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    <outline text="Intro" Offset="00:17">
      <outline text="Correction on my pronunciation of Diebold">
        <outline text="CNN, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbuwbkqAe_A#t=0m20s"/>
        <outline text="PBS, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMAoPiJbKzo#t=3m00s"/>
        <outline text="Story on Princeton researchers, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WMG34cv0zM"/>
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    <outline text="Listener Feedback" Offset="02:33">
      <outline text="Alex">
        <outline text="Rote, low skill activities may be workable with video"/>
        <outline text="Cook well known recipes"/>
        <outline text="Duplicating or ripping CDs en masse"/>
        <outline text="Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for transcription"/>
        <outline text="http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/"/>
        <outline text="Firefox extension for reading pages later"/>
        <outline text="http://www.ideashower.com/ideas/active/read-it-later/"/>
        <outline text="Screen cast, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLNfsLpM8zo"/>
        <outline text="Features of interest">
          <outline text="Google Reader integration"/>
          <outline text="http://www.ideashower.com/blog/read-it-later-099-released/"/>
          <outline text="Syncing for use across multiple computers"/>
          <outline text="Offline reading"/>
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      <outline text="Wouter on info overload">
        <outline text="Complimentary"/>
        <outline text="Recording in the car to capture deferred tasks"/>
        <outline text="RSS">
          <outline text="Groups feeds, I actually do the same thing"/>
          <outline text="Read groups differently, personal vs. high volume"/>
          <outline text="Sometimes realize he cannot read all"/>
          <outline text="Uses mark as read when he doesn't have time to catch up"/>
          <outline text="Relies on social network, filter out and still see items of interest"/>
          <outline text="Will see it on IRC, del.icio.us, Twitter"/>
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        <outline text="IM">
          <outline text="Unavoidable interruption"/>
          <outline text="He cannot ignore it"/>
          <outline text="Turn off instant messenger"/>
          <outline text="If it is important, they will call or email or IM later"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Twitter">
          <outline text="Same distraction, interruption as IM"/>
          <outline text="Volume and signal to noise ratio also important"/>
          <outline text="Quality of sources varies widely"/>
          <outline text="Quoted Drunk and Retired"/>
          <outline text="View it as a river, dipping into it for a quick impression"/>
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        <outline text="Skeptical of change in how info gets used">
          <outline text="Admits that newer media are active"/>
          <outline text="Thinks that ways people use old media is not that different"/>
          <outline text="Skimming a newspaper"/>
          <outline text="I infer there is a myth of reading anything cover-to-cover"/>
          <outline text="Encourages trying to over consume online"/>
          <outline text="Without realize that isn't accurate of how we used to use info"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="He's a good example, though, of adapting">
          <outline text="Fitting information into his schedule"/>
          <outline text="Skim feeds over coffee"/>
          <outline text="Listen to podcasts while traveling"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Adoption period, time to find real value in new tools">
          <outline text="Early on driven by novelty"/>
          <outline text="Later on, based on real value of info, channel"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Challenge is how to incorporate">
          <outline text="Least disruptive to what you want to get done"/>
          <outline text="Everyone is different"/>
          <outline text="Also skeptical of unplugging altogether"/>
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    <outline text="Word of the Week: distribution" Offset="10:14">
      <outline text="http://catb.org/jargon/html/D/distribution.html"/>
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    <outline text="Monologue: Hacking with a Social Conscience" Offset="11:16">
      <outline text="One of the focuses of my life has been the public aspect of my enthusiasm for hacking">
        <outline text="What may infringe on my ability to program, create?"/>
        <outline text="What affects my software may cause in public life?"/>
        <outline text="How do I make responsible decisions?"/>
        <outline text="What issues are really worthy of concern?"/>
        <outline text="What are the best regulators of these elements?">
          <outline text="Law?"/>
          <outline text="Norms?"/>
          <outline text="Market?"/>
          <outline text="Architecture?"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Initially supported free software, open source without appreciating it"/>
        <outline text="Was popular, most of it was high quality and made hacking on it easier"/>
        <outline text="I have been trying to develop a deeper appreciate"/>
        <outline text="What freedoms are really at play in a license choice?"/>
        <outline text="Now that I am a content creator, many of the same questions but for writing, recording"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Computer science born of social, political necessity">
        <outline text="War time endeavors"/>
        <outline text="Passive, like code breaker"/>
        <outline text="Active, artillery trajectories and later missile guidance"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Easy to forget how software affects more than computers">
        <outline text="General purpose computers seem to be self fulfilling"/>
        <outline text="You can use them for pure computing"/>
        <outline text="Modeling, simulation, usually in the form of spreadsheets, databases"/>
        <outline text="These seem to have a lesser affect on the world around use"/>
        <outline text="Maybe they make a business more efficient"/>
        <outline text="Ubiquitous computers fade into the background by their nature"/>
        <outline text="You don't think about using a PoS system"/>
        <outline text="The use of a computer replaces a dedicated system"/>
        <outline text="Is cheaper than what it replaced"/>
        <outline text="You wouldn't think about using such an appliance for anything other than its single purpose"/>
        <outline text="There is a problem with this though"/>
        <outline text="As with election machines, you cannot change that they are general purpose computers"/>
        <outline text="Some applications do point out where we need to exercise more responsibility"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Networks add the ability to communicate, share">
        <outline text="Even before the internet, connected computers allowed affecting of lives"/>
        <outline text="BBS's invited sharing knowledge, ideas, simple communication"/>
        <outline text="How the software was designed informed what was possible"/>
        <outline text="Early BBS users placed high value on distributing information"/>
        <outline text="In some cases, maybe moral failures occurred"/>
        <outline text="Viewed curiosity for its own sake as too much of a value"/>
        <outline text="Some who should not have had access did"/>
        <outline text="There was an emergent meritocracy that helped minimize this"/>
        <outline text="The internet has been accelerating this trend"/>
        <outline text="Raises the question of responsible information sharing"/>
        <outline text="Check out the P2P Foundation"/>
        <outline text="Considering how peer-to-peer based models for everything work"/>
        <outline text="How they would change, be different from traditional models"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="I believe access to knowledge is a right">
        <outline text="Information doesn't want to be free"/>
        <outline text="The greatest chance for innovation, progress is through sharing information"/>
        <outline text="Censorship is rarely the right answer"/>
        <outline text="People will find information, regardless"/>
        <outline text="Usually filtering and censorship cripples the average citizen"/>
        <outline text="They lose access that would allow them to protect themselves, make better decisions"/>
        <outline text="How do you encourage responsibility?"/>
        <outline text="You don't want to directly share information that could allow irreparable harm"/>
        <outline text="I don't have any good answers"/>
        <outline text="Disclosure of security issues is a good example, though">
          <outline text="The key there seems to be balance, compromise"/>
          <outline text="In that case, where there is a motivated attacker, belies the foolishness of censorship"/>
          <outline text="Attacker will get the information no matter what"/>
          <outline text="Giving defenders equal access is best way to ensure safety"/>
          <outline text="The average citizen may simply panic"/>
          <outline text="Still more information can help, computer literacy and education on this issue"/>
        </outline>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Simple awareness can be enough">
        <outline text="Will color decisions in light of responsibilities"/>
        <outline text="May realize opportunities for better information sharing"/>
        <outline text="Can provide context around potential risks"/>
        <outline text="Harms may arise from ignorance"/>
        <outline text="Hacker may be discouraged at unintended uses"/>
        <outline text="Reputation could be affected, creator should have seen, counseled on some field of use"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="Many go beyond just awareness">
        <outline text="EFF, others focus directly on policy aspects of technology">
          <outline text="Certainly use technology to accomplish this"/>
          <outline text="Try to keep technology free for everyone"/>
          <outline text="Respect basic human rights"/>
          <outline text="Tend to stay more focused on technology than purely social justice"/>
          <outline text="There is plenty to tackle with online freedom, access to knowledge"/>
          <outline text="Some are starting to grow beyond this, into broader policy questions"/>
          <outline text="EFF's involvement in voting rights"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="Naabur, Kiva try to facilitate social good directly">
          <outline text="Enabled by network technology"/>
          <outline text="The same tools that we use for simple social connections"/>
          <outline text="Also see traditional social good organizations adopting technology"/>
        </outline>
        <outline text="FSF tries to enable anyone to affect social change">
          <outline text="Ensure those who use software have the freedom to use it how they want"/>
          <outline text="For those that create and distribute, give a means to ensure freedom"/>
          <outline text="As Moglen once put in, put as many tools in front of as many brains as possible"/>
          <outline text="That is the recipe for the best odds of change for the better"/>
        </outline>
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    <outline text="Outro" Offset="31:48">
      <outline text="Contact me">
        <outline text="Email to feedback@thecommandline.net"/>
        <outline text="Web site at http://thecommandline.net/"/>
        <outline text="IM to command.line@skype"/>
        <outline text="Listener comment line is 240-949-2638"/>
        <outline text="del.icio.us tag is &quot;for:cmdln&quot;"/>
        <outline text="http://twitter.com/cmdln"/>
      </outline>
      <outline text="I'd like to thank libsyn.com for AAC hosting and Wouter de Bie for MP3 hosting"/>
      <outline text="These notes and the show audio and music are covered by a Creative Commons license">
        <outline text="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"/>
        <outline text="Attribution, non-commercial, share alike"/>
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