The Art of the Podcast

" The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value.
Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?"
--David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

Children and Education

EconTalk with Russ Roberts had a wonderful interview with Paul Tough (@PaulTough) on his ideas about Education, Children and Success.  His book is How Children Succeed.

Some of the heros of the book include:

Angela Duckwort - Grit

Geoffrey Canada - Harlem Children's Zones

Elizabeth Spiegel - Chess

William Julius Wilson - Bad Neighborhoods

Terms: Curiosity, Conscientiousness, Grit and Self-confidence

Neurology of Memory

Dean Buonomano (Good Hand) discusses how the memory is structured -- Declarative and Procedural. The American Academy of Neurology hosts the podcast. The video covers his book, Brain Bugs.

MP3 of Podcast

Entire Neurology Podcast

American Academy of Neurology PSAs

Ocean Rower

Roz Savage on Maximise Potential Podcast

Listen to the Show

Incredible story of a woman who decide to change her life - applying discipline and devotion.




Song by Jack Johnson - Upside Down

Node.JS

Jesse Liberty Podcast @JesseLiberty with Glenn Block @gblock on Node.js

Video from Microsoft Channel 9



What Node.js brings to the JavaScript table:

• Servers
• Asynchronous
• Small footprint
• Large 3rd party support

Somatic Therapy

The Drive In: Body Talk - Dr Dave @shrinkrapradio interview Stanley Keleman on Body Therapy -- How the body makes emotions. 
#317 –Body Therapy and The Embodied Life with Stanley Keleman

Emotional Anatomy on Amazon

Stanley Keleman Bio at Center for Energetic Studies

What does the Wikipedia say about Somatic Psychology

This video is not Stanley Keleman, rather Peter A Levin, describing Somatic Therapy.

Bailout

Twitter:

The Drive In: Too Happy?  Need a Slap? @econtalker uncovers Bailouts with @neilbarofsky former Special Inspector General with TARP.  http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2012/09/barofsky_on_bai.html

Bailout on Amazon

From around the web: 

From the ubiquitous Wikipedia

Kirkus Book Review

Why the book matters on Naked Capitalism

Book Beast on the Daily Beast

Seeking Alpha member reviews book

Octopus Thinking

Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses How Does An Octopus Think on the Philospher's Zone.

Top 10 Podcasts

1. EconTalk
2. Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
3. Disciplined Investors
4. Shrink Rap Radio
5. Skeptoid
6. Philosopher's Zone / All In The Mind
7. Maximize Your Potential
8. Brain Science
9. IT Conversations
10. AstronomyCast

Entrepreneurs

Killer Startups

Think Big

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders

Kick Starter

RIP Alan Saunders

What a shock to hear about the death of Alan Sauders, host of the Philosopher's Zone.  He was working on his radio show, got sick, went to the hospital and died the next day.

Udacity

EconTalk this week had a guest interview with Luigi Zingales on the topic of Capitalism and Crony Capitalism.

A really interesting project was causually mentioned called Udacity.  What an incredible concept of free educational courses online.

Failed States

The latest EconTalk podcast interviews Daron Acemoglu on his book Why Nations Fail.

My May Podcast Highlights

Software Engineering Radio had a very interesting interview with Andrew Brownsword on Modern Game Design and Development.

Very poignant and brusk interview with Ayende Rahien on the topic of Criticism on This Developer's Life.  Then I went back to episode 1.0.9 on Management to hear about leaving the developer's mindset and enter the world of meetings.

Buck Woody gives an insightful interview on Deep Fried Bytes.

Glenn Block of MEF fame is interview on .NET Rocks about his work in the WCF Community on CodePlex.  He clarifies the definition of the word RESTful.

Freeman Dyson is in his late 80's, yet is mind is sharp while his speech is slow.  He discusses a range of topics on science and economics with the host of EconTalk Russ Roberts.  And don't forget the see The Fight of the Century rap video.

April Podcast Review

The Microsoft podcast sites are currently all about LightSwitch.

• .NET Rocks with Jay Schmelzer
• Codecast with Beth Massi

And other non-podcast outlets like Code Magazine.

LightSwitch is touted as the lightweight developer's tool for rapid CRUD design.  It fits in between the free Visual Studio Express and the workhorse Visual Studio Pro.

The future - one of the must interesting talks this month was the discussion on EconTalk with Gavin Andresen on BitCoin.  The virtual replacement for our troubled currency.

The history - Robert Martins is odd, yet interesting on IT Conversations.  He tells the story of coding and computers.

The Neuro Oriented podcasts have been very "Conscious" of how the brain works.  Joseph Ledoux is both a neuroscientist and a rocker who talks to Natasha Mitchell on "All in the Mind".

Async has arrived

Tasks are the new Thread.

Stephen Taub describes the new parallelisms in C#.

• Await Keyword
• Multiple CPUs
• Task.Run
• Chain tasks together
• Throttle
• Action Blocks
• Similar to Iterators in C#
• Buffers
• Data Flow Library
• IEnumerate thread safe collection
• Concurrent collection uses snapshot
• System.Threading.Tasks.Dataflow
• No more WaitHandle, SyncRoot or Thread
• Task - Sync Holder and Results
• Tour

TPL Dataflow Preview

PowerShell

Adam Driscoll talks PowerShell on .NET Rocks.

• Modules and Providers
• Powered by .NET
• The return of the command line
• Inline Help
• Registry and other resources at your fingertips
• StudyShell for writing extensions to PowerShell in VS
• Hooking into debugger - sample debug engine product
• API based approach as with IIS
• Nice for Unit Testing
• SCEM

JavaScript on .NET Rocks

Kent Alstad has some keen insights into Javascript on .NET Rocks.

• Field Stories - event handlers
• Understanding the DOM; Parsing the DOM
• Minification, Compression, Beautification and Obfuscation
• Tools for splitting up the Javascript code like Closure from Google
• Pre-publish bug locating
• Optimization - waiting for the DOM to load (main bottleneck in Javascript)
• HTML5 - Websockets, Canvas and Videos
• MVC paradigm for Javascript has the Viewer on the browser
• Less on server, more on client
• Tricks - if you can scroll, the DOM is ready
• jQuery - build on the shoulder of giants
• Great distribution system and language of the browser

LightSwitch

We all know what a Light Switch does, but we may need a reminder of its power.  LightSwitch is also Microsoft's newest turn key web/data development tool as Jay Schmelzer explains on .Net Rocks.  Easy of development is the focus using boiler plate code.  Read Beth Massi's article in Code Magazine.

• 5 data access stacks at your finger tips
• Visual Studio/MVC based
• Coding is required
• .NET/Silverlight

Light Echoes

The March 1st eposode of Astronomy Cast looked into Light Echoes.  Just like a sound echo, a light echo reaches us from somewhere other than the direct source and can tell us much about distances and hidden objects.