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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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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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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is a monologue examining the treatment of artificial intelligence in science fiction.

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There is no hacker word of the week this week.

The feature this week is a monologue re-visiting the topic of social spaces.

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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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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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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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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, 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, sharing Steve’s badge photo, last month’s revenue update, and a reminder there will be no feature cast next week as I’ll be out of town.

The hacker word of the week this week is finger trouble .

The feature this week is a monologue my habits as an infovore. How I consume information is very much informed by current thinking on multitasking.

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In the intro, a quick review of the tabletop game, “The Stars are Right“.

Listener feedback this week is from Andrew and Carey, both of whom responded to the last feature on complex privacy .

The hacker word of the week this week is Finagle’s Law.

The feature this week is a monologue considering the true burden of forking. It was inspired by my recent reading of Clay Shirky’s excellent, “Here Comes Everybody“.

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In the intro, thanks to Paul, Steve and Ryan for their new monthly donations starting this week. Badges are on their way or should be soon.  I also remark on my upcoming 5th anniversary as a podcaster for those that don’t read the blog.

Listener feedback this week is from Jed in response to the Inner Chapter on why programming is hard. I mention the news cast from the 13th, the piece Bruce Sterling mentions about smart-aleck programmers by Jonathan Edwards.

The hacker word of the week this week is fence.

The feature this week is a monologue discussing my decision to move back to an open stack here in the lab. I mention Dan Gillmor’s Salon article discussing the very same thing and my Nowhere to Go rant.

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In the intro, thanks to Graham and [si]dragon for their donations. Also, a quick review of “Permanence“, by Karl Schroeder.

Listener feedback this week is from Robert who posted a comment in response to my NoSQL rant.

The hacker word of the week this week is block transfer computations.

The feature this week is a monologue consider Dr. Who as a hacker. In it, I mention a section from the Wikipedia page on Dr. Who.

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In the intro, an update on the advertising experiment.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is farm .

The feature this week is a monologue on Java, the Gray Lady. In it, I mention COM, specifically criticisms against it. I also mention a timely piece by Neil McAllister and the Zen of Python.

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In the intro, a call for help with topics for programming focused segments for the next few weeks and an announcement that there will be no news show this Sunday.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is faradize .

The feature this week is a monologue on why CopyNight is important. In it I mention cultural critic, Mark Dery, and Christine Harold’s book, “OurSpace“.

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No listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is eye candy.

The feature this week is a monologue on the hacker hero in literature. I mention the myths of Enki and Prometheus. I refer to the Steampunk anthology and Paul diFilippo’s Steampunk trilogy. I also cite the works of both Charlie Stross and Rudy Rucker. I even touch on Disney’s Wall-E.

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In the intro, a quick review of the film, “Astro Boy“, based on the original manga by Osamu Tezuka. I also highly recommend Dan’s review of the film on Geekadelphia.

Listener feedback this week is from Philip who wrote in to comment on my nowhere to go rant.

The hacker word of the week this week is exec.

The feature this week is a monologue on the social gravity well.

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In the intro, a reminder that if you want to win one of three signed copies of J.C. Hutchins’ “7th Son: Descent” you need to get your email in to 7thSonNovel@gmail.com by this Friday. Use the subject line “cmdln sent me”, and in the body include both the phrase, “Kilroy 2.0 is everywhere”, and your mailing address.

Also, I will be at Philcon, just for the day on Saturday the 21st of November. I will be heading up to meet up with some friends and to interview Cory Doctorow about his just released novel, “MAKERS”. If anyone is interested in a meet up while I am there, send me a note at feedback@thecommandline.net.

Lastly, the intro includes a brief clarification and comment about the experimental opening music from the last show.

There is no listener feedback this week.

The hacker word of the week this week is Eric Conspiracy.

The feature this week is a monologue on social identity.

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In the intro a quick review of the file, “Sita Sings the Blues“, by Nina Paley.

The hacker word of the week this week is enhancement.

The feature this week is a monologue on embracing fair use. Here’s the promised links defining fair use and fair use for trademarks. I mention Open Media Review and The Arbiter Chronicles.

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In the intro a discussion of my recently started podiobook and unbook projects. I just wrote this up for the blog, too.

Listener feedback this week is from Thomas Vincent with some more info on the USTR including the only story he could find on the current appointee, rglog on Twitter asking about the privacy risk of appliancized clients like Hulu Desktop, and Vasking curious about the history and current state of open codecs and HTML5.  Here’s the mailing list message I mentioned, via Daring Fireball.

The hacker word of the week this week is elegant.

The feature this week is a monologue on ideas vs. execution inspired by the FLOSS Weekly discussing the CouchDB project. I mention the idea-expression dichotomy in copyright and the News from Poughkeepsie blog series by Mur Lafferty.

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In the intro another mention of my very enjoyable interview on Fanboyhell.

Listener Feedback this week is Nahtass with some additional thoughts on learning new languages, Randal with a correction of my pronunciation of MySQL, and Sarah with the correct, full content feed for 2D Goggles.

The hacker word of the week this week is ed.

The feature this week is a monologue consider the gap between amateur and professional creatives and what it is exactly that makes up the gap.  This builds a bit on my previous monologue on peer media.

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In the intro a quick review of the geek family friendly movie, Monsters vs. Aliens.

The hacker word of the week this week is dump.

The feature this week is a monologue on choosing development platforms.  I wrote this in response to a question from Brand Gamblin the genius behind Calls for Cthulhu.  Brand is one of the first people I know personally who got a G1 and also recently looked into learning Flex.

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The hacker word of the week this week is drool-proof paper.

The feature this week is a monologue on flashbake, the scripting project I launched last week.

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There hacker word of the week this week is driver

The feature this week is a monologue deconstructing my issues with the term, “new media”, and suggesting a more evocative alternative (at least for my own use), “peer media”.

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In the intro, a correction on my pronunciation of Diebold. Alex offers a CNN story, a a PBS story, and this one on the research out of Princeton to substantiate the case for the correct pronunciation. Also note that the first two YouTube links are to specific time codes–kewl.

Listener feedback this week is from Alex and Wouter, both in response to the last Inner Chapter on Info Overload. Here’s the Waxy story about using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription and the Firefox extension Alex recommends. Here’s the screen cast and the features apparently include Google Reader integration, syncing between systems and offline reader.

The hacker word of the week this week is distribution.

The feature this week is a monologue on hacking with a social conscience.

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Listener feedback this week is from Matt, Kaity and Bashar.

The hacker word of the week this week is demo.

The feature this week is a monologue on the topic of grass roots hacktivism.

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In the intro, just a quick mention of Balticon and memorial day. My write ups of Balticon are on my LiveJournal for day 1, day 2, day 3, the wrap up, and a bit of memetic silliness.

The hacker word of the week this week is dead lock.

The feature is a monologue considering the topic of volunteerism, inspired by my work at Balticon and the holiday, especially a friend who as decided to re-enlist.

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