital Life show at the Jacob Javits center; Streamload...a company with a business model to address the exploding world of personal media; and a few musings about publishers...

A podcast after the close of the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 White Paper which came out a few days before the conference Blogger's write about the Web 2.0 Conference Coverage about the Web 2.0...

This week's show covers my new toy: the M-Audio MicroTrack portable compact flash recorder. For those of you who have listened to my podcast for awhile, you'll know that I've been on-the-hunt for a small, phantom powered, brain-dead-simple-to-operate device for...

Topics are: GoogleNet, Personalization, Recommendation, Predictive Analytics & Serendipity. I asked and you responded. Last show I requested that people email me and tell me if there was an interest in a multi-topic podcast...or a single one. Doing a single...

Photography Fest from the Brainerd Lakes area in Northern Minnesota. This Fest is *not* an officially sanctioned photo event by the National Geographic Society. Rather it's 3 guys getting together at one of the guys lake home in northern Minnesota...

This week's show talks about the new John Batelle book "The Search". The show also features those topics which hit Steve Borsch's radar screen this week. Radar Screen is a segment that adds some "color" around the blog posts from...

Talk about the web host BlueHost and tools for hosters called cPanel and the fabulous Fantastico, as well as items around New Orleans (and the blogger from there called The Interdictor). The show also features those topics which hit Steve...

This week's podcast is a brief discussion about Mac OS X vs. Windows vs. Linux from one person's perspective. Frustration started with an attempt to install Linspire (a Linux distro) but it hung...creating a cascade of events with effort to...

It's a podcast from the 5th Annual Dad & Son Adventure. Up at a cabin on the north shore of Lake Superior for the weekend, Alex and his Dad record this week's podcast. Besides goofing around (and Alex dissing his...