Recommended Listening: Adam Bosworth

I am back!
I have just returned from a brief vacation. If anybody wants to know my schedule, here is a link to my work calender.

Recommended listening: Adam Bosworth talks to the Gillmor Gang.
Steve Gillmor, contributing editor, ZDNet; Doc Searls, senior editor, Linux Journal; Michael Vizard, editor-in-chief, CRN; Dana Gardner, senior analyst, Yankee Group and Jon Udell, lead analyst, InfoWorld Test Center interview Adam Bosworth, Google's VP of Engineering. In this conversation they discuss his vision for the future of search architecture. This is a great conversation about topics like RSS, attention.xml, and the politics of search technology. A very detailed description of this session is here on ITConversations. This session is important to anybody who needs to do research and gather information, in other words, anybody in education.

Recommended listening: Gillmor and Malik

Steve Gillmor (of the Gillmor Gang) is back and he has hit the ground running! In this segment he interviews Om Malik (Om Malik is a San Francisco-based senior writer for Business 2.0. He has covered technology and telecom for over a decade for publications like Forbes) on the Google Factory Tour. This is a conversation between two really intelligent guys who know what they are talking about and who "get it." One of my favorite parts of the conversation is at the end when Gillmor and Malik talk about RSS and Skype. In this segment Gillmor talks about what he calls "disruptive transition" and how there are a multiplicity of technologies working together to create a disruptive wave. In my opinion academic technologists had better listen to this type of talk. The world is changing!
http://mp3.gillmordaily.podshow.com/gillmordaily2.mp3

SJSU Professor Steve Greene, new Edupodder podcast

Podcast ten, 47.56 minutes - May 19, 2005, A conversation with Professor Steve Greene, Looking back and looking ahead.
To listen to audio, click here --> MP3 File Here


Tech evangelist, Journalism Professor and friend Steve Greene. Professor Greene has been with the School of Journalism and Mass Communications for 19 years and has recently announced his pending retirement. In this candid conversation professor Greene discusses the move of technology into the school and where he sees it going. Greene also discusses his new mission involving technology. Plus, he discusses the early years of Robert Scoble as a student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communications at San Jose State University.

It is bike to work day

Dump the beast, ride your bike!

It is bike to work day today. There are so many better ways to get to work than driving a gas hog. That is what today is all about. I love to ride my bike to work, especially when the weather cooperates. Sadly, it did not cooperate today. I had a nice bike ride yesterday, but I drove today.

A new Edupodder Podcast

Before the bleeding edge, A student perspective on Emerging Technology
48.15 minutes - This session is a conversation with three students, Mass Communications student Ryan Sholin, Journalism student Daniel Sato and Computer Engineering student Harry Fu. The topic is Emerging Technology, where is it going in higher education? What kinds of things do these students, two of whom are bloggers, all of whom are interested in technology, see on the far off horizon and what would they like the future world of education to look like.

Audio File is here:

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SJSU sends team to Microsoft competition

Bob Scoble may bump into some students from our alma mater, SJSU, at Redmond as our campus is sending a team to Microsoft's Embedded Student Challenge in Redmond, Washington. More details are in this Spartan Daily article.

The feed is everything!

The browser, and E-mail, is becoming increasingly obsolete! E-mail is broken and more modern aggregators are gaining in functionality. Offered as a point of evidence, is this posting. RSS is starting the slow march from the edge to the core.

Stop Hey What’s that Sound… by ZDNet's Steve Gillmor -- Timmm-berrrr: One general theme from Feedburner's testing will be of special interest to publishers: click-through rates from RSS feeds back to sites are decreasing. The company says this is happening across all the feeds it manages. [...]

The lecture hall is closed

When I walk past this room at SJSU, several times a day, it is full of students sitting and note taking while their professor, the sage on the stage, delivers a long verbal lecture. This photo was taken using my cell device. This device can take pictures, movies and even receive and play audio mp3 files. There is no reason this device, and/or smarter small devices like this, couldn't receive the lecture content as a part of a podcast and then the student, at the time of his/her choosing, could consume that content. The student could interact with the professor through a weblog or a learning management system, like Moodle.

Me at Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevesloan/
http://www.flickr.com/people/stevesloan/

Student Blogger Podcast Location and Time!

We have a room at SJSU, IRC302, and a time, 2-3pm and a day, Wednesday May 18. This is dead day! If you are a student and a blogger or other user of Emerging Technology please email me at s_sloan@mac.com and let me know if you can or can't come to the conversation. Faculty and staff are also invited but the focus is going to be on students.

~Steve