phyllostachys 62: Minute Tech 47 show transcript

47 - Mourning: Are you being Creative?

Good morning, this is Alex Landefeld with episode 47 of the Minute Tech podcast -

coming to you for Monday, December 10th, 2007

On this tech podcast about the broader meanings of technology, we'll mention:

- Atlantis grounded until January
- Mourning: Are you being Creative?
- Early adopters, Google Reader and roadkill.

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Special Note for this morning: my mother Anne Macmillan Landefeld, died this past Saturday, December 8th, at 10:20 pm, so this weeks podcast question will be focused on mourning and the various facets of mourning in human society. It's important to move on, but it's also important to remember.

Tech News:

Priyanka Joshi, reporting from New Delhi under the by-line GIZMOGEEK, published in www.business-standard.com, describes a brief exchange of questions and answers with Ajay Adiseshann, managing director and founder, PayMate. One question and answer goes like this:

Q: Describe a wacky application you have fun experimenting with.

A: The entire suite of i-applications on my Apple Macbook Pro, including iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD and Garage Band, to name a few, can keep me engaged for hours. Moreover, the level of integration between these is so seamless that you sometime wonder why others just don’t get it.
http://www.business-standard.com/common/storypage.php?leftnm=lmnu9&subLeft=&autono=306890&tab=r

The American Space Shuttle Atlantis' flight to the International Space Station has been delayed until January due to conflict with flight paths from the North Pole. It seems that Santa and his band of merry elves have been doing too many test flights, more so than usual in advance of global warming, and have asked NASA to hold off until after the busy holiday package-delivery season. NASA has agreed, and chose to put out the news that a fuel sensor problem is to blame.

On the market front, as Apple continues it's orbital maneuvers, here are a couple of small fry to consider: Riverbed Technologies and Blue Coat Systems. Go to finance dot yahoo dot com for more information.

Tech Question:

Mourning: Are you being creative?

About one and a half months before dying, my mother asked me something which I didn't expect to hear from her, something which she'd never asked me before. She asked if I was doing something creative.

As a point of fact, I was just starting this podcast, so I was able to answer in the affirmative, although she wasn't quite sure what I, in my usual effusiveness, was talking about.

Are you doing something creative? Something your mother could look at with pride, knowing that her kids are working hard to get their minds wrapped around something other than the mundane? Think about it. Let me know what you're doing.

Podcasting - Blogging News:

On Marketing over Coffee this past week, John Wall and Christopher Penn were discussing Google Reader. John was stating that he has three classifications of people: Those who use Google Reader for managing the blogs they follow, those who use an earlier technology, having read blogs far longer than the normal netizen ....and those who are effectively roadkill, who haven't the foggiest idea what Google Reader is, and perhaps don't use a reader at all.

Okay, then. Using that definition, I'm roadkill. :-) I don't use a reader for reading blogs via their RSS feeds...which is probably why I'm short on my understanding of the whole RSS thing. I prefer to find blogs as they come across my path, rather than following the ongoing writings of 300 individual bloggers.

Is this silly? What do you think? How do you follow blogs?

I'm considering changing the name of this podcast - some listeners feel that "minute tech" isn't accurate...that "minute ramble" is more to the point. What do you think? We may structure a contest out of this.


Thats all for today on Minute Tech podcast.
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and my blog is at minutetech.blogspot.com

"Move with the motion of the planet - move with Taiji"

- Atlantis grounded until January
- Mourning: Are you being Creative?
- Early adopters, Google Reader and roadkill.

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