Bad Hair Day

Bad Hair Day #11

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:55:20 GMT

Recorded at 7PM Pacific.

Marshall was off tonight. We had two guests -- Doug Kaye of spokenword.org and Joseph Scott of Automattic.

Doug is working on a podcast aggregator that supports rssCloud.

Doug also founded IT Conversations that was a focal point in the podcasting bootstrap at the beginning of the decade.

Joseph developed the plugin for Wordpress that shipped at the beginning of the week.

Bad Hair Day #10

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:20:36 GMT

Marshall and Dave talk about a little bit of this and a whole lot of that. Joined by Michael Gartenberg from Berlin, jetlagged and heading back to the US in a few hours.

We kept talking after the show ended, and thought it wasn't being recorded, but you know what -- it was! So you get an extra ten minutes of exclusive inside banter betw Dave and Marshall. You lucky listener you! :-)

Bad Hair Day #9

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:06:47 GMT

Podcast recorded at 7PM Pacific.

Marshall and Dave interview Joe Hewitt, the developer of Facebook for the iPhone, which was released today.

Bad Hair Day #8

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:50:50 GMT

Podcast recorded at 7PM Pacific.

Guests Eric Woodward of http://tr.im/ and Brian Hendrickson of http://rp.ly/ talk about the future of URL shorteners with Dave and Marshall. This is one of the best BHD's so far.

Dave also tells the story of his conversation earlier with Robert Scoble about whether, as users, we should continue to create content in FriendFeed, knowing that it probably doesn't have much future.

There's a project underway to develop an open source FriendFeed.

Bad Hair Day #7.5

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:14:51 GMT

A special call-in show to discuss Facebook's acquisition of Friendfeed, with a sidebar on the death of tr.im and the future of URL-shorteners. Lots of Portland folk on the call.

This is the first time we've take callers from the community. It was really interesting. A great discussion.

Bad Hair Day #7

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 16:33:35 GMT

No guests this week, just Marshall and Dave.

We talked about outside.in, inberkeley.com, Breaking News Online, today's Twitter outage and a review of where we're at with BHD.

It wouldn't be a Bad Hair Day without our Inspiration of the Week...

Bad Hair Day #6

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:20:57 GMT

Podcast recorded on July 31, 2009, 4PM Eastern.

Marshall and Dave are joined by Anil Dash of SixApart to talk about what he calls The Pushbutton Web and Dave's rssCloud and Google's PubSubHubBub.

We also touched on CrunchPad and the NY skyline.

A classic example of Bad Hair, our Inspiration Of The Week..

Bad Hair Day #5

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:06:47 GMT

Podcast recorded at 7PM Pacific.

Tonight's guests were Steve Rubel, supergeek of Edelman PR and Kevin Tofel of jkOnTheRun and GigaOM.

We talked about traveling with our computers, netbooks, Macs, phones, security, using computers in NY.

Was nice to have a show, for a change, that wasn't wall-to-wall Twitter.

We did talk a little about FriendFeed. :-)

Marshall led the discussion this week.

We're going to make sure Kevin comes back soon.

Now for some bad hair...

Bad Hair Day #4

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:59:40 GMT

Podcast was recorded at 7PM on July 16, 2009.

Chris Saad, Doc Searls, Marshall Kirkpatrick & Dave Winer discuss the TechCrunch report on information hacked out of Twitter.

Topics include Hosebird, Google building a competitive product, opening up Twitter, fires in Santa Barbara, Twitter as a namespace, realtime search.

The picture at right is Beatles producer Phil Spector, having a very bad hair day.

Bad Hair Day #3

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:06:52 GMT

Recorded at 7PM Pacific.

Two guests stand in for Marshall who is buying a house. Andrew Baron, producer of Rocketboom and and the hot new video site Mag.ma -- and Interpret analyst Michael Gartenberg. We talk about Google's Chrome OS, iPhones, Macs, realtime software and of course Mag.ma.

Bad Hair Day #2

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:01:26 GMT

After a 1-week hiatus (Dave was traveling), a new Bad Hair Day podcast was recorded at 7PM on July 2, 2009.

Warning: There's a 1-minute bad spot starting at minute 4.

Marshall wrote the show notes, which follow.

Open Source Bridge conference launched this year to replace the O'Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, Oregon. People came from all over the country and liked it.

Dave went to the Reboot conference. European, young, web related, beer.

Personal Democracy Forum conference. Marshall reported on LINK the Sunlight Foundation's Transparency Corps http://transparencycorps.org/, like Mechanical Turk for small tasks to make government data more transparent. Unfortunately, most other people are not excited about these kinds of projects.

Should governments offer APIs? The man who offered the counterpoint, arguing that APIs are another level of interpretation and contrary to the top priority of total transparency, is Clay Johnson, director of Sunlight Labs. Johnson and others argue that full raw data needs to be offered.

Marshall discussed a research project he's doing with Chris Cameron, RWW researcher. Looking at Twitter investors and who they have made political donations to - do those who tend to give to Democrats use Twitter differently than those who give to Republicans. Watch for a forthcoming blog post on this.

Dave discusses Etsy's inclusion on the Twitter Suggested User List and the fact that Fred Wilson has invested in both Etsy and Twitter. Dave asks for research to be done to discover patterns like this.

Marshall says being on the Suggested Users List doesn't have clearly tangible value - Dave laughs and Marshall feels silly for offering such an argument.

Marshall talks about how it's all about being able to extract data from open tweets. Offers iAte, a restaurant review site built by Tweets, as an example. It was demoed at Demolicious.

Dave says Twitter is becoming less useful for him. Mentions Scoble's blog post saying that Tweets just don't have the permanence that blog posts do. [can't find that blog post]

Marshall says the Twitter on Google Greasemonkey script is super useful. We discuss all the press around Bing's inclusion of selected popular users' Tweets in search results. Here's a Twitter on Bing Greasemonkey script that came out the day Bing launched. If Greasemonkey is new to you, here's a tutorial on how to use it in less than 5 minutes. Dave doesn't use it but Marshall swears by it. (Go try it!!)

Marshall says Twitter still rocks his world. Explains that he uses it by using the Firefox plug-in Drag and Drop Zones in conjunction with Google Custom Search Engines and the Twitter and Google Greasemonkey script.

FriendFeed launched real time search today. Dave says Steve Gillmor must be happy. Marshall discussed this blog post about it. Dave says it's all about FriendFeed having unique access to the Twitter fire-hose.

Dave talks about how FriendFeed has got to start importing and exporting OPML files, like the dearly departed Share Your OPML project.

Marshall sheds a tear for the lack of enthusiasm OPML has been received with - sharing a bound collection of dynamic topical resources is an act of poetry. Why haven't other people taken it up? Dave says the impulse to share isn't the kind of thing that most people have. Marshall disagrees and references Bre Petis's post about how sharing is the number one disruptive force on the web these days. (Dave agrees, but somehow this didn't make it into Marshall's show notes. :-)

Dave says FriendFeed is driving him crazy. He says that FriendFeed should make a toolkit for building Twitter-type sites.

And then the show concludes!

Bad Hair Day #1

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:55:18 GMT

Recorded at 7PM on Thurs June 18, 2009.

Dave wrote these show notes...

Well, this is the first Bad Hair Day podcast, and the good news is -- it was a pretty good show, a conversation between two techies about:

1. The newly released iPhone 3.0.

2. Tethering.

3. Various Internet tools and gadgets.

4. Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. Twitter. And so on.

5. A deep discussion of evolution on the net.

The bad news -- Skype crashed 4 minutes before the show start, and thus began (on my end) and mad and furious scramble to find the correct number and get back on the BTR network. At the same time, my Bluetooth mouse crapped out, luckily I had a backup already plugged in, but it's not a great pointer, so once I had the correct number, I had to enter it three times before I got it right. All the time I'm getting prompts from various people that I'm missing the beginning of the show!

Oy! Oy! Oy!!

Eventually I made it, and Marshall, the unflappable pro that he is handled it perfectly and we picked up the show at 4 minutes, 25 seconds. Okay.

It wouldn't be a Bad Hair Day if something didn't fcuk up! :-)

Hope you enjoy BHD 1.0.