Kopanas

I just have this bug. I love podcasts and I really want to take a crack at producing one. I know I am late to the game but if a couple passionate and opinionated people would like to try it out with me at worse it can be a lot of fun… at best… it can be a lot of fun!

Video? Audio? I presently consume much more audio podcasts then video. I guess it depends on the subject and if video would add any benefit to the people listening/watching the podcast. Plus, I was always told I have a face for radio! :-)

But what can we cover? Stuff I am passionate about: the web, interaction design, the software process, useful branding, how to run a business, startups, the scene in Montreal, my computer, human sexuality… (hey, people told me I had to find a hobby outside of computers so I choose human sexuality!)

Does anyone else have a passion for podcasts here? Anyone ever consider starting a podcast?

I listen to a half dozen podcasts on average per week and if their were more that caught my attention I would probably listen to more!

Since, like the looser I am, I love podcasts and talk radio so much I decided to give Audible a try. Using the following link: http://audible.com/macbreak I was able to sign-up and get one audio book for free. I downloaded “The Cluetrain Manifesto”. Let’s see if I prefer listening to books rather then reading them!

“When it comes to code, I am more anal than a good friend of mine who is gay. (And he likes that joke so to hell with the cry babies)”

I just love geeks!

from the RailsJitsu blog

You need to watch this music video… but more importantly you need to read the words that you will find in Dip.fiction written by Black Eyed Peas front man Will.i.am that explains why he produced this music video! I am inspired. I have hope.

I think about the future of business models a lot. The Internet has had a large impact on business, especially on any business that has historically made money off selling content in the form of information (news & articles), entertainment (music & movies) and products (software).

Kevin Kelly, of Wired fame, has written a really good article on how companies will make money off selling things that are in essence free to copy.

In a real sense, these are eight things that are better than free. Eight uncopyable values. I call them “generatives.” A generative value is a quality or attribute that must be generated, grown, cultivated, nurtured. A generative thing can not be copied, cloned, faked, replicated, counterfeited, or reproduced. It is generated uniquely, in place, over time. In the digital arena, generative qualities add value to free copies, and therefore are something that can be sold.

→ “Better then Free” by Kevin Kelly

I sure hope so. I remember about 6 months ago looking at subscribing to the magazine but at the time, if I remember correctly, it was going to cost me more then a hundred dollars a year for six issues and I just could not swallow the cost.

To my surprise, I just found out that the January + February 2008 issue of ACM’s Interactions Magazine is available to download for free so I am going to take advantage of the opportunity to check out an issue! I am writing this while I sent the issue to the printer. Ahh… it is finished… commmmmiiinnnngggggggg….

→ Download ACM Interactions January + February 2008 Issue

UPDATE: Maybe you won’t want to print it out… I don’t know if they did this on purpose but when you print out the magazine in black & white it is really hard to read the text. This sucks!