FFS Talk podcast

FFS Talk podcast

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FFS Talk podcast episodes

  • Episode 0013: Everyone in Silos?
    Show Notes
    • Host: Dan Hugo
    • Summary: There is a time and a place for a social silo, where two or more individuals need to conduct business away from others, whatever that business may be. Is it good, though, when silos become the primary landscape feature across an ecosystem?
      • Links
      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
      • Conway´s Law https://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html
      • Cory Doctorow on Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
      • Behave… by Robert M Sapolsky https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31170723-behave
        • 41 min
      • Episode 0012: Dating Apps Have Had Their Turn
        Show Notes
        • Host: Dan Hugo
        • Summary: Many people Meet Online, whatever that may mean specifically, but is meeting people getting easier? Are the people you meet better for meeting them via profile pictures and self-description on a monetized application platform owned by a monolithic matchin-making machine?
          • Links
          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
          • Linkedin a Dating Site? https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-a-dating-app-remote-work-online-romance-2024-1
          • Dating Markets https://econlife.com/2023/02/dating-markets/
          • The Tinder Economy (2020) https://lynettealh.medium.com/the-economics-of-tinder-de7026d5c3ea
          • Dating Apps and Profitability… https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/02/13/1228749143/the-dating-app-paradox-why-dating-apps-may-be-worse-than-ever
          • Adverse Selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_selection
          • Match Group https://mtch.com/
          • 55/38/7 Rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Mehrabian
          • Less Hanging Out for Americans https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/america-decline-hanging-out/677451/
            • 51 min
          • Episode 0011: Hype Spelled AI
            Show Notes
            • Host: Dan Hugo
            • Summary: AI is everywhere lately, and it is only getting worse. Yes, worse.
              • Links
              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
              • AI is NOT Artificial Intelligence… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfGchpJRCG8
              • Apple Sherlock project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
              • Karelia Watson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karelia_Watson
              • Colossus: The Forbin Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
              • Mechanical Turk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
              • Turing Test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test
                • 41 min
              • Episode 0010: News and Journalism and Media Platforms
                Show Notes
                • Host: Dan Hugo
                • Summary: These are interesting times, particularly right now, with so many layoffs not only in the tech sector, but at major news media outlets. The definition of what News really is may vary per person, and who and where each person gets their news varies as well. Is there still room for investigative journalism and authoritative information outlets?
                  • Links
                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                  • Doing your own research (DYOR) https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidrvetter/2023/12/20/why-doing-your-own-research-may-make-you-believe-fake-news/
                  • Main Stream Media Bloodbath… https://www.axios.com/2024/01/26/media-layoffs-strikes-journalism-dying
                  • Bringing Back Local News https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/local-news-investment-economic-value/674942/
                  • Investigative Journalism https://gijn.org/about-us/investigative-journalism-defining-the-craft/
                  • Reporting vs Journalism https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2009/dec/10/newspapers-pressandpublishing
                  • Rebuilding Local News, maybe https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/
                  • Las Vegas Patch https://patch.com/nevada/lasvegas
                  • Inverted Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
                  • Yellow (Sensational) Journalism https://www.britannica.com/topic/yellow-journalism
                  • Which half? https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgebradt/2016/09/14/wanamaker-was-wrong-the-vast-majority-of-advertising-is-wasted/
                  • Reporting on Reporting https://copyrightalliance.org/copyright-journalism-news-reporting/
                  • History and the Printing Press https://www.history.com/news/printing-press-renaissance
                    • 1 hr 15 min
                  • Episode 0009: Ceding Everything to Technology
                    Show Notes
                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                    • Summary: Since the discovery of fire and the invention of tools from stone and/or the bones of (other) animals, we have been on a quest to make our lives easier and more efficient. Are we cheering on the move to replacing our own selves?
                      • Links
                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                      • The Time Machine by H. G. Wells on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Machine
                      • Doonesbury Comic Strip on Newton https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mobile-computing/18/319/1714
                      • First Human Making and Use of Tools https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/behavior/stone-tools/early-stone-age-tools
                      • Human Use of Bone Tools on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_tool
                      • Ethical AI (always do your research) https://www.unesco.org/en/artificial-intelligence/recommendation-ethics
                        • 49 min
                      • Episode 0008: Online Angst
                        Show Notes
                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                        • Summary: These first weeks have seen some high profile YouTubers exclaiming their need to take a break, step back, retire, and so on. What about we normal folk, and being overly-exposed, connected, and dependent on social media platforms? Can we escape, and if so, who do we need to tell?
                          • Links
                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                          • Oompaville - Why is Everyone Leaving…? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7MXRqZM2zo
                          • Tom Scott Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt0
                          • MatPat Announcement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R1_TqU68yo
                          • POSSE https://indieweb.org/POSSE
                          • Bonus: Tom Scott, Royal Insti
                            • 1 hr 9 min
                          • Episode 0007: RSVP
                            Show Notes
                            • Host: Dan Hugo
                            • Summary: We have Like and Share and Friend and Follow and all manner of words corrupted by social media. None moreso, perhaps, than RSVP, which has lost most of not all practical value. Can we fix this? Participez s'il vous plaît!
                              • Links
                              • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                              • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                              • Wikipedia on RSVP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSVP
                                • 35 min
                              • Episode 0006: Drive to Excellence
                                Show Notes
                                • Host: Dan Hugo
                                • Summary: The Drive to Excellence is one of those things we hear about, how they don´t make things the way they used to and all that. Should we settle for others moving fast and breaking things we depend on for the sake of some public valuation?
                                  • Links
                                  • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                  • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                  • Simon Sinek Start With Why TED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA
                                  • Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6828896-delivering-happiness
                                  • Kevlin Henney, Worse is Better for Better or Worse, GOTO 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3JkpQAbTA4
                                  • Cory Doctorow, TikTok´s Enpoopification https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
                                    • 49 min
                                  • Episode 0005: Our Mobile Devices
                                    Show Notes
                                    • Host: Dan Hugo
                                    • Summary: A lot of us have mobile phones, maybe a tablet, possibly a laptop. Evolutionary changes are becoming more and more specific, with each iteration extra safe. Minimally Advanced Yet Acceptable is a thing, yes, but we need a little bit more surprise…
                                      • Links
                                      • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                      • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                      • Raymond Loewy and MAYA https://www.raymondloewy.com/why-some-brands-disrupt-successfully-while-others-fail/
                                      • Screenrant on Unusual Phone Designs https://screenrant.com/weirdest-mobile-phones-ever-released/
                                      • Framework Laptops https://frame.work/
                                      • Phonebloks on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonebloks
                                      • Phonebloks on OneArmy https://www.onearmy.earth/project/phonebloks
                                      • Phonebloks to Google Ara on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Ara
                                      • Seeed Studio RePhone https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/RePhone/
                                      • LEGO Phone stuff on eBay (for fun) https://www.ebay.com/b/lego-phone/bn_7024807797
                                      • Google Fuchsia https://fuchsia.dev/
                                      • Humane OpenAI-powered Star Trek ai pin https://hu.ma.ne/
                                        • 1 hr 18 min
                                      • Episode 0004: Discovery
                                        Show Notes
                                        • Host: Dan Hugo
                                        • Summary: In our ever-more-connected world, is it becoming easier, or more difficult to find people, places, and things?
                                          • Links
                                          • Buy Dan A Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/danhugo
                                          • Dan´s Ko-Fi https://ko-fi.com/danhugo
                                          • History of Search Engines https://www.seomechanic.com/complete-history-search-engines/
                                          • Enpoopification on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
                                          • OKR vs KPI (Atlassian View) https://www.atlassian.com/blog/productivity/okr-vs-kpi
                                          • Reconnaissance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance
                                          • Perfect Information https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
                                          • OpenSearch scheme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch
                                          • A9 and OpenSearch and others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
                                          • Open Source AI/ML Tools https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/open-source-ai/
                                          • Yahoo! Pipes on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Pipes
                                            • 54 min

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