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Podcast 1505 Jan.31, 2015: Happy 17th Anniversary, Heminwrite & Pasty.net
Show Notes
Hour 1
Hemingwrite
Hemingwrite KickStarter Page
Hemingwrite: Throwback or Great Leap Forward
Patrick Paul is part of the local team of developers who came up with this ingenious device. Hemingwrite a distraction free writing tool that is part throwback to the portable typewriters that many of us remember fondly (or not) from late night paper writing sessions in college. It is also a wonderful digital device that is deliberately NOT connected to the Internet. Find out why!
Rick Broida, our favorite writer, columnist, commentator, cheapskate (and zombie wrangler) joins us for our discussion about Hemingwrite. Is it a great leap forward for someone who is constantly on deadline for his articles? Listen and see.
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Charlie Hopper, founder and CEO of Pasty.net and Pasty.com in the great frozen north of Michigan’s Upper Penninsula joins us for a double celebration. His website went live just about the same time as the Internet Advisors hit the Internet. Pasty.net is applying hi tech solutions to providing broadband access to customers in the heart of our rugged Upper Penninsula where there are often more racoons than customers. PS He also …
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Remember that smug add from Verizon about their cell phone coverage? Believe it or not, the whole idea of taking your phone with you wherever you went began 20 years ago! Unless you were a Kangaroo, you weren’t going to tuck any of the originals into your back pocket or purse. …
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Lesson IBM Can Teach At 100 Years Old
We tend to think of tech companies in terms of the last 20 to 30 years when computing began its exponential growth. Who would have thought that the a Tabulating Company founded in 1911 would last long enough to teach companies like Apple and Micro a lesson or two despite its own challenges? This is a great article about some of the reasons that IBM has stuck around this long. Makes you wonder what kind of shelf life Apple and Microsoft really have! …
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