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Back again by popular demand, here are more tales from Burning Man's oral history project, an ambitious endeavor to track down and talk with people who helped shape the culture as we now know it.Stuart and Andie share stories of early technology on the playa, and on the internet.Andie Grace aka Actiongrl interviews from the vantage of having co-created Burning Man's world of communications, from Media Mecca to this very podcast.Brian Behlendorf - technologist and open-source software pioneer. He developed Burning Man's online presence and connected people through the venn diagram of luminaries from SF Raves, to Wired Magazine to the Apache Software Foundation.David Beach - designer, creative director, and instigator of the impossible with early dynamic content on the web. He helped create Burning Man's first live streaming and web presence.Scott Beale - documentarian, founder of Laughing Squid, subculture super-connector of various tentacles of the meta-scene.Stuart Magrum - zinester, cacophonist, billboard liberator, Minister of Propaganda, Director of the Philosophical Center, publisher of the first on-site newspaper of Burning Man (the Black Rock Gazette), and always in the same place at the same time as the characters in these stories of Burning Man's media experiments.Andie GraceBrian BehlendorfDavid BeachScott BealeStuart MangrumLaughing Squid: Burning Man 1996 Netcastdispatch2023.burningman.orgjournal.burningman.org/philosophical-centerburningman.org/programs/philosophical-centerBurning Man Live: A People's History of Burning Man - Volume 2Burning Man Live: A People's History of Burning Man - Volume 1 LIVE.BURNINGMAN.ORG

“We need positive visions of how all this technology gets deployed, because what we visualize is what we build.” –Jane Metcalfe In this episode of Deviate, Rolf and Jane talk about the pioneering work she did with Wired during the dawn of the “digital revolution” (3:00); how and why Jane’s professional focus shifted away from digital issues and into food and health issues in the ’00s (15:00); how science is trying to bring in diverse new data points and communication models to improve holistic health worldwide (28:30); how the health of the world’s humans is not separate from the health of the world’s animals, plants, and microorganisms, and how a bio-economy seeks to harness rather than extract the resources of nature (41:00); how regional and cultural differences affect how we perceive health, nutrition, and technology, and the importance of ethics in making scientific decisions (51:00). Jane Metcalfe (@janemetcalfe) is the co-founder of Wired Magazine, and the chair of the Human Immunome Project, a global non-profit working to decode the immune system in order to transform how we prevent, diagnose, and treat disease. Notable Links: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand (Deviate episode) Hotwired (first commercial online magazine) HotBot (early web search engine) Louis Rossetto (writer, editor, and entrepreneur) Neuromancer, by William Gibson (science fiction novel) Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson (science fiction novel) Cyberpunk (subgenre of science fiction) Electric Word (technology magazine) Digital Revolution (shift from mechanical to electronic technologies) Ethernet (computer networking technology) proto.life (newsletter covering the neobiological revolution) Neo.Life: 25 Visions for the Future of Our Species, by Jane Metcalfe (book) The Non-GMO Project (non-profit organization) David Eagleman (neuroscientist) Human genome (complete set of nucleic acid sequences for humans) Immunome (code set for proteins that constitute the immune system) Single-cell sequencing (context-driven technique for studying cells) Microbiome (community of microorganisms in a habitat) One Health (interdisciplinary approach to ecological health) Zoonotic disease (disease than can jump from non-humans to humans) Bioeconomy (use of biotechnology in the production of goods) CRISPR gene editing (technique to modify genomes of living organisms) Bioengineering (application of biology to create products) Interbeing (philosophical concept in Zen Buddhism) iGEM (worldwide synthetic biology competition) Gene drive (technology of genetic engineering) CRISPRcon (gene editing technology conference) Kevin Kelly (author and futurist) The Deviate theme music comes from the title track of Cedar Van Tassel's 2017 album Lumber. Note: We don't host a “comments” section, but we're happy to hear your questions and insights via email, at deviate@rolfpotts.com.

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Caleb Porzio about Livewire, Alpine.js, what is it with PHP devs making cool stuff, TypeScript thoughts, and more. Show Notes 00:36 Welcome 01:05 Buffalo and Canada History of Target in Canada 06:23 Who is Caleb Porzio? @CalebPorzio on Twitter 09:26 What is Livewire? Livewire Alpine.js HotWired 12:58 Are these MVC frameworks? 18:11 What is the process behind the scenes? 20:36 How does Hotwire handle rendering? 25:38 What is Alpine.js? 33:19 Why are PHP devs making interesting things? Laravel Tailwind 40:32 What is a nextTick in JavaScript? Microtask Guide 46:20 TypeScript thoughts 48:05 Server side rendering? Morph 49:25 Supper Club questions Ergodox Keyboards Glove 80 Keyboards Natty Theme MonoLisa 59:40 ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× Ugmonk Analog Shameless Plugs Make VS Code Awesome Alpine.js Livewire Tweet us your tasty treats Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter Make sure to include @SyntaxFM in your tweets

In today's episode, I speak with Jeff Veen. Jeff is a Design Partner and Head of Platform at True Ventures, where he spends his time helping founders create better products. He does this as an advisor, as well, for companies like about.me, Medium, and WordPress. Previously, Jeff was VP of Design at Adobe after they acquired Typekit, the company he co-founded and ran as CEO. Jeff was also one of the founding partners of the user experience consulting group Adaptive Path. While there, he led Measure Map, which was acquired by Google. During his time at Google, Jeff designed Google Analytics and led the UX team for Google's apps. Much earlier, Jeff was part of the founding web team at Wired Magazine, where he helped build HotWired, Web Monkey, Wired News, and many other sites. During that time, he authored two books: HotWired Style and The Art and Science of Web Design.We dive into ways in which trust is established at work and how it's necessary in order for people to be as creative – and successful – as possible. 

Our guest for this episode is Howard Rheingold, a critic, writer, and teacher who specializes in the cultural, social, and political implications of modern communication media. Howard wrote about the earliest personal computers at Xerox PARC, and he was also one of the early users of the Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link or The WELL, an influential early online community. In 1994, he was hired as the founding executive director of HotWired. He is the author of several books, including The Virtual Community, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution, and Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. In this conversation, Howard talks about transitioning from typewriters to computers and the potentials of virtual communities – to both serve as think tanks and form personal connections. He talks about recognizing “signals” of what was to come with telephones and computers and the early collective action that the smartphone encouraged. Finally, he describes five media literacies that everyone should master if they want to use social media well. Click here for this episode's transcript, and here for this episode's show notes.

Howard Rheingold is a writer known for his specialty covering the development of virtual communities. He was one of the first authors, critics, and teachers to treat the internet as a social and cultural environment and pioneered new ways of talking about social media in his book The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier. He went on to write numerous books about the power of the human mind and social media that pulled from his experiences being involved in one of the first virtual communities called the WELL, being the executive editor of Wired Magazine's HotWired, and founding Electric Minds, another prominent early virtual community. He's also known for his spectacular painted shoes.

A number of groups came out of the psychedelic pop scene in Northern England and Scotland in the late 80's including Primal Scream, Teenage Fanclub, Jesus and the Mary Chain, and The Soup Dragons.  Their third album, Hotwired, was released in October 1992.The Soup Dragons got their name from a character in a 1970's UK children's television series called "Clangers," which consisted of short films about a family of mouse-like creatures that live on a small moon-like planet.  They speak only in a whistled language, and only eat green soup, which is supplied by the Soup Dragon.  The Soup Dragons lineup for this album were Sean Dickson on vocals and guitar, Jim McCullough on backing vocals and guitar, Sushil K. Dade on bass, and Paul Quinn on percussion.  They started off as an indie-rock group, but switched to a more dance-rock oriented band when they were without a drummer and started using a drum machine on their second album.The group received some club play with their first indie-dance track called "Mother Universe," but their first big hit was "I'm Free," a fast paced cover of the Rolling Stones song.  They toured the U.S. for two years, and performed on both the David Letterman and Arsenio Hall late night shows.  The Soup Dragons would produce one more studio album after Hotwired, and would disband a year later in 1995.We think you will enjoy the early 90's rock-dance groove of this most successful album of the Soup Dragon's discography.PleasureIs everybody ready?  This first track on the album made it to number 69 on the Billboard 100, and number 14 in the Modern Rock charts.  It is about living your life - "Take it to the limit, live it to the full."Divine ThingThe big hit off the album made it to number 26 on the Billboard 100, and was a staple of the burgeoning stable of alternative rock stations in the early 90's.  It is an homage to Glenn Milstead, more famously known as Divine in John Waters movies.  The music video for this song is the first to display transgender and drug culture to be placed in daytime rotation in the USA. Sweet LayaboutThis is a bit deeper of a cut.  A layabout is a lazy person who is comfortable letting others do things for them.  "Well, hallelujah.  Why don't you sit there in your chair.  'Cause you ain't nothing but the Devil's clientele."MindlessThis track is a softer song that describes the initial infatuation of an early relationship.  You get mindless over the person and can't think of anything else.  "Jesus Christ took his time when inventing you, and Mother Nature couldn't leave our dream come true."   ENTERTAINMENT TRACK:I Gotcha by Joe Tex (from the motion picture "Reservoir Dogs")Quentin Tarantino's debut features what Tarantino would become famous for - lots of violence, and great music. STAFF PICKS:Jump Around by House of PainRob's staff pick dips into the hip-hop genre.  Everlast, DJ Lethal, and Danny Boy formed the band, and the song made it to number 3 in the U.S.  A lot of debate was created around what created the “scream” sound, with some thinking it comes from "Get Off" by Prince, and other's thinking it comes from Junior Walker and the All Stars.  The University of Wisconsin plays this in the fourth quarter to hype up the crowd.Jimmy Olsen's Blues by The Spin DoctorsBruce features a song inspired by the Superman comics.  Jimmy Olsen is the junior photographer.  Chris Barron was inspired to write this when sneaking into the Brown University cafeteria and seeing a girl who reminded him of Lois Lane.  The "pocket full of kryptonite" represents what is special or unique about you.Life Is A Highway by Tom CochraneBrian hits the road with former Red Rider front man Tom Cochrane.  This song encourages folks to "seize the day," and get motivated.  Cochrane wrote it after a visit to Africa, and seeing the poverty around him.  It is interesting that such a positive song came out of a close brush with poverty.  Rascal Flatts would cover the song for the movie "Cars."   At the Hundredth Meridian by the Tragically HipWayne stays in Canada with a group much more popular in the Great White North than in the U.S.  The hundredth meridian is considered a dividing line between east and west Canada.  The Hip stayed together from 1984 until 2017 when lead singer Gord Downie died of brain cancer. INSTRUMENTAL TRACK:Forever In Love by Kenny G.You can't go wrong with a saxophone - or can you?

Comfort witnessed the birth of ads on the internet as a media buyer and later seller at Hotwired and Wired in SF in the mid-1990sMore

Comfort witnessed the birth of ads on the internet as a media buyer and later seller at Hotwired and Wired in SF in the mid-1990sMore

Episode 306:    Stories, classifieds, and laughing at our own dumb jokes because this is how we do. Send us your ideas for a new Wheelnerds keytag! Yeah, I copied this copy.   Wheelnerds stickers for sale!  Check them out here!   Classifieds: Looking for my bike full of drugs No Title, Hotwired == NOT STOLEN 1990 FJ1200 HD LiveWire ANOTHER HD LiveWire? Looking for ANOTHER bike full of drugs   Freeze-dried Skittles:   Permanent Links: Bath Bomb Diva's handmade bath bombs and shower steamers Wheelnerd's Handy Inspection Checklist Joe Popp (musician) (He recorded the Dicks Dicks Dicks theme used in the beginning). RedPillJunkie (artist) Want to hear yourself on our show? Ridden a bike (like your own) and got an opinion? Got a cool piece of gear or farkle? Got a story? Know some jokes? Record an MP3 (or whatever) and email it to us at wheelnerds@gmail.com. We'll throw it on the air and talk about it, too. That's right, you can be the first on your block to be openly mocked by the Wheelnerds. Or call our voicemail: (801) 305-4677 Or, leave us a voicemail via Skype! Our skype ID is wheelnerds. Just go ahead, call, and leave us your story there! (We still read your emails, too, and will answer them on the show). If you got something really cool, shoot us a line and maybe we'll talk to you live, too.

Punk 4 The Homeless Radio Show return for the 28th round! Coming out just a couple of days before 2 awesome Punk 4 The Homeless gigs in both Nottingham and London! Fasten your belts for musical magnificence this episode from The Ruts, Hotwired, Strada, Lard, Billy Bragg, Dropping Like Flies, Paco de Lucía, Semler, The Headcoat Sect, Unsanitary Napkin, Stranglers, South Holland Indecency Team, Random Hand, The Harness, Underworld, Acme Sewage Co., Siouxsie and the Banshees, Jesus Hooligan, Bob Marley, Los Fastidios, Omega Tribe, Rites of Hadda, anarchistwood! If you can please donate to help Hope Orphanage in Sierra Leone and the 74 orphaned Girls that they look after: https://www.peoplesfundraising.com/donation/punk4thehomeless - In loving memory of Bruce Wright, Candiflp Blackwood & Bob Booth RIP -

Punk 4 The Homeless Radio Show returns with the 20th episode in this new series! Coming to you a couple of days before DOIN' IT 4 THE KIDS fest, this episode features friends, family, favourites and fantastic new discoveries to the tune of: Patti Smith, Blóm, Blank Screen, Tanya Stephens, Sweeping Promises, Most Likely To Fail, Joe Solo, Faintest Idea, Demob, The La Donnas, Ugli, Cosmic Slop, Zeitgeist Zero, Toni Samsara, Reality Attack, Los Destellos, Hotwired, Spam, Oiz II Men, The Knights of the New Crusade, The Dole... If you can please donate to Compass Children's Charity for their vital work with at-risk and street kids: https://www.compasschildrenscharity.org.uk/donation/ - In loving memory of Bruce Wright, Candiflp Blackwood & Bob Booth RIP -

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Entrevistamos a Antonio López, Country Manager en España de Semrush, una de las herramientas más conocidas en mundo SEO y SEMEl pobre Truman Burbank reaccionaba así a la publicidad encubierta del Mocacao en la película el Show de Truman. Una reacción parecida a la que tenemos casi todos los que navegamos por internet a día de hoy cuando nos vemos atosigados por los miles de banners publicitarios que lo inundan todo, y en especial los medios online.Esa sensación de agobio por presión publicitaria nos lleva a que en la actualidad el ratio de clicks en los banners sea inferior al 0,05% en media. Esta cifra aumenta en canales como Instagram que tiene un CTR o ratio de clicks en su publicidad del 0,22%, un ratio similar al que tiene LinkedIn. Por su parte, los anuncios en Twitter tienen un 0,86% de tasa de clicks y Facebook asegura que en su caso es un 1,11%. Pero… ¿a día de hoy, quien narices le hace caso a Facebook? Sea como sea, la mayoría de los usuarios ignoramos los banners publicitarios. Pero… esto no fue siempre asíEn 1994, AT&T publicó en HotWired.com el primer banner de la historia de Internet. Este banner tenía un smple fondo negro y unas letras en varios colores en las que se leía “¿Has hecho click alguna vez con tu ratón aquí? Lo harás”.Un banner que a día de hoy veríamos como algo deleznable pero que es historia de Internet, y no solo por ser el primero, si no por conseguir un ratio de clicks que a día de hoy no

Howard wrote his first article studying virtual communities 1987. Yes, 1987. That's before the official internet and long before anything that resembled what we know of today as social media. In 2012 he authored the book, Net Smart; How to Thrive Online, which laid out 5 essential literacies for users of digital communication and networks. He’s got a ton of great insights and perspectives on our current situation with Facebook and Google and Youtube. He’s hopeful it seems, and he doesn’t bash the tech itself. Rather, he tries to empower its users to see it for what it is, and to make the most of it. Find Howard’s work online at www.rheingold.com and on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/howardrheingold Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks to everyone who has listened, shared, donated and encouraged me on this podcast. It means a lot to me, I’m so grateful. So much good stuff coming up. Stay tuned! The About Section from Howard’s Website reads as follows “I fell into the computer realm from the typewriter dimension in 1981, then plugged my computer into my telephone in 1983 and got sucked into the net. In earlier years, my interest in the powers of the human mind led to Higher Creativity (1984), written with Willis Harman, Talking Tech(1982) and The Cognitive Connection (1986) with Howard Levine, Excursions to the Far Side of the Mind: A Book of Memes (1988),Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming (1990), with Stephen LaBerge, and They Have A Word For It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words and Phrases.(1988). I ventured further into the territory where minds meet technology through the subject of computers as mind-amplifiers and wrote Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Amplifiers (1984). Next, Virtual Reality (1991)chronicled my odyssey in the world of artificial experience, from simulated battlefields in Hawaii to robotics laboratories in Tokyo, garage inventors in Great Britain, and simulation engineers in the south of France. In 1994, I was one of the principal architects and the first Executive Editor of HotWired. I quit after launch, because I wanted something more like a jam session than a magazine. In 1996, I founded and, with the help of a crew of 15, launched Electric Minds. Electric Minds was named one of the ten best web sites of 1996 by Time magazine and was acquired by Durand Communications in 1997. My 2002 book, Smart Mobs, was acclaimed as a prescient forecast of the always-on era. In 2005, I taught a course at Stanford University on A Literacy of Cooperation, part of a long-term investigation of cooperation and collective action that I have undertaken in partnership with the Institute for the Future. The Cooperation Commons is the site of our ongoing investigation of cooperation and collective action.The TED talk I delivered about “Way New Collaboration” has been viewed more than 265,000 times. In 2008, I was a winner in MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning competition and used my award to work with a developer to create a free and open source social media classroom. I have a YouTube channel that covers a range of subjects. Most recently, I’ve been concentrating on learning and teaching 21st Century literacies. I’ve blogged about this subject for SFGate, have been interviewed, and have presented talks on the subject. I was invited to deliver the 2012 Regents’ Lecture at University of California, Berkeley. I also teach online courses through Rheingold U. My latest book, Net Smart: How to Thrive Online, published in 2012, was reviewed in Science.”

“I’m in awe of what we all are as human beings and what we all have the capacity to do.” Gary Husband has had an interesting and varied career it would seem. He began playing with Allan Holdsworth in the late 70’s — 79’ if I am not mistaken — John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Todd Sucherman, Randy Brecker and the list goes on and on. The man has experienced so much as a musician and so to have him on this podcast was certainly an honor. Gary began playing piano at a young age and was classically trained. There was a lot of theory, practice and no shortage of confinement. It wasn’t until he found the drums that he saw freedom. I wonder if freedom to express came more easily on the piano after he had spent time learning the drums? Either way, he is brilliant on both instruments and is recognized for his ability which is apparent given the company he keeps. Aside from being a sideman for so many unbelievable artists, Gary is also a bandleader and has released many works under his name and other project-based recordings. One such band was Gary Husband’s Drive which released a record called “Hotwired”. With that record, Gary wanted to pay a little nod to some of the drumming greats who were bandleaders as well who influenced him. He also recorded an album where he interpreted Allan Holdsworth's music and one where he interpreted John McLaughlin. I highly recommend checking these out as well as “A Meeting of Spirits”.   You Will Hear About…. Gary’s new video cast series and some of the philosophies within it and why he decided to make it. Not seeing yourself for who you really are. Using our intuition to be responsible but also free in music. Why having a personality prone to serving others makes for a better musician. Are there aspects about being a musician that can’t be taught? How musicians can find enjoyment in music they don’t enjoy playing. Managing our expectations.   Why Should You Listen? This is a conversation with one of the finest musicians in the world. With that being said, I think that this is more than worth your time to check out. We get deep with topics that are hard to quantify and explain but we try to make sense of what he, and to a lesser extent, I understand. It is nice to have this type of conversation with someone as warm and thoughtful as Gary. This conversation encourages us to think more for ourselves. That is what I feel this episode brings forward. It’s a couple of perspectives about some things that we as musicians experience but may find difficulty expressing into words. But what is important is that we decide for ourselves what we want out of this and pursue that was honest intentions.   Music used in this episode: Gary Husband’s Drive: Hotwired Angel’s Over City Square Heaven In My Hands   Gary’s Socials Instagram Facebook YouTube Website   Drumeo Gab’s Socials Instagram Facebook

Bowen Dwelle lives in his van. In this podcast, Bowen talks about leaving his hometown of San Francisco after high school, what it was that brought him back, some jobs and businesses he's had, his love of the outdoors, and his latest venture: Second Sight coaching. If you missed Part 1, please go back and listen. We recorded this podcast on the Upper Sanchez steps in August 2019. Film photography by Michelle Kilfeather

Ocho is back with another live podcast; this one was recorded on August 8th, from Greektown Wrestling's Hotwired. Ocho's buddy from Stogiemania, Savage Steve, pops in and out a few times to help call some matches.Please feel free to give this episode a like or rating, share it on social media, leave us a comment, and if you really enjoy us - please hit that subscribe button.Get some Ocho Wrestling Podcast merch - https://shop.spreadshirt.com/OchoAndOrtizTeepublic - http://teepublic.com/Ocho-And-OrtizTwitter: http://twitter.com/OchoWrestlingInstagram: https://instagram.com/OchoAndOrtizFacebook: https://facebook.com/OchoAndOrtizFollow on Podbean: http://ochoandortiz.podbean.com iTunes: http://apple.co/2mi3Hjz Stitcher: http://bit.ly/2H4LTmMSpotify: https://spoti.fi/2LGD3iCMusic: What You Want by Kevin MacLeodPromos from:Powerslam TVSecret Levels Podcast - https://twitter.com/SecretLevelsPodOur Strange Skies - https://twitter.com/OurStrangeSkiesStogiemania - https://twitter.com/Stogiemania

20 years ago, the acclaimed documentarian Doug Block released a landmark film, Home Page. Doug’s documentary accidentally chronicled the birth of blogging, featuring several people we’ve talked to on this very show, including Justin Hall. But the documentary also captured a moment in time, the web going mainstream, the beginnings of the dotcom bubble, the early days of Wired, Hotwired and Suck and also so many of the things I ask people about on here regularly. How people learned to live online, to begin to port all of modern life over to the digital. Well, Home Page is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a re-release, and starting this week, you can watch it yourself everywhere films are gettable, including iTunes. Today we speak to Doug Block about this amazing movie that I think is one of the best historical records of the era we have been interrogating for nearly 5 years on this podcast. Go watch Home Page yourself, and check out The D-word, Doug’s community for documentarians, at D-word.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Joey Anuff created Suck.com, one of the earliest humor sites on the web. In his own words, he talks about working at Wired magazine's first website, HotWired, and creating Suck.com in secret. Hosts: Leo Laporte and Adam Fisher Guest: Joey Anuff Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/valley-of-genius. Get a copy of Adam Fisher's Valley of Genius book at a bookstore near you.

Our guest today is June Cohen, a pioneer in the web industry for her work at HotWired (the web division of Wired magazine), author of “The Unusually Useful Web Book,” and the force behind bringing the informational and often inspirational “TED Talks” online and out to the world. She confounded WaitWhat?, a content incubator to develop original media properties over time, and the podcast “Masters of Scale,” which explores the theories behind how companies grow and scale their business. June Cohen has always been “hopelessly interested in everything.” Travel, graphic design, theater, writing, web technology, journalism—June wants it all. In college, she changed her major several times before landing on political science, meanwhile completing full minors in human biology, African American studies, and anthropology. She has a seemingly natural ability to succeed at everything, and while it makes me jealous, it also raises the question: without the constraint of only being good at a few things, how does she get anything done? “The wisest thing I found to do is to make a decision and lean into it. And to see how you feel...And if it feels like...something that feeds you and is working and speaking to you, lean into it. And if it isn’t, change course.” This emphasis on making a decision applies not only to her career and personal pursuits, but to her role as a leader. During her time as one of the earliest employees of TED Talks, she believed that if the company was brave enough to take the talks from a private, remote conference and broadcast them to the world, they would be able to find a niche audience that would embrace the messages being presented. “I think it is fair to say that I did not talk to a single person that genuinely thought it was good idea...that the idea of putting taped lectures online was just not something that could ever succeed. But for me, I really believed in it. I believed in the talks, I believed...in how I felt when I was sitting in a room listening to these talks...and I believed that the feeling could be transferred to video.” We know how this story plays out. June stuck with her decision, despite all the naysayers, and TED Talks have since become wildly successful, with some of the most popular videos garnering billions of views. After ten years at TED, June felt that her work was done. Decision time: what did she want to do with her life? Join us as we discuss how June made that pivotal decision, the importance of gender balance in teams, and fighting for what you believe. Show notes and links at http://whitneyjohnson.com/june-cohen

Our guest this week is Louis Rossetto. Louis co-founded Wired with his life partner Jane Metcalfe. During his five years directing Wired, it won the National Magazine Awards for General Excellence twice and was Adweek's Hottest Magazine of the Year. Wired also pioneered commercial web media, launching HotWired the first website with original advertising and Fortune 500 advertising. Since Wired, he's pursued different obsessions from real estate to helping start and run the high end chocolate company TCHO, to writing his new novel Change is Good.

Ian McFarland literally wrote the book -- on the Tomcat server.  He is one of Silicon Valley's great technologists -- from Hotwired, through being an executive and Principal at Pivotal Labs, to his current role as Chairman of Neo Innovation.  We roam widely through topics including (what else?) housing in Silicon Valley, whether Bitcoin matters, and his first computer.   -- In the Something Ventured podcast, Silicon Valley insider Kent Lindstrom explores the reality behind the Silicon Valley headlines as he sits down with the people who are shaping the way we viiew the world online -- and beyond.

Dan Benjamin interviews "Jeffrey Veen":http://veen.com, author and speaker, founder of "Typekit":http://typekit.com. They discuss the web, being acquired by Google, working at Adaptive Path, Wired, WebMonkey and HotWired, launching a successful startup, working with local and virtual teams, and where we're headed as a web community. Original Air Date: May 13, 2010

The first banner ads went live on the web 20 years ago today, October 27th, 1994, when the website HotWired.com first launched on the internet. We've spoken to some of the people responsible for the creation of these ads, and so, in honor of the anniversary, I have re-edited their interviews into an oral history that tells the whole story. But in case you think you've heard all this before, please note that there are segments from 4 entirely new interviews that you have NOT heard before. So, if you want to hear the whole story comprehensively, download and listen!THE FIRST BANNER ADPlease note: The post on the website for this episode has all the ads and graphics we mention throughout the podcast, so please check that out to see the full picture. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summary:Younger listeners might know John Battelle as being one of the original forces behind the Web 2.0 movement, as the founder of the Web 2.0 Summit as well as Federated Media. But John was also the founding editor of both Wired Magazine and Industry Standard magazine, that great, lost magazine of record for the dot com era. For our purposes, we’ve been focusing more on HotWired, so that’s why I was super excited to speak with John and get some of the background stories from Wired the magazine as well as Industry Standard. Enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summary:Joe McCambley is one of the more prominent names in modern digital marketing and advertising. He's had major roles at Digitas, at AOL in it's modern incarnation and he's the co-founder of the Wonder Factory. I wanted to talk to Joe about his time with Modem Media, where he was one of the creative forces behind the development of the first banner ads that premiered alongside the launch of HotWired. The 20th anniversary of these first banner ads is coming up at the end of the month, and I'm putting together a special episode where I'll edit together interviews from several different people all for one comprehensive piece that will tell the story. As I told Joe after this interview, my original intention was just to use this conversation as a part of that piece. But our discussion went in such wonderful directions, delving deep into nature of modern advertising and the future of marketing in the digital age, that I decided this deserved to be it's own stand alone-episode. If you're working in digital media today, I think this is required listening.Sponsor link:audibletrial.com/internethistoryThe "You Will" campaign can be viewed here.The first banner ad can be viewed here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summary:Owen Thomas is one of the most prominent voices in modern web media. He is currently the editor in chief of ReadWrite.com, but he was also the west coast editor for Business Insider, the founding editor of Daily Dot, executive editor of VentureBeat, managing editor of Valleywag… and I could go on and on… Business 2.0, Red Herring, etc. I was particularly excited to talk to Owen about some of his earliest jobs, at HotWired and at Suck. Owen gives us some more great background about the launch of Hotwired and the inner workings of Suck.Sponsor link:audibletrial.com/internethistory See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summary:Soon after the founding of Wired Magazine, it was decided that Wired needed a major web presence. Andrew Anker was recruited to write a business plan and launch a website that would become HotWired.com. As we’ve seen in this chapter, HotWired was among the first stand-alone media websites, and pioneered a great many things, not the least of which were the first banner ads. Andrew gives us some wonderful insights into the early days of Wired (going back to the magazine’s funding) as well as the evolution of HotWired, Suck, Hotbot and other early web properties he helped bring to life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Summary:We continue our survey of early web media plays with some that have lasted the test of time and some that, while not currently extant, were lasting in terms of impact. It’s a big episode. WSJ.com. NYTimes.com. EOnline. The Weather Channel. ZDNet. CNet. Salon. Slate. Wired magazine and HotWired.com. And our long lost, beloved Suck.com.By the way, as promised, here are some early NYTimes screenshots, compliments of Rich Meislin.Here is a screenshot of @Times on AOLAnd here’s an early NYTimes.com homepageBibliography: The Weather Channel Book http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116087/weather-channel-website-chases-storms-clicks http://thevane.gawker.com/the-new-weather-com-is-a-sad-shell-of-its-former-self-1550958111 Bamboozled at the Revolution: How Big Media Lost Billions in the Battle for the Internet 1st edition by Motavalli, John published by Viking Adult Hardcover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZDNet Architects of the Web: 1,000 Days that Built the Future of Business http://www.thefreelibrary.com/ZIFF-DAVIS+UNIFIES+ITS+ONLINE+SERVICES+UNDER+A+NEW+NAME%3a+ZD+NET-a017072062 http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_30/b3639039.htm http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780435/ http://www.informationweek.com/cnet-to-buy-ziff-davis/d/d-id/1008822? http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/cnet-networks-inc-history/ http://www.salon.com/2005/11/14/salon_history/ http://www.businessweek.com/stories/1996-10-20/honey-whats-on-microsoft The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Superhighway http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/slates_10th_anniversary/2006/06/my_history_of_slate.html http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/2.10/mosaic.html?pg=5&topic=

SummaryCraig Kanarick was one of the people responsible for the first ever banner ad, which appeared on Oct. 27, 1994 on Hotwired.com. As mentioned in the podcast, there’s no “first” ad, as several were launched in a rotation at the same time. But as mentioned on the podcast, a lot of people like to think of the first ad as this one, for AT&T, which you can see here:And for more information about the “You Will” AT&T campaign, read about it here, or dig this.Craig went on to found Razorfish, along with his childhood friend Jeff Dachis. Razorfish was a pioneering design, technology and advertising studio that brought many large brands and corporations onto the web for the first time. Razorfish was also a pioneer of the web-tech scene in New York City, which has come to be called “Silicon Alley.” Craig is currently the founder of Mouth.com, headquartered in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, as is this podcast (thus, the DUMBO-ish picture I chose above). In our conversation, I mention some contentious media coverage that Razorfish received back in the day, in my opinion, painting them as poster-boys for dotcom-era excess. I offer some of those articles for context:New York MagazineWired60 Minutes II See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more: - What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today? - How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against? - How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience? Jeffrey Veen is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and user experience consultant. As a consultant, Jeffrey has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the web, including Blogger, TypePad, Flickr, and more. Jeff also led the creation of Measure Map, the well-received blog analytics tool acquired by Google in 2006. After five years with Adaptive Path, where he was a founding partner, Jeff moved to Google, where he where he lead the redesign of their Analytics product and managed their web apps UX team. He left Google in May, 2008, to work on personal projects. Previously, Jeffrey served as the Executive Director of Interface Design for Wired Digital and Lycos Inc., where he managed the look and feel of HotWired, the HotBot search engine, Lycos.com and others. In addition to lecturing and writing on web design and development, Jeffrey has been active with the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS Editorial Review Board as an invited expert on electronic publishing. He is also the author of the acclaimed books The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites. In 1998, Jeffrey was named by CNET as one of the "First Annual Web Innovators" and has won the Communication Arts Interactive Annual award for his work on Wired News. Other clients include Technorati, Creative Commons, Macromedia, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and National Public Radio. Jeffrey specializes in the integration of content, graphic design, and technology from a user-centered perspective. Licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

In the summer of 1996 I presented a series on CBC Radio’s Island Morning program, produced by Ann Thurlow, called Consumed by Technology. I’ve managed to recover the audio of the episodes, along with the “show notes” and transcripts, from The Internet Archive and I’m posting each episode here for posterity. This third episode of Consumed by Technology focused on the rhythms of digital working; it aired on July 23, 1996. Karen Mair was the host. Farmers live from season to season. Car makers live by the model year. Monks live a lifetime of coming to understand God. Politicians live by their terms. Every sort of work has its own rhythm, and these rhythms can profoundly affect people’s everyday lives. Show Notes These are the original links that I released with the episode; each is a link to the Internet Archive’s cache of the site at the time. Jazzed up Hotwired Microserfs Working at McDonald’s Mad as Hell The Unabomber Manifesto Network Center for Repetitive Motion Disorders Transcript INTRO: Farmers live from season to season. Car makers live by the model year. Monks live a lifetime of coming to understand God. Politicians live by their terms. Every sort of work has its own rhythm, and these rhythms can profoundly affect people’s everyday lives. In another in the series “Consumed by Technology,” Peter Rukavina joins me now to talk about the rhythms of the “digital worker” and what he calls “the death of time.” QUESTION: What exactly is a “digital worker?” ANSWER: Well, the easiest answer to that question is that I’m pretty sure that I’m a “digital worker.” Being a digital worker means that the “stuff” of my job is digital information; what I do all day is move it around. I’ve had a lot of jobs in my life — I’ve sold car parts at Canadian Tire; I’ve sorted turtle bones in a museum; I’ve taught 7 year olds how to canoe; I’ve pasted up the sports section a daily newspaper every day. All of these jobs, in one way or another, have dealt with “real stuff” — car parts, turtles, kids and canoes, newspapers — and they’ve all been the sort of work that gets “finished” at some point — the part gets sold, the bones get sorted, the kids know how to canoe, the newspaper gets printed. But now that I have a job as a “digital worker,” the days of having “real stuff” to deal with and jobs that have a beginning, a middle and an end seem to be gone. What I do all day is sit in front of a computer screen moving around bits of digital space: words, graphics, pictures. The different thing about moving around bits of digital information as opposed to, say, moving around bits of turtles, is that digital information is a very “elastic” thing — it’s extremely easy to change — and that elasticity makes for a very different work life than what I’ve been used to. Think about the difference between typing something on a manual typewriter versus typing it on a word processor. If you get 7 pages into it on a typewriter and decide that you want to add a new paragraph somewhere on page 3, it’s out with the exacto knife and the rubber cement and 15 or 20 minutes of fiddling around. On a word processor, all you need to do is to pop up to page 3, hit insert and start typing. The simplest way to understand what being a digital worker is like is to take that example — typewriters versus word processors — and extend it to almost all aspects of a work life. For me, going to work means logging on to the ‘net. The tools I use are text editors and electronic paint programs and modems. And the work I do is like being a construction worker in cyberspace: I arrange bits of information so that people can find them and make sense of them. I don’t move around bales of hay or pizzas, I move around ferry schedules, soil test results and electronic pictures of horses. My job is to maintain a constantly evolving pool of information in good order QUESTION: That sort of work sounds very familiar… how is being a “digital worker” different from what we do here on the radio every day? We’re both in the “information moving business,” aren’t we? ANSWER: Well yes, we’re both in the information moving business. The important difference, though, is that come 9 o’clock this morning, today’s “Island Morning” is done; you can’t go back and change something that happened at 7:15, because it’s already out there in people’s radios… it’s done. Making radio — and, for that matter, making television or newspapers, or magazines — is a lot like using a manual typewriter. The rhythm of these media is hourly or daily or weekly or monthly. They start. They end. They’re done. Working with digital information, though, is a different story. If I take a piece of information, let’s say it’s a map of Charlottetown, and put it on the Internet. In the “old print world,” my job would now be done. But remember, digital information is very easy to change. Let’s say that in two weeks, a new road gets constructed in East Royalty, or a street downtown gets changed to one-way, or new park gets created. Because the map is on the Internet, because it’s a digital map, I can simply go and make these changes. As soon as I make them, the original map is gone and is replaced by a new, more up-to-date map. To do the same thing in the “old print world,” would mean printing and distributing a whole new map, something you wouldn’t tend to do very often because of the cost of paper and ink and distribution. Now this might seem like a pretty simple concept: digital information is easier to change. But the important thing here is not one example or another, but an entire work day, or work week, or work year, spent working in a world where everything can be changed, updated, redesigned — easily — all the time. That’s what being a digital worker is like. QUESTION: Now you call this the “death of time?” Well, I’ll admit that “the death of time” might be blowing things a little out of proportion, but let me explain why it feels like that’s exactly what it is… I don’t think anyone would disagree that the job you have, and how time factors into it, can really affect the rest of your life. If you work the night shift, for example, you’re awake when everyone else is asleep. If you’re a teacher, you get a two month vacation in the middle of the summer. If you farm potatoes, there’s not a lot to do in the fields in January. If you host Island Morning, you’ve got to get up before almost everyone else. Now, as you suggested earlier, time also factors into jobs in another way: every occupation has its own rhythm, or “life cycle” associated with it. This isn’t necessarily a day to day thing that has to do with when you have to get up in the morning, it’s more about the natural cycle of whatever it is you work at. If you’re a farmer, you plant a crop every season. Spring comes, you plow, fertilize, sow, roll, till, spray… harvest. Winter comes. And then you do it all again. When farmers talk about how things are going in their lives, usually it has something to do with how the crop is going. You’ve had a good year if you’ve had a good crop. You’ve had a bad year if you’ve had a bad crop. The rhythm of the farm is the season. If you work in a hospital emergency room, each “project” you take on is one case coming in the door. They’re hurt, you treat them, they go away. Total time, anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours. Then it’s on to the next patient. The rhythm of the emergency room is the coming and going of the patients. Again, these rhythms can have a profound affect on how people live their lives, not just in a practical way, but in a way which affects how they feel and think and relate to the rest of the world. Imagine then what it’s like to work in a job where the work is, quite literally, never done, where the “stuff” that you’re working on is constantly evolving, where everything is in a constant state of flux, where projects start, but never really finish, because they can always be changed, updated, made better, clearer, easier to understand. The rhythm of this sort of job — the rhythm of “digital work” — is very, very different than the rhythm of any other sort of work. It’s either so long that it’s endless, or so short that it’s invisible. For all practical purposes, though, it’s as if there’s no rhythm at all. And in a way, that means that there’s no time at all. Or at the very least it means that how people and work and time all relate is very different from what we’re used to. So that’s why it call it “the death of time.” QUESTION: What are the practical implications of this? What have you noticed about your life as a “digital worker?” ANSWER: One significant thing is that getting satisfaction from my job is difficult, or at least different. It’s not like there’s a pile of something getting smaller as I work, or a last nail to drive in to finish, or a published book to put up on the shelf. I have to get my satisfaction from the process of working rather than from the finished product because, really, the product is never finished. My day to day work life is different too. Because there’s no beginning, middle or end to the projects I work on, and because the tasks involved in digital work tend to be shorter rather than longer, I tend to be working on 25 or 30 little things all at the same time. And which 25 or 30 things I’m working on changes from day to day, from hour to hour. I might spend five minutes adding a bit to an Internet page I’m working on here on the Island, 10 minutes fixing up a database on a computer in Boston, another five minutes answering some email and so on, hour after hour. It makes it difficult to go home at 5 o’clock because there’s really no logical place to end the work day… there’s always something else to evolve a little bit before I call it a day, and sometimes I end up evolving until 9 or 10 at night. QUESTION: So computers have changed our whole idea of what is work time and what is home time? ANSWER: Well, certainly for me they have, and that too can be something of a challenge. Because digital work can be done from anywhere — including from home — it just makes the dividing line between work and home all that fuzzier. Perhaps most importantly, though, is the challenge of doing digital work in what is still largely an analog world. It tends to be the places where “old analog” meets “new digital” that are the most challenging. This is true in work — how do you set up electronic hotel reservations at hotels with no computers — but I tend to notice it more in just regular day-to-day life. I’ve started to notice, for example, that in my personal life, I don’t tend to think ahead very much; it’s hard to shift from a minute-by-minute digital way of thinking to a “where should we go on vacation this fall?” or a “when do you think the broccoli will be up?” way of thinking. It’s hard to move from a digital world where everything is malleable and elastic and easily changed to a concrete “real” world where pipes burst and ceilings fall in and cars run out of gas. Now I don’t want to make it sound as though I’ve morphed into some sort of digital cyberguy or even as though my life is any different, worse or better than anyone else’s. My mortgage still comes due at the end of every month and I still brush my teeth twice a day. But I do notice a difference in my life as a digital worker as opposed to my life as, say, a canoe instructor. And I do think it’s important to look carefully at the long-term social consequences of this transition to an “information economy” — with all the digital workers it will require — that we seem to be in the middle of. In the end, I think the real effects of digital work on society won’t be felt, or at least understood, for 5 or 10 years and it may be too late by then to have any control over them. QUESTION: In some ways, it sounds like it may be too late now… ANSWER: It’s very hard to say: the changes we’re talking about are so small and so subtle, and the nature digital work itself changes so much, that actually putting your finger on something and saying “no, this is something we don’t want to happen” or “hey, isn’t that a nice new thing to have happened” seems almost impossible. In any case, I certainly know that there are some days that I’d relish another go at the turtle bone pile or the chance to sell someone a muffler for a ‘75 Dodge Dart… EXTRO: Peter Rukavina operates Digital Island in Kingston, PEI… he’ll be back next week with another in the series “Consumed by Technology.”