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Reality 2.0Episode 153: Personal AIKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Kyle Rankin discuss the personal AI tools they'd like to have, what's available, and how they might come together.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0Links:Microsoft says it will take the heat if Copilot AI commercial users get sued - The Verge — Some users of Microsoft’s Copilot platforms can turn to the company if they get sued for copyright infringement.AI | Doc Searls Weblog
2023-10-2858 minReality 2.0Episode 150: How to Write a Tech BookKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about his new book for aspiring authors, discuss the publishing process, self-discipline, marketing, and share their expertise from their decades as authors.
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[00:01:04] Intro to Kyle's new book, "How To Write A Tech Book."
[00:04:52] Vetting your idea and pitching to a publisher
[00:09:24] On self-publishing vs. traditional publishers
[00:12:27] Print on-demand
[00:15:05] Market research and publishers
[00:18:03] Co-authoring vs solo authoring
[00:20:43] The Cluetrain Manifesto and The Intention Economy
[00:24:05] Return from social media to blogging and longer-form...
2023-08-0855 minReality 2.0Episode 131: Digital WalletsKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk digital wallets and current events.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:The digital wallet will be the biggest instrument of personal agency since the browser—but only if we make it ours — Apple and Google already have a wallet in your phone. Other developers want an open way to build alternatives. But the missing player in this is us. Let's step up.Podcasts Killed the Radio Star - by Katherine Druckman — As many o...
2022-11-0553 minReality 2.0Episode 130: What Happens to Twitter Now?Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls speculate about Twitter's future and discuss the evolution of audience engagement.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Things To Never Say To Someone Who Owns A Tesla — Unless you’d like to get run over by a rich, angry tech bro with a chip on their shoulder, you might want to tread lightly when asking a Tesla driver about their car. Here are things you should never say to someone who owns a Tesla.Reality 2.0 Episode 109: From Twitter to the Fediverse with...
2022-10-2248 minReality 2.0Episode 120: I'm Here (aka Happy Birthday, Doc)Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls celebrate Doc's birthday and chat about Amazon acquisitions and privacy legislation.
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2022-07-3044 minReality 2.0Episode 118: Design and Fabrication with InventablesDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Zach Kaplan, CEO of Inventables, about design and fabrication with 3D carving, maker culture, and the history of Inventables.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Zach Kaplan.Support Reality 2.0Links:Projects | InventablesCreating the First Usable Mouse | ideo.com — In 1980, Apple asked IDEO to develop a mouse for their radical new computer, the Lisa. Previous attempts at mouse design, by Douglas Englebart and Xerox PARC, yielded results that were too expensive and hard to make. The Apple mo...
2022-07-1559 minReality 2.0Episode 116: The state of the CMS vs SilosTune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Adam Bergstein about the evolution of CMSes, the current landscape, and how they fit in with today’s siloed web.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Adam Bergstein.Support Reality 2.0Links:DrupalCon 2022 Recap | Nerdstein — While the CMS and DXP framework space is exploding, Drupal’s adoption numbers are trending down overall. While the talk covers this in greater depth, there were a few primary reasons my research uncovered:
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2022-06-2453 minReality 2.0Episode 114: Ethical AdvertisingTune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about how to advertise without being creepy.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0Links:Is Ethical Advertising Possible? – Purism — Is ethical advertising possible? We all certainly know unethical advertising is possible, we live with it every day. The ad-driven Internet has created an insatiable hunger for personal data and as a result most of what the average person does in their web brow...
2022-06-1058 minReality 2.0Episode 113: Authentic Users and DataDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dave Huseby of Cryptid.tech about pseudonymous authentication and verifiable data.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Dave Huseby.Support Reality 2.0Links:Reality 2.0 Episode 112: Pseudonymous Authentication for Twitter — Katherine Druckman and Kyle Rankin talk to Dave Huseby about his new approach to pseudonymous user authentication.Reality 2.0 Episode 61: The Future of Authenticating Your Data — Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Huseby about the authentic data economy, and the future of authentication.
2022-05-271h 18Reality 2.0Episode 107: Building the Decentralized WebKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to James Walker of Fission about building the decentralized web, decentralized identity, IPFS, and empowering users.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: James Walker.Support Reality 2.0Links:Build the future of web apps at the edge – Fission — Cloud native stacks won't deliver the future
We're building the data, auth & compute primitives that enable true local-first edge applications. But we don’t get to the future alone. Our edge computing stack is already embedded into leading protocols, platforms and pr...
2022-04-151h 13Reality 2.0Episode 101: The Elephant in the Room, Journalism, and DisinformationDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Shawn Powers discuss wartime journalism and misinformation, and Shawn's brain.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:Doc Searls Weblog · Where Journalism Fails — “What’s the story?”
No question is asked more often by editors in newsrooms than that one. And for good reason: that’s what news is about: The Story.My Car Accident | The Brain of Shawn — On March 2, 1999, I was on my way to work. Apparently I had a cellp...
2022-03-0444 minReality 2.0Episode 100: A Celebration with IPFS, Web3, and Home AutomationDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Shawn Powers, and Petros Koutoupis celebrate our 100th episode and talk Web3, IPFS, and home automation.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Petros Koutoupis and Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:My first web3 webpage | Dries Buytaert — How I built my first web3 webpage, and what I think about web3's potential.Apple’s Siri will finally work without an internet connection thanks to on-device processing - The Verge — Apple’s digital assistant Siri will process...
2022-02-2543 minReality 2.0Episode 99: IdRamp and Identity SolutionsDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Mike Vesey, CEO of IdRamp, about verifiable credentials, decentralization, and real-world identity solutions.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Mike Vesey.Support Reality 2.0Links:IdRamp Decentralized Identity ServicesIIWReality 2.0 Episode 97: ID.me Vs. The Alternatives — Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kaliya Young of the Internet Identity Workshop about ID.me, our concerns about its use as a national ID, and potential alternatives.
2022-02-1854 minReality 2.0Episode 98: You Win Some, You Lose Some (Billions)Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about how big tech navigates the ad tech landscape, for better or worse.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet (FSG Originals x Logic): Hwang, Tim: 9780374538651: Amazon.com: Books — In Subprime Attention Crisis, Tim Hwang investigates the way big tech financializes attention. In the process, he shows us how digital advertising―the...
2022-02-0436 minReality 2.0Episode 94: The Fun Holiday EpisodeKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls, Shawn Powers, and Kyle Rankin talk about everything from microphones to roombas to pottery in our last episode of 2021.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:Amazon.com: Heil Sound PR 40 Dynamic Cardioid Studio Microphone Bundle with PRSM Shock Mount (Black), Two-Section Broadcast Arm and Microphone Cable : Musical Instruments — Doc's mic.Amazon.com: Electro-Voice RE20 Microphone Kit with Shockmount, Two-Section Broadcast Arm and Microphone Cable : Musical Instruments — Shaw...
2021-12-1049 minReality 2.0Episode 91: The MetaverseKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about the metaverse of Facebook and beyond, how it may intersect with Web 3 and blockchain, as well as Second Life and the verses that came before.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0Links:Snow Crash: Stephenson, Neal: 2015553380958: Amazon.com: BooksBuilding a Multibillion-Dollar Company in 18 Months (with Hopin’s Johnny Boufarhat) — Hopin is one of the fastest-growing startups in history. Founder and CEO Johnny Boufarhat joins Azee...
2021-11-0552 minReality 2.0Episode 89: Digital IdentityKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Phil Windley about digital identity, picos, oauth, and big tech ecosystems.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Phil Windley.Support Reality 2.0Links:Phil Windley's Technometria7 Laws of Identity – Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog — Here's the most beautiful take yet on the Seven Laws of Identity – put together by Karon and Katrika, who even saw how the Laws connect with the Perception of Ailatan. In the past people have asked why I didn't do a Laws...
2021-10-2247 minReality 2.0Episode 87: Understanding NFTsTune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Gregory Bledsoe about NFTs and the future of transactions and authentication.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Gregory Bledsoe.Support Reality 2.0Links:double-entry bookkeeping – ProjectVRM — What makes double-entry bookkeeping important is that maybe it can save our asses from what computing did to our hands-on knowledge of how business works—or ought to work—in a hearty economy. Hence the hope behind the headline above.Pico Labs...
2021-10-011h 20Reality 2.0Episode 86: Pedal-Assisted PrivacyKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about their various health-related gadgets, including trackers, ebikes, VR workouts, etc., and the ways we incorporate them into our lives.
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2021-09-171h 08Reality 2.0Episode 85: BufferbloatKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Taht about bufferbloat, latency, and the issues plaguing our networks.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Dave Taht.Support Reality 2.0Links:dtaht (Dave Täht) · GitHubPostcards from the Bleeding Edge — David Täht writes about politics, space, copyright, the internet, audio software, operating systems and surfing.Does my modem have Active Queue Management (AQM) for low latency? | Xfinity Community Forum — Does my modem have Active Queue Management (AQM) for low latency...
2021-09-101h 00Reality 2.0Episode 84: Respect on the WebKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about respect on the web, including respecting your users, and algorithmic bias.
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2021-09-0346 minReality 2.0Episode 83: Intent Broadcasting and the Real Estate MarketTune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bill Wendel and Joyce Searls about where tech meets real estate, and how intentcasting could improve the market.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Real Estate Cafe | Serving a Money-saving Menu of Services since 1995Real Estate Cafe / reVRM Minifesto — Idea starters to kick-start conversation about VRM's potential role in the residential real estate industry
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2021-08-2755 minReality 2.0Episode 82: Apple’s Child Safety and the Screeching Voices of the MinorityKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about Apple’s new plans to monitor personal devices, and what it means for privacy, ownership, and setting precedence.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0Links:Apple's Plan to "Think Different" About Encryption Opens a Backdoor to Your Private Life | Electronic Frontier Foundation — Apple has announced impending changes to its operating systems that include new “protections for children” features in iCloud and iMessage. If you’ve spent a...
2021-08-1355 minReality 2.0Episode 81: Geeks at Home: The Gear That Makes Us HappyKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Petros Koutoupis about how we make our personal spaces better for work and play.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Petros Koutoupis and Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:My Big Round World – Everyone's a square…Pet Sematary (1989) - IMDb — After tragedy strikes, a grieving father discovers an ancient burial ground behind his home with the power to raise the dead.Sony Alpha 7R Review: Digital Photography Review — If there's...
2021-08-0652 minReality 2.0Episode 80: NSO Group's Pegasus, Stingrays, and GrindrKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about NSO group and Pegasus, Stingrays and cars, and surveilling priests.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0Links:Defending Against Spyware Like Pegasus – Purism — What’s particularly scary about spyware in general, and is true for Pegasus as well, is that victims have no indication they’ve been compromised. Due to how locked down the iPhone is from the end user, detecting Pegasus in particular requires...
2021-07-3044 minReality 2.0Episode 79: Your Identity - Twitter Verification, Facial Recognition, and MoreTune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Shawn Powers chat about Twitter verification, facial recognition, YouTube moderation, and algorithmic bias.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:I’m Not a Reporter. But I’m Verified as One on Twitter | WIRED — I NEVER CALLED myself a journalist until Twitter made me. I’m an attorney, activist, and faculty member, but it was only by using th...
2021-07-2348 minReality 2.0Episode 78: Human ID for Single Sign-OnKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bastian Purrer and Namik Muduroglu about Human ID, their open source anonymous single sign-on solution.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Bastian Purrer and Namik Muduroglu.Support Reality 2.0Links:humanID | One-Click Anonymous Login — humanID is an anonymous, bot-resistant authentication for safer online communities.
Non-profit and open source, the project was started in 2018 by the Foundation for New humanID. With the help of Mozilla and Harvard, we...
2021-07-1650 minReality 2.0Episode 77: Musings on Privacy, Remote Work, Health, and MoreKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about everything from healthcare to bad weather. Join us for a chat about everything.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:Apple shouldn't use privacy & security to stave off competition, EU antitrust head warns | AppleInsider — Responding to comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook in June, European Union competition chief Margrethe Vestager said that Apple shouldn't use privacy and se...
2021-07-091h 08Reality 2.0Episode 76: Brian Fox on Voting Systems, Post-COVID Work, and BashKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Brian Fox about voting systems, open source, work in the post-covid era, blockchain, programming languages, and more.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Brian Fox.Support Reality 2.0Links:Brian Fox (computer programmer) - Wikipedia — Brian Jhan Fox (born 1959) is an American computer programmer and free software advocate. He is the original author of the GNU Bash shell, which he announced as a beta in June 1989.[1] He...
2021-07-021h 02Reality 2.0Episode 75: Let's Talk About FLoC BlockingKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Drupal Association Community Liaison, Rachel Lawson, and Drupal developer, Tony Savorelli, about Privacy in Drupal and beyond, and protecting ourselves and others on the web.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Rachel Lawson and Tony Savorelli.Support Reality 2.0Links:Add Permissions-Policy header to block Google FLoC [#3209628] | Drupal.org — Google is introducing what it calls Federated Learning of Cohorts, which is a way to gather user da...
2021-06-251h 02Reality 2.0Episode 74: DeleteMe, Privacy Tools, and Protecting YourselfKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Abine’s Rob Shavell about DeleteMe and other privacy tools, as well as emerging issues like vaccine tracking, AI, and facial recognition.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Rob Shavell.Support Reality 2.0Links:Remove Personal Info from Google - DeleteMeRedact | Mass Delete your Social Media — The only platform that allows you to automatically clean up your old posts from services like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord and...
2021-06-191h 07Reality 2.0Episode 73: More Apple News and Shady Apps are ShadyKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Shawn Powers discuss Apple's new privacy features, the Anom app, and the problems with cloud storage.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:Apple unveils new privacy features, digital IDs and changes to FaceTime. - The New York Times — Apple once again took aim at the vast digital-advertising industry on Monday and unveiled a number of changes to protect iPhones users’ privacy and stre...
2021-06-1137 minReality 2.0Episode 72: To Opt-In or Not To Opt-In, That is the QuestionKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Amazon’s new Sidewalk feature, more about Apple’s opt-out options, and other privacy issues.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Doc Searls Weblog · Apple vs (or plus) Adtech — If you haven’t seen it yet, watch Apple’s Privacy on iPhone | tracked ad. In it a guy named Felix (that’s him, above) goes from a coffee shop to a waiting room somewhere, accumulating a vast herd of...
2021-06-0433 minReality 2.0Episode 71: Tons of Tracking TechKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Apple’s IDFA, Ford In-Car ads, and more about AirTags.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Ford Patented In-Car Ads Because We Live In Hell Now — I’m all for innovation in the automotive sector, but there are some technologies I simply cannot abide by, and Ford’s newly-patented billboard detector that can read ads and display them inside your car is exactly one of those technolo...
2021-05-2827 minReality 2.0Episode 70: Apple AirTags and PrivacyTune in to our new episode! Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk Apple Airtags and privacy.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:I tracked my kid with Apple's Airtags to test its privacy features - CNN — I clipped a keychain with one of Apple's tiny new Bluetooth trackers, AirTags, onto my son's book bag and waved goodbye to him on the school bus. I watched on...
2021-05-1442 minReality 2.0Episode 69: What’s Up With Basecamp?Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Basecamp’s new policy on workplace political conversation.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Changes at Basecamp — Recently, we've made some internal company changes, which, taken in total, collectively feel like a full version change. It deserves an announcement.
The story of Basecamp’s disastrous policy - The Verge — On April 26th, Basecamp founder and CEO Jason Fried posted on his blog about some policy changes that wou...
2021-05-0733 minReality 2.0Episode 68: Signal Snoops On Cellebrite as They Snoop On UsKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls chat with Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers about Signal’s exposure of vulnerabilities in Cellebrite’s mobile device hacking software.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:Signal >> Blog >> Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer from an app's perspective — Cellebrite makes software to automate physically extracting and indexing data from mobile devices. They exist within the grey – where enterpri...
2021-04-301h 15Reality 2.0Episode 67: It’s a Great Effing IslandKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls discuss a new approach to intent broadcasting, the end of tracking, and the island of Kauai.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Customer Commons — Customer Commons’ mission is to restore the balance of power, respect and trust between individuals and organizations that serve them.A New Way – Customer Commons — Why do you always have to accept websites’ terms? And why do you have no record of your own of what yo...
2021-04-2339 minReality 2.0Episode 65: The Big Round World Outside the BrowserKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers about comic art, ecommerce, and the world beyond the browser.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:My Big Round World – Everyone's a square… — Everyone's a square…xkcd: Hammer Incident — A webcomic of romance,
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2021-04-0959 minReality 2.0Episode 64: Who is Accountable for Disinformation?Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about responsibility for disinformation, congressional hearings, and the Suez canal.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Zuckerberg and Dorsey Face Harsh Questioning From Lawmakers - The New York Times — Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter testified about their platforms, misinformation and the 2020 election.Evan Greer on Twitter: "most of the Capitol rioters had smartphones. were Apple and AT&T partially responsible for the violence? Pl...
2021-04-0240 minReality 2.0Episode 63: Is Your Privacy Set by Marketers in Aeron Chairs?Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti and Shawn Powers about realistic data privacy measures, surveillance marketing, and privacy regulation.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Don Marti and Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:CCPA opt out, nerd edition — While we figure out how to make general-purpose CCPA opt-outs practical (feel free to set up a time on Calendly if you want to talk with me about Authorized Agent projects), he...
2021-03-261h 00Reality 2.0Episode 62: How Did Disinformation Become the Truth?Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Prof. Chris Bronk, Ph.D. and Petros Koutoupis about disinformation and cyber security, and how they impact our lives, as well as IoT vulnerabilities and voice recognition technology.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Chris Bronk and Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:“Misinformation” vs. “Disinformation”: Get Informed On The Difference - Dictionary.com — Disinformation means “false information, as about a country’s military strength or plans, dissemi...
2021-03-1946 minReality 2.0Episode 61: The Future of Authenticating Your DataKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Dave Huseby about the authentic data economy, and the future of authentication.
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MastodonSpecial Guest: Dave Huseby.Support Reality 2.0Links:The Authentic Data Economy. Universal Digital Trust at Global Scale | by dwh | Feb, 2021 | Medium — To this day — even with mass computerization — trust-based interactions stubbornly resist digitization and remain at human scale simply because of the way we keep and maintain authentic data record...
2021-03-121h 07Reality 2.0Episode 60: SpaceX, Starlink, and Mozilla State PartitioningKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about Starlink, SpaceX and Mozilla’s new state partitioning privacy feature in Firefox.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:Starlink: SpaceX's satellite internet project | Space — Starlink is the name of a satellite network that the private spaceflight company SpaceX is developing to provide low-cost internet to remote locations. While SpaceX eventually hopes to have as many as 12,000 satellites in this so-called megaconstellation, the size and scale of the...
2021-03-0541 minReality 2.0Episode 59: FOSS, Mentorship, and Doing Great WorkKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Travis Carden and Petros Koutoupis about maintaining open source projects, mentoring contributors, Drupal, and automated testing.
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(42s): Intros, subscribe to our newsletter, and buy our swag. ;)
(1m 38s): Who IS Travis Carden?
(4m 36s): Maintaining an open source project and mentoring contributors.
(8m 13s): Drupal's origins and evolution.
(18m 57s): Impressive Drupal examples.
(24m 49s): Mentorship and Drupal.
(31m 24s): Intro to Orca, the Drupal testing tool.
(33m 17s): Open sourcing Orca.
2021-02-261h 05Reality 2.0Episode 58: So Someone Stole Your IdentityKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Shawn Powers and Kyle Rankin about protecting yourself online, password and security best practices, and a tragic tale.
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MastodonSpecial Guests: Kyle Rankin and Shawn Powers.Support Reality 2.0Links:Universal 2nd Factor - Wikipedia — Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) is an open standard that strengthens and simplifies two-factor authentication (2FA) using specialized Universal Serial Bus (USB) or near-field communication (NFC) devices based on...
2021-02-191h 03Reality 2.0Episode 57: You Look Familiar, Did I See You on the Internet?Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk facial recognition AI using our photos for training, and how we collectively negotiate our own privacy online.
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MastodonSupport Reality 2.0Links:This new tool can tell you if your online photos are helping train facial recognition systems - CNN — Exposing.ai, unveiled in January, lets you know whether photos you've posted to image-sharing site Flickr have been used to advance this controversial application of artificial in...
2021-02-1244 minReality 2.0Episode 56: The Age of the ModeratorKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk Twitter's new Birdwatch experiment, Signal's resistance to moderation, and Redditors' impact on the stock market.
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[02:06]: Twitter outsourcing content moderation with expirimental Birdwatch feature.
[13:32]: Signal's founder has pushed back against internal efforts to have some sort of mechanism to prevent misuse of the platform.
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2021-02-0541 minReality 2.0Episode 55: Radio BroadcastingDoc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dean Landsman and Paul Walker about radio broadcasting, including long distance coverage.
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2021-01-2956 minReality 2.0Episode 54: Digital Rights are Human RightsDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Evan Greer, Deputy Director of digital rights activism group Fight for the Future about Section 230, privacy, politics, de-platforming, and internet policy.
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2021-01-2252 minReality 2.0Episode 53: The SolarWinds AttackDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about the SolarWinds hack, and Facebook's reaction to Apple privacy initiatives.
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2020-12-2252 minReality 2.0Episode 52: Fragmentation and Outrage of the WeekDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about fragmentation and software development, the Amazon Halo, and surveilling school children.
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Katherine (41s):
The concept of fragmentation as it applies to software development.
Kyle (1m 44s):
[I]f you're an application developer today and you're writing a program, you know, 20 years ago, what you had to do is think about, well, do I want my...
2020-12-181h 02Reality 2.0Episode 51: Poop in the DesertDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman have a fun chat with Petros Koutoupis about open source in space, digital detox, World War 2 cryptography, and poop in the desert.
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2020-12-1140 minReality 2.0Episode 50: What Happened to Cyber Utopia?Doc Searls and Jon Lebkowsky talk reality, social constructs, the internet, and disinformation.
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2020-12-041h 03Reality 2.0Episode 49: Parler, Ownership, and Open SourceDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Petros Koutoupis, and Kyle Rankin talk Parler and platform lock-in, the concept of data, software, and hardware ownership, and the open source social contract.
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(49s):
“I think the first one, maybe the that's that we could cover is, well, let's see, how do I put this without causing too much controversy? That's just the idea of siloed social, silos of any kind, but in particular social media and perceived censorship as it, as it applies to social media. That's a, that's a hot topic right now.”
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2020-11-2056 minReality 2.0Episode 48: The Politics of CommunicationDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Professor Barbara Cherry of Indiana University about political division, legislation and regulation, technical evolution, and more.
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2020-11-131h 04Reality 2.0Episode 47: RevolutionsDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Hadrian Zbarcea about revolutions, both technical and other.
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2020-11-0653 minReality 2.0Episode 46: Facial Recognition, Surveillance Technology, and the Balance of PowerDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Kyle Rankin talk about facial recognition and surveillance technology in the hands of individuals, and how that affects the balance of power.
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2020-10-3058 minReality 2.0Episode 45: Social Media Regulation and JournalismDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk social media regulation and its relationship to journalism and the threat to Section 230.Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:FCC chairman says he'll seek to regulate social media under Trump's executive order - CNN — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will draft regulations intended for social media companies following a petition earlier this year by the Trump administration, the agency's chairman said Thursday.
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2020-10-2354 minReality 2.0Episode 44: Podcasts Killed the Radio StarDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis discuss the evolution of podcasting vs. radio.
Show Notes:
00:00:57 Please subscribe to our Newsletter - a reminder :)
00:01:35 Radio vs Podcasting, is it like Godzilla vs Bambi?
00:06:51 What makes podcasting so accessible?
00:20:27 Where we host our podcast and a shoutout to fireside.fm
00:41:27 "Linux is free if your time has no value" --Jamie Zawinski
00:45:08 Scotch time, beer o'clock, or Blursday...Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:How podcasting became a new front in the streaming wars | Financial...
2020-10-1646 minReality 2.0Episode 43: Ad Tracking Runs DeepDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about his privacy analysis app, Page X-Ray, ad tracking, and data privacy.
Show Notes:
00:02:17 Page Xray and Blacklight
00:07:27 While you interact with one web page, who else is harvesting your information?
00:14:13 Listen to which tracker Katherine used for about 10 minute, and promptly removed!
00:15:57 What is malvertising
00:18:55 What about the browser extension privacy trackers?
00:25:54 Who should use PageXray?
00:32:30 What are some good consumer tools?
00:42:26 What is "fingerprinting" and how does a site "fingerprint" you?
00:48:21 Covering your "privates"
00:51:32...
2020-10-0959 minReality 2.0Episode 42: Camera Drones, Ad Trackers, and That Netflix MovieDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, Kyle Rankin, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's new flying camera, ad tech, and The Social Dilemma.
00:01:27 The spying based advertising business is on it's way out
00:05:55 The Amazon's April fools joke that is now a product
00:12:14 Doc's issue with 'Alexa' listening to you all the time
00:15:09 California's CCPA
00:16:14 Kyle's perspective on the Amazon drone
00:21:36 Scale of mass surveillance
00:30:28 Facial recognition
00:34:12 Katherine is looking for some good news...
00:35:58 Normalization of fear mongering
00:40:05 When can a company legitimately collect your personal information
00:41:12 What do...
2020-10-0251 minReality 2.0Episode 41: TikTok and App CensorshipDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin and Petros Koutoupis about TikTok and who controls your phone.
Notes:
00:00:37 The new contraband - TikTok
00:04:34 Is the US wanting to "play" China and censor?
00:08:19 Will this become an ugly precedent?
00:15:37 We're concerned about the implementation of this ban
00:17:25 The Social Dilemma on Netflix
00:21:11 Your phone is your castle
00:33:10 Defining the harm from mere content
00:44:59 Final thoughts - Portrait mode video
00:48:20 How does a visually impaired person use a phone? See link.Special Guests: Kyle Rankin...
2020-09-2550 minReality 2.0Episode 40: Normalizing SurveillanceDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman, and Petros Koutoupis talk about Amazon's Alexa for landlords program.
Show notes:
00:00:23 For starters, let's begin with Normalization of Surveillance.
00:50:00 Amazon Alexa for landlords.
00:10:15 Is this really jus another way to discover new markets?
00:19:03 Doc the mechanic?!
00:27:49 If you're young do you really not care about privacy?
00:30:49 A couple of things that will clue people on privacy, are: Health data, and political issues
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2020-09-1833 minReality 2.0Episode 39: Weekly Dose of RealityDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk remote work, survival, and Facebook.
00:04:09 The three key subjects we're discussing
00:05:41 First subject - Remote work
00:17:41 Covid19 forced remote work, but Petros misses one thing in particular
00:23:24 The increasing disparity between people who can and can't work remotely
00:32:24 Scott Galloway
00:39:30 Moving onto Facebook
00:40:07 Katherine didn't use Facebook until she started WHAT?!
00:44:51 Facebook wasn't designed or built to fully account everything it does.
00:51:04 What is the big wake-up call Apple is sending out?
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2020-09-1154 minReality 2.0Episode 38: Digital ConvergenceKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin of Purism about Digital Convergence.
Links mentioned: https://puri.sm/posts/investing-in-real-convergence/
Show notes:
00:00:32 Today we're talking about the idea of Convergence
00:04:36 Green on black Linux is COOL! --Kyle R.
00:07:01 The realization of adaptive design and how do others handle it
00:10:28 Law enforcement can subpoena your iCloud content straight from Apple
00:12:55 The fundamental problem Apple and Goole have according to Kyle
00:15:17 What is the hassle developers are already living with???
00:21:53 What do people really want?
00:27:23 Doc is...
2020-09-031h 11Reality 2.0Episode 37: User Sovereignty and Decentralization, The SequelDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman continue their conversation with Dave Huseby, Hyperledger's Security Maven, about user sovereignty and decentralization, open source culture, cryptography, respectful technology, and more.
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00:01:27 The importance of individual sovereignty, autonomy, independence, liberty etc.
00:03:50 Linus doesn't take s#!t off of anybody...
00:06:15 The legislative power shifts
00:11:30 Wizards vs Moguls vs Geeks, who leads the way?!
00:15:03 "Garage Engineering", it's a thing...
00:20:00 Dave's...
2020-07-241h 27Reality 2.0Episode 36: User Sovereignty and DecentralizationDoc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis talk to Dave Huseby, Hyperledger's Security Maven, about User Sovereignty and Decentralization, Hyperledger, blockchain and security.Special Guests: Dave Huseby and Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0
2020-06-241h 09Reality 2.0Episode 35: Bruce Schneier on Truth, Reality, and Contact TracingDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Bruce Schneier about contact tracing, digital identity, hacking, privacy, and regulation.
Show notes:
0:00:25: Contact tracing apps
0:02:31: Contract tracing false positive and false negative
0:04:24: Contract tracing apps adoption rate
0:07:36: Katherine agrees apps should build more trust
0:11:44: The 2nd anniversary of the GDPR
0:13:31: Bruce talks about his RSA presentation about the notion of hacking
0:15:26: Katherine dove tails hacking into contact tracing
0:18:24: Hacking discipline around SSI (Self Sovereign Identity)
0:19:08: Should we need proof of immunity or carry an immunization card/immunity passport?
0:23:28...
2020-05-2751 minReality 2.0Episode 34: Privacy and Self-HostingDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Robert Douglass of Platform.sh about self-hosting collaboration tools, and other current privacy topics.
Show notes:
0:00:54: Introduction to a couple of tools
0:02:04: Doc's take on Zoom.
0:05:13: A lot of what we do online is not especially private.
0:06:33: Apple and Google and contact tracing.
0:09:00: Healthcare is a B2B insurance business.
0:11:15: Health information and advertising.
0:13:04: Convenience versus privacy.
0:13:26: SaaS products and convenience, Facebook, Apple. Concerns of the individual versus the concerns of the many.
2020-04-241h 11Reality 2.0Episode 33: Pandemic EditionDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin, Petros Koutoupis, and Shawn Powers about the new realities we're facing as a result of COVID-19.
Show notes:
0:04:08: How is this situation a little bit different from what we're used to?
0:04:36: E-learning
0:06:00: Shawn on e-learning and computer-based training.
0:08:09: Kids without computer or internet access.
0:11:31: What is lockdown? What’s on the horizon?
0:14:14: Remote work, how to do it well.
0:16:22: What can distributed open source software teams teach everyone?
0:17:35: This is not normal ri...
2020-03-261h 09Reality 2.0Episode 32: All the MusicDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman speak with Damien Riehl and Noah Rubin from the All the Music project, allthemusic.info, a project that has machine-generated all possible melodies and released them to the public domain. We discuss music copyright in the digital landscape and musical math and humanity. We highly recommend watching Damien's TEDx Minneapolis talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJtm0MoOgiU
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[01:15] Introduction to All the Music Project
[03:50] How do you see it put to use?
[06:20] How were the melodies discovered?
2020-02-2755 minReality 2.0Episode 31: Personal Devices are PersonalDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin, CSO of Purism, about mobile phones, their security and privacy vulnerabilities, and Purism's new Librem 5 device.Special Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0
2020-02-031h 08Reality 2.0Episode 30: A Chat with Don NormanKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Norman, one of the world's most influential designers, about data privacy, the cult of Apple, hero complexes, and climate change.Special Guest: Don Norman.Support Reality 2.0
2019-12-121h 09Reality 2.0Episode 29: On to Beer Number 3!Doc Searls, Katherine Druckman and Petros Koutoupis discuss the Open Source Cloud landscape, weigh in on Open Source communities and contribution, and open multiple beers. Petros tells us how he really feels about systemd.Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0
2019-11-1554 minReality 2.0Episode 28: Destroy This PodcastKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls, and Petros Koutoupis talk about ownership, freedom, and convenience in the digital world.Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0
2019-10-0354 minReality 2.0Episode 27: On Ring Doorbells and Consumer PrivacyKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin, Purism CSO, about Ring doorbells and consumer privacy.
Links:
Here's How Amazon's Ring Doorbell Police Partnership Affects You
Police can get your Ring doorbell footage without a warrant, report says
Amazon’s Ring Is a Perfect Storm of Privacy Threats
Amazon's Ring camera raises civil liberties concerns: U.S. senatorSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0
2019-09-1242 minReality 2.0Episode 26: Retro Computing with the Altair-DuinoKatherine Druckman, Doc Searls and Petros Koutoupis talk to Chris Davis of adwaterandstir.com about his Arduino-based Altair 8800 replica kits.
Links mentioned:
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Going Retro with an Altair 8800 Emulator: Introducing the Altair-DuinoSpecial Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0
2019-08-2943 minReality 2.0Episode 25: A Chat With Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGoDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Gabriel Weinberg, CEO & Founder of DuckDuckGo, and co-author of Super Thinking and Traction.Special Guest: Gabriel Weinberg.Support Reality 2.0
2019-08-1542 minReality 2.0Episode 24: A Chat About Redis LabsDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Yiftach Shoolman, CTO and Co-founder of Redis Labs, about Redis, Open Source licenses, company culture and more.
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Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend
Redis Labs and the "Common Clause"
Redis Labs Changing Its Licensing for Redis Modules Again...
Redis Labs’ Modules License Changes
Special Guest: Yiftach Shoolman.Support Reality 2.0
2019-08-0250 minReality 2.0Episode 21: From Mac to LinuxKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Editor at Large, Petros Koutoupis, about moving from Mac to Linux.
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https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-laptop-buyers-guide
Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0
2019-06-2045 minReality 2.0Episode 20: Advertising is Broken, but Linux Isn't.Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Don Marti, of Mozilla and formerly of Linux Journal, about ad technology, privacy, and the Linux community.
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2019-06-0758 minReality 2.0Episode 19: Democratizing CybersecurityKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Alex Gounares of Polyverse Linux about Cybersecurity for everyone.
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2019-05-241h 01Reality 2.0Episode 18: KidOYODoc Searls talks to Zhen, Devon and Melora Lofretto of KidOYO and Doctor Michael Nagler, superintendent of the Mineola Public School system in Mineola
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The Kids Take Over
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2019-04-291h 05Reality 2.0Episode 17: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.Katherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bob Erdman, Security Product Manager for Helpsystems about Linux security threats.
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2019-03-2540 minReality 2.0Episode 16: Digital StalkingKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk about digital stalking, journalism, clickbait, and using ad targeting for evil.
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2019-03-1145 minReality 2.0Episode 15: Learning PythonKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal Senior Columnist, Reuven Lerner, about learning new languages such as Python.
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2019-02-1145 minReality 2.0Episode 14: Digital SovereigntyKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Elizabeth Renieris about digital identity, ethics, boiled frogs, and horses with lasers.
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2019-01-2842 minReality 2.0Episode 13: Surveillance MarketingDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Dr. Augustine Fou about surveillance marketing, ad tech, and privacy.
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2019-01-181h 07Reality 2.0Episode 12: Vendor Lock-inKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Linux Journal's Technical Editor, Kyle Rankin, about vendor lock-in.
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Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: MessagingSpecial Guest: Kyle Rankin.Support Reality 2.0
2019-01-1144 minReality 2.0Episode 11: Moving the ChairsKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Petros Koutoupis about his Deep Dive articles, storage, blockchain, and moving chairs.
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Blockchain, Part I: Introduction and Cryptocurrency
Special Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0
2019-01-0350 minReality 2.0Episode 10: Hydrants and SirensKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to David Egts (@davidegts), Chief Technologist North America for the Public Sector at Red Hat (@redhatgov) about open source enthusiasm.
Links Mentioned:
Time for Net Giants to Pay Fairly for the Open Source on Which They Depend
Adopt-a-Hydrant
Special Guest: David Egts.Support Reality 2.0
2018-12-1754 minReality 2.0Episode 9: Humanity, Magic, and GlitterKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Bryan Lunduke about Linux and humanity.
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2018-12-071h 07Reality 2.0Episode 7: Sounding AlarmsKatherine Druckman and Doc Searls talk to Kyle Rankin about about sounding alarms in various communities.
Links Mentioned:
The Four Essential Freedoms
The Coral Project
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2018-11-1445 minReality 2.0Episode 6: Conferences and CommunityKatherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about Freenode Live, conferences, and the Linux community.
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freenode #live 2018 - Doc Searls and Simon Phipps - In Conversation
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2018-11-0741 minReality 2.0Episode 5: Linux is PersonalDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Corbin Champion about Userland, an easy way to run Linux on your Android device, and other new projects.
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2018-10-3147 minReality 2.0Episode 4: All About SecurityDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Linux Journal's own Kyle Rankin about basic security hardening.
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2018-10-2646 minReality 2.0Episode 3: Microsoft and PatentsDoc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Erich Andersen, Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft and Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network about Microsoft's recently announced membership with the Open Invention Network patent community.
Useful links:
https://www.openinventionnetwork.com/pressrelease_details/?id=89
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-joins-open-invention-network-to-help-protect-linux-and-open-source/
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2018-10-1634 minReality 2.0Episode 2: Privacy is PersonalKatherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about consumer privacy, Main Street, and heart attacks at Walmart.
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2018-10-1327 minReality 2.0Episode 1: Digital PrivacyKatherine Druckman talks to Doc Searls about digital privacy, wizards and muggles, and boiled frogs.Support Reality 2.0
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