I attended the Utah Geek Dinner last night and it was really a great event. Dr. Windley’s presentation was food for thought and I got a chance to meet a few geeks in person. I sat across from Pete Ashdown the head honcho at Xmission (and who is running for State Senate against Sen. Hatch — good luck Pete!) and right next to Erik Anderson of Busybox and uClibc fame.

After the meeting, while I was driving home, I came up with a new idea. Ok - so it isn’t really new… just putting some ideas together to form something new: Social Podcasting (spodcasting?)

Brief Summary: The podcast topics and questions will be submitted and voted upon before hand (think digg.com) This podcast will have a website where you can submit topics to discuss or people to interview and then underneath that topic/interview you can submit specific questions to be discussed or asked. All these elements can be voted on and the most popular topics/interviews will be picked for the next podcast with the most popular specific questions to be discussed or asked.

A great post I ran across from Duane Johnson:

http://inquirylabs.com/blog/?p=20

Can’t wait to give it a shot.

It really doesn’t matter what OS you prefer. Linux or Mac fanboy? Tride and true Windows dude? However you slice it, Firefox has emerged as the best all-around browser for any OS.

1.5 is out with a slew of updates and new features. Grab it now.

Hooray!

My shipment of 50 free Ubuntu CDs came in tonight!
(30 PC CDs, 10 64-bit CDs and 5 Mac CDs)
Let the evangelism begin.

A cool concept has been thrown out for those of us local to Utah: Geek Dinners.

The next one will be this Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2005.

Be there or be square.

From the website:

What is a Geek Dinner?
It’s a social gathering for techies to discuss new and upcoming technology, get to know each other, and hopefully foster new business relationships. Dinners are open to anyone interested, spouses are welcome but not guaranteed to not be bored!

Is this a new idea?
No, it’s happening in several places around the country. As far as we know, the first formalized Geek Dinner happened in San Francisco. The dinners seem to foster a growth in the tech community and that is the result we are hoping to achieve.

I’ll have to throw my opinion in on this one:

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

I agree - especially #7, #8 and #9.

Not bad for the guy who was the founder of Blogger and now runs Odeo.

You know the whole bit about a being stranded on a desert island and you’re only allowed X number of CDs? As of today I need only one: Keane - Hopes and Fears.

http://www.rctoys.com/draganflyer5tipro.php

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

Bless TechCrunch!

http://www.techcrunch.com/2005/11/21/companies-id-like-to-profile-but-dont-exist/

I love to observe the growing “MAKE-culture” (Makers) take technologies in a new direction. What’s a Maker, you say?

MAKE-Culture n. a.k.a. Maker
1. A technology sub-culture that drives to make an electronic device to something it wasn't meant to do.

With every new product release there is a race to see what can be modified, reprogrammed and adapted to a new use.

One of the coolest examples of this is Microsoft’s Xbox game console. This device has been fully exploited by the Makers. The Xbox360 was recently released in the U.S. It’s now only a matter of time.

Free60.org anyone?