by cameron | Jan 12, 2006 | Podcast, science
On this show I’m joined by Alex and Neil from Audacious Communications who, according to their website, are:
a creative communications agency that blends the power of online social media, podcasting, blogging and vcasting with the skills of professional public relations and organisational communication.
They recently made ten bold prediction for podcasting in 2006 and I was interested to learn a little bit more about the science behind their research methodology…
by cameron | Jan 11, 2006 | Podcast, science
G’Day World #68 (MP3 – 8.8MB – 24min)
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE
Alex Laats, the CEO of Podzinger, joins me today to talk about the launch of their new podcast search service. As you know, I’ve been pretty skeptical about the value of these podcast “speech-to-text” services in the past, but I think today Alex was able to convince me of their worth.
However, their service is currently designed to recognize only North American accents, so it HATES this show. 🙂
Check out a part of its transcription of a recent episode:
Series: ThePodcastNetwork :: G’day World
Episode: G?Day World #66 (05 Jan 2006) –
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Now, I know I can talk shit sometimes, but hopefully I make a little more sense than this. But, of course, most of the podcasts out there come from North America, so it’s a good business decision and Alex assures me they are working on other languages, including other regional English accents and Chinese.
by cameron | Nov 9, 2005 | Podcast, science
Josh Gliddon is a journalist at The Bulletin magazine where he specialises in science, technology and health. In February 2005 he was the first mainstream media journalist to cover The Podcast Network.
He also writes about cars, surfing and music in his blog.
Last month in The Bulletin, Josh wrote a lengthy article on Intelligent Design and I invited him onto the show today to discuss it with me.
We also chat a little at the end about the Curta Calculator.
This episode of G’DAY WORLD is sponsored by Motorola and contains a Community Service Announcement from Tyme White (from The Microsoft Show) about Sony’s DRM debacle. It also finished with a segment I lifted from Matt, Freak and The Fatboy’s latest show where they discuss the Top Ten Best Things About Doing A Podcast That No-One Listens To. It contains nasty language and, if you are easily offended by the C-word, you probably shouldn’t listen. You should also probably get the hell over it.
You have been warned.
by cameron | Aug 1, 2005 | Podcast, science
Want to live forever? Okay, not forever, but let’s say… 1000 years?
Think I’m kidding? Well I’m not. For 10 – 15 years I’ve been telling people that I believe the science to significantly extend the human lifespan would be here in my lifetime and that I intend to use it to try to live 500 – 1000 years.
And my guest tonight, Dr Aubrey de Grey, biogerontologist from the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, UK, is the man leading the field in this incredibly exciting research.
As his website says:
The central goal of my biogerontology work is to expedite the development of a true cure for human aging.
He has developed the term SENS (Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence) and is confident that, given enough funding (a measly $100 million a year for ten years), we can make significant in-roads towards curing human aging. He and his partners have established The Methuselah Mouse Prize, a scientific competition designed to draw attention to the ability of new technologies to slow and even reverse the damage of the aging process. And a couple of days ago, Technology Review magazine issued another challenge – Technology Review is announcing a prize for any molecular biologist working in the field of aging who is willing to take up the challenge: submit an intellectually serious argument that SENS is so wrong that it is unworthy of learned debate, and you will be paid $20,000 if it convinces independent referees.
Out of all of the interviews I’ve done in the last 8 months, I have to say this is personally the most exciting. Getting to assist guys like Dr de Grey to get their message out to the wider population makes this podcasting thing worthwhile.
Now… GO! Listen to the show! And then come back here and spend some SERIOUS QUALITY TIME checking out the links…
SENS home
Read Technology Review’s detailed article on Dr de Grey
Donate money at the MPRize website
YAHOO NEWS RSS feed on “Aubrey de Grey” to you can stay up to date
Further reading:
The Spike (Damien Broderick)
The Age of Spiritual Machines (Ray Kurzweil)
The Prospect of Immortality (Robert Ettinger)
by cameron | Jan 1, 2005 | Podcast, science
This 34 minute edition of “On the Pod”, and our first show to go live in 2005 (even thogh it was recorded on 22nd December 2004), sees us have a chat with James Boyle, the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School in North Carolina in the USA.
James is not only one of the worlds leading experts on Intellectual Property (IP) Law and the digital commons but he is also one of the founders of the “Creative Commons” movement and one of the main instigators behind the “Science Commons”.
Tune in as he takes us through the impact of IP law on digital content from music through to DNA and the human genome. He even gives us his five year outlook and predications on the future of copyright, users access rights to content and the P2P space.
Note: Over the next week we will be posting up some amazing interviews…so stay tuned and have a great start to 2k5 everybody…may all your wishes and dreams come true…
