Dan Bricklin's Log Podcast

This is John Osborne of Osborne Associates. He's a person who records sound for broadcast. He's worked on lots of projects over the last 20 years or so and is doing reality TV stuff right now. I asked John lots of questions about equipment and stuff. His answers were aimed at people looking to do a "professional" job, so some of the equipment mentioned fits that price range, but it's really cool to listen to a pro even if you can't afford it. Realize that this was all recorded in a quite noisy club, with music, bar, candlepin bowling, and the Patriots football on TV -- a good test for my equipment (Sennheiser MD46 mike, Edirol R-1 recorder) and technique. Recorded: 2006-01-07 Length: 14:11, Size: 6.5MB

I talked to Mark Mills (co-founder Nancy Mills' husband, co-host of the show, certified financial planner, and currently executive producer of Greater Boston on WGBH-TV) at the BoomersTV party. He talked about the show and then I asked him questions about funding, etc., that might be of interest to others (including podcasters) interested in making a living in independent media. Recorded: 2006-01-07 Length: 11:51, Size: 5.4MB

Dave Winer was in town and he proposed a "geek dinner" at a food court in a mall in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I recorded about 20 minutes of some of the people talking to each other. Recorded: 2006-01-05 Length: 22:17, Size: 10.2MB

Don, who was CEO of Trellix, is now CEO of EqualLogic. I run into people all the time who ask how he's doing and what's up with him, so I devoted some of our lunch time to recording a podcast. You will find this of interest if you are interested in Don himself, in EqualLogic and the type of products it makes (storage area network devices), or the VAR channel. He explains what SANs and iSCSI in particular are all about (IP-based network attached storage), why he joined that company, and what the VAR channel is like and how it compares to the Lotus Notes days when he helped develop the Notes VAR channel. Recorded: 2005-12-22 Length: 20:02, Size: 9.2MB

The Massachusetts Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies and the Science and Technology Caucus held a meeting titled "An Open Forum on the Future of Electronic Data Formats for the Commonwealth". It was held in the Senate Reading Room, and I was able to record the meeting. The meeting was moderated by State Senator Jack Hart and Representative Cory Atkins. Also in attendance were the other co-chairs of the committee and caucus, Representative Dan Bosley and Secretary of Economic Development Ranch Kimball, and other legislators as well as many attendees from various constituencies. Berkman Center's John Palfrey gave an introductory address, and then we heard from the main panel: Bob Sutor of IBM, Bob Sproull of Sun Microsystems, Peter Quinn of MA ITD, Alan Yates of Microsoft, Alan Cote from the Secretary of State's Office, and Judy Brewer from W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative. ITD's Linda Hamel was also asked to speak from the floor. There were then some questions and statements

Jay Walker, Chairman of Walker Digital, is best known for his work with Priceline.com. If you are interested in innovation, business models, the Internet, entrepreneurship, patents, or just general business, you would have loved this meeting. I didn't take any notes...but I did record it for podcasting. He talks about patents at about 35:00, and at 54:45, after talking about Open Source, he calls Microsoft the last of the Soviet-style software development places. He's quite outspoken. Reocrded: 2005-12-08 Length: 1:04:29, Size: 29.5MB

This is a few minutes from a dinner with Microsoft's Dan'l Lewin and a few others. We discuss Ray Ozzie a bit. Recorded: 2005-11-14 Length: 4:44, Size: 2.2MB

Robin is editor-in-chief at the Open Source Technology Group, which includes Slashdot.org, Linux.com, SourceForge.net, etc. Recorded: 2005-11-01 Length: 12:27, Size: 5.7MB

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(Follow link to blog post for more information) Length: 1:57:47, Size: 53.9MB

From the announcement: "The purpose of this meeting is to explore together how open standards are increasing productivity, decreasing costs and shifting control of information and technology choice from vendors to individuals, businesses and governments." The moderator was John Palfrey (Berkman Executive Director), with panelists Steve Bratt (COO W3C), Tim Bray (Sun), Doug Levin (CEO Black Duck Software), and Bob Sutor (VP Standards and Open Source, IBM). Recorded: 2005-10-27 Length: 1:13:14, Size: 33.5MB

The interviewees were J.J. Allaire and Jeremy Allaire, founders of Allaire Corp., the ColdFusion people. Recorded: 2005-10-26 Length: 1:00:52, Size: 27.8MB