TTR Ep 24/2007 … Full Steam Ahead!

Crikey, what a truck-load of work over the last few days! Andrew has run away to join the circus, and taken Mark with him. So I will be hosting tonight’s episode of Tech Talk Radio on 3WBC.

In actual fact, Andrew and Mark have gone to Mt Gambier in South Australia, on special assignment for Tech Talk. I expect they will have a full report next week.

In the meantime, Graeme and I have been left to do the production work for the show. Andrew made it easy for us by setting up a lot of the pre-production last week. But I’ve never put a show together from the ground-up before. This has contributed to the workload… that is to say, if (when) I do all this again, a lot of the setup has been done and it shouldn’t take me nearly as long.

Graeme has been very helpful and will be working into the wee-small hours of tomorrow morning to get the podcasts done.

Then Andrew will return and normality will be restored.

Enjoy the show! Over and out.

Dr Ron.

Now 3 Tech Talk Radio podcasts to choose from!

By popular demand (well that’s what they all say) we’ve added two new podcasts to the Tech Talk Radio repertoire. Now, not only is the original podcast available, but we’ve now split the news feed and Adam Turner’s View from the Couch is now available. If you’re bandwidth challenged, then these maybe good alternatives.

The news feed is the 5 minute news segment heard on the top of the show. It highlights news from the Australian and international arenas, with an Australian edge.

Adam Turner’s View from the Couch is a feet up, and somewhat casual opinion piece of about 5 minutes, which takes in the big picture of technology from the everyday users perspective. From Big Brother to CeBit, Star Wars and beyond.

Dr Ron featured on this week’s Ploycast

Australian internet personalities Ben May and Mike Beckham produce a weekly program full of comedy, talk and music. Their podcast features an Australian perspective on the latest news from around the world.

In this week’s episode, Dr Ron joins The Ploy to talk about the state of Australian broadband, the Federal Government / ACCC / Telstra “bizarre love triangle”, and … what exactly is Dr Ron a doctor of, anyway?

http://theploycast.com/

All about Digg

Researching one of the many segments for our humble radio programme last week, I had one of those “OMG” moments when I realised that in nearly 3 years of Tech Talk Radio, we’d never discussed the Web 2.0 phenomena Digg.

So what’s Digg?

Well it started out as an experiment by four guys in the U.S. in 2004. It’s become a landmark website of recent times … Digg is a community-based news website, lending itself to the Web 2.0 concept of user-driven content. The emphasis is on technology and science-based news, and it uses a clever bookmarking system which allows users to submit and rank stories.

You might have noticed the pervasive “Digg this!” icons at the bottom of people’s news articles, blog entries and websites. In fact I’ve added a couple to recent posts on this blog. If you think the article is interesting, just click the “Digg this!” button, and it adds a hit to Digg’s counter. Eventually, if it gets enough “Diggs”, the article will appear on Digg’s front page. Cool huh?

The essence of Digg is that you can see what other internet users are watching, reading, surfing and downloading … it’s a bit like a WWW barometer.

There’s also a weekly podcast and vidcast, made by Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht, who discuss the top Digg stories for the week in their own irreverant fashion.

Anyway, there’s heaps more to it than this. Just check it out, if you haven’t already: http://digg.com/