Some podcasts (ugh, sorry) I’ve enjoyed particularly. From IT conversations. Reason for writing this is that I want some more recommendations really.

Steve Wozniak
He’s a proper geek, but quite entertaining and has some good anecdotes about growing up as a phone phreaker.

Brewster Kahle
Also known as the guy who started the Internet Archive, working to provide ‘universal access to all human knowledge’.

Ben Saunders
A guy who went to the Arctic by himself

Malcolm Gladwell
The guy who wrote the Tipping point, with some nice observations

Bruce Shneier
He looks like a total loser, but he has some interesting points about security. No, really

http://www.planiglobe.com/

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And it’s Web 2.0 too.

I’ve been looking for something like this for ages. They’re adding more features and detail; at the moment it’s pretty basic but it’s still very useful if you just need a simple map for a country selector or other such rubbish.

I’m writing this using Performancing, which is a Firefox extension allowing you to add a blog entry without having to go and log in and wait and enter and etc. It appears as a pane in Firefox so you can just add a blog entry immediately. Awesome.

http://performancing.com/firefox