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In this episode, I connect with Jarrett Walker, author of Human Transit, revised edition. This book, aimed at a nontechnical reader, explores the challenging questions that you must think about when planning or advocating for public transit in your community. We discuss what aspects of the public transit landscape have changed since the first edition in 2011, such as the rise of small shared personal mobility options like scooters and bikes, work from home trends, and increasingly imaginary techno-whiz-bang solutions like tunnels, aerial gondolas, and flying cars sucking up funds and attention, while also addressing the core fundamentals of effective public transportation that remains same. We also talk about the power of having walkable and bikeable environments to maximize the utilitarian potential of transit and access to opportunity.Thank you so much for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform. Also, don't forget to check out the Active Towns Channel for more video content.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Jarrett Walker & Associates website- Human Transit blog- Jarrett on Bluesky- My episode with Dan Hendry - My episode with Lenore Skenazy- My episode with Peter Norton on Autonorama- My episode with Peter Norton on the history of protesting for safer streets- My Brompton and airports video- Bike and Train Magic episode with Roland KagerIf you are a fan of the Active Towns Podcast, please consider supporting the effort as an Active Towns Ambassador in the following ways:1. Join our Patreon community. Contributions start at just $3 per month2. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also "leave a tip" through "Buy Me a Coffee"3. Make a donation to my non-profit, Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc., to help support my pro bono work with citiesCredits:- Video and audio production by John Simmerman- Music via Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this video:- My recording platform is Ecamm Live- Editing software Adobe Creative Cloud Suite- Equipment: Contact me for a complete listFor more information about the Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit our links below:- Active Towns Website- Active Towns on Bluesky- Weekly Update e-NewsletterBackground:Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I'm a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks once again for tuning in! I hope you find this content helpful and insightful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2025 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Send Me a Text MessageJoin host Tom Butler on this week's episode as he launches "Zwift Thursday," a fantastic way to ride virtually with other podcast listeners. Tom also shares his newfound love for bike swaps.This week's special guest is Bob Anderton, an attorney with decades of experience representing injured cyclists. He shares his invaluable insights into the legal landscape for cyclists, offering practical tips and a unique perspective you won't want to miss. Tune in for an informative and engaging conversation about staying safe and enjoying the ride!LinksVeloSwap - Denver: veloswap.comLive In Peace - Palo Alto: liveinpeace.org/bikeswap Stop Swap and Save - Westminster, MD: stopswapandsave.comFighting Traffic by Peter Norton: penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/Thanks for Joining Me! Follow and comment on Cycling Over Sixty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclingoversixty/Consider becoming a member of the Cycling Over Sixty Strava Club! www.strava.com/clubs/CyclingOverSixtyPlease send comments, questions and especially content suggestions to me at tom.butler@teleiomedia.comShow music is "Come On Out" by Dan Lebowitz. Find him here : lebomusic.com
Peter Norton discusses Toyota joining the Rally of Canberra. Enjoying a longstanding involvement in both Australia and on the world stage, Toyota is a name synonymous with rally, having had a significant presence since the early 1970s.
Peter Norton discusses Toyota joining the Rally of Canberra. Enjoying a longstanding involvement in both Australia and on the world stage, Toyota is a name synonymous with rally, having had a significant presence since the early 1970s.
Measured by distance and speed, today North Americans move more than ever. Movement, however, is but a means to an end; more movement is not in itself beneficial. Movement is a cost of meeting daily needs, and provided these needs are met, less movement is generally advantageous. Nevertheless, since the 1930s traffic engineers have pursued movement maximization in North American cities as if movement is an end in itself, and even as if movement is in itself freedom. The human costs have included unbearable burdens measurable as financial, health, safety, equitability, livability and environmental costs. Together these burdens impair human autonomy; that is, by constraining people's choices about where and how to live, they diminish freedom. Automobility, promoted as a deliverer of freedom, has instead imposed car dependency, a kind of unfreedom. Paradoxically, many engineers now pursue so-called “autonomous” (robotic) driving, promising thereby to sustain unsustainable quantities of movement, when the sole worthy end of movement is not machine but human autonomy. To escape the traps that these errors set for us, we must trace them to their origins. Though engineering is defined as applied science, history reveals that the origins and persistence of prevailing traffic engineering principles lie not in scientific research but in power politics, and that such principles have more in common with religious dogmas than with natural laws. Far more practical possibilities await us when we escape the confines these dogmas impose on us and recognize movement as a secondary good that serves us only as it contributes to human autonomy. Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the University of Virginia's Center for Transportation Studies and has been a visiting faculty member at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. Norton is the author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, and of Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving. He is a winner of the Usher Prize of the Society for the History of Technology, and a frequent speaker on the subject of sustainable and equitable urban mobility. In addition to this audio, you can watch the video and read the full transcript of the conversation on Shareable.net – while you're there get caught up on past lectures. Cities@Tufts Lectures explores the impact of urban planning on our communities and the opportunities to design for greater equity and justice with professor Julian Agyeman. Cities@Tufts Lectures is produced by Tufts University and Shareable.net with support from Barr Foundation, Lectures are moderated by Professor Julian Agyeman and organized in partnership with research assistants Amelia Morton and Grant Perry. Paige Kelly is our co-producer and audio editor, the original portrait of Karin Bradley was illustrated by Anke Dregnet, and the series is co-produced and hosted by Tom Llewellyn. “Light Without Dark” by Cultivate Beats is our theme song.
“Every line on the road is a political choice.” Marco te Brömmelstroet, a.k.a. “The Cycling Professor,” is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam. His book Movement, with Thalia Verkade, takes a stance against myths and received wisdoms that surround popular thinking about the rights and place of cyclists and pedestrians, urban design, and traffic engineering. Parallel to the critique, he presents new ways of thinking about how, and why we move through the world, and at what speed. -- Intro/Outro: “My White Bicycle,” by Tomorrow -- Discussed: - Urban Cycling Institute - Woonerf - Chicane - Chip Cone - Cauliflower neighborhood, a.k.a. Bloemkoolwijk - Fighting Traffic, by Peter Norton - RoadDanger.org - Stafford Beer - Rollback of congestion pricing in New York City - The bicycle at the bed-in, Amsterdam 1969 - The Royal Dutch Touring Club, AWNB vs the EWNB - School streets, Paris - Provo – Dutch nonviolent protest group + The White Bicycle Plan - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig - Bicycle Highways - Anne Hidalgo + Carlos Moreno = 170,000 trees - Groningen car ban, 1980 - Nieuwmarkt riots, Amsterdam, 1975 - Janette Sadiq-Khan and the Times Square pedestrianization - Bike Bus – Sam Balto - NYC Municipal Vehicle Active Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) / Speed Geofencing - Valerie Plante, Mayor of Montreal, BIXI bikes (non-profit bike-sharing program) - Swapfliets (Swap Bike)
May is Bike Month and it timed perfect to interview Dan Piatkowski on his book coming out this month titled "Bicycle City: Riding the Bike Boom to a Brighter Future." Our conversation sheds light on the power of e-bikes as vehicles for sustainable urban transport. We tackle the questions around electric vehicles and their true impact on city design, challenging the prevalent notion that technological advancement alone can solve our environmental issues. We also examine the agility of urban centers during times of crisis, drawing parallels to the rapid changes seen in response to the pandemic and the lessons we can carry forward for climate action. As we wrap up this episode, the notion of 'car light' living steers us toward a vision of cities abundant with walkable streets and bike paths that are inclusive for all. Show Notes:Further Reading: Dark PR by Grant Ennis, Autonorama by Peter Norton, Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt; Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall, When Driving is not an Option by Anna Zivarts.Further Utopian Reading: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, William Gibson's work, Cory Doctorow's workTo help support the show, pick up a copy of the book through our Amazon Affiliates page at https://amzn.to/3yb8pdM or even better, get a copy through your local bookstore!To view the show transcripts, click on the episode at https://bookedonplanning.buzzsprout.com/Follow us on social media for more content related to each episode:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/booked-on-planning/Twitter: https://twitter.com/BookedPlanningFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookedonplanningInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bookedonplanning/
In 1991, two police officers stopped Tupac Shakur for jaywalking. He said he was knocked unconscious during his arrest, and sued the city of Oakland for 10 million dollars. His lawyer says many of the police brutality cases he's worked on started with jaywalking stops. Peter Norton's book is Fighting Traffic. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Die autogerechte Stadt. Wohl kaum ein Leitbild des 20. Jahrhunderts hat in den Städten Deutschlands und der Welt deutlichere Spuren hinterlassen. Und wohl kaum eine Entwicklung des letzten Jahrhunderts hat heute eine derart negativere Auswirkung auf unsere Lebensqualität in den Städten. Denn ganz ehrlich: WAS HABEN AUTOS BITTE IN STÄDTEN VERLOREN?! Während meiner autohassgetriebenen Recherche für diese Folge musste ich dann aber doch eine Ironie feststellen. Denn diese ganze Idee – die autogerechte Stadt – entstand ursprünglich gerade, WEIL das Leben in Städten in den Jahrzehnten zuvor so unerträglich geworden war. Es mag mit dem Blick von heute also überraschen, aber vielleicht war an dieser Vorstellung doch einmal was dran?Melde dich hier für den Newsletter an und erfahre hier mehr über den Déjà-vu Club.Schauen wir uns diese autogerechte Stadt in dieser Folge also mal etwas näher an. Wandern (oder fahren?) wir gemeinsam in die Geschichte und sprechen über die wichtigsten Merkmale dieser damals revolutionären Idee. Reden wir über die Vorteile und Nachteile der autogerechten Stadtplanung, über ihre theoretischen Grundlagen wie etwa die Charta von Athen und auch über konkrete Beispiele aus der Geschichte. Hast du Lust? Na dann steig ein.Déjà-vu Geschichte ist Mitglied des Netzwerks #Historytelling. Diese Episode findest du auch auf ralfgrabuschnig.com. Hinterlasse mir dort gerne einen Kommentar mit deinen Gedanken. Und wenn dir der Déjà-vu Geschichte Podcast gefällt, abonniere ihn doch bitte, wo auch immer du ihn hörst.Links zur EpisodeDer Stadtspaziergang durch Köln EhrenfeldAlles über den Déjà-vu NewsletterZum Club auf SteadyAlle Infos aus der WerbungQuellenDas von mir zitierte Interview mit Peter Norton in Bloomberg (Sarah Goodyear: The Invention of Jaywalking. 24.4.2012)Christoph Bernhardt: Längst beerdigt und doch quicklebendig. Zur widersprüchlichen Geschichte der “autogerechten Stadt”. In: Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Online-Ausgabe 14 (2017), H. 3.Tags: Zeitgeschichte, Europa, Westeuropa, Deutschland, Amerika, Nordamerika, USA Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Peter Norton discusses the wild weather and Harry Bates victory at the Rally of Canberra
Peter Norton discusses the wild weather and Harry Bates victory at the Rally of Canberra
In this episode, I welcome back Professor Peter Norton of the University of Virginia for a continuation of our discussion about the long legacy of parents fighting for safer streets in the United States of America and how Motordom ultimately prevailed in most cases where they were challenged. We also draw comparisons between the street safety protests of The Netherlands in the 1970s, which profoundly changed the trajectory of the country and helped to pave the way towards a country that broadly has mobility choice between walking, biking, transit, and driving a motor vehicle.Thank you so much for tuning in! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with a friend and subscribe to the Podcast on your preferred listening platform, and don't forget to check out and subscribe to the Active Towns Channel for more contentHelpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- My first podcast episode with Peter- My second episode with Peter- Professor Peter Norton's website- Peter Norton on X/Twitter- Peter on BlueSky- Fighting Traffic by Peter D. Norton- Autonorama by Peter D. Norton- Families for Safe Streets website- Dark PR episode with Grant Ennis- Active Towns Bookshop for Books Profiled on the PodIf you are a fan of the Active Towns Podcast, please consider supporting the effort as an Active Towns Ambassador in the following ways:1. Join our Patreon community. Contributions start at just $1 per month(Note: Patron benefits include early, ad-free access to content and a 15% discount in the Active Towns Merch Store)2. If you enjoyed this episode, you can also "leave a tip" through "Buy Me a Coffee"3. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:- Video and audio production by John Simmerman- Music via Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this video:- My recording platform is Ecamm Live- Editing software Adobe Creative Cloud Suite- Equipment: Contact me for a complete listFor more information about the Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit our links below:- Active Towns Website- Active Towns on Twitter- Periodic e-NewsletterBackground:Hi Everyone! My name is John Simmerman, and I'm a health promotion and public health professional with over 30 years of experience. Over the years, my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization in how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.Since 2010, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be while striving to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."The Active Towns Channel features my original video content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks once again for tuning in! I hope you find this content helpful and insightful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2024 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Welcome to the Season Two premiere of "Cycling Over Sixty," where new fitness challenges await! In this episode, listeners join host, Tom Butler, as he explores his goal for the new season: achieving significant weight loss, a pursuit that eluded him during Season One. Tom candidly reflects on the challenges he faced, drawing lessons from his initial cycling endeavors.Accompanying Tom on this episode is journalist and avid cyclist, Nick Deshais. With his extensive experience cycling around the Pacific Northwest and exploring the world on two wheels, Nick brings a unique perspective to the table. Together, they engage in a discussion about the bike challenge Tom should take on next, drawing inspiration from Nick's rewarding journeys.But the conversation doesn't stop there. Tom and Nick delve into various topics related to cycling and its impact on society. They explore how cycling can transform communities, promote sustainability, and inspire healthier lifestyles across all age groups. Unveiling the implications of this eco-friendly mode of transportation, their dialogue uncovers the potential for positive change both within individuals and in the world at large.LinksUSBR10 Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Bicycle_Route_10Nicks article on the history of roads and cycling in Spokane: spokesman.com/stories/2019/sep/07/spokane-was-a-city-built-for-cycling-and-then-the-/Peter Norton book, Fighting Traffic: mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/Bicycle quarterly: bikequarterly.com/Paris as a bike city: discerningcyclist.com/how-paris-became-cycling-city/Thanks for Joining Me! Follow and comment on Cycling Over Sixty on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cyclingoversixty/Please send comments, questions and especially content suggestions to me at tom.butler@teleiomedia.comShow music is "Come On Out" by Dan Lebowitz. Find him here : lebomusic.com
This show we get an Australian view of the British Grand Prix with Peter Norton.
This show we get an Australian view of the British Grand Prix with Peter Norton.
Peter Norton discusses the atomosphere of a Ferrari win at the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hour classic.
Peter Norton discusses the atomosphere of a Ferrari win at the 100th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hour classic.
Peter Norton talks about the sights and sounds at the Le Mans 24 Hours as the race draws closer, with Ferarri on the pole, and NASCAR making a big splash at the 100th running of the event
Peter Norton talks about the sights and sounds at the Le Mans 24 Hours as the race draws closer, with Ferarri on the pole, and NASCAR making a big splash at the 100th running of the event
As part of Newstalks Summer Tour, Lunchtime Live was LIVE from the picturesque village of Enniskerry, nestled in the Wicklow mountains. Famous for Powerscourt house and gardens, but what else has the village got to offer? Lana Condron from the School House for Art in Enniskerry gave Andrea a guided tour. Andrea also met with Peter Norton, the owner of Poppies in Enniskerry...
Mass memorials to the victims of traffic violence are a rarity on American roads. But it wasn't always that way — and there's a fascinating history behind why so many lost lives have become virtually invisible in the public realm today. On this episode of The Brake, Kea Wilson sits down with historian and author Peter Norton to talk about how America used to memorialize car crash deaths in the early days of the automobile, and why automakers invested so much into reshaping the way we grieve. And then they chat about what it might take to bring the national traffic violence epidemic out of the shadows, and why even everyday non-lethal road trauma deserves to be called out. Listen in, and learn more about traffic violence memorials in our earlier coverage.
Paris Marx is joined by David Zipper to discuss how Silicon Valley pitched new technologies as the fix for a whole range of transport problems, and how that really just distracted us from solutions while allowing issues like road deaths, emissions, and traffic to get even worse.David Zipper is a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government and a contributing writer at Bloomberg CityLab. You can find his articles and sign up for his newsletter at DavidZipper.com and follow him on Twitter at @DavidZipper.Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, support the show on Patreon, and sign up for the weekly newsletter.The podcast is produced by Eric Wickham and part of the Harbinger Media Network.Also mentioned in this episode:David wrote about why traffic safety is getting worse in the US, and compared it to Canada, Finland, France, and Japan. He also wrote about the history of self-driving cars, the danger posed to pedestrians on the roads, the problem with infotainment systems, and what's wrong with positioning car tech as the solution to our problems.Paris wrote about how Elon Musk designed the Hyperloop to try to get California's high-speed line canceled.AAA puts the annual cost of car ownership in the US at over $10,000 a year in 2022. In Canada, CAA put it at $8600 to $13,000 a year in 2017 — a number that is surely even higher now.Peter Norton wrote about how the auto industry took over US roads in the early 1900s in Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.Support the show
Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect.Landing page for the episodeWe also discuss the slow transformation of the streets of the Los Angeles area and how he hopes he can help to facilitate change locally.Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- Hello Road- Ethan's Cars Suck video- Streets For All- Streetsblog article- Peter Norton's AutonoramaFour Easy Steps to Support My Efforts:1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend.3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:All video and audio production by John SimmermanMusic:Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this episode:- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm- Adobe Creative Cloud SuiteFor more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground:Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Watch the video version of this episode to get the full effect.Landing page for the episodeWe also discuss what led her on the journey to make this film on safer street design, a topic she knew nothing about before the cameras started rolling. She shares how making this film has profoundly changed how she sees our cities, streets, and land use patterns. From the film's website: "THE STREET PROJECT is the story about humanity's relationship to the streets and the global citizen-led fight to make communities safer.Digging deep into the root causes of traffic violence, the filmmakers engage a diverse array of experts, including street historian Peter Norton, city planner Jeff Speck, and urban design expert Mikael Colville-Andersen. These expert interviews are interwoven with the stories of real people working to make their communities safer.Jennifer Boyd has produced and directed more than 25 documentaries, nine of those films have won EMMY awards. Recent projects include 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel, which Good Morning America called “Groundbreaking.” Boyd has also co-created and produced two music television series Infinity Hall Live and The Kate, with 40 episodes in distribution.Currently, she is executive producing and directing a 5-part series on the history of Las Vegas, and a documentary on Mesa Verde National Park.The Street Project was filmed over 4 years and in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic." Helpful Links (note that some may include affiliate links to help me support the channel):- The Street Project film website- 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel film- Filmmaker Jennifer Boyd's websiteFour Easy Steps to Support My Efforts:1. Become an Active Towns Ambassador by "Buying Me a Coffee" or by pledging as little as $1 per month on Patreon2. If you enjoyed this episode, please give it a "thumbs up," leave a review on Apple Podcasts, and share it with a friend.3. Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred listening platform and the Active Towns YouTube Channel4. Pick up some Active Towns #StreetsAreForPeople Merch at my storeCredits:All video and audio production by John SimmermanMusic:Epidemic SoundResources used during the production of this episode:- My awesome recording platform is Ecamm- Adobe Creative Cloud SuiteFor more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along, please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground:Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman.I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places.Since that time, I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities."My Active Towns suite of channels feature my original video and audio content and reflections, including a selection of podcast episodes and short films profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them.Thanks for tuning in; I hope you have found this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. To donate, click here. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
In Episode 2 of Season 2 of the Feminist City podcast series, Sneha Visakha is in conversation with Dr. Govind Gopakumar, Associate Professor and Chair, Centre for Engineering in Society at Concordia University. In this episode, they discuss Dr. Gopakumar's work in Bengaluru on topics ranging from the politics of urban infrastructure, urban mobility policies surrounding cars, buses and car-centric urban design along with the critiques of existing solutions to decongesting Bengaluru that contribute to the very problem it is trying to solve. They also discuss the use of law in shaping the city, lack of people's participation in determining policies and plans in cities and how this particularly affects women and other vulnerable populations in the city. Dr. Govind Gopakumar is currently Associate Professor in the Centre for Engineering in Society in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University. His specific interests are in the policy dynamics of urban infrastructure change, social dimensions of the sustainability of water supply, globalisation of urban infrastructure, interdisciplinarity in engineering education and social entrepreneurship for engineers. Dr. Gopakumar received his Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Prior to that he received a M.S. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware and completed an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University. He has a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering from College of Engineering, University of Kerala, India. You can read more about him and his work here: https://govindgopakumar.net/ For background reading, we recommend perusing the literature provided below: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities, Govind Gopakumar, MIT Press. Making a Feminist City – Planning Safety and Autonomy for Women, Sneha Visakha Indian Automobility, Govind Gopakumar, Concordia. Jaywalkers to be fined in special drive on pedestrian safety, The Hindu. Regime of Congestion: Technopolitics of Mobility and Inequality in Bengaluru, Govind Gopakumar, Science as Culture. Who will Decongest Bengaluru? Politics, Infrastructures, & Scapes. Govind Gopakumar, Mobilities. JNNURM as a Window on Urban Governance, Govind Gopakumar, Economic & Political Weekly. Bengaluru does not need a steel flyover worth hundreds of crores, voices rise against project, TNM Staff, The News Minute Free bus ride scheme for women begins in Delhi, The Economic Times Now, free bus rides for Capital's labour force, Sweta Goswami, Hindustan Times Car Country: An Environmental History (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books Series), Christopher W. Wells, University of Washington Press. Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, Peter Norton, MIT Press. Participolis, Consent and Contention in Neoliberal Urban India, Edited by Karen Coelho, Lalitha Kamath, M. Vijayabaskar, Routledge India Do Artifacts Have Politics? Langdon Winner, Daedalus, Modern Technology: Problem or Opportunity? The MIT Press Civic Groups: Bangalore Bus Prayanikara Vedike (BBPV) Bengaluru Bus Prayanikara Vedike's Bus Manifesto for BMTC Documentary: Social Life of a Bus, Govind Gopakumar & Bangalore Bus Prayanikara Vedike, Youtube. Podcast: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities by Govind Gopakumar (Podcast), Govind Gopakumar, Sneha Annavarapu, New Books Network. Want to get in touch? Email sneha.visakha@vidhilegalpolicy.in or reach out to her on Twitter, @magicanarchist.
Author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation and Host of Tech Won't Save Us Paris Marx helps us see how the future of transportation imagined by our techno-benefactors may best be understood as a collective dead end.
William Gladstone is an expert on the implications and impact of 2012 and ancient religions. . He's traveled around the world researching for and setting up the international productions of Rod Serling's IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES and other projects including IN SEARCH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS. As a literary agent he has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Throughout his career, William has also worked with prominent visionaries, including Tom Anderson, founder of Myspace; Peter Norton, founder of Norton Computing; and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. He attended Yale College and earned a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University. He resides in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. - www.12thebook.comTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
This episode is the second of Jack's investigations into self-driving cars. Last time, he was interested in Phoenix, Arizona. This time, he's back home in London, an old, complicated, messy city with an extensive public transport system. The episode was presented and written by Jack Stilgoe and edited by Gemma Milne, with research assistance from Nuzhah Miah.Relevant links- Joe Moran, (2006). Crossing the road in Britain, 1931–1976. The Historical Journal, 49 (2), 477-496.- Joe Moran (2010). On roads: a hidden history. Profile Books.- Lucy Suchman (1987). Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge university press.- Peter Norton (2011). Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city. MIT Press.- Peter Norton (2021). Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-tech Driving. Island Press.- https://www.wayve.ai/ (and the company's published papers, e.g.: Hawke, J., Badrinarayanan, V., & Kendall, A. (2021). Reimagining an autonomous vehicle. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.05805). - Chris Tennant, & Jack Stilgoe, (2021). The attachments of ‘autonomous' vehicles. Social Studies of Science, 51(6), 846-870. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127211038752- Tennant, C., Neels, C., Parkhurst, G., Jones, P., Mirza, S., & Stilgoe, J. (2021). Code, culture and concrete: Self-Driving Vehicles and the Rules of the Road. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 122.Transcript and study questions available at thereceivedwisdom.org.
Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the department of engineering and society at the University of Virginia. In this interview he talks about his recent book Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, arguing that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive “mobility solutions” that tech companies and automakers are promising us. He claims the salesmanship behind the driverless future is distracting us from investing in better ways to get around that we can implement now that are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive. Subjects of discussion include smart highways, the focus on autonomous vehicles and the importance – or otherwise – of ITS. Plus news and conversation with Tom Stone and Saul Wordsworth.NOTE: Exclusive and additional content from the interview will appear in the September issue of TTi.Interview begins at 4:45.
This month is a bit different. This episode is the first part of an investigation, led by Jack, into self-driving cars, trying to locate the technology in particular places. The first part focuses on Phoenix, Arizona, a testbed for some of the technology's most ambitious developers and also the scene of the first self-driving car crash to kill a pedestrian. Jack talks to various experts - historians, crash investigators, journalists and tech company representatives - to ask what the technology might mean for different places. The second part moves to Jack's home town, London.The episode was presented and written by Jack Stilgoe and edited by Gemma Milne, with research assistance from Nuzhah Miah.- Jack Stilgoe, (2019) Who Killed Elaine Herzberg?, OneZero, 12 Dec 2019, https://onezero.medium.com/who-killed-elaine-herzberg-ea01fb14fc5e- Chris Tennant, & Jack Stilgoe, (2021). The attachments of ‘autonomous' vehicles. Social Studies of Science, 51(6), 846-870. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03063127211038752- Lucy Suchman, (2019). Demystifying the intelligent machine. In Cyborg Futures (pp. 35-61). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-21836-2_3- Madeleine C Elish, (2019). Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction. Engaging Science, Technology, and Society, 5, 40-60.- Peter Norton, (2011). Fighting traffic: the dawn of the motor age in the American city. Mit Press.- Wetmore, J. (2003). Driving the dream. The history and motivations behind 60 years of automated highway systems in America. Automotive History Review, 7, 4-19.Full transcript and study questions available at thereceivedwisdom.org.
After an unexpected hiatus, your best friends AJ and Jordan are back in business. This time around we go where few shows of any stature have ever dared: the subject of traffic congestion. What's up with it? What causes it? When did we first start to see it as a problem? How did competing narratives from the early days come to shape how we see and deal with it? Is traffic congestion definitely bad, or is it akshually good? And as always, we will be talking about how this all affects us as humans, individually and collectively. This is a longer episode than usual, but it's more packed than the Katy Freeway at rush hour. Stay tuned for a follow-up episode about some common ways we've tried to address traffic but ended up making it worse! Links: Want to learn more on this episode's topic? Here's just a short list of interesting resources: Fighting Traffic by Peter Norton (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fighting-traffic (buy) or https://www.worldcat.org/title/fighting-traffic-the-dawn-of-the-motor-age-in-the-american-city/oclc/1020677234 (find in library)) https://cityobservatory.org/questioning-congestion-costs/ (Questioning Congestion Costs) https://cityobservatory.org/its-back-and-its-even-dumber-than-ever-the-urban-mobility-report/ (It's back, and it's even dumber than ever: The Urban Mobility Report) PDF: http://www.vtpi.org/UMR_critique.pdf (Congestion Costing Critique: Critical Evaluation of the “Urban Mobility Report”) https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/social-sciences/traffic-congestion (Traffic Congestion - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics) https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/10/2/does-new-development-cause-traffic (The Causes of Traffic and Congestion) https://humantransit.org/2011/06/that-influential-texas-urban-mobility-report.html (That Influential Texas "Urban Mobility Report") https://humantransit.org/2015/11/self-driving-cars-a-coming-congestion-disaster.html (Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?) https://humantransit.org/2018/07/is-ride-hailing-to-blame-for-rising-congestion.html (Is Ride-Hailing to Blame for Rising Congestion?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_congestion (Traffic congestion - Wikipedia) Video: https://youtu.be/cHSCmQnGH9Q (Why Traffic Congestion Grows Exponentially, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It // An Explainer) (CityNerd) Video: https://youtu.be/iHzzSao6ypE (The Simple Solution to Traffic) (CGP Grey) — mentioned in the show Video: https://youtu.be/8qy6MrDcukk (Why do Traffic Jams Occur out of Nowhere?) (The Good Stuff) --- Check us out on https://twitter.com/webuiltitpod (Twitter) and https://www.instagram.com/webuiltitpod/ (Instagram) @webuiltitpod. Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Edited by Jordan Clark. Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin ("Reflection Rag" & "Sugar Cane"), a 1986 Weather Channel broadcast, Gary Nintendo, Jerry Reed ("Lord Mr. Ford"), and The Muppets ("It's Not Easy Being Green")
GUEST: Peter Norton, author, "Autonorama"ABOUT THIS EPISODE“AUTONORAMA—The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving” (Island Press, 2021) is the new book by Peter Norton, an associate professor at the University of Virginia. In Autonorama, Peter looks at the history of the future of high-tech driving. He begins with the automotive Utopia depicted by the spectacular General Motors Futurama exhibition at the World's Fair of 1939, that promised better living, new places to go, and new ways of getting there. He then takes us to later similar exhibitions that first floated the idea of congestion-free, crash-free transportation, and then the myriad opportunities on offer in a world of automated driving, where everyone in the vehicle could relax and do anything other than drive, while state-of-the-art technology took on the role of driving the car.Peter writes: “This book is not an entry into the debate about whether the automated driving revolution is good or bad, or whether it will yield (as a perennial question would have it) a transport “heaven” or a transport “hell.” It is a plea to stop asking such questions.”In this episode, Peter talks through some of the key themes in his book, and shares some broader ideas about the development of technologies and business models for the future of mobility.Peter Norton is associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia, where he teaches history of technology, social dimensions of engineering, research, and professional ethics. Follow this link to learn more about Peter's work at University of Virginia, and this link for Peter's page on LinkedIn.
The University of Virginia professor and author of “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise Of High-Tech Driving” details a decades-long history of autonomous-driving promises and scrutinizes America's car-dependent transportation system.
Peter Norton, The Past and Future of Driving in High-Tech Cities Peter Norton is an associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society at the University of Virginia. He is the author of the new book Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving as well as Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City and Persistent Pedestrianism: Urban Walking in Motor Age America, 1920s-1960s. Appendices: Peter Norton: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum. Greg Shill: How Reporters Can Evaluate Automated Driving Announcements by Bryant Walker Smith; Rewriting Our Nation's Deadly Traffic Manual by Gregory H. Shill and Sara C. Bronin; Did Highways Cause Suburbanization? by Nathaniel Baum-Snow; and Freeway Revolts!: The Quality of Life Effects of Highways by Jeffrey Lin and Jeffrey Brinkman. Jeff Lin: Changing Lanes: Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways by Joseph F.C. DiMento and Cliff Ellis. Follow us on the web or on Twitter: @denselyspeaking, @jeffrlin, and @greg_shill. Producer: Schuyler Pals. The views expressed on the show are those of the participants, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, the Federal Reserve System, or any of the other institutions with which the hosts or guests are affiliated.
Can driverless cars really be the “safe, sustainable, and inclusive ‘mobility solutions' that tech companies and automakers are promising us”? In his newest book, Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, technology historian Peter Norton argues that we should treat these utopian promises about driverless vehicles with a great deal more caution and skepticism. Autonorama exposes how, from its inception in the Depression era, the automobile was a subject of controversy; believe it or not, not everyone initially wanted cars around. Over time, however, a shift occurred that caused us to see automobiles as the solution, and a not a problem, for our transportation needs in cities. Today on the Strong Towns Podcast, host Chuck Marohn is interviewing Peter Norton about Autonorama. They discuss the history behind our shift in perception toward cars—up to our current societal fixation on driverless cars, the wrong answer for a problem we can solve with resources we already have, and without doing further harm to ourselves and the environment. Additional Show Notes Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving Peter Norton (University of Virginia) Charles Marohn (Twitter)
Show Notes:In Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving, technology historian Peter Norton argues that driverless cars cannot be the safe, sustainable, and inclusive “mobility solutions” that tech companies and automakers are promising us. The salesmanship behind the driverless future is distracting us from investing in better ways to get around that we can implement now. Unlike autonomous vehicles, these alternatives are inexpensive, safe, sustainable, and inclusive.I'm excited to have Peter back on the Podcast for a second time. We not only dive into the sales pitch being served up to us about autonomous vehicles and a utopian world of car dependency, but we talk about the real-life pragmatic solutions that we should be focusing on such as a sustainable safety approach to mobility network design and the example provided in The Netherlands in the Dutch cycle path and transit network integration. And specifically the power of mobility choice.I hope you enjoy it.Helpful Links:Video version of this episodeLanding page for this episode - for access to photos featured in the video versionAutonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving published by Island PressFighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City published by MIT PressHow did the Dutch get their cycle paths video by BicycleDutchThe Best Country in the World for Driving - The Netherlands a video by Not Just BikesMy first podcast episode with Peter - Highlighting the Fighting Traffic bookShow Credits and Information: All video, audio, and music production by me, John SimmermanMy Personal Call To Action: - If you enjoyed this episode please give it a "thumbs up", leave a comment, and share it with a friend.- And if you haven't done so yet already, please subscribe to the Podcast - Please consider supporting my efforts by becoming a Patron via Patreon. For more information about my Active Towns effort or to follow along please visit my links below:- Website- Twitter- Newsletter- Podcast landing pages- Facebook- InstagramBackground: Hi Everyone, my name is John Simmerman. I'm a health promotion professional with over 30 years of experience and my area of concentration has evolved into a specialization of how the built environment influences human behavior related to active living and especially active mobility.In 2012 I launched the non-profit Advocates for Healthy Communities as an effort to help promote and create healthy, active places. Since that time I've been exploring, documenting, and profiling established, emerging, and aspiring Active Towns wherever they might be, in order to produce high-quality multimedia content to help inspire the creation of more safe and inviting, environments that promote a "Culture of Activity" for "All Ages & Abilities".This is one of my personal Active Towns channels and it features my original podcast episodes: conversations, and personal reflections profiling the positive and inspiring efforts happening around the world as I am able to experience and document them. Click here to access my YouTube Channel for my video contentThanks for tuning in, I hope you find this content helpful.Creative Commons License: Attributions, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives, 2022Advocates for Healthy Communities, Inc. is a nonprofit 501c3 organization (EIN 45-3802508) dedicated to helping communities create a Culture of Activity. Any donations collected are used specifically to support the organization's mission.Click here to make a donation to Advocates for Healthy Communities★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Alex Pareene, a contributing editor to The New Republic and the author of The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter, joins the podcast to talk about his recent run of stories on cars, parking and the competition for scarce space on city streets. We discuss 311 — the non-emergency phone number for accessing municipal services — and what it tells us about how government works (or doesn't work). What message are police sending when they fail to enforce illegal parking? As far as driving is concerned, does anything go? And how does Elon Musk's insistence on beta-testing Full Self-Driving on public streets relate to it all? ***This episode is sponsored by our friends at Cleverhood.*** Support The War on Cars on Patreon for access to ad-free bonus content. SHOW NOTES: Subscribe to The AP (Alex Pareene) Newsletter. Read Alex in The New Republic. Listen to The Politics of Everything. "The Lawlessness that Cops Ignore." (The Atlantic) "Losing a Streetfight to Elon Musk." (The AP) Read "Fighting Traffic" by Peter Norton. Get official War on Cars merch at our store. Purchase books by podcast guests at Bookshop.org. Follow and review us on iTunes. It helps people find us! Twitter: @TheWarOnCars TheWarOnCars.org
Peter Norton shares about the timeless nature of the Beatles' song lyrics and how they have shaped our culture. Peter recently published The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics a compendium of 170+ Beatles lyrics accompanied by full-color photos, artwork, and illustrations, with a foreword by music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner. Learn more here: https://www.thunderbaybooks.com/books/the-beatles-illustrated-lyrics-9781645176336/ (https://www.thunderbaybooks.com/books/the-beatles-illustrated-lyrics-9781645176336/)
Smart Growth, the Philidelphia Planning Authority and Island Books combined to bring a special event to life in which Peter Norton talked about his new book: "Autonorama: The Ilorory Promise of High-Tech Driving". A full-length recording of the event can be found on the Smart Growth website. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) enabled people to hear a discussion about the question: "What Does the Glasgow Climate Pact Mean for the Fight Against the Climate Crisis?". 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The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is a compendium of 170+ Beatles lyrics accompanied by full-color photos, artwork, and illustrations, with a foreword by music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner. Turner provides historical anecdotes about the band and songs in this collection of nostalgia that will appeal to Beatles fans across the generations.Enjoy revisiting 178 iconic Beatles songs, the biggest hits from 1963 to 1970 in chronological order of release.
The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics is a compendium of 170+ Beatles lyrics accompanied by full-color photos, artwork, and illustrations, with a foreword by music journalist and Beatles expert Steve Turner. Turner provides historical anecdotes about the band and songs in this collection of nostalgia that will appeal to Beatles fans across the generations.Enjoy revisiting 178 iconic Beatles songs, the biggest hits from 1963 to 1970 in chronological order of release.
Set in one of Hampshire's most famous landmarks: the Iron Age Hillfort of Danebury Hill, this week's episode is a magical story which brings to life the wood which circles the fort. The story takes place in the 16th century when a Royal Charter was granted for Danebury to be used as a site for a rural fair, on a very hot day in late July, as John the farm labourer had just finished work having been given the afternoon off to go to the fair. Little did he suspect the strange and unusual things that were about to happen to him … This is a perfect story for all the family After the story, I chat with Peter Norton from The Ancient Yew Group who tells me some fascinating facts about amazing Yew trees! The episode is accompanied with music by renowned folk musician Paul Sartin and Hampshire Country Dance Tunes from the Pyle family manuscript of 1822. This story is part of Test Valley Tales. 'Test Valley Tales' is an Arts Council Funded project and one of Test Valley Arts Foundation's Borough of Culture Legacy Projects. All the stories are set in the beautiful landscape of Test Valley which is in Hampshire in England. There is also an illustrated book of the all the stories which accompanies this podcast. This is available from my website. Please see link below. Hope you enjoy it! Story written by Amanda Kane-Smith, based on a traditional English folk tale. Podcast produced by Miles Kane-Smith. Music by Paul Sartin recorded at WildGoose Records in Wherwell. Test Valley Tales can be found on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter as @testvalleytales. For more information please go to: www.merry-go-roundstorytelling.co.uk/testvalleytales
The battle for road space between bikes and cars is a well-known one in many cities. But conversations about being a “bike person” or a “car person” tend to skew more towards identity politics than what the data tells us about how to make a city safe and most efficient for all citizens - no matter how they choose to get around. So why can't we get past our emotional response? Peter Norton, an associate professor and author of "Fighting Traffic", as well as the new book, "Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving" shares just how cars came to dominate our roads and how they still have a place in contemporary cities. Plus, Adrian talks to Canadian-Danish urban mobility expert Mikael Colville-Andersen about coaching cities around the world to be more bike-friendly. And Adrian comes clean on something you might not expect.
KFOR's Dale Johnson talks with Peter Norton of Thunder Press about his new book "The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics from 1963 to 1970"
In our first episode, we take a look at crossing the street. Why is it so frequently a dangerous and uncomfortable activity? What does street design reveal about our priorities as a society? And what does this all mean for us as humans? Join us as we barely scratch the surface on these questions! Links: Want to read more on this episode's topic? Here's just a short list of interesting resources: Quoted in the show: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3345366 (Should Law Subsidize Driving? by Gregory H. Shill) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/fighting-traffic (Fighting Traffic (book) by Peter Norton) https://islandpress.org/books/right-way (Right of Way (book) by Angie Schmitt) https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12877-015-0175-0 (Street crossing behavior in younger and older pedestrians: an eye- and head-tracking study) https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/21/6/1236/332865 (Collective behavior in road crossing pedestrians: the role of social information) https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/13098/13098.pdf (Human Factors Assessment of Pedestrian Roadway Crossing Behavior) https://rspcb.safety.fhwa.dot.gov/RSF/Unit2.aspx (Road Safety Fundamentals Unit 2: Human Behavior and Road Safety) https://austinpublishinggroup.com/emergency-critical-care-medicine/fulltext/ajeccm-v2-id1011.php (Exploring the Pedestrian's Behaviors in Crossing the Street Based on Gender) https://www.drdarciedixon.com/blog/on-the-psychology-of-crossing-the-street (On the Psychology of Crossing The Street) https://www.wired.com/story/why-did-the-human-cross-the-road-to-confuse-the-self-driving-car/ (Why Did the Human Cross the Road? To Confuse the Self-Driving Car) https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history (The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of "jaywalking") https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797 (Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road) https://www.salon.com/2015/08/20/the_secret_history_of_jaywalking_the_disturbing_reason_it_was_outlawed_and_why_we_should_lift_the_ban/ (The secret history of jaywalking: The disturbing reason it was outlawed — and why we should lift the ban) https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/13/the-classist-racist-history-of-jaywalking/ (The (Classist, Racist) History of Jaywalking) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2015/10/14/adam-ruins-everything-explains-the-origins-of-jaywalking/ (“Adam Ruins Everything” Explains the Origins of “Jaywalking”) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/06/28/three-turning-restrictions-cities-need-to-put-on-drivers/ (Three Turning Restrictions Cities Need To Put On Drivers) https://usa.streetsblog.org/2021/03/10/study-how-race-and-income-impact-road-safety-in-oregon/ (STUDY: How Race and Income Impact Road Safety in Oregon) --- Check us out on https://twitter.com/webuiltitpod (Twitter) and https://www.instagram.com/webuiltitpod/ (Instagram) @webuiltitpod. Hosted by AJ Fawver and Jordan Clark. Music in this episode: Sounds of the Supermarket, Scott Joplin, Gary Nintendo
19th September 2021 The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 283: Autonorama SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUEST: Peter Norton TOPICS: US academic Peter Norton, author of the classic "Fighting Traffic," talks about his new book "Autonorama" which details the historically-resonant threat to pedestrians and cyclists from driverless vehicles. LINKS: https://www.Jensonusa.com/thespokesmen https://www.the-spokesmen.com https://islandpress.org/books/autonorama
Agri-EPI Centre's Operational Manager Les Hurdiss spoke with Peter Norton, Co-Founder and Director, NextGenAgri Ltd to hear more about their ‘Lone Worker Safety' technology during Farm Safety week.NextGenAgri Limited is an emerging UK company focused on enabling British Agriculture to evolve utilising technology led innovation. They have already won an award for one of their solutions as the “Farming and Agricultural safety Product of the Year” from the South West and South East Lifestyle Publications 2021.Whilst they specialise in enabling farms to accelerate the adoption of technology they are initially focusing on solutions to address critical operational issues for the agricultural sector, these include; Farm Asset Tracking , Farm Security, Field Management, increasing Crop Yield and Worker Safety. It's this latter service, lone worker safety that we focused on todayAs Peter rightly says “You can't get away from lone working, but you can do things to mitigate the impact and keep you and your people safer” with their tailored 3-part solution.
William Gladstone is an expert on the implications and impact of 2012 and ancient religions. . He's traveled around the world researching for and setting up the international productions of Rod Serling's IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES and other projects including IN SEARCH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS. As a literary agent he has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Throughout his career, William has also worked with prominent visionaries, including Tom Anderson, founder of Myspace; Peter Norton, founder of Norton Computing; and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. He attended Yale College and earned a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University. He resides in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. - www.12thebook.com To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
William Gladstone is an expert on the implications and impact of 2012 and ancient religions. . He's traveled around the world researching for and setting up the international productions of Rod Serling's IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES and other projects including IN SEARCH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS. As a literary agent he has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Throughout his career, William has also worked with prominent visionaries, including Tom Anderson, founder of Myspace; Peter Norton, founder of Norton Computing; and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. He attended Yale College and earned a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University. He resides in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. - www.12thebook.com To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
William Gladstone is an expert on the implications and impact of 2012 and ancient religions. . He's traveled around the world researching for and setting up the international productions of Rod Serling's IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES and other projects including IN SEARCH OF THE HISTORICAL JESUS. As a literary agent he has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Throughout his career, William has also worked with prominent visionaries, including Tom Anderson, founder of Myspace; Peter Norton, founder of Norton Computing; and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. He attended Yale College and earned a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from Harvard University. He resides in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California. - www.12thebook.comTo listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
I take business professionals from drowning in their apparent chaos to being supercharged with energy, having supreme focus and mental clarity, and living from their true state of purpose. This prevents them from falling into the trap of burnout and breakdown and living a more empowered and fulfilling life. I serve as a Peak Performance coach for business owners and entrepreneurs and help them tap into high performance states of being and become their own self masters through the implementation of strategic behavioral changes including the use of; Hydration Breathwork Mobility and Exercise Cold Therapy Nutrition (fasting techniques) Supplementation and Bio Hacking Journalling/Gratitude Peter also has a ten day challenge coming up on Facebook!! You can find Peter at: www.peakst8.com.au https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-norton-bbb56b163/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/marieoldfield/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/marieoldfield/support
Connor O''Brien and Peter Norton discuss the agreement of Supercars and the teams to continue to push for Gen 3 in 2022.
Connor O''Brien and Peter Norton discuss the agreement of Supercars and the teams to continue to push for Gen 3 in 2022.
Peter Norton from Poppies restaurant in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, joined us to discuss the buzz around the town as Disney arrives to film it's new 'Disenchanted' film there, starring Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey. We also discussed the History of Ireland as a film location with Dr Linda King from IADT.
Bienvenidos y bienvenidas al MSDOS CLUB Podcast, el podcast de este mes viene dedicado a títulos de terror, por ello casi toda la música que podréis escuchar será de títulos de Terror para nuestros PC Compatibles. El listado del disquete de noviembre es: Juegos: En la sección de juegos haremos un repaso a los títulos de Terror que tuvisteis a bien dejarnos en nuestra web, por la que se pasarán Vampirro, Isthar Vega y Victor Cerveto a dejarnos sus recomendaciones. Además Antonio (y su hermano) nos traerán batallitas de hombres de mediana edad cebolletas con el juego de simulación espacial X-WING. Por último tendremos una entrevista la mar de interesante con Jorge Rosado, co-fundador de NoriaWorks y de Hammer technologies, donde nos hablará de cómo era la vida del desarrollador de videojuegos en la década de los noventa y de un buen puñado de títulos que salieron para esas compañías, como Speed Haste, Rol Crusaders o, incluso, el DIV GAMES STUDIO. Publicidad: Seguimos con la sección de spots publicitarios con anuncios de gente que no paga, amenizados por Mayra Gómez Kemp. Game Over: Antonio sigue con esta sección en la cual nos recuerda el Comandante Norton, uno de los programas más conocidos por los usuarios de MS-DOS, que lleva el nombre de todo un emprendedor, Peter Norton. La Review: Estrenamos sección con la review de The Making of Prince of Persia, el libro de Jordan Mechner en el que nos cuenta sus vivencias mientras desarrollaba Prince of Persia en Broderbund. Los años del MS-DOS: Seguimos con la historia del MS-DOS, en esta ocasión hablaremos del CP/M, el sistema operativo predominante antes de MS-DOS y que tiene mucho que ver con la creación del MS-DOS. Readme.txt: Leemos vuestros comentarios de ivoox, ya que en la web msdos.club no ha habido ninguno. Os agradecemos desde ya vuestros comentarios y valoraciones positivas en iTunes, iVoox y nuestra web msdos.club y las recomendaciones del programa.
Bienvenidos y bienvenidas al MSDOS CLUB Podcast, el podcast de este mes viene dedicado a títulos de terror, por ello casi toda la música que podréis escuchar será de títulos de Terror para nuestros PC Compatibles. El listado del disquete de noviembre es: Juegos: En la sección de juegos haremos un repaso a los títulos de Terror que tuvisteis a bien dejarnos en nuestra web, por la que se pasarán Vampirro, Isthar Vega y Victor Cerveto a dejarnos sus recomendaciones. Además Antonio (y su hermano) nos traerán batallitas de hombres de mediana edad cebolletas con el juego de simulación espacial X-WING. Por último tendremos una entrevista la mar de interesante con Jorge Rosado, co-fundador de NoriaWorks y de Hammer technologies, donde nos hablará de cómo era la vida del desarrollador de videojuegos en la década de los noventa y de un buen puñado de títulos que salieron para esas compañías, como Speed Haste, Rol Crusaders o, incluso, el DIV GAMES STUDIO. Publicidad: Seguimos con la sección de spots publicitarios con anuncios de gente que no paga, amenizados por Mayra Gómez Kemp. Game Over: Antonio sigue con esta sección en la cual nos recuerda el Comandante Norton, uno de los programas más conocidos por los usuarios de MS-DOS, que lleva el nombre de todo un emprendedor, Peter Norton. La Review: Estrenamos sección con la review de The Making of Prince of Persia, el libro de Jordan Mechner en el que nos cuenta sus vivencias mientras desarrollaba Prince of Persia en Broderbund. Los años del MS-DOS: Seguimos con la historia del MS-DOS, en esta ocasión hablaremos del CP/M, el sistema operativo predominante antes de MS-DOS y que tiene mucho que ver con la creación del MS-DOS. Readme.txt: Leemos vuestros comentarios de ivoox, ya que en la web msdos.club no ha habido ninguno. Os agradecemos desde ya vuestros comentarios y valoraciones positivas en iTunes, iVoox y nuestra web msdos.club y las recomendaciones del programa. Ayúdanos a mantener MS-DOS Club. Agradecemos en este episodio a: Sonia Chaves (@DubbingSonia en Twitter) por su voz para las cortinillas. Canal de Sonia en Ivoox: Órbita Arrakis. Vampirro (@vampirro en Twitter) por hablarnos del Alone in The Dark. Esther (@IstharVegaLuna en Twitter) por hablarnos de Trick or Treat. Blog de Esther: La Mazmorrita Casi Oscura. Victor(@CervetoVictor en Twitter) por hablarnos de Darkseed. Jorge Rosado (@waamas) por explicarnos con pelos y señales su vida entre teclados, ratones y ordenadores en los 90. Antonio Lozano (@rigorycriterio en Twitter) por su dedicación y participación. Los perros de la calle de Antonio Lozano (Estos no tienen twitter), por estar ahí cuando no te lo esperas y apoyarnos con sus ladridos en los momentos más innecesarios. Sin ellos este podcast no sería lo mismo. Javier Sancho (@kalzakath1 en Twitter) por su dedicación y participación.
The Spokesmen Cycling Podcast EPISODE 259: Cyclist Detection Tech With Tome Software CEO Jake Sigal And History of Road Equity With Historian Peter Norton Monday 26th October 2020 SPONSOR: Jenson USA HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Jake Sigal and Peter Norton TRANSCRIPT/SHOWNOTES: www.the-spokesmen.com
Dzisiejszy gość to Paweł Jaworski - filozof i urbanista, urbanista i filozof (i architekt do tego). Paweł działa za pomocą urbanistyki eksperymentalnej, łączącą badania, projektowanie oraz partycypację. Pomagam miastom zaplanować zmiany w przestrzeni publicznej, wdrożyć nowe pomysły i przetrwać rodzące się nieuchronnie konflikty. W 2017 roku w Dąbrowie Górniczej przygotowałem pierwszą w Polsce koncepcję przekształcenia ulicy śródmiejskiej poprzez testowanie rozwiązań tymczasowych wspólnie z osobami, które z niej korzystają na co dzień. W podobny sposób pracowałem w Warszawie, Krakowie, Szczecinie i Gorzowie Wielkopolskim. Z Pawłem dysktujemy o tym dlaczego jego wykształcenie filozoficzne jest kluczowym aspektem jego pracy w mieście. Co się stało, że Paweł zrezygnował z pracy w biurze planowania w Tychach i zaczął realizować się we własnych projektach? Rozmawiamy także o podejściu do samochodów i kierowców - pytam Pawła o to jak nie demonizować użytkowników samochodów, a w zamian za to, pokazać im, że często istnieje bardziej efektywna alternatywa dla przemieszczania się (szczególnie w centrach miast). Czym jest dla Pawła jego marka osobista i czy świadomie ją kreuje? Polecane przez Pawła książki to: 1) Livable Streets, Donald Appleyard (https://books.google.dk/books/about/Livable_Streets.html?id=pfreUQKD_4QC&redir_esc=y) Warto poczytać o tym Panu, np. na Wikipedii (po polsku!): https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Appleyard 2) Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City, Peter Norton (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2924825-fighting-traffic) Wywiad z Pawłem, w którym opowiedział o tym, jak będą wyglądać nasze miasta po pandemii możecie znaleźć tutaj: https://wyborcza.pl/AkcjeSpecjalne/7,173931,26348043,gdy-pandemia-sie-skonczy-bedziemy-bardziej-doceniac-zycie-w.html?fbclid=IwAR2XuPkJbacXHFSBKm6JZE4nWG4cl8gu6mmFFHBISIKBH6gtngREs5z_TR4 A działania Pawła - jako Experimental Urbanism możecie śledzić na: - jego blogu/ stronie internetowej: http://experimentalurbanism.com - facebooku: https://www.facebook.com/experimentalurbanism - instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/experimental.urbanism/
Tony Whitlock, Dirk Klynsmith, Peter Norton and Craig Revell, look at the Darwin Triple Crown. Dirk talks about the rules in place that saw all but one photographer excluded from the paddock, how the fans were reacting to being at the track and time certain Saturday. They also discus Bathurst changing sponsors, Google fighting the Government and Motorsport Australia's decision to close state and national racing down for 6 weeks in NSW.
Tony Whitlock, Dirk Klynsmith, Peter Norton and Craig Revell, look at the Darwin Triple Crown. Dirk talks about the rules in place that saw all but one photographer excluded from the paddock, how the fans were reacting to being at the track and time certain Saturday. They also discus Bathurst changing sponsors, Google fighting the Government and Motorsport Australia's decision to close state and national racing down for 6 weeks in NSW.
Trends Podcast met Marco Te Brömmelstroet (UvA)In deze aflevering bellen we met Marco Te Brömmelstroet. Hij geeft les aan de universiteit van Amsterdam en publiceerde onlangs met Thalia Verkade ‘Het recht van de snelste'. In dat boek nemen ze mobiliteit onder de loep. Te Brömmelstroet laat zich de fietsprofessor noemen en maakt zich sterk dat corona ons mobiliteitsgedrag wel eens voorgoed zou kunnen veranderen.In Vlaanderen bedraagt de afstand tussen de woon- en de werkplaats gemiddeld slechts 20 kilometer. Bovendien is 75 procent van onze verplaatsingen korter dan 10 kilometer. Daar hebben we geen auto voor nodig. De groeiende aandacht voor de fiets tijdens de lockdown maakt van de fiets de duidelijke winnaar van de coronacrisis. Dat vindt ook de Nederlandse ‘fietsprofessor' Marco te Brömmelstroet (Universiteit van Amsterdam). “De fiets kan een nieuwe impuls geven aan ons mobiliteitsdenken. De fiets past niet zo goed in de autogerichte manier waarop we naar mobiliteit kijken. Dat alternatieven zoals het openbaar vervoer wegvielen, maakte de fiets interessant. Bovendien nodigden heel veel straten die normaal door auto's worden gedomineerd, tijdens de coronacrisis plots uit tot veilig en prettig fietsen.”Volgens Te Brömmelstroet is het tijd om de straat te herdenken. En dat is perfect mogelijk. In de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw gebeurde het al bij de opkomst van de auto. “Toen was iedereen het erover eens dat een snelle auto in de straat geen toekomst had. Kinderen letten nu eenmaal niet goed op, dus kun je niet met de auto in dezelfde straat. Peter Norton beschrijft in Fighting Traffic heel mooi hoe dat in tien jaar volledig is omgeslagen, zodat mensen kinderen gingen opvoeden om niet zomaar over te steken. Bij elk ongeval werd gezegd dat het kind niet goed had opgelet. Die logica kan ook andersom. Dat gesprek moeten we nu aangaan en dat gaat over meer dan de files oplossen.”
Trends Podcast met Marco Te Brömmelstroet (UvA)In deze aflevering bellen we met Marco Te Brömmelstroet. Hij geeft les aan de universiteit van Amsterdam en publiceerde onlangs met Thalia Verkade ‘Het recht van de snelste'. In dat boek nemen ze mobiliteit onder de loep. Te Brömmelstroet laat zich de fietsprofessor noemen en maakt zich sterk dat corona ons mobiliteitsgedrag wel eens voorgoed zou kunnen veranderen.In Vlaanderen bedraagt de afstand tussen de woon- en de werkplaats gemiddeld slechts 20 kilometer. Bovendien is 75 procent van onze verplaatsingen korter dan 10 kilometer. Daar hebben we geen auto voor nodig. De groeiende aandacht voor de fiets tijdens de lockdown maakt van de fiets de duidelijke winnaar van de coronacrisis. Dat vindt ook de Nederlandse ‘fietsprofessor' Marco te Brömmelstroet (Universiteit van Amsterdam). “De fiets kan een nieuwe impuls geven aan ons mobiliteitsdenken. De fiets past niet zo goed in de autogerichte manier waarop we naar mobiliteit kijken. Dat alternatieven zoals het openbaar vervoer wegvielen, maakte de fiets interessant. Bovendien nodigden heel veel straten die normaal door auto's worden gedomineerd, tijdens de coronacrisis plots uit tot veilig en prettig fietsen.”Volgens Te Brömmelstroet is het tijd om de straat te herdenken. En dat is perfect mogelijk. In de jaren twintig van de vorige eeuw gebeurde het al bij de opkomst van de auto. “Toen was iedereen het erover eens dat een snelle auto in de straat geen toekomst had. Kinderen letten nu eenmaal niet goed op, dus kun je niet met de auto in dezelfde straat. Peter Norton beschrijft in Fighting Traffic heel mooi hoe dat in tien jaar volledig is omgeslagen, zodat mensen kinderen gingen opvoeden om niet zomaar over te steken. Bij elk ongeval werd gezegd dat het kind niet goed had opgelet. Die logica kan ook andersom. Dat gesprek moeten we nu aangaan en dat gaat over meer dan de files oplossen.”
In this episode, we talk with Peter Norton, author of Fighting Traffic about some of the parallels of the dawn of the motor age with our current pandemic and the push for more people-oriented space on our streets.
It's been a difficult time for many people in Business, and here at GCR digital Radio we're helping out with a bit of Marketing for Local Business - Peter Norton, from Poppies Enniskerry & Missy Moops in Dun Laoghaire shares their latest News, and update on their Business opening Hours, and offer. Peter takes John Power's 30 second Business Challenge! #Enniskerry #Bray #Wicklow #Greystones #GCRdigitalRadio
Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Today we're going to look at the impact Stewart Brand had on computing. Brand was one of the greatest muses of the interactive computing and then the internet revolutions. This isn't to take anything away from his capacity to create, but the inspiration he provided gave him far more reach than nearly anyone in computing. There's a decent chance you might not know who he his. There's even a chance that you've never heard of any of his creations. But you live and breath some of his ideas on a daily basis. So who was this guy and what did he do? Well, Stewart Brand was born in 1938, in Rockford, Illinois. He would go on to study biology at Stanford, enter the military and then study design and photography at other schools in the San Francisco area. This was a special time in San Francisco. Revolution was in the air. And one of the earliest scientific studies had him legitimately dosing on LSD. One of my all-time favorite books was The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Tom Wolfe. In the book, Wolfe follows Ken Kesey and his band of Merry Pranksters along a journey of LSD and Benzedrine riddled hippy goodness, riding a converted school bus across the country and delivering a new kind of culture straight out of Haight-Ashbury and to the heart of middle America. All while steering clear of the shoes FBI agents of the day wore. Here he would have met members of the Grateful Dead, Neal Cassady, members of the Hells Angels, Wavy Gravy, Paul Krassner, and maybe even Kerouac and Ginsberg. This was a transition from the Beat Generation to the Hippies of the 60s. Then he started the Whole Earth Catalog. Here, he showed the first satallite imagery of the planet Earth, which he'd begun campaigning NASA to release two years earlier. In the 5 years he made the magazine, he spread ideals like ecology, a do it yourself mentality, self-sufficiency, and what the next wave of progress would look like. People like Craig Newmark of Craig's List would see the magazine and it would help to form a new world view. In fact, the Whole Earth Catalog was a direct influence on Craig's List. Steve Jobs compared the Whole Earth Catalog to a 60s era Google. It inspired Wired Magazine. Earth Day would be created two years later. Brand would loan equipment and inspire spinoffs of dozens of magazines and books. And even an inspiration for many early websites. The catalog put him in touch with so, so many influential people. One of the first was Doug Engelbart and The Mother Of All Demos involves him in the invention of the mouse and the first video conferencing. In fact, Brand helped produce the Mother Of All Demos! As we moved into the 70s he chronicled the oncoming hacker culture, and the connection to the 60s-era counterculture. He inspired and worked with Larry Brilliant, Lee Felsenstein, and Ted Nelson. He basically invented being a “futurist” founding CoEvolution Quarterly and spreading the word of digital utopianism. The Whole Earth Software Review would come along with the advent of personal computers. The end of the 70s would also see him become a special advisor to former California governor Jerry Brown. In the 70s and 80s, he saw the Internet form and went on to found one of the earliest Internet communities, called The WELL, or Whole Earth Lectronic Link. Collaborations in the WELL gave us Barlow's The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a safe haunt for Kevin Mitnick while on the run, Grateful Dead tape trading, and many other Digerati. There would be other virtual communities and innovations to the concept like social networks, eventually giving us online forums, 4chan, Yelp, Facebook, LinkedIn, and corporate virtual communities. But it started with The Well. He would go on to become a visiting scientist in the MIT Media Lab, organize conferences, found the Global Business Network with Peter Schwarts, Jay Ogilvy and other great thinkers to help with promoting values and various planning like scenario planning, a corporate strategy that involves thinking from the outside in. This is now a practice inside Deloitte. The decades proceeded on and Brand inspired whole new generations to leverage humor to push the buttons of authority. Much as the pranksters inspired him on the bus. But it wasn't just anti-authority. It was a new and innovative approach in an upcoming era of maximizing short-term profits at the expense of the future. Brand founded The Long Now Foundation with an outlook that looked 10,000 years in the future. They started a clock on Jeff Bezos' land in Texas, they started archiving languages approaching extinction, Brian Eno led seminars about long-term thinking, and inspired Anathem, a novel from one of my favorite authors, Neal Stephenson. Peter Norton, Pierre Omidyar, Bruce Sterling, Chris Anderson of the Economist and many others are also involved. But Brand inspired other counter-cultures as well. In the era of e-zines, he inspired Jesse Dresden, who Brand knew as Jefferson Airplane Spencer Drydens kid. The kid turned out to be dFx, who would found HoHo Con an inspiration for DefCon. Stewart Brand wrote 5 books in addition to the countless hours he spent editing books, magazines, web sites, and papers. Today, you'll find him pimping blockchain and cryptocurrency, in an attempt to continue decentralization and innovation. He inherited a playful counter-culture. He watched the rise and fall and has since both watched and inspired the innovative iterations of countless technologies, extending of course into bio-hacking. He's hobnobbed with the hippies, the minicomputer timeshares, the PC hackers, the founders of the internet, the tycoons of the web, and then helped set strategy for industry, NGOs, and governments. He left something with each. Urania was the muse of astronomy, some of the top science in ancient Greece. And he would probably giggle if anyone compared him to the muse. Both on the bus in the 60s, and in his 80s today. He's one of the greats and we're lucky he graced us with his presence on this rock - that he helped us see from above for the first time. Just as I'm lucky you elected to listen to this episode. So next time you're arguing about silly little things at work, think about what really matters and listen to one of his Ted Talks. Context. 10,000 years. Have a great week and thanks for listening to this episode of the History of Computing Podcast.
In the Spotlight Host, Stacey, speaks with Peter Norton, Executive Director; Julie Stammich, Breast Cancer Survivor; and Zach Miller, Program Director for Froggy 102.7.
The message from Silicon Valley seems to be that self-driving cars are the way of the future. This week, On the Media considers the history behind the present-day salesmanship. Plus, why transit rights mean much more than point-A-to-point-B mobility. Also, a new opera about Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs. 1. Angie Schmitt [@schmangee], national reporter at Streetsblog, on the "heartwarming" stories of Americans who walk miles and miles to work. Listen. 2. Peter Norton, professor of history at University of Virginia's Department of Engineering and Society, and Emily Badger, urban policy reporter for the New York Times, on the past, present and dazzling future of self-driving car salesmanship. Listen. 3. Judd Greenstein [@juddgreenstein], composer, on the in-progress opera, A Marvelous Order. Listen. 4. Kafui Attoh, professor of urban studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, on the deeper political meanings of "transit rights." Listen. This episode originally aired on November 23, 2018. Music from this week's show: Dan Deacon — USA III: RailIggy Pop — The PassengerGary Numan — CarsJudd Greenstein — ChangeJudd Greenstein — A Marvelous OrderBrian Eno — Music For Airports
Welcome to the History of Computing Podcast, where we explore the history of information technology. Because understanding the past prepares us for the innovations of the future! Todays episode is on the History of Symantec. This is really more part one of a part two series. Broadcom announced they were acquiring Symantec in August of 2019, the day before we recorded this episode. Who is this Symantec and what do they do - and why does Broadcom want to buy them for 10.7 Billion dollars? For starters, by themselves Symantec is a Fortune 500 company with over $4 billion dollars in annual revenues so $10.7 Billion is a steal for an enterprise software company. Except they're just selling the Enterprise software division and keeping Norton in the family. With just shy of 12,000 employees, Symantec has twisted and turned and bought and sold companies for a long time. But how did they become a Fortune 500 company? It all started with Eisenhower. ARPA or the Advanced Research Projects Agency, which would later add the word Defense to their name, become DARPA and build a series of tubes call the interweb. While originally commissioned so Ike could counter Sputnik, ARPA continued working to fund projects in computers and in the 1970s, this kid out of the University of Texas named Gary Hendrix saw that they were funding natural language understanding projects. This went back to Turing and DARPA wanted to give some AI-complete a leap forward, trying to make computers as intelligent as people. This was obviously before Terminator told us that was a bad idea (pro-tip, it's a good idea). Our intrepid hero Gary saw that sweet, sweet grant money and got his PhD from the UT Austin Computational Linguistics Lab. He wrote some papers on robotics and the Stanford Research Institute, or SRI for short. Yes, that's the same SRI that invented the hosts.txt file and is responsible for keeping DNS for the first decade or so of the internet. So our pal Hendrix joins SRI and chases that grant money, leaving SRI in 1980 with about 15 other Stanford researchers to start a company they called Machine Intelligence Corporation. That went bust and so he started Symantec Corporation in 1982 got a grant from the National Science foundation to build natural language processing software; it turns out syntax and semantics make for a pretty good mashup. So the new company Symantec built out a database and some advanced natural language code, but by 1984 the PC revolution was on and that code had been built for a DEC PDP so could not be run on the emerging PCs in the industry. Symantec was then acquired by C&E Software short for the names of its founders, Dennis Coleman and Gordon Eubanks. The Symantec name stayed and Eubanks became the chairman of the board for the new company. C&E had been working on PC software called Q&A, which the new team finished and then added natural language processing to make using the tools easier to use. They called that “The Intelligent Assistant” and they now had a tool that would take them through the 80s. People swapped rolls, and due to a sharp focus on sales they did well. During the early days of the PC, dealers - or small computer stores that were popping up all over the country, were critical to selling hardware and software. Every Symantec employee would go on the road for six days a week, visiting 6 dealers a day. It was grueling but kept them growing and building. They became what we now call a “portfolio” company in 1985 when they introduced NoteIt, a natural language processing tool used to annotate docs in Lotus 1-2-3. Lotus was in the midst of eating the lunch of previous tools. They added another devision and made SQZ a Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet tool. This is important, they were a 3 product company with divisions when in 1987 they got even more aggressive and purchased Breakthrough Software who made an early project management tool called TimeLine. And this is when they did something unique for a PC software company: they split each product into groups that leveraged a shared pool of resources. Each product had a GM that was responsible for the P&L. The GM ran the development, Quality Assurance, Tech Support, and Product Market - those teams reported directly to the GM, who reported to then CEO Eubanks. But there was a shared sales, finance, and operations team. This laid the framework for massive growth, increased sales, and took Symantec to their IPO in 1989. Symantec purchased what was at the time the most popular CRM app called ACT! In 1993 Meanwhile, Peter Norton had a great suite of tools for working with DOS. Things that, well, maybe should have been built into operating systems (and mostly now are). Norton could compress files, do file recovery, etc. The cash Symantec raised allowed them to acquire The Peter Norton Company in 1999 which would completely change the face of the company. This gave them development tools for PC and Mac as Norton had been building those. This lead to the introduction of Symantec Antivirus for the Macintosh and called the anti-virus for PC Norton Antivirus because people already trusted that name. Within two years, with the added sales and marketing air cover that the Symantec sales machine provided, the Norton group was responsible for 82% of Symantecs total revenues. So much so that Symantec dropped building Q&A because Microsoft was winning in their market. I remember this moment pretty poignantly. Sure, there were other apps for the Mac like Virex, and other apps for Windows, like McAfee. But the Norton tools were the gold standard. At least until they later got bloated. The next decade was fast, from the outside looking in, except when Symantec acquired Veritas in 2004. This made sense as Symantec had become a solid player in the security space and before the cloud, backup seemed somewhat related. I'd used Backup Exec for a long time and watched Veritas products go from awesome to, well, not as awesome. John Thompson was the CEO through that decade and Symantec grew rapidly - purchasing systems management solution Altiris in 2007 and got a Data Loss Prevention solution that year in Vontu. Application Performance Management, or APM wasn't very security focused so that business until was picked up by Vector Capital in 2008. They also picked up MessageLabs and AppStream in 2008. Enrique Salem replaced Thompson and Symantec bought Versign's CA business in 2010. If you remember from our encryption episode, that was already spun off of RSA. Certificates are security-focused. Email encryption tool PGP and GuardianEdge were also picked up in 2010 providing key management tools for all those, um, keys the CA was issuing. These tools were never integrated properly though. They also picked up Rulespace in 2010 to get what's now their content filtering solution. Symantec acquired LiveOffice in 2012 to get enterprise vault and instant messaging security - continuing to solidify the line of security products. They also acquired Odyssey Software for SCCM plugins to get better at managing embedded, mobile, and rugged devices. Then came Nukona to get a MAM product, also in 2012. During this time, Steve Bennett was hired as CEO and fired in 2014. Then Michael Brown, although in the interim Veritas was demerged in 2014 and as their products started getting better they were sold to The Carlyle Group in 2016 for $8B. Then Greg Clark became CEO in 2016, when Symantec purchased Blue Coat. Greg Clark then orchestrated the LifeLock acquisition for $2.3B of that $8B. Thoma Bravo then bought CA business to merge with DigiCert in 2017. Then in 2019 Rick Hill became CEO. Does this seem like a lot of buying and selling? It is. But it also isn't. If you look at what Symantec has done, they have a lot of things they can sell customers for various needs in the information security space. At times, they've felt like a holding company. But ever since the Norton acquisition, they've had very specific moves that continue to solidify them as one of the top security vendors in the space. Their sales teams don't spend six days a week on the road and go to six customers a day, but they have a sales machine. And the've managed to leverage that to get inside what we call the buying tornado of many emergent technologies and then sell the company before the tornado ends. They still have Norton, of course. Even though practically every other product in the portfolio has come and gone over the years. What does all of this mean? The Broadcom acquisition of the enterprise security division maybe tells us that Symantec is about to leverage that $10+ billion dollars to buy more software companies. And sell more companies after a little integration and incubation, then getting out of it before the ocean gets too red, the tech too stale, or before Microsoft sherlocks them. Because that's what they do. And they do it profitably every single time. We often think of how an acquiring company gets a new product - but next time you see a company buying another one, think about this: that company probably had multiple offers. What did the team at the company being acquired get out of this deal? And we'll work on that in the next episode, when we explore the history of Broadcom. Thank you for sticking with us through this episode of the History of Computing Podcast and have a great day!
This episode, published in June 2019, features interviews recorded at the 10th International Quintessence Symposium held in Sydney. Dr Peter Norton and Professor Ian Meyers interview a selection of the interesting presenters. This Dental Files features Dr Chee Change, Associate Professor Tomas Linkevicius, Associate Professor Axel Sphar, Dr Arndt Happe and Professor Marleen Peumans.
Autonomous cars? Who needs ‘em. If you want to improve your city then design it so that children have more autonomy. In this episode we hit the playground with architecture critic Alexandra Lange, the author of “The Design of Childhood.” To grow up into healthy, functional adults, kids need opportunities to experience freedom and independence. Alexandra argues that car-dominated streets make that more difficult. A city designed for cars is a city that's lousy for families -- and pretty much everyone else. Plus: The surprising history of playgrounds. In celebration of our twentieth episode, the first twenty people who enlist in The War on Cars Patreon campaign after this episode drops will receive a bonus #BanCars sticker. Buy a War on Cars t-shirt at Cotton Bureau. Rate and review the war effort on iTunes. Show Notes: Visit Alexandra Lange's web site and follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Buy a copy of her book, “The Design of Childhood: How the Material World Shapes Independent Kids.” How children lost the right to roam in four generations. (Daily Mail) Peter Norton's “Fighting Traffic” is a mind-boggling (and scholarly!) historical account of the bloody battle for city streets at the dawn of the motor age in the American city. This episode was produced by Matt Cutler. Find us onTwitter @TheWarOnCars, Aaron Naparstek @Naparstek, Sarah Goodyear @buttermilk1 and Doug Gordon @BrooklynSpoke. Email us: thewaroncars@gmail.com https://thewaroncars.org
In this episode, Gregory Shill, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, discusses his article "Should Law Subsidize Driving?," which will be published by the NYU Law Review. Shill begins by describing the terrible toll that automobiles inflict on America every year: 93,000 deaths (40,000 in crashes and another 53,000 killed prematurely by vehicle emissions), millions of serious injuries, and many hundreds of billions of dollars of damages due to lost lives alone. Then he explains how automobiles are subsidized not only by intentional public policy, but also by legal rules that prioritize and indemnify driving, while discouraging and stigmatizing other forms of transportation. He argues that this reflects policy choices that we can and must reverse, and discusses effective approaches to reform adopted by other countries, which have dramatically reduced driving and the terrible costs it imposes. Shill is on Twitter at @greg_shill.Shill recommends the following resources for those interested in learning more about reform:Angie Schmitt, How Driving Is Encouraged and Subsidized—by Law, StreetsBlog, Mar. 6, 2019The Vision Zero Street Design StandardCenters for Disease Control, Motor Vehicle Crash Deaths: How Is the US Doing? (2016)Peter Norton, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City (2011)Joseph Stromberg, The Forgotten History of How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” (discussing Norton’s book).Fabio Caiazzo et al, Air Pollution and Early Deaths in the United States. Part I: Quantifying the Impact of Major Sectors in 2005, 79 Atmospheric Environment 198 (2013)(discussing 53,000 deaths from road transportation emissions)John D. Kraemer & Connor S. Benton, Disparities in Road Crash Mortality among Pedestrians Using Wheelchairs in the USA: Results of a Capture–Recapture Analysis, British Medical Journal OpenKelcie Ralph et al., Editorial Patterns in Bicyclist and Pedestrian Crash Reporting (2018) (working paper)Michael Lewyn, The Criminalization of Walking, Illinois Law Review (2017)Danielle Davis, How the NYPD, the DOT, and the Justice System Have Failed My Sister: Part One (2017) (telling the story of Lauren Davis’s death at the hands of a motorist in Brooklyn, and the cruelty her family experienced at the hands of law enforcement and the city) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
How to Increase partner engagement with social channel marketing CJ8. This episode of Channel Journeys features Jacqui Rand, co-founder of Channeliser, a platform for finding and getting social with partners. Learn about Jacqui’s channel journey and how she met Peter Norton and Bill Gates. Find out how she’s helping vendors find the right partners and … Jacqui Rand: Go Social and Get More from your Partners Read More »
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The United States may not have an infrastructure crisis. It may in fact have too much infrastructure. And what does that word "infrastructure" even mean, anyway? We talk about the history internal improvements, public works, and the power of a group that called itself The League of American Wheelmen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The relatable journey of Peter Norton and his Gold Coast Electrical Business. Guest: Peter Norton From: Enersol Electrical Social: @enersolelectrical If you like these success stories, you'll enjoy the following podcasts: From A to B with Corey Philip Proof that your trade business can run while you travel the world Creative marketing with David Gatto Stephen Scogins from A to B About this podcast with Peter Norton A little while ago, I had a listener email me asking if I could get some guests on the show that are a little easier to relate to than some of the tycoons I often speak with. Of course, he who asks receives, so I put the feelers out in our private Facebook community to see if anyone that's currently grinding it out in business would want to come on and tell their story. Subsequently, I received loads of replies. So many in fact that I had to politely decline the majority as I only have so much resource available to me from a production perspective. Anyway, so I was introduced to Peter from a member of the group and after a quick chat, I realised that he fit the profile of who I was looking for perfectly. Peter Norton runs Enersol Electrical, which is a small electrical company on the Gold Coast of Queensland. Like many of you guys, he is slogging it out, building a business that encounters many of the obstacles that yours may. In this conversation, Peter and I talk about some of the roadblocks that he's encountered along the way and some of the tactics that he's used to navigate them safely. This is a great conversation with a down to earth guy, who's out there just like you. I hope you enjoy it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can you 10x your visitor-to-lead capture rates while dramatically lowering your cost per acquisition (CPA)? Seems too good to be true, but it's not... This week on The Inbound Success Podcast, MOV-ology Co-Founder Peter Norton talks about his company's approach to addressing web form abandonment and how addressing this one stage in the funnel can make a major impact on marketing ROI. Some highlights from our discussion include: The idea for MOV-ology was inspired by shopping cart abandonment solutions. Peter and his co-founders realized that there are more web forms than shopping carts, but no web form abandonment solutions on the market. MOV-ology's solution is simple to install, requiring a bit of Java Script pasted into the footer of your site. Companies are using MOV-ology to view data on web form abandonment in real time and adjust their form structure and messaging. MOV-ology's data shows that in many cases, longer forms with more fields actually produce higher conversion rates (counter to what marketers have long believed). The company's data shows that for every 1,000 people who visit a page, 100 start to fill out a form, 40 fill in enough information to be "contactable," but only one person actually submits the form. Form abandonment is higher on mobile devices than on desktop devices. When SMS text messages are used to follow up on visitors who abandon web forms, engagement is typically in the 80-90% range. Transparency is key when following up with visitors who abandon web forms. One of MOV-ology's clients was able to double their sales and cut their cost per acquisition (CPA) in half simply by addressing web form abandonment. MOV-ology's pricing is performance-based but starts at $99 per month. Listen to the podcast to learn how MOV-ology's web form abandonment solution can help to increase your visitor-to-lead conversions and make an immediate impact on ROI. Transcript Kathleen Booth (Host):Welcome back to the Inbound Success Podcast.My name is Kathleen Booth, and I'm your host. This week, my guest is Peter Norton, who is the CIO and co-founder of MOV-ology. Peter Norton (Guest): Hi. Thanks, Kathleen. Appreciate being here. Peter and Kathleen recording this episode Kathleen: Yes, I'm glad you're here because we've started working with you guys, and I am really intrigued by what MOV-ology does. When I first heard about it, it kind of seemed too good to be true, but it's not. Few of those things that seem too good to be true are really not too good to be true, so I'm excited to share this with listeners and also dig in a little bit more and talk about the use cases for what you guys offer. Before we go there, though, can you just take a few minutes and tell our listeners about yourself and about the company, and about what you do? About Peter Norton and MOV-ology Peter: Yeah. No, thank you. Peter Norton, and I have been in the direct marketing space/inbound leads space for many, many years and worked at fairly large email providers, and throughout that career, which led me to founding MOV-ology was just the optimization of the lead flow and finding areas to increase leads without reinventing the wheel, and figuring out ways to make small level adjustments that had large gains in what they were already doing. That was our "aha" moment, 2010, when my co-founder Tom Lee and I got together and talked about it. That's how MOV-ology started, was figuring out a way to create a large impact, with just some minor adjustments. That's where we came up with the idea, and the thought about shopping cart abandonment was always a very big thing through the last 10 or 15 years, but people were focusing very much on E-commerce and not on the web forms. There's more forms and more lead forms than there is commerce. That's when we looked into it, and over the last five or six years, we've been able to secure four patents in that space. We've been enjoying the software ride to where we are today. Kathleen: That's great. Now before we go any further, I have to make one disclaimer, which is that I'm getting over a cold and I guarantee you, anyone who's listening, that I will be coughing through this podcast. Peter: Me too. Kathleen: Peter is suffering from air quality issues. Share what's going on on your end. Peter: California's in an apocalypse, from what the rest of the country seems to think, but it's really bad. We have fires in all parts of California. It's not good. Definitely been thinking good thoughts and trying to help where we can, but yeah, the fires are still burning and it is everywhere you go; you can smell it in your house, in your car, all over the place. Kathleen: It's so sad what's going on out there. It's hard to believe. I'm knocking on a piece of wood as I say this, but out where I'm based, which is Annapolis, Maryland, we don't fall subject to very many natural disasters and weather phenomenons. The worst we get is we'll get, maybe if it's really terrible, a category one hurricane. Peter: Right. Kathleen: Maybe a snowstorm every now and then, but we're pretty damn lucky here. I look at what you guys are going through, and my heart just breaks for you. It's really awful. That might be the reason that the two of us sound, well I might sound a little bit more like Kathleen Turner, and I'm trying to think, who's a guy that has a really gravelly voice? Peter: Al Pacino? Kathleen: Yeah. We'll have our alter egos going today with our super gravelly voices and also our hacking smoker's coughs. So, back to the subject at hand. If I understand correctly, it sounds like really what led you to creating MOV-ology was this concept that there were a lot of solutions in place to deal with shopping cart abandonment on the E-commerce side but no equivalent for form abandonment on the traditional web form side of things. Is that accurate? Peter: Yes, that is correct. There obviously were other solutions that people were employing in regards to remarketing, but it wasn't specifically triggered off figuring out where in the form they abandoned and if they left identifiable information and contacting them in a legal manner that also did not create a lot of friction with that customer of potential customer. Kathleen: Yeah. Let's get kind of technical for a second. Somebody wants to use your product and they want to understand essentially, "Who is starting to fill out my forms but not finishing?" How does that work? Is it a complicated product to work with? How do you install it? Peter: Yeah, no that's a great question. I thank you for that. We painstakingly worked over the last several years to figure out how to make that as easy as possible. It is just a very simple line of JavaScript that is placed at the footer, kind of like where all the other marketing tags are placed, and from that point on, there's no more integration from their side. Kathleen: That's pretty sweet. So it sounds like even a technological newbie like me could figure it out. Peter: Right. Well our slogan here in the office and when we talk to people is "So simple, even IT can handle it." Kathleen: Ah. I won't tell that to my IT person. I love it. So full transparency, we've started using MOV-ology. I was really intrigued by it when I heard about it, and we're just really testing it out. When I first of it, I was like, "Oh, I'd love to know who's filling out my bottom-of-the-funnel consultation request forms and not hitting submit or not getting all the way through" because there is some intent data there that's really pretty interesting. Can you walk me through some of the different ways that the companies you're working with are using the product? How Companies Are Addressing Web Form Abandonment Peter: Yeah, absolutely. The nice thing about our product is that we capture information on all forms. Whether you have one form or thirty forms and whether they be different technologies that were used to build those forms or host those forms, we're able to capture that information and separate that data out for you in real time. We're able to tell you, for example, a thousand people went to this page with a form and a hundred people started it, one submitted. We can tell you 43 of them gave information, and of the information, 22 were contactable information, whether it be an address, a mobile phone, or an email address perform. We're able to provide that data in real time, so as campaigns are being run; in your case, you guys have different forms running for different reasons, so you're able to zone in very quickly and understand what's working, and even try changing some of the messaging that's going into that and/or understand on a personalized level for each form to re-market to those individuals as well. Those are some of the cases that we're seeing people use them for. Registration, lead forms, information is really big. The other thing that we're seeing a trend in with some of our clients is shorter forms: first name, last name, and email address. Simple as can be. It's amazing when auto fill data that's there and they don't hit "submit," people think, "Oh, the shorter form I have, I'm going to have a much higher impact." Actually, we're seeing more drop off with the shorter form than with the maybe five or six fields. It's very interesting data. Customers are trying to understand the behavior of these users that are trying to register and/or become a lead. Kathleen: So wait, I want to make sure I understand that correctly. If what you're saying I understand correctly, then it kind of runs counterintuitive to what we're all told, which is that the fewer fields you ask people to fill out, the more likely they are to complete the form. What I hear you saying is that that's not necessarily the case. Is that accurate? Peter: Correct, and we have some hard data to back up that particular use case. Again, there's many different use cases but we have a fairly substantial amount of data around that, and we have a specific use case around where it was just first name, last name, and email address. Kathleen: Now, why do you think that is? Peter: You know, it's trying to get into the psyche of the consumer, right, whether it be B2B or B2C. There's many different reasons. The top reason that we see, one, is something distracted them. We see a much higher abandonment on mobile obviously; that is what everybody is experiencing. Mobile's a big one. Two, we start to see the behavior of, "You know what? I don't want to start down this path of giving information. I'm just not ready right now" or something along that way. They just didn't have enough confidence to give that information, because a lot of consumers are getting used to that "give me your email address," hit next, "give me your phone number," hit next. They're kind of like, "Ah, I'm not ready for that yet. I'm interested but I'm not." The third kind of big reason is just "the wind blew in," for whatever reason. Somebody had another meeting- Kathleen: Somebody knocked on my door in the middle of it. Peter: Exactly, yeah. Kathleen: So on average, what percentage of people who begin to fill out forms don't complete them? Is there any kind of data around that? Peter: Yeah, on our data that we're tracking, if you have a thousand people go to the page for the form and a hundred people started the form, we see one would complete it, and of that, forty of those people would actually start to give information that actually was contactable information. Kathleen: Wait. Okay, so a thousand people come to the page. A hundred, or 10%, start the form, and what you're telling me is at the end of the day, only 1% are actually submitting. Peter: Correct. The reason why those numbers seem a little more probably not what most people see, but when you start getting to higher volume accounts and higher volume pages, those numbers are fairly true. It's a fairly low conversion. Less traffic; it's going to be less, but it takes, as people know, if you get a hundred or a thousand people to a form and it's small business, you're lucky to get one person to fill it out. Kathleen: That's actually shocking to me. I spend a lot of time talking to companies that are looking at working with agencies for their lead gen marketing. The conversation I always have, it's like the same conversation every time, which is, "Do you understand what your current funnel is? How many visitors do you get? How many leads do you get off of those visitors, and how many of those leads turn into sales?" Well first, not everybody really knows what their funnel is. That's problem number one. Problem number two, then, is they know what their funnel is, and I think a lot of companies assume that if you take the formula you just gave me where, let's say you have a thousand visitors. Ten of those turns into leads and one turns into a customer. A lot of people think that the easiest way to get double the customer number is to double the traffic when in fact, that's a longer, harder slog than just improving your conversion rate by a percent. That can have a substantial difference. What I'm hearing you say is that there is tremendous, like tremendously significant potential for improving conversion rates not even of getting more visitors to consider filling out the form, but getting the people that started to fill out the form to finish filling it out. Peter: Right, and that's the key. There are so many hand-raisers on all facets of forms that we wanted, from B2B, B2C, low volume, high volume. People are raising their hands, and I think everyone themselves, you and myself included, I do the same thing. I'm in the space and I still do it. I chuckle. I'm like, "I'm abandoning this form right now." It just happens, but it doesn't mean that I'm not a lead. It just happens, but it doesn't mean that I'm not going to lead and I actually would want to speak to that company just it wasn't the right time. Kathleen: I'm still reeling about that data because if what you say is true, and I'm not saying you're lying, I'm just saying it's amazing, then the potential is you can 10X your conversion rate just by eliminating form abandonment. Peter: Correct. Kathleen: That's huge. Peter: Or not even eliminating, just having a strategy to get back to those people. One thing we always talk internally, when some people, because the same thing, the same reaction we hear all the time, we just don't understand that. Think of a retail store. How many people walk into a store in the mall? You have 100 people walk into the store, you may have three or four purchase something, you have several browsing that are interested, and they walk away. What if you had a way to literally be in front of them, to nudge them about your product? The numbers are there from what we see in a physical sense, in the store, let alone, or brick and mortar, the same thing kind of goes to online. Having a marketing strategy, and more importantly, in regards to your hand warmers, which are a lead at some level, some scoring level, they are interested in your product. Kathleen: That's huge, that is huge. I mean, it really is. From a marketing stand point, that gets me very excited. Peter: Right. Kathleen: I will leave it there. It's exciting. Somebody hears us, and they're like "Wow, I need to do that." Obviously, having the data is just the first step. You put this technology on your site, you all of a sudden have this data that there's all these people that are starting to fill out your forms, and they're not completing them. What should people do with this data? How should they use it? You mentioned remarketing. What are some effective strategies that you've seen companies used to tackle this? How to Nurture Visitors Who Abandon Web Forms Peter: Well, contrary to a lot of stuff that I've been reading recently, where a lot of people are still debating if email is a proper marketing medium to get people back. I think it absolutely is a relevant tool when used correctly. In our particular case, when someone leaves an email address, whether it be to auto-fill and/or they typed it in themselves, our messaging that goes back to them, or that we recommend with our clients is, again we just call it a nudge and it's just a reminder, one or two hours after they abandon the form, a couple days from there, and then a few days from there. Our complaint rates are just not even on the charts, and the bounce rates are even lower, against all the industry stats that's out there. The reason why, is because they went to the brand, whatever it may be, and they know it. So when that email comes though the separate clients, it's not forceful, it's just "Hey, did you forget about us?" or "Do you have questions?" It's very non-aggressive, it's not like car sales where you see "Buy now, the sale ends in one hour." Just a gentle nudge and it gets a little more progressive 'til the last one says "Hey, we're going to leave you alone and just remember us in the future." The email has become a very, very big part of our strategy and working with our customers on. The other part is mobile. SMS, when someone leaves a mobile number, and it matches an SMS number, by law you are allowed to reach out to that person. You can put writing or content on that site saying we may send you a text message. The nice thing about mobile is that, they can say no. It's a text message, it's regulated by all the providers, which is fantastic. Email is not, so the spam traps and so on is a bit of a challenge that we deal with, but we have very high deliverability rates, just how we work with our clients on it. Mobile's been big because you see 80 to 90% engagement. That just takes it to a whole new level. Now you're on the person's phone and they love that relationship now because "Wait a minute, now I can be autonomous, but I can get what I want through my mobile, through chatting." The other part that we're now working with some customers on is through personalized direct mail, or personalized catalogs. So based on data that the customer may have collected, and they may be a catalog-type company or personalized messaging in the inbox of their ... or their mailbox, in conjunction with an email saying, "Hey, check your mailbox in the next two days," because we know that that personalized direct mail piece is mailed out with an offer just for you. It's become very, very engaging, and we're starting to see that. So those are the three areas that we're working with the customers on. Email, by far, is the lowest cost and the highest impact right now, and then, again, mobile, and then personalized direct mail. Kathleen: Oh, man. My head is swimming with ideas of ways I could do things with this because as soon as you said personalized ... the word personalized, what sprung to my head was we use Vidyard, and they have this awesome personalized video solution where it can pull a first name from your database and it can send that person a video, and it looks like ... it'll be a video, for example, of me holding a whiteboard, but they're first name written on it. It's just inserted there through the technology, and I can imagine that something like that would be incredibly powerful, like, "Hey, did you forget to hit submit on your form?" With the first name. That would be amazing. Peter: Yeah. Along with other personal information, you can get down to where they are, geographically, or demographically. There's so much that can be done. Absolutely. Kathleen: Now, it sounds like, from what you said, that key to doing this well is, for lack of a better word, acknowledging that. How you came to contact them. In other words, like, "We saw that you started filling out a form and didn't finish it." Instead of trying to pretend like it's a coincidence that this email is coming right after they started filling out a form. Fair to say? Peter: Right. Absolutely. Be as transparent as you can, and be as specific as you can so that it can trigger that memory 'cause, as you know, everybody has many different reasons as to why they abandoned. There could be lots going on, and they might, "Oh! That's right. I remember that." And so imagery that's very close to what they had done, language of what triggered them, so many different ways in regards to make it as personal as possible, what they experienced and when they abandoned that. Again, we've tested so much different creative, we continue to test it all the time, but that is, by far, the most impactful that we see with that. The other part is we're seeing the data come back from our clients is these are much higher converting customers as well because you think someone that comes through a process to the form, and the become a lead, and then they set up an appointment, lets just say for an in home service of some sort, and they look at a conversion rate of those versus people that can to the site, they left for whatever reason, we were able to get them to come back and they look at those conversion rates, and those conversion rates are two, three x considerably in regards to converting to a sale. Because again if you went to a website and you filled out a form and you left and you got brought back you're much more engaged. You're already part a lot of the roadblocks of purchasing and or whatever that service may be and committing to. Kathleen: Yeah, wow, that's great, and I definitely think its more inboundy to be upfront about how you came to get into their inbox. I feel like these days we're all pretty savvy we know that when were on Amazon.com and we're looking at that pair of running sneaker, then all of sudden we go to another website and that pair of running sneakers is following us around the internet, I think most people are pretty savvy to how that's happening. We're gonna figure out anyway, so it's nice to just be upfront. So people are using the data either to text their audience or direct mail them or email them, what kinds of results are you guys seeing with this? How Addressing Web Form Abandonment Can Impact Your Marketing Results Peter: That's a great question. We have a very specific use case that we will make available to everyone after this. And it was an online subscription show company and their the largest on the planet regards to a monthly subscription you can pay x amount of dollars and you get highly customized, highly detailed shoes sent to you- Kathleen: Wait there's a company that sends you a new pair of shoes every month and I don't know about it? We need to connect afterwards cause I might be their newest customer. Peter: Absolutely. There are several questions that are asked as a new user when you visit the website and so they had asked us to do a 30 to 40 day test because they were very skeptical after their several style questions you get to a section where you have to give a first and last name and email address, and then from that point you enter their store. So to speak, you get to see what they chose for you, and the different plans. So they were very skeptical thinking ah there's not that many people abandoning the process but they knew that they were driving a lot people to their website. They knew that. They knew a lot of people were going through the funnel but they couldn't figure out easily throughout the millions of terabytes of data where people really were dropping out. S o, during that 45 day test that we did, 32,890 people filled out the form, their first, last name and email address, and went into the store. 101,000 started the form and abandoned. Kathleen: Wow. Peter: So the exact number is 101,203 were abandoned. So they started the form and they just left. And from that point what we did is we created a three part marketing strategy. One hour after they abandoned, two day and then three days so from the abandon. And the same things, messaging was just very soft, you know "Come on back, if you have any questions call here or click here to finish you form or to enter the store." So during that period we sent roughly 254,000 emails in a series of three emails so some people converted at one or two or three. And we were able to convert 25,815 people into sale so we almost doubled their sales in regards to conversions. Kathleen: That's unbelievable, and its basically as somebody I know would call it, "free chicken." You know it's just out there waiting for you to grab it. Peter: Right and there's CPA costs where they track the CPA cost to roughly 30 dollars and with this when you add in the 45 day program that we entered in, the 25000, they got down to 17 dollars CPA. Kathleen: What? That's ridiculous. In a good way. Peter: In a good way. No, this case its ... you know they have a dollar value towards it because they are not so much e-commerce, but we ... very similar for if it's just a lead form that they track internally with whatever it may be. But yeah this was a typical case that we see day in day out with out customers. Kathleen: That's amazing. Now do any of your customers use the form abandonment data in order to re-target using pay per click or social ads? Peter: They do and actually what they're finding is the data they were using to trigger people just going to their website and maybe this page and that page, and they were using dynamic page search ads what they learned is the data from the people in the form versus people that were going website were completely different, and we start employ different messaging, highly personalized, highly dynamic messaging for people that started the form. They're seeing results that they ... there's no white papers or case studies about those types of numbers in paid search. There is typically not a very high converting. You have to do a lot of volume and a lot ... there's a lot of those ads following around in around to get a person to come back. Kathleen: Really interesting. Now do you use ... I'm assuming you use your product for yourselves and how you market technology. Peter: Absolutely. Kathleen: So under the assumption that you are your own best practices, how are you guys using it? How MOV-ology Uses Its Own Solution To Get Results Peter: We actually kind of have a couple of fun demo pages which we're gonna have the ability for our visitors to go and try out. So we do different programs, one is just try it and then we'll send you an email to show you what we captured, and really what we call it is "Don't hit submit." Kathleen: I think this is so funny because every marketer on Earth is like "How do I get people to submit my form?" and you're like "I have a campaign entirely built around 'do not hit the submit button'." Peter: Exactly. Kathleen: That's awesome. Peter: Exactly, right so that's kind of what we do with our campaign. We have some within, and it's amazing. There's no submit button. The submit button actually, on one of our programs, moves so they can't touch it. It just keeps moving across the screen. Kathleen: That's so funny. I think that's so funny. Peter: Yeah, and then sometimes we do a really kindergarten version. "Okay, step one: put your email address. Step two: ..." And there's an arrow pointing to X the screen out, or "Go to the bathroom and come back and there'll be an email sitting in your box, or a text message." So we have some fun with that and do that. How Much Does MOV-ology Cost? Kathleen: I love it, that's great. Now, the biggest question, of course, that I'm sure everybody's wondering who's listening to this, because they're probably all like, "This is really cool. It seems too good to be true. How much does it cost? Because maybe it's too good to be true, or maybe it's so great, but is it affordable?" How does the pricing work for the product? Peter: Yeah, no, that's a great question. We're on a pay per lead basis. So we're performance-based. Kathleen: Okay. Peter: We want to be a partner, and the pricing just depends on the volume that we work with on that. Kathleen: Great, so it sounds like it's not outrageous. If you're ... Certainly you can try it for free, and if you're starting at $99 dollars a month, that's a pretty easy "yes" if you think you could do what some of your examples have done, which is double, triple, or more of their conversion rates. That becomes a no brainer. Lower your cost per acquisition in the course of doing it, even better. Peter: Right, exactly. Who Is MOV-ology Right For? Kathleen: That's great. Now, is there a certain volume of form fills or lead that a company needs to have to really make sense? Peter: You know, we always debate that internally and we always have those discussions. If you're email marketing and you're spending money to drive traffic, or making effort to drive traffic to sign up, it doesn't matter if you have 10 people a month or 1000 people in a day signing up for those forms. Our product works on all levels. And in some cases where they maybe only get 10 leads a month, the value of that product or service that they offer may be very high valued. So to them, one extra person in a month can make the difference in exceeding a huge stretch goal in sales, or just meeting goals of sales because sales have been challenging. So, we have some very, very low volume customers, and I'm talking 10-15 leads a month, but again, the commonality that we look for is, "Are you spending money and are you making efforts to get inbound leads?" And if you are, then our product is good for you. Kathleen: Yeah, that makes sense. Well, fascinating and you know, it's funny. I kind of made an exception for my conversation with you, because normally on this podcast, I do talk to a lot of marketing technology vendors, but generally I don't like the podcast to be an advertisement for the product because that's not what we're about. We're about, "What are some strategies and tactics you can use to get better results with your marketing?" But in your case, I just don't think there's any way to talk about it without talking about the product, because the product is the strategy, and it's so frickn' cool. I'm just personally really interested in it, so that's why I was like, "I think we're just going to talk about this product, because it's awesome." Peter: Well thank you. Kathleen: Yeah, I don't do that very often, in fact. And I usually coach my martech vendors, when I talk to them, not to talk about their product, so there you have it. For those who are listening, this is the first and potentially the only exception to that rule, but it's neat, and we're really having fun seeing the data coming in on our end. We're still very early, so to be perfectly candid, we're not at the stage where we have results yet, we're just watching data come in, but I'm excited. And that was part of why I wanted to talk to you was to pick your brain about the different ways that we could follow-up on some of that data. Peter: Awesome. Kathleen's Two Questions Kathleen: Now, there are two questions that I always ask my audience, that I really want to find your answers to. The first is, you obviously are working with lots of clients that are doing inbound marketing. That's kind of the customer base that you have. Who do you think is really knocking it out of the park right now? Could be a company or could be a person. Peter: You know, that's a great question. I have a few on the short list. And to Shama Hyder. I don't know if you use Zen Media. She is just, she's killing it. Kathleen: Say her name again so I can make sure I can get it right. Peter: Shama Hyder. Kathleen: Shama Hyder. Peter: She's with Zen Media. Yeah, and then Scott Brinker. And it's hard because I didn't say Scott just because of HubSpot, but I have followed Scott, and Scott, he is all over the planet, and just all about inbound, and marketing technology. So I'm going to go with Scott Brinker on that one. Kathleen: That's great. Well and the first name, Shama Hyder, is one that I have not heard before, so I always love that. I'm familiar with Scott Brinker and I agree with you. He is incredible. He somehow manages to be in, what seems like, 50 places at once at all times, but I always love new names because it's just a new person or company to check and follow. Kathleen: Now, the second question is that digital marketing is changing so quickly and I'm really curious how you stay up-to-date, how you educate yourself, and how you stay on the cutting edge. Peter: That's a good one. So, my go to is Google Alerts. I create Google Alerts all day long for anything that I see, and I just get instant. So all day long, I'm getting fed information. So I hear something in a meeting, or someone says something, I'm like, "Oh, that's interesting. I'd like to follow that." That's the first thing. And my second, and really where I spend most of my time, is on LinkedIn. There's constant groups that are always updating in all technology, all facets. And because they've really done a great job with the mobile part, I get alerts very easily on my phone that I can check. And if I like it, I'll read more about it, but those are my two that I use all day long. Kathleen: Any particular LinkedIn groups that you really recommend? Peter: Oh, I think Marketing and Technology Executives. Those are just ... The people in that group are so active, and I believe there's a couple hundred thousand in that group from the U.S. And it is all day long, chatter, talking, what worked, what didn't work, did you hear about this? It's a really good, engaging group and that's what I like. I like to have that, and sometimes people just put stuff out there like, "Hey, this doesn't have anything to do with us, but maybe it does." And then, "Oh." And then that leads to a great conversation. And people there are always active. I think probably at one point, 50 to 80 people are constantly, within minutes, are commenting on something or talking about something that they've seen. So, as big as we seem to think that we're able to know all the information that's out there, it's amazing how just someone says to me, "Wow, I've never even heard that." And that's what I like about that particular group. Kathleen: Yeah, that's a good one. I'll have to check that out. And my other question I have to ask you is, getting all those instant Google Alerts, how do you prevent yourself from complete shiny penny syndrome and getting distracted all day long? Peter: Oh, well it shuts off. When I go home, it is in the basket and turned off until the next morning, because I am chasing things all the time like, "That's neat, that's neat." But I've created a pretty good system, fool proof system, that ... And it's just a ranking system, one to five. And if it's one, it goes in there and that gets attention every week. And a two or three, maybe every quarter, and the other ones are maybe just when I'm really bored sitting on a plane for six hours. Kathleen: That's actually very interesting. I've never heard of that system before, and it is intriguing. So that's a new one. Peter: I've been doing that for a few years, because otherwise I was always, I didn't even know where to even start and then forget about something. When something came in and I was walking to a meeting and I saw the Google Alert, I'm like, "Oh, that's very interesting." Well, then I'll just mark it in the one folder, then I know that I can go back and look at that, and that's something I thought at that time was of value. Kathleen: Love that approach, that's great. Peter: Yeah. How to Contact Peter Kathleen: Well I am incredibly interested in what you guys are doing. I think it's fascinating. It's such a tremendous well of untapped potential from a lead gen standpoint, and I'm certain that there are many people listening who have questions and want to learn more about MOV-ology. What is the best way for them to learn more about the product, as well as to reach out to you online if they have questions? Peter: Perfect yeah, well thank you. So they can visit MOV-ology, it's M-O-V-O-L-O-G-Y, dot com. And on there they'll have information that we talked about today, along with all the other information. They can try to not submit a form to us, and also my contact information on there, but best is also looked up on LinkedIn. And it's just forward slash Norton Peter. N-O-R-T-O-N, Peter, P-E-T-E-R. Kathleen: All right, so you heard it here. Movology.com and I will put that link in the show notes. And your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to go to that page and not hit submit on the form. First time you'll ever hear that on this podcast for sure. So I'm going to definitely do that as soon as we finish. I think that'll be a lot of fun to test out. That's all we have for this week. So, if you liked what you heard, please give us a review on Apple Podcast or the platform of your choice. It makes a big difference, puts us in front of lots more listeners. And if you know somebody else that's doing kick-ass inbound marketing work, Tweet me @workmommywork, because I would love to interview them. That's it for this week. Thank you, Peter. Peter: Thank you Kathleen, I appreciate it.
Speaking on Rotary Health Hat Day speaking on "Mental health in Australia: The good, the bad and the frustrating" Dr. Peter Norton is the Professor of Clinical Psychology at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, and Director of the Monash FEAR Clinic. He is the author of over 140 research papers and three books, mostly focusing on transdiagnostic approaches to understanding and treating anxiety and depressive disorders. He directs the FEAR Clinic, a specialty research and training centre at Monash University. Professor Norton was recently elected as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Anxiety disorders represent one of the most prevalent and costly psychological disorders in the world, have an estimated economic impact of over $46 billion per annum, and are associated with sizeable disability and quality of life impairment. Additionally, anxiety disorders seldom present alone, with rates of comorbid anxiety and mood disorder diagnoses as high as 60%. Professor Peter Norton, a world-leading expert in anxiety disorders, is a pioneer in transdiagnostic models of anxiety disorders - models which reconceptualise the common and unique factors across anxiety diagnoses - in an effort to develop treatments targeting the core features of anxiety disorder. Born in Canada, Professor Norton received his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The initial conceptualisation for his research came from two influences: (1) the seemingly arbitrary nature of some lines of division among anxiety disorder diagnoses, and (2) the highly similar psychosocial and pharmacological treatments applied between diagnoses. Simply put, two fears might be extremely similar but be given different anxiety diagnoses (e.g., agoraphobia and social phobia) while two other fears may appear very different but be given the same diagnosis (e.g., obsessive-compulsive disorder), and yet the treatments for all of these are functionally identical. Professor Norton's work also includes refining treatments for anxiety and emotional disorders to improve dissemination and accessibility and modifying assessment and treatment procedures to increase cross-cultural appropriateness, using a variety of clinical, questionnaires, and experimental methodological approaches.
Doing group based CBT for anxiety but with people who don;t share a diagnosis? That's what Peter Norton has been doing and #beyondtheroom spoke to him at #transdx2018 in Cambridge
The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast Episode 200 Best-of episode celebrating 12 years of the show! Sunday 16th September 2018 HOSTS: Carlton Reid and David Bernstein GUESTS: Tim Jackson, Donna Tocci, Rich Kelly, Neil Browne, Jim Moss, Anna Schwinn, Chris Garrison, Nicole Formosa, Jacquie Phelan, Julie Kelly, Ayesha McGowen, Laura Laker, Anna Luyten, Phil Liggett, Ned Boulting, Chris Boardman, Bob Roll, Floyd Landis, Christian Prudhomme, Jens Voigt, Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze, Charlie Kelly, Ed Zink, Peter Darke, Cerri Dipple, Jeremy Vaught, Tim Grahl, Jonathan Maus, Michael Colville-Anderson, Adrian Kokk, Dr Rachel Aldred, Professor Bert Blocken, Peter Norton, Melody Hoffman, Chris and Melissa Bruntlett, Donny Perry, Christian Wolmar, Rick Vosper, and Jay Townley. SPONSOR: Jenson USA • The Latest Gear. The Best Prices. All In One Place. TOPIC: This is our 200th show! The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast was first aired in August 2006. This episode is a compilation of some of the best bits from our first 12 years. SHOWNOTES: http://www.the-spokesmen.com
The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast Episode #185 – Will beaconising the world further promote driving and kill off cycling? Part 2 Saturday 31st March 2018 HOST: Carlton Reid GUESTS: Roger Geffen of Cycling UK, Chris Star of Australia's 3CR community radio station, technology writer Max Glaskin, Lloyd Alter of Treehugger.com, and Caspar Hughes of Stop Killing Cyclists. SPONSOR: Jenson USA TOPIC: Episode two in a two-part series looking at adding driverless-car friendly sensors to bicycles, people, lamp-posts and animals. This follows a talk given at the Geneva Motor Show by a bike industry organisation boss – he called for all bicycles to have beacons so they can be seen by the semi- and fully-autonomous cars of the near feature. On the precious show, historian Peter Norton – author of “Fighting Traffic” – discussed the historical, ethical and mobility-centre issues that such a call raises. On this show five other experts give their points of view on this technology and whether the bike industry should be talking to the automotive and telecommunications industries who believe the "connected car" future could be one where no cyclists or pedestrians get killed on the roads. Will a beaconised future be one of unalloyed freedom for cyclists and pedestrians, or the very opposite?
This sunny hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, brings a bagful of the best in fiction and non-fiction. Beveley Roos Muller finds 'Head Case' by Ross Armstrong unforgettable, an absolute one-off; smart, cheeky, with the oddest and most original detective character. John Hanks takes a trip down the 'River of Gold – Narratives and exploration of the Great Limpopo' by Peter Norton, Mike Gardiner and Clive Walker much, much more than Kipling's ‘great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees'. Philip Todres talks to Sylvia Brunders who has just published 'Parading Respectability – The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape'. Vanessa Levenstein loved Clare Robertson's 'Under Glass', and do bear in mind that Clare is the winner of the 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. And the good news is that Under Glass is one of our prizes today. Melvyn Minnaar talks delightedly to poet Karin Schimke about her inspiring new book 'Navigate' and Cindy Moritz much enjoyed the fanciful 'The Immortalists' by Chloe Benjamin, where four siblings go to a fortune teller in their childhood and find out the dates they're going to die. How do they choose to live their lives?
Fine Music Radio — This sunny hour: Andrew Marjoribanks, Wordsworth Books, brings a bagful of the best in fiction and non-fiction. Beveley Roos Muller finds 'Head Case' by Ross Armstrong unforgettable, an absolute one-off; smart, cheeky, with the oddest and most original detective character. John Hanks takes a trip down the 'River of Gold – Narratives and exploration of the Great Limpopo' by Peter Norton, Mike Gardiner and Clive Walker much, much more than Kipling’s ‘great, grey, green, greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees’. Philip Todres talks to Sylvia Brunders who has just published 'Parading Respectability – The cultural and moral aesthetics of the Christmas Bands Movement in the Western Cape'. Vanessa Levenstein loved Clare Robertson’s 'Under Glass', and do bear in mind that Clare is the winner of the 2014 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. And the good news is that Under Glass is one of our prizes today. Melvyn Minnaar talks delightedly to poet Karin Schimke about her inspiring new book 'Navigate' and Cindy Moritz much enjoyed the fanciful 'The Immortalists' by Chloe Benjamin, where four siblings go to a fortune teller in their childhood and find out the dates they’re going to die. How do they choose to live their lives?
In this week's podcast, Dr Peter Norton chats with Specialist Prosthodontist Dr Ben Lee and Dental Ceramist, Carolyn Kyle from Fusion Oral Art about the working relationship between a dentist and their ceramist. They discuss their working relationship, the impact of digitisation on the development of crowns, bridges, implants and veneers and how this collaborative process can work within the dental realm.
We All Wear It Differently - A Podcast for Early Career Psychologists
Professor Peter Norton is an internationally recognised expert in the study and cognitive-behavioural treatment of anxiety disorders. He is also an expert in Transdiagnostic Approaches to mental health treatment. Dr Norton's research explores transdiagnostic and diagnosis-specific factors across anxiety and other emotional disorders, and translates these factors into efficacious and efficient interventions. This work involves a combination of basic and experimental research to better understand common and unique aspects of affective psychopathology, and clinical outcomes research to develop and evaluate new or modified interventions to target these core features. Dr Norton's training and career has crossed continents including Canada, the US and Australia. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. For all the links Dr Norton spoke about and his self care tip, check out the show notes on the website!
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk through the process of manually creating a full memory dump via the keyboard. This is useful when you want to capture the state of the operating system. For example, to debug a hang.Resources:Forcing a System Crash from the Keyboard Registry files (.reg) demonstrated in this episode are on the Defrag Tools OneDrive share (ManualCrashRegistrySettings.zip)PCI Express Dump Switch Card (if you need to use the NMI method)Timeline:[00:00] Welcome and Intro[00:57] When would you need to manually force a crash dump?[02:42] Typically you'll want to get a Complete Memory Dump[05:57] ...which also requires you to set a large enough page file on the C: drive (RAM size plus some additional)[08:00] Setting up manual crash dump via CrashOnCtrlScroll (if your keyboard has a ScrollLock key)[13:20] Discussion of keyboards and keyboard scan codes. The old Peter Norton "pink shirt" book still comes through for this![16:55] Once you know the scan code, you can use the Dump1Keys and Dump2Key registry settings to choose your own keyboard combo. Make sure not to use CrashOnCtrlScroll at the same time![25:04] The big guns: If a system is hung badly enough that keyboard crash doesn't work, you can try CrashOnNMI. Usually requires special hardware like a PCIe NMI card.[28:34] Looking at the memory dump we just created. Bugcheck 0xE2: MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH
In this episode of Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder walk through the process of manually creating a full memory dump via the keyboard. This is useful when you want to capture the state of the operating system. For example, to debug a hang.Resources:Forcing a System Crash from the Keyboard Registry files (.reg) demonstrated in this episode are on the Defrag Tools OneDrive share (ManualCrashRegistrySettings.zip)PCI Express Dump Switch Card (if you need to use the NMI method)Timeline:[00:00] Welcome and Intro[00:57] When would you need to manually force a crash dump?[02:42] Typically you'll want to get a Complete Memory Dump[05:57] ...which also requires you to set a large enough page file on the C: drive (RAM size plus some additional)[08:00] Setting up manual crash dump via CrashOnCtrlScroll (if your keyboard has a ScrollLock key)[13:20] Discussion of keyboards and keyboard scan codes. The old Peter Norton "pink shirt" book still comes through for this![16:55] Once you know the scan code, you can use the Dump1Keys and Dump2Key registry settings to choose your own keyboard combo. Make sure not to use CrashOnCtrlScroll at the same time![25:04] The big guns: If a system is hung badly enough that keyboard crash doesn't work, you can try CrashOnNMI. Usually requires special hardware like a PCIe NMI card.[28:34] Looking at the memory dump we just created. Bugcheck 0xE2: MANUALLY_INITIATED_CRASH
The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast Episode 151 Highway Robberies, Scraper Bikes, and Broken Clavicles March 3, 2017 Host: Carlton Reid This isn't the usual show, it's a Spokesmen Special, with three academics as guests. Host: CARLTON REID. PETER NORTON is associate professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City. This reveals how, in the 1920s and 1930s, the American motor lobby invented and popularized the term “jaywalking” in order to reframe what streets were for (and they were no longer for pedestrians and cyclists). MELODY HOFFMAN of Minneapolis describes herself on her blog as an “urban bicycle scholar, critical feminist, community engagement professor.” Her book Bike Lanes are White Lanes discusses how seemingly benign cycle infrastructure can ring alarm bells with some black communities, why cycle advocacy can sometimes shout “white privilege”, and how “invisible riders” get neither recognition nor cycle facilities. (To grab a discount on Melody's book type in 6as16 for 30 percent off at the University of Nebraska book store.) CHRIS OLIVER is a professor of medicine and tweets as @CyclingSurgeon. He is a consultant orthopaedic trauma surgeon at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, and also advises the Scottish government on active travel. Once morbidly obese he lost 168lbs (76 kilos) and took up cycling to keep fit. He has ridden Lands End to John o'Groats, and with his daughter, he has also ridden coast to coast across America. Sponsored by Jenson USA Special offer for new Jenson USA customers - receive 10% off one item! Note: Some brands do not participate in promotions, if you see the message "no qualifying items in cart," the item you have selected do not qualify for this offer. Cannot be combined with any other special offer or discount, including but not limited to gift cards, other coupon codes, price matches and some money card offers. Code is for new customers only. WEB SITE: http://www.the-spokesmen.com The Spokesmen Cycling Roundtable Podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommerical-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
The Complete Master Key System..Discover prosperity, joy, and fulfillment - Tapping the Source Bill Gladstone founded Waterside Productions, Inc. in 1982 and has personally placed more than 5000 titles with dozens of publishers. He has represented stars of the technical world ranging from Peter Norton to Linus Torvalds and was responsible for selling the first “For Dummies” book, Dos for Dummies by Dan Gookin, which led to the phenomenal series which now has sold over 200 million copies. www.buildgrowandenjoy.com
Peter Norton was a guest host for WMAR’s Virginia Insights, a regular NPR show. (You may remember hearing Peter interviewed by me in this episode.) Peter invited Fionnula Quinn and me to talk about the connection between transportation networks and community life. Or in geek speak: placemaking and livability. Obviously you can’t call in live to […] The post Designing community streets for people [NPR broadcast] appeared first on Urbanism Speakeasy.
Join the Positively Incorrect NEWSLETTER Join Scott Cluthe on FACEBOOK Scott Cluthe hosts' William Galdstone, author of the new novel The Power of Twelve. It is a continuation of story, plot and speculation on our world, it's future and our destinies started in his 2009 release, The Twelve. Just as The Twelve was the first novel to explain the true meaning of the Mayan Calendar,The Power of Twelve is the first novel to tackle the implications of the new cycle of feminine energy that has been prophesied to dominate planet earth for the next 26,000 years. William Gladstone is co-author of the books Tapping the Source,The Golden Motorcycle Gang, and author of the international bestselling novel,THE TWELVE. His newest novel is THE POWER OF TWELVE: A Novel. Gladstone is considered an international expert on indigenous cultures and the meaning of 2012. He is also co-producer of the highly-acclaimed film, TAPPING THE SOURCE. As a literary agent, Mr. Gladstone has worked with some of the most respected and influential authors of our time, including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra, and Barbara Marx Hubbard. As a pioneer in the publishing industry, Gladstone contributed to the creation of the first print-on-demand book publishing company as well as the first eBook company. Throughout his career, William has worked with prominent visionaries, including Tom Anderson, founder of Myspace; Peter Norton, founder of Norton Computing; and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system. William is a trustee of the International Club of Budapest whose honorary members include the Dalai Lama, Dr. Jane Goodall and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Peter Norton previews the Queensland 300
Guest Peter Norton, Assistant Professor, Department of Science, Technology, and Society, University of Virginia, speaks with Diane Horn about his book "Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City."
Peter Norton previews the Queensland 300
Peter Norton previews the Queensland 300