Baldur Bjarnason

Baldur reflects on his family’s history in radio broadcasting, his path to interactive media and writing books and how he moved away from listening to tech podcasts. Content warning: some coarse language Podcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (listener) Find Baldur at baldurbjarnason.com. Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text. Links and Show Notes Fourth Generation 00:00:00 RSS Perl Interactive media RÚV is the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service. World War II British invasion of Iceland Allied occupation of Iceland Attack of Pearl Harbor Telegraphy Axis powers Hotel Borg Vox populi (or vox pop) Web development Interactive Media Environments 00:08:13 Software widget Graphical widget COVID-19 pandemic HyperCard Macintosh SE Solitaire Tetris What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) Comparative literature Computer science (or ‘comp sci’) University of the West of England (UWE) Bower Ashton campus map BBC Radio Dot-com bubble (including reference to the dot-com crash) Adobe Flash Sandbox (software development) Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) ebook Amazon Kindle iPhone iPad Defamiliarisation 00:15:43 Artificial intelligence (AI) Cryptocurrency (or ‘crypto’) Popular culture (or ‘pop culture’) The Real World of Technology by Ursula Franklin Recordings of public lectures in the Internet Archive Processor (computing) Musical genre mash-up! Pop-punk Post-punk Neosurrealism Accidental Tech Podcast Jason Snell Defamiliarisation Viktor Shklovsky Bertolt Brecht YouTube Line Goes Up – The Problem with NFTs Defunctland Disney’s FastPass: A Complicated History App Store (iOS/iPadOS) Tom Abba *This is not the future of the book Out of the Software Crisis by Baldur Bjarnason Open source Pick and Choose 00:31:03 Round table Narrative journalism 20 Macs for 2020 was released in multiple formats: a podcast on Relay FM; a series of written blog posts at Six Colors; and a YouTube playlist hosted at 512 Pixels Facebook Twitter (rebranding to X) Revenue sharing Threads (social network) Bluesky Social Mastodon (social network) Algorithm Patreon Whisper (software) Descript Substack Email list Apple Podcasts Spotify du jour = ‘of the day’, e.g. ’soup *du jour’ = soup of the day My Computer Identity 00:44:05 Mac (computer) Macintosh Performa Microsoft Windows macOS (previously referred to as Mac OS X and OS X) Pro Tools Apple Human Interface Guidelines User interface design Apple simplified System Settings for macOS Ventura, moved many items from AppleInsider System Settings (previously named System Preferences) Disk Utility Linux GNOME Safari (web browser) ARM architecture family Amy Hoy User experience (UX) ChromeOS Software bug Netscape Jamie Zawinski (a.k.a. jwz) HAL 9000 Plumbing of the Web 01:01:05 HTML XML Markup language Static websites Flat file Client-side iBook G3 ‘Clamshell’ (or what Baldur’s dad refers to as the ‘toilet-seat iBook’) NetNewsWire OPML Domain name Stacking the Bricks (podcast) Credits Recorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording Studio Original podcast theme music by Alex Canion Contact Website: rsspod.net Email: [email protected] Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeld Micro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld