Michael Zimmer, “The Faustian Bargain with Web 2.0″, First Monday, 2008/04 June 18, 2009
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We don’t quite have enough experience with Web 2.0 to understand the downsides as well as upsides with the technology.
Special editor Michael Zimmer discusses “Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0” — getting behind the hype and taking stock of Web 2.0’s impact on users like you.
Paul Hawken, “Blessed Unrest: Grassroots Humanity”, Emory University, 2007/05/21 June 18, 2009
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Paul Hawken is a non-traditional thinker who seems to have fallen into business with an environmental bent.
Paul Hawken, environmentalist, businessman, and founder of the first natural foods company, addresses the creation of a worldwide grassroots movement based on hope and humanity.
From billion-dollar nonprofits to single person causes, there is a growing worldwide movement of organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. This is a movement with no name, leader, or headquarters, but it can be seen in every city, town, and culture. It is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of shared values worldwide. What are the driving forces behind these developments? Can the interests of these organizations translate into effective government policies and profitable businesses?
This program is part of the Ford Hall Forum’s continuing series on environmental issues. It is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House as part of the Partners in Public Dialogue Series.
Joel Waldfogel, “Markets, Choice, and the Tyranny of the Market”, Econtalk, 2007/11/12 June 18, 2009
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Supply and demand writ small may not work as well as when writ large.
Joel Waldfogel of the Wharton School of Business talks about the idea in his new book, The Tyranny of Markets: Why You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
He argues that when fixed costs are large, markets don’t necessarily give people what they want and that, analogous to the political process, you can be hurt as the number of people with preferences that differ from yours gets larger.
Host Russ Roberts challenges Waldfogel’s claim that these phenomena are widespread and argues that in many cases, markets ultimately solve these problems. They discuss the amount of variety in newspapers, radio, and airline travel, along with how economics generally looks at fixed costs and consumer sovereignty.
Joel Waldfogel Archives | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
John Ralston Saul, “A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada”, The Commentary, 2008/10/15 June 18, 2009
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Although Canadian students learn about the country being formed by the English and the French, Saul suggests that the culture goes back deeper to the Metis.
In his new book, A Fair Country: Telling Truths About Canada, the author and essayist John Ralston Saul expounds on three radical truths about Canada.
That first, we are a Métis civilisation.
Secondly, Peace, Order and Good Government has always been an interloper in Canada.
And thirdly, the elite doesn’t identify with Canada, thus they don’t wish to govern the country.
We’ll try our best in the time we have with Mr. Saul to discuss these three truths and more.
John Ralston Saul’s previous books, Voltaire’s Bastards, The Unconscious Civilization, On Equilibrium, and Reflections of a Siamese Twin, were prize winners and remain oft-discussed.
He is considered one of the leading thinkers on political and economic thought, not just here but abroad. Time has declared him a ‘prophet.’ He is also the General Editor of the Penguin Extraordinary Canadians project. It is an ambitious and already stimulating series of books on important Canadian figures.
Interview: John Ralston Saul, On the Line with Joseph Planta (thecommentary.ca)
Kent Beck, “Test Driven Development, Patterns and Extreme Programming”, O’Reilly Media RailsConf, 2008/05/31 June 18, 2009
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Kent Beck is a reflective practitioner in the developer community, dispensing thoughtful advice with humour.
Relating anecdotes from the past, Kent Beck, the father of Extreme Programming and JUnit, reflects back on the impact his ideas have had in the last 20 years, especially with respect to the history of Test Driven Development (TDD), Design Patterns, and Extreme Programming (XP). According to him, good ideas take about that much time to mature and come to fruition.
He regrets how patterns have become a tool in the arsenal of the software developer to solve a programming problem whereas he intended it to be one that would create more space for the user who was to be affected by the software. Reminiscing about the birth of patterns, he draws analogies between architecture in general and software architecture.
Finally he discusses the factors that affect the successful acceptance of an idea.
IT Conversations | O’Reilly Media RailsConf | Kent Beck (Free Podcast)
Jason Anderson, Kim Cook, Dan Hill and Carl Wilson “The Debate: What Happened to the Hits?”, Richard Florida, The Agenda, 2008/04/25 June 18, 2009
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This and audiocast covers what it means when shared mass entertainment gives way to solitary listening. In addition, the importance of where you live on your life and career is discussed.
The hits of yesterday: what iPods, file-sharing and musical options beyond the record label mean for the music industry … and for music’s social function.
Guests
Jason Anderson is a music critic with Toronto Life and Eye Weekly.
Kim Cook is the owner of Pheromone Records, and chair of the Juno Awards nominating committee.
Dan Hill is a Juno Award-winning singer songwriter.
Carl Wilson is a writer/editor with The Globe and Mail, and author of Celine Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste.
The Agenda – Broadcast – Richard Florida | What Happened to the Hits?
Why where you live is as important as who you live with: superstar academic Richard Florida on urban centres, the creative economy, and what he likes about his newly adopted city.
Guests
Richard Florida is director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, professor of business and creativity at the Rotman School, and founder of the Creative Class Group.
The Agenda – Broadcast – Richard Florida | What Happened to the Hits?
