SpokenWord.org aggregates podcasts, almost all of which are free, and makes it easy for users to export them to, say, iTunes. It’s a non-profit site and is all about the openness. (Disclosure: I’m on its board.)

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Lewis Hyde, author of The Gift and a Berkman Fellow, is giving a lunchtime talk a the Berkman Center tomorrow on the topic of his upcoming book Common as Air, which looks at how the founders of America viewed copyright and the commons. Lewis is a provocative and evocative thinker, and his prior Berkman talk when his book was in progress was fascinating.

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This is a really good talk. People give these advice talks about creativity/innovation etc. all the time, but this one by Jack Dorsey (twitter inventor) is absolutely worth the time. really got me thinking. He’s a real inventor. His newest idea is pretty awesome as well.

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So I wonder how we should start recording what people click on and do on the Lib Hose page. Which books are they clicking to learn more about.

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Fred Wilson’s 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps (He’s at Union Square Ventures and has a blog) This is a summary of the talk he gave at Future of Web Apps Conference

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Saw a presentation yesterday from Dan Reetz who’s behind the DIY Book Scanner Project.

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Scribblenauts is a Nintendo game. The object is to solve a puzzle. Say there’s a kitten stuck in a tree. If you type in ‘ladder’, the puzzle is solved. If you type in ‘jetpack’ the puzzle is solved.

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“My view is that software is media today. Particulalry consumer software, when people use it, they approach it in the same way they approach .. a magazine, a newspaper, a tv show….”

Fred Wilson
Union Squre Ventures.

A Talk from the Future of Web Apps Conference, March 2010

Address bar grammar kinda sucks. It doesn’t even throw us the bone of intuitive legibility. Let alone to the level of predictability. It just goes for strict path data. www.example.com/go_here/then_here/. It doesn’t allow you to shortcut GUI navigation with text entry if you know what you’re doing.

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This is definitely a half baked observation of a “pain point”.

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