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Aussie Geek Podcast #53

kdmurray — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:05:05 +0000

I’m way behind getting this posted. It’s the AGP #53 from way back in early March. Enjoy “A Touch of Culture.”

Aussie Geek Podcast #52

kdmurray — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:42:00 +0000

I’m back in the editing chair this time around as Knightwise and I pull disappearing acts on Dave as the show moves forward. We took a look at a ton of stuff on this show including a pretty hefty dose of web apps. Plus, shock of all shocks, we finally got some audio feedback. Tune in and check it out!

Aussie Geek Podcast #51

kdmurray — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:02:53 +0000

It’s our first episode of 2012! Dave and I got together to go over the latest tech news from the past couple of weeks including some highlights from CES – oh wait, that’s everyone else on the ’net. We took a different tack this week and looked at waterpoofing, clotting and dropping iThings from space.Come check out the latest installment of the AGP!

Aussie Geek Podcast #50

kdmurray — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:42:04 +0000

The team put together another episode of the Geek before the holidays, this time out was a bit of a milestone for the crew. For AGP #50 we had some special guests on the line, namely Tim and James who have both been key players in the history of the show over the past 6 years.

We discuss our own individual histories of computing and how technology and computing have affected our lives, and the technology-tracks that our lives have taken over the past couple of decades.

Aussie Geek Podcast – Episode 46

kdmurray — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:11:31 +0000

The latest episode of the AGP is in the feed. This week Dave and I go over a few things that took place during our long absence and discuss news from Google, Twitter and Linux. We also have some fantastic apps for mobile, tablet and web and an illuminating story of recycling and ingenuity.

Dave and I had a great time putting this show together, and I had the opportunity to produce an episode of the AGP for the first time in well over a year. It felt good to get my hands dirty again, and I think Dave appreciated the break.

32 Great Podcasts from my Podroll

kdmurray — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:09:06 +0000

Inspired by this post from Bill Wagner’s blog, here’s a quick look at what’s on my Podroll these days. I’ve listed each show below with its affiliated network or originating broadcaster in parentheses. Please have a look through the list and post any other great shows in the comments. I’d also love to know what you think about the recommendations!

Science & Technology Shows

Aussie Geek Podcast – Bloody Awesome Tech. Two Aussies (Dave and Cait) and a Canadian (that’s me!) put their unique slants on the technology news, applications sites and services each week (or so).

CommandN – Amber Macarthur and friends bring you a weekly dose of tech news.

Digital Planet (BBC) – The BBC’s weekly technology show looking at trends in tech and how they affect your daily life, hosted by Gareth Mitchell.

Discovery (BBC) – A weekly science documentary examining hot trends and profound topics in the world of science.

Knightcast – Tuning tech into your way of life, Knightwise offers a look at ways to make technology work for you, instead of the other way around.

Mac OS Ken – A daily dose of Mac (and iPhone) news delivered by the sarcastic, funny and insightful Ken Ray.

One Minute Tip (TP) – Byte-sized pieces of knowledge to help you be just a bit more productive with your everyday tech.

Podcasters’ Emporium (LPN) – James Williams and Dave Gray cover all the topics you need to know to become a better podcaster.

Quirks and Quarks (CBC) – Bob MacDonald’s weekly look at science and technology from the CBC mothership. The show looks at new and emerging sciences and technologies, often with an eye towards how they affect our environment.

Run As Radio (PWOP) – Richard Campbell and Greg Hughes provide a weekly batch of insightful trends and topics for the IT pro.

Security Now (TWiT) – Steve Gibson’s weekly dose of security news and security-related topics is very insigtful (even better if you skip over Leo Laporte’s TWiT ads).

Search Engine (TVO) – Jesse Brown’s brutally honest opinions and reviews of life in the Internet age.

The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe – Members of the New England Skeptical Society debunk the myths and frauds of the scientific age.

The Skeptic’s Guide 5×5 – A shorter companion podcast for the Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe.

Spark (CBC) – Focusing on the softer side of tech, trends and how these things work their way into our day-to-day lives.

Software Development Shows

Hanselminutes (PWOP) – Scott Hanselman’s weekly look at software and technology topics with his inside the MS machine take on things.

Herding Code – A group of “real-world” developers discussing topics and technology that affect code-slingers everywhere.

.NET Rocks! (PWOP) – .NET Rocks brings together the incomparable Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell who interview cool and interesting people in the Microsoft developer space.

Polymorphic Podcast – Craig Shoemaker’s periodic exploration of software and best practices for .NET developers was one of the first software podcasts I started listening to.

Stack Overflow – Jeff atwood and Joel Spolsky’s companion podcast to the Stack Overflow Q&A site project. A weekly chat about the project, interesting Stack Overflow questions and other software topics.

Humour & Entertainment Shows

Mondays (PWOP) – Mondays is a comedy show from the crew at PWOP that’s released on a somewhat sporadic basis. This one’s definitely NSFW — unless you have headphones. =)

Star Trek: Defiant – A fan-fiction podcast set a number of years after the events in Star Trek: Nemesis. Produced by the crew at Pendant Audio with a fairly talented voice crew. It’s a good listen.

Two Schooners (LPN) – Dave Gray and James Williams get together again for a somewhat less serious show covering the weird and hilarious stories of the week over a schooner of their favourite brew.

Business / News Shows

Campbell’s Comment (CKNW) – Michael Campbell’s daily business comment.

Get It Done Guy (QD Tips) – Sever Robins provides great productivity tips, business tips and general “how-to-cope-with-life-after-college” tips.

Modern Manners Guy (QD Tips) – The Modern Manners Guy’s advice on how not to inconvenience those around you.

Nutrition Diva (QD Tips) – Eat better, and learn about food myths that’ll keep you on the healthy track.

Reality Check (CKNW) – Bruce Allen’s pull-no-punches daily comment about social issues and pop culture.

Sports Comment (CKNW) – Neil McRae and others provide a comment on the sports world from a Vancouver perspective.

Grammar / Language Shows

Grammar Girl (QD Tips) – Mignon Fogarty’s weekly language show will help you tackle the tricky issues of trying to write successfully in the English language.

Kalye Speak – Learn tagalog as filipino’s actually speak it. By far the most successful podcast of its kind.

Podictionary – Charles Hodgeson gives great background on the etymology of words that we use every day. The show is insightful, fun and concise.

It’s been fun putting this list together. I’d love to hear your comments on these shows, or others that you listen to regularly.

Thoughts on a New Podcast

kdmurray — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 02:01:00 +0000

Over the past year or so I’ve been kicking around the idea of starting up a podcast of my own to go along with the efforts that I’ve put in with Dave and Cait on the Aussie Geek Podcast. I love doing the AGP and it helps to stimulate a large portion of the geek side of my personality… but not all of it. The one piece that it leaves off is the developer piece.

I’ve tried to stimulate this in a few different ways in the past, writing blog posts around pieces of code; trying to kick off a standalone open-source project and writing my two plugins for WordPress (Admin Links Widget, Random Image Selector). Though these were all items that I enjoyed they lacked a certain interactivity.

When Jeff offered to let me co-host WordPress Weekly to provide a developer’s perspective it gave me the unique opportunity of mixing my interest in software development with an interaction with a community. I only did a handful of shows at the end of last year, but it helped to reinforce that I really enjoyed putting my skills to use providing information for other people.

There are a great number of development-focused podcasts which discuss wider abstract concepts, and complex topics but precious few which dive into the nuts and bolts of specific software development topics. Examples of a couple that I’ve really enjoyed listening to lately are the .NET Rocks! podcast (Carl Franklin, Richard Campbell) and the Stack Overflow podcast (Jeff Atwood, Joel Spolsky).

Realistically, this new show idea won’t come to pass until later this year, probably in the April-May timeframe as I have several weeks of school to get through before I explain to my lovely wife why I’m spending yet more time in front of the computer.

So there it is, out in the open: I hope to be releasing a development-focused show sometime later this year.

Aussie Geek Podcast Receives Podcast Bunker Award

kdmurray — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:13:40 +0000

This past week the AGP received an award from the folks at the Podcast Bunker for its high-quality audio production.

For those who have listened to the show you’re already aware of the high-standard that the show’s founder Dave Gray sets for the show.

I take a note of personal pride in this as well having produced about a third of the episodes of the AGP since the relaunch last summer.

Here’s a link to Dave’s thoughts on the award too. We’re all very happy to have received the award and are looking forward to another great year of The Geek.

Twitter Acquires Sandy and Stikkit

kdmurray — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:04:24 +0000

Here’s a clip of a post I did over on the AGP Blog about the acquisition of Sandy & Stikkit by Twitter. It’s going to be very interesting to see what Twitter decides to do with the newly acquired technology, particularly in the wake of reduced services in nearl every country outside the US (read: no more SMS!!!). Here’s a clip from the feature-length version:

Twitter has snapped up the IP behind a couple of popular Web 2.0 services. I Want Sandy and Stikkit were both acquired by Twitter a few weeks ago. The services were originally scheduled to go offline last week, but this window has been extended until the end of business (17:00 PT) this Friday, December 19th.

Check out the original post over on the AGP blog.

Time will tell…

Aussie Geek Podcast #009 :: Eye of Newt

kdmurray — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:43:54 +0000

It’s quite remarkable! AGP’s three weeks in a row!!

This week’s show is a bit different in that we’ve scrapped our regular show format to take a moment to interview our musically-inclined geeky guest, Chopper Newt from The Lizards From Afar.

Sit back and have a listen. Its a pretty interesting interview, and a nice break from our regular show format.

Aussie Geek Podcast #009.

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1 Released

kdmurray — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:21:56 +0000

Old News? Yea, kinda. I forgot to actually hit the publish button on this post a few days back…

For those of you who’ve been following the development of the next iteration of WordPress you already know that 2.7 Beta 1 was released last Friday night.

WP 2.7 features some really great refinements to the admin panel which not only make it more useful, they also serve as the building blocks for the next few generations of WordPress.

I’ve been messing around with 2.7 for the last month or so on my WP sandbox and it’s been very interesting to watch the evolution of the menuing system.

I’ll be drawing up a full review for the AGP blog which I’ll post once the full release happens.

AGP Episode 007 Released

kdmurray — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:38:04 +0000

Geeks. Aussie Geeks.

The long awaited seventh installment of the Aussie Geek Podcast is released. This should be the last time I edit and post-produce a show for a while. I have enjoyed it, and learned a whole lot about podcast post-production, and even about this show that I’ve been a part of for the last 18 months.

This week on the show we covered some economics including Yahoo! layoffs, iPhone sales and the effects of the tech slowdown on startups in Europe.

We also touched on an app to moderate WordPress comments from your desktop and a graphics package to create stunning high dynamic range (HDR) images which works on all platforms.

At the end of the show we’ve got the first in a series of musical appearances by the Lizards from Afar, and the show closes out with a blooper segment that’s sure to make Dave retalliate in episode 8.

Go have a listen to the Aussie Geek Podcast #007 :: Armchair Economists. Better yet subscribe to the show in iTunes or directly via the show feed.