Previous Discussion

http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May25,2011(http://www.ideasmeetings.org/wiki/May25,2011)

  • There are lots of podcasts out there such as This Is My Next
  • Areas of interest
    • Sustainability, such as of a product such as a Dell laptop
    • What does sustainability mean?
    • What does it mean to build in a sustainable framework
    • The tech industry basically ignores sustainable products
    • CNET has a sustainable green technology
  • How could we take that idea or make it better?
    • Critical reviews of product reviews
    • Video may be better than audio
    • Reviews, such as what is the car that is completely hackable
    • Written component has value
  • the show with ze frank example of a video blog
  • The Story of Stuff Electronics example
  • Focus on the content and let the community grow naturally
  • Answer questions like: What are the parameters that make this device sustainable and what makes it poorly sustainable

Current Discussion

  • Preamble:
    • Create skeleton of a business plan.
    • Ideas, in podcast form. Post-edited!
  • Target/Audience:
    • Write for for educated or layman?
    • Eco-Conscious Consumer
    • Tech writer
  • Structure:
    • Headlines (layman?)
    • Music
    • Main Topic of the week/month (educated)
    • Books & Podcasts
    • Sub-topics, Guest-rant, Brainstorm future topics (medium)
  • Topics:
    • Mirasol & E-Ink
    • LED v Plasma
    • Batteries
    • Cellphones to Smartphones
    • Tech radically reducing lifecycle
    • Industry Fragmentation - eg TV’s common net platform
    • SMS, FaceTime, HTML5
    • Sustainability - Lifecycle
    • Creating a sustainable secure internet - CA
      • What does that mean as a society
  • Guests:
    • Mike M - BBS, ISP, Satellite Internet
    • CCW guy - wISP
    • Chris S - Cell phones, architecture, location based services
    • Lance C - Programming
    • Teachers
    • Parents
    • Students
    • Department/Corporate Leaders
    • Jessica V

Kris:

  • Cell phones
  • Solution
  • Facts
  • Options

  • Where are you going "land fills are being filled with hardware" is one sentence

    • Kevin McArthur
    • Former Bosses: Motorola, RoIP
    • Sustainability firms/people in Vancouver/world
    • Bigger name Podcasters
  • Money:
    • For profit or non-profit
    • Advertising (Major, Sporadic, Injected, Sponsors)
  • Network:
    • Apple iTunes
    • Voice America
    • TWIT
    • Verge
    • GigaOm
    • TuneIn
    • Shoutcast
    • CBC

Find people with online presence in communities (tech, eco, other), to both participate in their circles, as well as invite them over to this podcast as guest.

Conversation

  • Context
  • Conversation flowing, ideas
  • Targeted area: "For the next 20min we are on record for the topic"
  • 2-3 people around the microphone
  • Summarizing the ideas mtg
  • The observer changes the phenomenon
  • Even if no one listens
  • Idea: Overheard conversations:
    • intense, probing, focused
    • Suddenly you are plugged in
  • Play it back, get feedback

C: Frequency? Aim? Talk. Issues. Amature vs Semi Professional

TVO Search engine

  • covered Didyouknowtar today Jessie Brown uses Skype

Text content distribution services:

  • Identifying the three themes:
    • Everything should follow these
    • What is a technique that allows you to relate to one of these
      • Design (Values, Production)
      • Why isn’t sustainability a key element
      • Something that is big enough to successfully fit in
      • Broad enough as to not constrain
  • UVic, any dept
    • What kind of convo do you want to have
    • Ethical, Economic, Political Economy, Policy
  • 1:1 interview
    • interviewer very influential to act as an anchor
  • Casual doesn’t need to be constant

Rob:

  • Content
  • Group recording is disastrous
  • What the target area is
    • One podcast
    • Tech politics
  • Relax

  • What’s my big theme

  • Green technology movement: philisophical

    • Definition of a green technology may be very different

  • Never say "everybody’s going to love this"
  • What excites you, makes you passionate
  • Big debate out in the public
    • ie. This kind of car, goes four times as far
      • What are the more fundamental questions: How cities developed
  • Matter of fact:
    • Practical, Pragmatic: Which one is better
    • Lots of research: Enough research to find an expert to interview

Nancy:

  • Ideas meeting in person is a different experience

    • Unknown factor that makes it fascinating

  • Can look at a different way
    • Designed our cities a different way
    • Reduced passengers

    • If we tried to make one of these items for every single

  • Quirks and Quarks host: Just moved to Victoria: Bob McDonald

Logistical:

  • Microphone
  • TIme
  • ISP
  • Software
  • CONTENT
    • 80% Generic
    • 20% Episode Based

Herb:

  • Making better use of inventions that have already been invented
    • RED FLAG: Wants people to reinvent the wheel
  • Doesn’t think that innovation and sust are at opposite ends

C: Disagrees to some extent

  • A more reflective process of technological design, disposal
  • Efficient computationally
  • Whatever faucet of our lives Two types of podcasts A) A is better than B, consumerists B) More reflective conversation
    • More interesting
    • Dynamism, vibrancy
    • Changes: "Market"
      • Interested in niche’s, some times you can get the public to come after it
      • Smaller group, get bigger through word of mouth

Ke:

  • May pick on technological in a disproportionate way

Kr:

  • How do we move forward

R:

  • Don’t look in the past

  • Technology will be our only salvation

  • How willing are UVic prof’s to talk and discuss
    • Chris: Doesn’t think so if it’s being recorded
      • J’S IDEA: WHY NOT: RECORDING will be published no less than 5 years later
    • C: Busy all the time
    • Rob: Media people at UVic: Their job is to force the academics to come out of the wood-work
    • Rob: Feed their ego, their the only expertse in western canada
    • Rob: Expert database

Justin: Make it a labour of love

CL Think in thirds Overall content

  1. 1/3 Me myself and my business

  2. 1/3 Other people doing cool shit, cross promoting similar content, somewhat relevant

  3. 1/3 Personality. Stories, relevant. "We were working on this one thing 5 years ago"…