Ed Batista is the Executive Director of AttentionTrust, an organization that promotes the rights of individuals to control the data that’s collected about them. One of the ways that the AttentionTrust is doing this is by providing an extension to Firefox that lets you record a trail of the websites you visit. Ed and I talk about AttentionTrust, that extension, the implications of recording your attention and why you might want to do this.

Runtime: 33 minutes
Size: 25MB
Recording Environment: Skype conference

Notes:

• AttentionTrust.org
• Ed Batista
• My posting on dissecting the Attention Recorder

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J talks to Dave Seah, information designer and author of the Printable CEO, a productivity management tool. Dave and I had a 2 hour conversation that ranged from his Printable CEO work to motivations in doing free stuff to philosophical discussion of how short life is. I pulled about a half hour out of it and that’s what you get today.

Runtime: 26 minutes
Size: 25MB
Recording Environment: Skype conference

Notes

• Dave’s Site - DavidSeah.com
• The Printable CEO, Dave’s productivity management tools
• 9Rules, the blog network Dave’s site belongs to.

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J talks to Tim Decker, a professional animator who has worked on the Simpsons, for Disney and on a variety of computer games. He’s a strong advocate of paper and pencil animation and learning to draw properly as training for a professional animation career. Listen to how he found himself in the Air Force, drawing propaganda cartoons to drop on the Soviet Union after having his portfolio stolen by a drill sergeant.

Runtime: 56 minutes
Size: 26MB
Recording Environment: Skype conference and cellphone

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J talks with Mark Kistler from PBS’s Imagination Station TV show about drawing in 3d, teaching children and how learning to draw improves the lives of children and adults alike.

Runtime: 20 minutes
Size: 9 MB
Recording Environment: Skype conference and cellphone

Show Notes:
The Kistler books mentioned that I like

You can read the post that sparked this conversation on Wynia.org.

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J and Garrick discuss how a more flexible approach to making money while doing what you love can lead to a much better setup. This is the same audio that Garrick posted a few weeks ago on First Crack, but I wanted to complete the conversation over here as well.

Runtime: 38 minutes
Size: 18 MB
Recording Environment: Skype conference

Inspiring our Conversation
• Gillmor Gang
• Hugh MacLeod
• Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week
• 37Signals’ Getting Real eBook

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J and Garrick discuss how “convergence” in digital devices is a red herring and the transparent cooperation between devices that we’d both prefer to see instead.

Runtime: 18 minutes
Size: 8 MB
Recording Environment: Skype conference

[Edit: Sorry to those who had problems getting the MP3 due to the Podpress individual URL’s. That feature has been turned off and the real URL should now be showing in the feeds.]

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