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This summer Tara Hunt of HorsePigCow interviewed Jonathan Coulton. As a fan of both, I downloaded the podcast for later listening and then forgot all about. Finally got around to that “to listen to later” folder this morning, and would encourage you to check it out. If you’re not familiar with Coulton, two quick gems. First, Code Monkey:

CMS Critic posted a good interview of Drupal Founder, Dries Buytaert.  During the past couple months, Dries and a few other open source project leaders have graciously offered to me their time for an interview.  Unfortunately, I've been so busy that I've delayed the interviews until I have the time to do it right. 

EMI Music is the biggest independent record label in the world. EMI Music represents 1,000 artists from all musical genres in 50 countries. One of its focuses is to develop and promote digital services via the Web, mobile channels, and TV throughout the world, providing fans with a rich, complete musical experience. We have interviewed them and asked about their approach to eZ Publish, new media and content management. How has the internet transformed EMI's approach? In order to address evolving consumer needs, EMI Music France has intensified its marketing strategy and promotional activities on the internet. It is a fast and highly competitive industry where responsiveness is crucial for developing and sustaining market share. It is essential that we have dynamic content and an engaging Web presence.

Webmonkey: "Webmonkey sat down with Dries and Jay to talk about the history of Drupal, where development is headed and the role their new company will play in the project’s future." Complete Story Advertisement: read more

Today's National Public Radio Talk of the Nation segment discusses how to be a productive procrastinator, asking procrastination expert Timothy Pychyl about "structured procrastination" and...

In April, ccLearn crossed telephone lines with Italy and Ukraine for the first time. Executive Director Ahrash Bissell spoke with eIFL.net, Electronic Information for Libraries, an international nonprofit organization whose interests, among many, lie in open access publishing and fair and balanced intellectual property laws for libraries. Below is a follow-up interview over email with Rima Kupryte, Director of eIFL.net, and Iryna Kuchma, Program Manager of eIFL-OA (Open Access). First, can you say a few words about yourselves and eIFL? How did you come to get involved in eIFL and to hold your respective positions within the larger framework? What about eIFL attracted you?

News that MySQL was to bring out a closed-source add on has provoked a storm of protest across the Internet. Here is an interview with Marten Mickos trying to explain what is going on

News that MySQL was to bring out a closed-source add on has provoked a storm of protest across the Internet. Here is an interview with Marten Mickos trying to explain what is going on

I have to admit that when someone submits a story and I trust them...I sometimes don't read the whole article before I publish it.  So until I read Dean Barker's Gadgetopia, I didn't realize his company, Blend Interactive, was featured in eZ's SHARE! magazine.  The irony is that if I had read an article posted at my own site by one of eZ System's own people...Dean's post wouldn't have been new news to me.  Sigh, I have been just too busy...

I am honored to have had a chance to interview two of the most dedicated Freedomware and GNU/Linux advocates. read more

Further to the coverage of Bruce Schneier's keynote at linux.conf.au in Melbourne, Australia this week, Schneier sat down with iTnews for this interview where he discusses how the computer security industry must not ignore the impact of fear and other emotions on individual and organisational behaviour. From the interview: "I can't tell you how much information about security breaches goes undisclosed — often victims don't even know they've been breached. You can call Gartner and they'll give you a number, but it's meaningless. We live in a capitalist society and you can't ask companies to voluntarily do things which are against their interests for the greater good. If they did, their shareholders would sack them."

They know their onions at the Crunchies, alright. From 2007's plentiful harvest of genuinely inspiring startups, Zoho was picked as the 'Best Enterprise Startup' of the year. If you're already a user, this is not likely to surprise you at all. We at CMSWire had the chance to speak with Zoho evangelist Raju Vegesna and he gave us the full organizational down-low: vision, growth, customers, future, past and present. And, of course, Google. Our conversation was long and wide-ranging; a verbatim transcript would take you, dear reader, all morning to read. So it's been distilled so that you can get a feel for Zoho from top to bottom without having to take a half-day.

Michael Meeuwisse started Project VGA in September of 2007. The project aims to develop a simple, low budget, open source, VGA compatible video card available this year. Michael is also a member of the Open Graphic's Project, but started Project VGA in order to get something affordable on the market as soon as possible. In this interview, Michael explains his inspiration for the project and talks about the first development cards that will be functional by the end of the month. He details the costs involved in building the cards, as well as when the cards will be available for purchase and what they will be capable of doing. read more

Slashdot (as is often the case these days) had a very funny but not very helpful thread, How to Recognize a Good Programmer, reacting to Daniel's Inter-Sections blog post of the same name which suggested that the key qualities are Passion, Love of learning, Intelligence, Hidden Experience and Variety of technologies. While I see some value in each of those, I think Daniel is looking for a geek programmer rather than a good programmer. I define a geek programmer as someone who loves it so much, they do a lot of it on their own time.