You might know Doc Popular as a nerdcore rapper, or a lo-fi techno musician who plays on bent toy electronics, or maybe you bought one of his crafty blue jean wallets, or read one of his comics, or maybe you’ve seen him in a video or two right ...

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A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, family and other addicts offer many temptations which he resists, with the help of a 12-step program and his sponsor. He transfers the energy behind his addiction into shaming and belittling everyone still plugged into the modern world. This gives him an excuse to keep up with the latest in technological advancements, and frequently causes him to relapse, going on technological binges.

The Information Security Sell Out has been an anonymous, outspoken critic (aka troll) of the security community for much of this year. He’s hidden behind his anonymity, attacking researchers and the security community in general. But anonymity is only an illusion on the Internet, especially when you’re attacking the people ...

What do Guy Kawasaki, Jason Calcanis and TechCrunch all have in common? Neil Patel, co-founder of ACS Consulting, who is the search engine wizard behind these blogs’ success.

Content is king in the Top 100 blogging world and all of these blogs mentioned have great content — ...

A former high-tech genius, Shiloh Anderson struggles against his addiction to technology. In an effort to free himself, he abandons all forms of technology introduced after 1971, the year the first mass-produced answering machine was available to the public. Friends, family and other addicts offer many temptations which he resists ...

Cory Doctorow is a popular science fiction author and co-editor of the high-profile blog, BoingBoing. His novels are given away for free on the Internet as Creative Commons-licensed downloads. They can be freely shared, and in some cases, remixed or translated and sold in developing countries. Perhaps ...

One of the more talked about valley start-ups in recent months is Spock. Founded in 2006 by Jay Bhatti and Jaideep Singh, Spock is a people search Web site that aims to be the most comprehensive source of information about just about anyone. Spock crawls the Web looking for ...

Special guests: Andy Beard, Michael Grey, Brian Provost, and Allen Stern.

In this episode, Jason gets feedback on Mahalo from four formidable figures in the SEO industry; an industry that Mahalo aims to make irrelevant. Is reasoned debate possible in a roundtable with such polarized participants? Watch ...

Footnote.com has the largest collection of digital images from original source documents on the Web. Through a partnership with the U.S. Government’s National Archives and Records Administration, Footnote is digitizing a vast collection of original documents that have been inaccessible to the masses before now.

With regards to global climate change, your computer and anyone’s computer — anywhere in the world — are more likely to be part of the problem than part of the solution. At a press event held at Google’s Mountain View headquarters June 12th, Google co-founder Larry Page, along with ...

Who hasn’t wished that customer service could be better online? A San Francisco start-up called Satisfaction will launch in the next month or so with the aim of improving online customer service by tapping the collective knowledge of users. The Web application is akin to message boards and will ...

James Au worked at the embedded reporter in Second Life, the virtual world where users build everything you interact with. I sit down with James for a beer on a Saturday afternoon recently and here’s our conversation. This is the second part where we discuss cool places to visit ...

The Honkeys aren’t to be confused with the band in my last post. This band is an instrumental surf act that recently reunited. They originally “took a break” back in 2001. We’re glad to have them back, as they were one of the best bands to come out of ...

On your next visit to the dentist, you might notice a computer monitor to the side of that ergonomic chair. That’s because software designed to manage a dental practice from companies like Dentrix is being used not only to automate the backoffice and billing functions, but provide assistance in ...

Mark Jacobson is a leading expert in wind energy and the atmosphere. He hears some of the claims being made on behalf of E85 — that it’s supposed to be cleaner, that it will reduce ozone-forming pollution and the release of harmful compounds like benzene, toluene and xylene. Mark’s ...

Tony Martindale is head of Connaught, a British car company developing a new high-performance hybrid sports coupe called the Type-D H GT. The Type-D H features the world’s first V10 hybrid power train, which aims to combine high performance and excellent fuel economy. We spoke at the Alternative ...

Founder of Swedish company Kapsel Multimedia, Wilhelm Lagerkranz, wanted a small, quiet computer he could use as a home media center. He looked around the marketplace and didn’t find what he wanted, so he decided to make it himself. Lagerkranz and his design team drew hundreds of sketches, trying to ...

Helen Shukla is the founder-director of The Writers Block, a Bangalore-based company that focuses on technical documentation outsourcing and consulting.

In this interview, Helen talks about the state of technical documentation in India, what skills are required for the job and how her company aims in filling the demand ...

In the winter of 2005, Cynthia Shelton embarked on a journey not many of us would be keen on pursuing — a solo drive from California to Massachusetts in a 1973 Mercedes run on straight vegetable oil. She was successful in her journey — documented here — but came ...

This month marks the six-month anniversary of the Department of Homeland Security establishing the post of Assistant Secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications. Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff named former Information Technology Association of America executive Greg Garcia to the post.

Garcia recently outlined his agenda at this year’s RSA ...

Kumar Subramanian, with over 18 years of experience in the banking and financial sector, heads Adventity, a successful financial BPO/KPO company that has operations in India and USA.

Kumar spends weekdays in Mumbai, and flies home to the southern city of Chennai to be with his family, and come Sunday ...

On February 10th, Paul Kedrosky wrote an editorial for The Wall Street Journal in which he questioned Steve Jobs’ claims that DRM-free music distribution is in the best interests of the record labels. He feels that it is a big risk for the labels and that Apple should instead ...

Intel Chairman Craig Barrett says Silicon Valley IT companies are in the right place at the right time to help the United Nations address the world’s health, education, and economic problems. Barrett, who has been appointed the chairman of the U.N.’s Global Alliance for ICT and Development, says, “My job is to make sure that we don’t talk a lot, but we do a lot.” The Alliance will meet today at the the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., to discuss the role of Silicon Valley in the U.N.’s information technology goals. PodTech’s Jason Lopez interviewed Intel’s chairman at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara. Intel made this video possible.

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Convenience. That’s the big benefit of having all your music and video entertainment at your fingertips. Control4’s Ed Ryan and Jeff Thomas discuss the benefits of every-room entertainment with Brad Baldwin. Using something called “scenes,” Control4 allows you to integrate audio and video with your lighting and more to create moods and sound in different rooms in your home. And with all your music available with a quick tap on your visual remote that shows album art, allows for playlists, and offers searching, finding the right song is more fun than ever.

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