Dan Bricklin's Log Podcast

An interview with Bob Cringely right as he was preparing to interview me for a PBS TV program. We discuss what he's up to, Youtube, and more. A very short portion of this is available as video on Youtube. Recorded: 2007-06-06 Length: 16:51, Size: 7.7MB

Antonio Rodriguez of Tabblo talks about their acquisition by Hewlett-Packard. Recorded: 2007-05-03 Length: 2:56, Size: 1.3MB

Rick Treitman of Virtual Ubiquity talks about their upcoming Flash-based word processor. Recorded: 2007-05-03 Length: 9:27, Size: 4.3MB

David Weinberger at the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council's Social Media Cluster talking about "Taking Back the Internet: How Social Media will Transform Media and Institutions". Recorded: 2007-04-24 Length: 1:53:34, Size: 52MB

Toby Redshaw, Motorola VP, talks about the growth of their use of wikis and blogs, and why they are so important. This is a follow-up to the podcast interview in March 2006. Recorded: 2007-03-14 Length: 45:34, Size: 20.8MB

This is a sit-down interview with Vice Admiral John Morgan about building a community of trust in a "Pier-to-Pier" world. This relates to comments by Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chief of Naval Operations, U.S. Navy. Admiral Mullen is the top ranking Naval officer and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and has been advocating the idea of a "1,000 Ship Navy", a pooling of the resources among nations, a community of trust that includes the sharing of information among navies of countries that may otherwise be untrusting of each other for political or economic reasons. A "...free-form, self-organizing network of maritime partners..." This is a somewhat informal relationship more like the one that grew the Internet than the command-and-control style of more traditional military or corporate relationships. Vice Admiral Morgan, interviewed here, has been speaking around the country on this topic. Recorded: 2007-03-05 Length: 19:48, Size: 9.1MB

Jessica Baumgart organized a Blogger Dim Sum brunch to coincide with Dave Winer's visit to the Boston area. I was one of the attendees and used it as an opportunity to try out some new podcasting equipment. Recorded: 2007-02-25 Length: 4:37, Size: 2.1MB

This is a phone interview with Asheesh Birla, Executive Director of Strategic Production Technology Global Production at Thomson Learning. I asked Asheesh to go through the deployment and adoption of wikis as his company step by step, how he did it, what it was used for, who used it next, etc. I asked him about savings, what to do and not do, etc. He has hundreds of users actively editing wiki pages, including outside vendors. When he started, he knew little about wikis -- just that friends at other companies told him he should try using one. Recorded: 2007-02-21 Length: 25:48, Size: 12MB

This is a phone interview with Ward Cunningham. Ward is known, among other things, for inventing and popularizing the wiki. Recorded: 2007-02-14 Length: 1:26:01, Size: 39.3MB

This is a MITX Fireside Chat with Craig's List CEO Jim Buckmaster. The interviewer was Scott Kirsner and there was a lot of Q&A from the audience. Recorded: 2006-12-05 Length: 1:03:35, Size: 29.1MB

This is a quick interview with Alan Yates at a Microsoft reception at the University of Massachusetts Club overlooking the Boston Harbor. Alan is the general manager of business strategy for the Office team. I asked him a few questions about Google Spreadsheet and web stuff related to Office and recorded them in a podcast. Recorded: 2006-06-12 Length: 5:47, Size: 2.7MB

This is a compilation of walk-around quick interviews at a VIP lunch at the Boston FIRST Regional Robotics Competition. FIRST is the organization Dean Kamen founded to promote interest in science and technology in kids. It starts outs with CIMIT (Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology) strategic director Ronald Newbower (I wrote up a visit to CIMIT in February 2002 here on my blog), then has iRobot chairman and co-founder Helen Greiner, then AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, then Steve Wozniak, then one of the Worcester, Massachusetts, "Polar Bots" team, and then a little sound from the competition. Recorded: 2006-03-25 Length: 19:01, Size: 8.7MB

This is an interview with Toby Redshaw, Motorola's Corporate Vice President of Information Technology Strategy, Architecture & e-Business, at DiamondCluster's DX Summit in early March 2006. He told me that Motorola, #49 on the Fortune 500, has almost 2,000 internal wikis (that's separate wikis, each with many pages), and 2,700 blogs used by 60,000 of their 68,000 employees daily. 4,000-5,000 people are actively contributing, the rest mainly read. Toby tells us about what wikis and blogs are used for, how they rolled them out, what benefits they get, how they chose what they did, experience with bad behavior, etc. Near the end, he also talks about their experiences with Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Recorded: 2006-03-06 Length: 30:03, Size: 13.7MB

This is a recording of the keynote at the Mass Technology Leadership Council meeting by Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.org. In this 47 minute speech (including audience questions) he talked about what Wikipedia is, how it's done, misconceptions about its organization, and more. Regular businesses like IBM are using collaborative tools like wikis and it's worth learning from the Wikipedia experience. Recorded: 2006-02-08 Length: 47.04, Size: 21.5MB

This is a recording from the Mass Technology Leadership Council meeting of the CIO panel, moderated by eWeek Editor Eric Lundquist. The panelists were Sandesh Bhat, director of design and technology innovation at the IBM Software Group, Bethann Pepoli, deputy CIO of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and David Webb, CIO of Silicon Valley Bank. They talk about what they do and their role, some about where their budgets are going, how to sell to them, and (at 40:15) about their use of Open Source. Recorded: 2006-02-08 Length: 43.53, Size: 20.0MB

This is a recording, from the Mass Technology Leadership Council meeting, of John Landry of Adesso Systems gaving his view of the outlook for IT/software technology in the coming year. He's always entertaining, and knowing this was being podcast he made sure to describe things even if you couldn't see his slides. Recorded: 2006-02-08 Length: 59:47, Size: 27.3MB

This is a recording, from the Mass Technology Leadership Council meeting, of a short talk by Boston Mayor Tom Menino. At about 5:45 in he talks about the new WiFi and wireless initiatives the city is doing. Recorded: 2006-02-08 Length: 8:56, Size: 4.1MB

This recording is from a party for TopTenSources. They were celebrating moving into a real office and the pass off from founder John Palfrey to a team headed by new CEO Halley Suitt. It has Halley talking about what Top10 is all about and their business model (or lack there of), Adam Green talking about their business model and programming and what he's doing and his view of Web 2.0 (it's the excitement after the dead of 2000-2004), John Palfrey talking about Top10 and business models and RSS and copyright, other Top10-related and semi-related people talking about what they do, the chief scientist from Feedster.com talking about the differences between automatic and editor-driven search results, a short speech by John, Halley, and others, and more. It ends with Halley talking about Dave Winer and his role in RSS, wishing he was there. Recorded: 2006-01-24 Length: 48:14, Size: 22.0MB

Mary Hodder and some others were in town David Weinberger invited some people over to his house to schmooze about saving the Internet and other topics. I walked around at one point and asked some of the people if they'd like to say something for a podcast. You'll hear Mary, Halley Suitt, Steve Garfield, Henry Jenkins, Rebecca McKinnon, Bob Frankston, and others. It's nearly a half hour long. Recorded: 2006-01-22 Length: 28:27, Size: 13.0MB

This recording is from a meeting of the Technology Industry Group of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston. The speakers were Dan Caine and Jonathan Seelig. Dan is best known (in the tech world) for founding the company that developed the TaxCut income tax software which was acquired in 1993 by H&R Block. Jonathan was a co-founder of Akamai Technologies. The talk was titled "Two Guys Talking: A Discussion on Starting Companies, Living in Israel, and Committing to the Jewish Enterprise". Recorded: 2006-01-18 Length: 1:11:03, Size: 32.5MB