Wednesday, August 25, 2004

IT Conversations (with enclosures) -> Dan Bricklin's Thoughts on On-Demand Audio. Following up on his Memory Lane interview with Halley Suitt, Dan considers the reality and usability of "talk radio" on the Internet. Most interesting is his analysis that narrow-interest content has a place in this medium. It doesn't, as Dan points out, compete for timeslots with more popular material. The delivery costs scale linearly with the demand, and even if the demand is low, the storage costs aren't a prohibiting factor. Unlike streaming audio, success in on-demand comes over time. In that sense, it's more like downloadable music and CDs than like traditional radio, but devices like TiVo and iPod (and even the venerable VHS recorder) have made broacasting more of an on-demand experience... 7:01:45 AM  comment []    trackback []   Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger -> Interviewing at Microsoft. Ever wonder what it's like to get a job at a big company? Well, our HR department invited me over to spend a couple of hours talking about interviewing. The third part, just posted today, was a mock interview where we did a whiteboard code session so you could see how the interviewer and interviewee think through an interview question. Part I -- What is it like to interview at Microsoft? Part II -- Riding the recruiting shuttle Part III -- Mock whiteboard session I've interviewed a couple times at big companies now and find the process is similar to Microsoft's, so many of the tips are useful too. 6:47:16 AM  comment []    trackback []     Adam Curry: Daily Source Code -> daily source code august 24 2004  mp3 File size: 17.8 MB Duration: 15:37 minutes Description: Adam talks about the difference between contacts and glasses, IPodder development progress, Source Code's file size.  6:23:21 AM  comment []    trackback []

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