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The hacker word of the week this week is fool.

The feature this week is a monologue that attempts to bring to the surface some of the assumptions that inform my world view as a self identified hacker for examination and hopefully discussion.

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Listener feedback this week came from Thomas who wrote to let me know PuTTY is available in Debian based Linux distros as well as on Windows.

The hacker word of the week this week is foobar.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter in the challenges and opportunities of working at all levels.

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In the intro I gave a brief travel update–I’ll be in San Francisco for the Silicon Valley Human Rights conference, Brussels for the EU Hackathon and Paris in December. I thanked Jed for treating me to dinner and beer while he was out in  the DC area. I observed a moment of silence to commemorate the passing of Dennis Ritchie.

Listener feedback this time was from Eric in response to the interview from last week.

The hacker word of the week this week is FOD.

The feature this week includes a couple of readings from Cory Doctorow’s just released essay collection, (c)ontext.

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Update: A listener brought to my attention a couple of spots in this episode’s audio that were very problematic. I have fixed the original audio and reposted for anyone who hasn’t yet listened to the episode.

The hacker word of the week this week is Flyspeck 3.

The feature this week is a discussion of some of my recent experiences with communities and the questions they raise.

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In the intro, a reminder that I will be at the Ohio Linux Fest this weekend. If you are going to be there, come and find me!

The hacker word of the week this week is flush.

The feature this week is a discussion of my experiences traveling to Budapest, Hungary for Transfabric, focusing on the event itself. If you want to hear my personal impressions, in rough form, I recorded about ten minutes each night I was there.

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In the intro, my thanks to James C. for his generous donation  and Jed wrote in to share the title of the short story he mentioned in his feedback in the last episode: Risk.

The hacker word of the week this week is flowchart.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of travel.

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In the intro, I announce the shift of this podcast to a once weekly schedule from twice weekly and my reasons for making this change.

Listener feedback this week was all in response to the science fiction monologue on AI, from Eric and from Jed who also mentioned “For Want of a Nail” on Escape Pod.

The hacker word of the week this week is flood.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of adjustment. It continues the trajectory of my personal career discussions from work-life balance through personal growth and my rant on having nowhere to go.

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Listener feedback this week was from David about my frustrations over iTunes with my newer podcast and Charles in response to my quick review of The Net Delusion, in response to which I still urge interested listeners to check out Cory Doctorow’s much more in-depth critic.

The hacker word of the week this week is flippy.

The feature this week is a monologue examining the value of serendipity, in response to a request from my good friend, John Taylor Williams.

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The hacker word of the week this week is flavor.

The feature this week is a monologue, as suggested by Don, exploring the dictum with which I close every show: hack your world. I mention Oxblood Ruffin’s recent interview in which he so well defines hacktivism. I mention the book my reaction against which set my on this larger course.

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In the intro, my thanks to Fred for his generous donation this past week.

Listener feedback this week was an email from Jed asking about responsible disclosure for technicians, prompted by my interview with Tiffany Rad.

The hacker word of the week this week is flat-file.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of presence. The discussion complements my early Inner Chapter on effecting change.

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Listener feedback this week was from R.Ash who posted a comment in response to my rant on the innovation tax.

The Hacker Word of the Week is flat.

The feature this week is a monologue exploring the notion of 2nd adopters. Thanks to my friend, and co-host of Living Proof, John Taylor Williams for suggesting the topic.

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The hacker word of the week this week is flash crowd.

The feature this week is a rant on the barriers and friction that make up the innovation tax. The idea was really brought to the fore in my mind by a Harvard Business Review piece by James Allworth. A good example of the thought process of risk averse dominant incumbents was encapsulated in the recent interview with Francis Ford Coppola to which Cory on BoingBoing linked.

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Listener feedback this week was from Don who wrote in response to Hack Your Brew, Nicholas who wrote to share another mobile app for activists, and Jody in response to the Inner Chapter on health and exercise.

The hacker word of the week this week is flarp.

The feature this week is an in-depth review of Adrian Johns’ book, “Piracy“.

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In the intro, my thoughts on a project Jon “The Nice Guy” Spriggs brought to my attention.

The hacker word of the week this week is flap.

The feature this week is a discussion I had with my collaborator on the Living Proof Brew Cast, John Taylor Williams, about hacking your brew. John mentions a wonderful book that speaks to this hackish take on brewing, “Radical Brewing” by Randy Mosher.

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The hacker word of the week this week is flamage.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on personal growth inspired by my recent job change. The previous chapters on accomplishment, stretching yourself, and effecting change brush up against this topic. My career change was partly enabled by this Google talk with Vint Cerf and Chef Andres.

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Listener feedback was from Jed in response to the Inner Chapter on Health and Eric in response to the post-peak computing feature and the news story about the study looking at piracy as the future of TV.

The hacker word of the week this week is flaky.

The feature this week is a look at the duology of Tron films from a hackish point of view.

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Listener feedback was from Craig who wrote asking for more info on TIA and Jort with a great suggestion on using game style mechanics and feedback to motivate exercise. Jort’s anecdote reminds me of the work of Jane McGonigal who has a new book out.

The hacker word of the week this week is flag day.

The feature this week is a talk I gave at MITH about the International Amateur Scanning League. I used one of Dan Bull’s videos, the one about WikiLeaks, in my presentation as well as sharing clips from the FedFlix collection that IASL helped digitize. The clips were The Real Person, a smoke jumper training video, the Longines Chronoscope episode featuring Eugene Black of the World Bank, and The Big Picture installment covering the Army talent show.

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In the intro, thanks to Vivid Muse (of Into the Blender and Girls Rules) for her generous donation.

Listener feedback (the answers to which were long overdue) was from mettaben, bram, Craig, and Jed.

The hacker word of the week this week is flag.

The feature this week is a new Inner Chapter on certain aspects of health from a hackish point of view, in particular exercise and to a lesser extent diet. This feature was developed in response to Jed’s questions on the subject from a little while ago.

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In the intro, I urge you to help listener Nick pitch a talk about his journal at the unconference, on Sunday, that will be part of Students for Free Culture this weekend.

The hacker word of the week this week is FIXME.

The feature this week is a monologue positing an answer to listener Jed’s question about the shape of computing in a post peak resource world. In the feature, I mention the Wired’s brief article on peak everything and Wikipedia article on bioplastics.

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In the intro, I talk about SCALE 9x for which I have two free passes for the first two people to send me an email asking after them. I also play the official promo for the expo.

Listener feedback is from John, Charles and Mike in response to my rant on the pseudocommons.  John framed his question on his blog.  Charles and Mike contributed their thoughts in the comment thread for the episode. Charles also commented on my interview with Gabriella Coleman, to which she replied with some excellent sources for further reading. Charles has started his own new blog to further explore some of the ideas that informed his comments on the pseudocommons rant.

The hacker word of the week this week is fix.

The feature this week is some event recording I captured at Wiki X DC, the local tenth anniversary celebration for Wikipedia. These are just two talks out of an entire day’s worth given by Archives staffers and Wikipedians. I was there on behalf of Fedflix to talk about that project.

The first talk I have was given by Jill Reilly James. She works with online public access at the Archives where she is a staffer (though her talk isn’t an official statement by the Archives just her own views). She talks through using the existing and new search interfaces. Jill also blogs at Narations, the official Archives blog about online public access.

The second talk I have was given by Sarah Stierch who is working on the Wikiproject for Public Art. She mentions the SIRIS database, a site discussing the “morally correct” statuary at Union Station, and Tony Smith.

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I’ll be at Wiki X DC this Saturday (which may or may not interfere with getting a news cast out on Sunday).  If you can spare some cash, Podiobooks could really use the support to upgrade their servers right now.

Listener feedback is from Jonathan in response to my piece about being an autodidact.  He recommends a couple of videos and David Brin’s blog.

The hacker word of the week this week is fisking.

The feature this week is a somewhat rambling, speculative rant on the tragedy of the pseudocommons. This stems from a lot of recent attention on commons as economic and governance models, including the Nobel prize winning work of Elinor Ostrom and David E. Williams. The title is in fact a riff on Hardin’s original critique of the commons. In discussing the ethos animating digital commons, I suggest the Free Software Foundation exceeds the core values by insisting on stronger notions of liberty. James Boyle’s book does an excellent job describing the more obvious threat of enclosure. My pondering the pseudocommons is similar in some regards to my thoughts on the true burden of forking. Nicholas Carr pegs one extreme example of the form.

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Thanks to Terry and Robert for their generous donations over the hiatus. In the intro, I also attend to some other matters relating to the financial support of the podcast.  Here is the article by Audrey Waters at ReadWriteWeb that I mentioned about flattr’s new direction donations.

Listener feed back this week was about my interview with Jon “The Nice Guy” Spriggs and cchits.net.  Mike from the Creative Commons left a comment with some clarifications and a bit of trivia.  Tony from the band Broken Cities shared how the interview led him to connect with Jon and with some other music podcasters besides.

The hacker word of the week this week is FISH queue.

The feature this week is a monologue in which I share my confessions as an autodidact.  It is similar in style to the monologue that shared my habits as an infovore.

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In the intro, I wanted to give a heartfelt thanks to Chris Miller for his work helping me with the drafts of my features in the last few months.  Chris has been on my podcast, too, a couple of times.  I also want to thank Rob and Curtis for their donations.

Listener feedback this week was from Jed in response to the feature on API design and Ethan to revisiting geek fatigue.

The hacker word of the week this week is fish.

The feature this week is another science fiction monologue, this time on the zombie apocalypse.  I mention Alas, Babylon, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Night of the Living Dead, Jennifer Ouellete’s new book, The Affinity Bridge, and gray goo.

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In the intro, an announcement that I will be taking this coming week off.  There will be no new shows on 11/21, 11/24 or 11/28.  I have have a feature topic for the 12/1 and hope to catch up on feature planning and writing during my down time.

Listener feedback this week was Wild Biker who had some thoughts on my network neutrality rant.  I mention this episode of Search Engine in my response.

The hacker word of the week this week is firmware.

The feature this week is a monologue revisiting the topic of geek fatigue.

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In the intro, a quick review of “The Dervish House” by Ian McDonald.

Listener feedback this week was Wild Biker who was curious for my thoughts on Ballotpedia.

The hacker word of the week this week is fireworks mode.

The feature this week is a rant on how I think the current network neutrality debate came to be.  The Berkman Center had an excellent podcast episode recently that serves as a good backgrounder.  I mention the Carterfone case as the antecedent for open access to networks.

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Listener feedback this week was from Ethan who asked about the experience of being a hacker who is self taught the closest to which I’ve come is a segment on my love-hate relationship with computer science and Jonathan who was curious whather I’d read Kevin Kelly’s latest book and recommended his web site.

The hacker word of the week this week is firewall code.

The feature this week is a hacking 101 piece of designing APIs.

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In the intro, apologies for the missed news cast, though I had a very productive weekend on other show related tasks as well as on the volunteering Saturday. My thanks to Wild Biker and James M. for their donations this past week. And a reminder that DC’s CopyNight is this coming Tuesday, the 26th.

Listener feedback this week was from Jed who wrote in about the Singularity feature as well as hacker health habits and post-peak resource technology.

The hacker word of the week this week is firehose syndrome.

The feature this week is a book review of “Out of Control” by Kevin Kelly. I also reference the books “Complexity” by Mitch Waldrop and “Godel, Escher, Bach” by Douglas Hofstadter.

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In the intro, just a heads up that due to a volunteer commitment, there may not be a news show this weekend.

The hacker word of the week this week is firefighting.

The feature this week is a book end to my switching to Linux feature from back in June. I mention the tag I used on the blog to track my incremental progress. I also refer to one of my earliest rants, on the subject of geek fatigue. The audio software I mention, the one written by Paul Davis and with the very active community, is Ardour.

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In the intro, an update on last month’s finances for the podcast.

The hacker word of the week this week is firebottle.

The feature this week is a monologue on an idea I find fascinating and yet at the same time of which I am skeptical, the technological singularity. In the feature I mention the history of the idea, the Omega Point, “Accelerando” by Charlie Stross, True Names by Cory Doctorow and Ben Rosenbaum, the Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker, my review of Rucker’s more recent duology, the “Eclipse Two” anthology containing David Moles story, “The Singularity is Near” by Ray Kurzweil, the Singularity University, the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, my Inner Chapter on why programming is hard, Gordon Moore’s criticism of the singularity, other criticisms, Rudy Rucker’s response to the ideal of simulating the earth, and “Diaspora” by Greg Egan.

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In the intro, the last reminder of my impending travel to Dragon*Con. Also a quick review of Neil Netanel’s “Copyright’s Paradox“.

Listener feedback is a thoughtful and thought provoking email from Grant who wrote in response to my discussion of ebooks in the developing world.

The hacker word of the week this week is finger-pointing syndrome.

The feature this week is an Inner Chapter on the subject of superstitions.

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