The Tech Conference Show #2 - ETech 2005 Part 2

Ewan Spence — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:23:16 +0000

Ewan Spence and Crow continue their Podcast review of Etech with some full recordings of seminars. First up is Danny O’Brien and Merlin Manns‘ “Life Hacks Live” talk.

From The ETech 2005 Program
Based on the research into the secret habits of “overprolific alpha geeks,” last year’s popular Life Hacks talk predicted a new software field: the spread of the time and info management “power tools” hackers have learnt to build for themselves to a wider audience, who are increasingly struggling to handle the information overload that geeks have fought with for years.

Join Danny O’Brien and the smash hit blog “43 Folder”’s Merlin Mann to see just how those predictions have come true on the Mac, Linux, and Windows platforms.

We’ll take a whistle-stop tour through an amazing year in this exploding field: tracking apps that merge the geek’s command-line power with GUI ease-of-use; the expansion of RSS and wiki techniques into frontline organizing apps; the spread of search and script automation onto the desktop; how plain text files are the new rock and roll.

But there’s more: with live cameo appearances of alpha geeks (and their desktops), Mann and O’Brien will demo live some more of the secret tricks that have yet to reach a wider audience, and the applications and gadgets that even the super-organized are only now getting to play with. And, once again, the duo will pinpoint the market opportunities that exist for the toolmaker who wants to reach a growing new audience for their software.

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The Tech Conference Show #002:: O’Reilly’s ETech 2005 - Part 2
11th April 2005 (01hr 03min 29sec): MP3 - 21.9MB

ETech 2005 - Part 1

Ewan Spence — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:57:03 +0000

Ewan Spence and Crow (photo from Etech 2004) flew back from O’Reilly’s Emerging technology Conference on Monday, and since then have been putting together the various interviews, soundbites and observations from Etech. So if you were there, here’s what you missed. And if you didn’t make it, then here’s your big chance to find out what the chatrooms and Flickr posts were all about.

This is the first of four shows that will be coming from ETech 2005, we have recordings of some of the key sessions (not the keynotes - but those seminars that everyone is talking about) to follow up this week and next week. You can check back here, but if you’ve got a Podcasting or RSS Client that can handle file attachments, this is the feed.

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The Tech Conference Show: O’Reilly’s ETech 2005 - Part 1:
24th March 2005 (55min 38sec): MP3 - 19.1MB

00:00 Network Intro

01:20 Intro by Ewan Spence and “Crow”

02:35 Tim O’Reilly

Emerging Technologies Conference web site

09:15 Cory Doctorow

EFF

Cory’s site

17:05 Robert Kaye

MusicBrainz

25:25 Manuel Keissling

Attention Screen logs

28:43 Phillip Torrone