The Command Line

TCLP 2011-01-30 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 233, an episode of The Command ...

This is news cast 233, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, apologies to Sean or anyone else who took offense at my uncritical reading of the Jargon File entry on fisking. Sean filled in more of the story while I was ignorant that the story even existed. He also offers up one of the articles to which the entry refers. I will endeavor to do better, to not share an entry that refers to a specific person or event without more careful reading and consideration. This week’s security alerts are a technique for revealing 3rd party site logins and Facebook finally offers SSL encryption. In this week’s news, browser makers move ahead of do not track including Mozilla (with a handy infographic) and Google though we should be asking questions about how this all will work, Douglas Adams’ online encyclopedia attempts to save itself from shutdown, an ancient Greek inventor and roboticist, and the rise and fall of graphical adventure games. Following up this week is 3D printing game pieces legal including whether it is a problem if it is and Wyden promises to delay COICA. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2011-01-19 Rant: Tragedy of the Pseudocommons (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I’ll be at Wiki X DC this Saturday (which may or may not interfere with getting a news cast out on Sunday). If you can spare some cash, Podiobooks could really use the support to upgrade their servers right now. Listener feedback is from Jonathan in response to my piece about being an autodidact. He recommends a couple of videos and David Brin’s blog. The hacker word of the week this week is fisking. The feature this week is a somewhat rambling, speculative rant on the tragedy of the pseudocommons. This stems from a lot of recent attention on commons as economic and governance models, including the Nobel prize winning work of Elinor Ostrom and David E. Williams. The title is in fact a riff on Hardin’s original critique of the commons. In discussing the ethos animating digital commons, I suggest the Free Software Foundation exceeds the core values by insisting on stronger notions of liberty. James Boyle’s book does an excellent job describing the more obvious threat of enclosure. My pondering the pseudocommons is similar in some regards to my thoughts on the true burden of forking. Nicholas Carr pegs on extreme example of the form. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2011-01-12 Interview: Gabriella Coleman (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is an interview I conducted with Gabriella Coleman. I was introduced to her work through her writings at The Atlantic. She mentions Malcom Gladwell’s criticism of online activism and Indy Media. The main reason I invited her on was her critique of Bruce Sterling’s The Blast Shack. We delve a bit further into the question of WikiLeaks lasting impacts. I mention a couple of times Clay Shirky’s long haul view. Gabriella recommends Adrian Johns’ book on piracy (which I ordered with a gift card I received recently, can’t wait to read it). She also mentions a revisit of the topic of WikiLeaks at The Economist. You can also find Gabriella on Twitter where she is quite active and sharing some great links related to topics we discuss in this interview and of course her broader work. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2011-01-09 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 233, an episode of The Command ...

This is news cast 233, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This week’s security alerts are security tool uncovers multiple bugs in every browser and security hole in VLC media player. In this week’s news, in a project reminiscent of RAMP and Intel’s CPU+FPGA researchers claim to have squeezed 1000 cores on a chip, Intel announces CPU+GPU with DRM support which may raise antitrust concerns despite the vendor’s claims it isn’t meant to be used for DRM, Dave Winer’s latest attempt to re-invent the web, and Microsoft announces ARM port of Windows despite its poor history of ports vs. Linux. Following up this week State department solicits project ideas support internet freedom and VLC yanked from the Apple app store. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2011-01-05 Monologue: Confessions of an Autodidact (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Thanks to Terry and Robert for their generous donations over the hiatus. In the intro, I also attend to some other matters relating to the financial support of the podcast. Here is the article by Audrey Waters at ReadWriteWeb that I mentioned about flattr’s new direction donations. Listener feed back this week was about my interview with Jon “The Nice Guy” Spriggs and cchits.net. Mike from the Creative Commons left a comment with some clarifications and a bit of trivia. Tony from the band Broken Cities shared how the interview led him to connect with Jon and with some other music podcasters besides. The hacker word of the week this week is FISH queue. The feature this week is a monologue in which I share my confessions as an autodidact. It is similar in style to the monologue that shared my habits as an infovore. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-12-22 Interview: Jon Spriggs, cchits.net (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. Thanks to Simon, John, and Duane for their support through BitCoin and to Wild Biker for his generous year end donation. There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is my interview with Jon Spriggs about his new project, cchits.net. In the course of the interview we mention Hacman, Glyn Moody, PRS going after a barber, the singing shop worker who also got snared by a performance rights complaint, The Bug Cast, Music Manumit, James Corachea, SoX, Festival, ur1.ca, my interview with Evan Prodromou, Open Database License, and Open Street Maps. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Human Readable, read by Spider Robinson

Human Readable, read by Spider Robinson

TCLP 2010-12-15 Interview: Cory Doctorow, With a Little Help (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

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This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is my interview with Cory Doctorow about his newly launched anthology, “With a Little Help“. Look for an article soon at Publishers Weekly from Cory about the experimental nature of the project so far. Russell Galen is Cory’s agent who included a piece in the anthology. Ideo’s innovation platform is OpenIdeo. Even after fifteen editions, editors are still correcting typos in Steven Brust’s “The Phoenix Guards“. Not all anthologies have the long commercial life of J.D. Salinger’s “Frenny and Zooey“. John Berry is the renowned typographer with whom Cory has worked. The book club anthology Cory mentions is “Godlike Machines“, another one edited by Jonathan Strahan. The chap book Cory mentions will be from PM Press. Here is James Boyles’ call for evidence based policy. When we are talking about Google Editions, I mention Ryan Singel’s coverage at Wired and my own inference that Google may be smarting from the Books settlement. Cory linked on BoingBoing to a video of a British student involved with the protests eloquently calling for social justice. Cory may finally write an idea that has been bouncing around his head, sort of his response to Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road“. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-12-12 News (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is news cast 232, an episode of The Command ...

This is news cast 232, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. In the intro, along with my friend, John Taylor Williams, I was BoingBoing’ed this week for the beer I helped John brew, The Rogue Archivist. We talked about the making of this beer on our new podcast, Living Proof. I will also be taking some time off for travel and family commitments over the holidays. I have content for the next three shows lined up, including a story from Cory Doctorow’s new anthology, “With a Little Help“. This week’s security alerts are WebSockets disabled in Firefox 4 until the protocol can be secured and SHA-3 finalists announced by NIST. In this week’s news, Google finally launches its ebook service, a new and encoded da Vinci manuscript was found, pursuing a real life sonic screwdriver as inspired by Dr. Who, and a more fully de-centralized BitTorrent client. Following up this week one target of domain seizures plans to fight back and domain seizures for copyright infringement are just going to get more common. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can also grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

TCLP 2010-12-08 Interview: Lewis Hyde (Comment Line 240-949-2638)

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command ...

This is a feature cast, an episode of The Command Line Podcast. There is no new hacker word of the week this week due to the length of the feature. The feature this week is my interview with Professor Lewis Hyde about his new book, “Common as Air“. During the course of the interview, I mention the copyright reform proposals by Jessica Litman and Pamela Samuelson. Professor Hyde discusses his work at American University on fair use. He also mentions his collaboration on Oxherding with Max Gimblett. If you are in New York any time between now and January, go and enjoy the exhibit. More news, commentary, and alternate feeds available at http://thecommandline.net/. View the detailed show notes online. You can grab the flac encoded audio from the Internet Archive. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.