Technocolorshow

Talking about NSA Surveillance & an interview with the co-founders of Venmo.

Nothing to Hide, So Much to Lose: Understanding the NSA Leaks 

https://www.facebook.com/events/186838258158206/

Co-sponsored by: Mutant Legal Collective, National Lawyers Guild-NYC, Agaric Drupal Collective, and Bill of Rights Defense Committee

So, you’ve probably been hearing a lot about this guy, Edward, lately.
Edward Snowden? Yeah, sounds familiar. Now, what about all of the other terms you’ve been hearing thrown around? There’s a lot of technical vocabulary that gets used in association with the surveillance state, but how does surveillance really work? What do the documents Snowden leaked really mean for you and me?

Please join us for panel discussion facilitated by Molly Knefel of Radio Dispatch and Nathan Sheard of the Mutant Legal Collective that will help us understand a bit better what it all means.
Panel Featuring:
Alfredo López, May First/People Link
Sarah Hogarth, Human rights strategist and advocate
Abi Hassen, National Lawyers Guild
and Thomas Hintze and Rose Regina Lawrence of Mutant Legal

Suggested donation of $1-$20

*event volunteers welcome, if you can help, please contact mutantlegal@riseup.net

“Venmo was built as an easy way to settle up with friends. As more people started Venmo-ing, we noticed that people were using the payment note as a place to interact, josh, and joke. Our users were transforming Venmo into a fun way for friends to engage. Payments between friends were telling a story of shared memories, birthday dinners, weekend outings, drinks and laughs. We loved watching this develop and wanted to support this use of our product as much as possible.” … “In addition to featuring the payment feed more prominently, we’ve also made it possible to share payments beyond your Venmo friends to everyone else on Venmo. This feature helps Venmoers engage across the country and shows newcomers how they can use the app. To turn this feature off and share payments with just your Venmo friends, simply turn off public sharing in your settings. The choice is yours.”

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/99-professional/6263-code-by-voice-faster-than-keyboard.html

Today we are interviewing Derek Flanzraich of Greatist – http://greatist.com/

Derek explains that any content company is a technology company.

Sprint is bringing more bandwidth to the MTA

Sprint set to bring coverage to 277 NYC subway stations

In other news:

Lena wants to buy socks, smart socks!

Sensoria Smart Sock Fitness Tracker

But won’t, because she’s cheap.

http://kyledrake.net/ Kyle Drake

Kyle joins us again.

We talk more about BitCoin. Learn more about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin at wikipedia.

check out

https://www.weusecoins.com/en/

Today we are interviewing Kyle Drake about NeoCities.org

10 MB of space to make whatever you’d like with HTML, CSS, JS, IMG, TXT, and MD files.

Read about it on wired: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/07/neocities/

He directed listeners to sokoban at http://suppilulemur.neocities.org/

technocolorshow can be found on neocities at http://technocolorshow.neocities.org/

And we talked about BitCoin

we’ll talk more about it next show probably

This week we interviewed Matt Salzberg of Blue Apron.

About Blue Apron a start up which delivers ingredients with a matching recipe to your door.

Today is a day for TED talks about connectivity, the future and education.

the weight of digital knowledge
from Micahel Stevens

Nearer the the death of google reader
hiveminded!
feedly gets web support
commafeed hasn’t been working so well

the importance of connectivity :
Juliana Rotich talks about internet in Africa – the BRCK

Build a School in the Cloud by Sugata Mitra

Economist Andrew McAfee says that droids will take our jobs.

In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness — people and ideas that don’t fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we’ve already been. A call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need, even if it’s unfamiliar. (Filmed at TED@Intel.)

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It’s not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers — not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up.

Sergey Brin is half of the team that founded Google. Now he’s leading the development of special projects like Google Glass.

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check out the spreadsheet of altneratives to google reader that Martin found
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApTo6f5Yj1iJdFRfWmhUVjV0WkktTjJhUUE4dGR5WUE&pli=1#gid=0

CommaFeed
http://www.commafeed.com

Bitcoin
https://localbitcoins.com/buy_bitcoins
http://bitcoincharts.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin

Stenography
– Plover

Cat memes
cuteoverload.com

Ascii art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_art

Yahoo bought tumblr http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/20/yahoos-press-event-is-live-tonight/

Imgur interact with the web like it was all pictures
Redditwhere the web is all about text – with links to pictures on imgur 😉

Make your own website
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/you-are-missing-out-by-not-creating-a-personal-website-disproving-the-6-myths/?utm_source=feedly
http://collegeinfogeek.com/personal-website/

Before you buy check out wordpress.com

Google is starting a subscription service for Youtube Channel’s
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/google-launches-youtube-subscription-program-with-channels-starting-at-0-99month-updates/?utm_source=feedly

Google is combining various cloud saving areas
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/bringing-it-all-together-15-gb-now.html

I played some ted talks
– your digital life as Tattoos
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/not-just-for-coders-top-version-control-systems-for-writers/?utm_source=feedly

– if I controlled the internet – a poem from TED

What is version control –
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/not-just-for-coders-top-version-control-systems-for-writers/?utm_source=feedly

Google Lets Users Plan ‘Digital Afterlife’ By Naming Heirs – http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/04/11/google-lets-users-plan-digital-afterlife-by-naming-heirs/?mod=e2tw Google is allowing for folks to give control of their google data after their account goes inactive for some period of time.

and

Google’s Inactive Account Manager secures your digital existence after you kick the bucket – http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/11/google-inactive-account-manager/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29 from engadget

Edit your own google acount at – https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive

TED – Clay Shirky on TED Talk – how the internet will transform the government

New York City Unveils Parking App Pilot Program – http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/new-york-city-unveils-parking-app-pilot-program/

The NYPD is getting android phones to access data – http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/12/nypd-now-has-android-smartphone-arsenal/?utm_source=feedly

Internet Archive expands software museum, invites you to dig in – http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/15/internet-archive-software/?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+weblogsinc%2Fengadget+%28Engadget%29

British Library to archive every UK digital publication from tomorrow – http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/05/british-library-digital-archive/?utm_source=feedly

Do I Ever Need to Upgrade My Cable Modem? – http://lifehacker.com/5994018/do-i-ever-need-to-upgrade-my-cable-modem?utm_source=feedly

Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B – http://www.ted.com/talks/danny_hillis_the_internet_could_crash_we_need_a_plan_b.html