5by5 | Mac Power Users #71: Harry McCracken’s iPad
Technologizer’s Harry McCracken joins David and Katie to explain how he primarily relies on his iPad for getting work done.
On today’s show, we talk to the guys from Chaotic Moon Studios, the ones building Kinect-controlled skateboards and shopping carts and more. They’re moving into mind-controlled devices. No, really. Also, the problem with Google’s new privacy policies: Web search! The iPad 3 rumor roundup, how to make the most of Google+, and Windows 8 vs. OS X Mountain Lion.
Gillmor Gang: Apple’s High Definition Anxiety
The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor — inaugurated a new title format where the topic replaces the date of the show release (it’s in the URL). Today’s topic: what it always is, Apple’s relentless march toward encircling Windows in a sea of HD-quality iOS devices. In the latest update to OS X, push notification, the Twitter social bus and AirPlay come to the TV by way of the full complement of iOSish devices, now including the Mac.
With iPad 3 just weeks away, Apple has made it retinal clear that the company has no intention of allowing anybody to catch up to the economic juggernaut where premium products sell out at prices that can’t be undercut. The realtime global social network fuels demand for the iOS pervasive screen architecture (and coopetive partners such as Android and Amazon) to such a viral extent that the resulting momentum keeps competitors from realizing Apple’s supply chain economies of scale.
Buzz Out Loud 1576: CES 2012 Wrap Up (Podcast) | Buzz Out Loud Podcast – CNET Blogs.
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That’s the title of my next book about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness. I’m delighted to tell you that I’ve just agreed to write it for Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, my publisher for What Would Google Do? , working again with my brilliant editor there, Ben Loehnen. It will come out, muses willing, next year [fall 2011].
In Public Parts, I’ll argue, as I have here, that in our current privacy mania we are not talking enough about the value of publicness. If we default to private, we risk losing the value of the connections the internet brings: meeting people, collaborating with them, gathering the wisdom of our crowd, and holding the powerful to public account. Yes, I believe we have a right and need to protect our privacy — to control our information and identities — but I also want the conversation and our decisions to include consideration of the value of sharing and linking. I also want to protect what’s public as a public good; that includes our internet. We have plenty of privacy advocates. I want to be a publicness advocate.
This is a hot topic that’s going to get only hotter. This morning, Italked about publicness and “privacy in the time of Facebook” on public radio’s The Takeaway.
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Reggie Watts is an entertainer who combines stream-of-consciousness improvisational comedy with music to create a wholly original experience. A PopTech veteran, Watts knows this audience well and he handled them like a pro, getting big laughs with a smart blend of sarcasm and self-deprecation during his performance.
Flashing Lights
Bastard / Lemonade
BADBADNOTGOOD is melting the genres of music. This is definitely not what you’re used to hearing here at TRNSCNDNT, but BBNG is an amazing, young jazz trio out of Canada. They just released their second mixtape, which features covers of Kanye West, Odd Future, and James Blake. Above are my two favourite tracks (make sure you listen to Flashing Lights; it is amazing) and a live session with Tyler, the Creator. And be sure to check out their stuff below, and grab a DL of the mixtape BBNG2, also.
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