WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org Jim and I discuss WordPress, the free blogging software that makes it easy for anyone start their own web site with freely–available site templates and plugins. Jim is the experienced one having set up and run his WordPress–based web site theaverageguy.tv for the last few years now. I’m just a beginner… Click for more / Podcast Player>
The second quarter offered a level of drama often found in homes with teenagers. When investors realized their good friend, quantitative easing, might have an earlier-than-expected curfew, they threw a hissy fit that resounded through global markets. The outburst interrupted the trajectory of Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, which finished June lower after hitting record… Click for more / Podcast Player>
It was like watching a game of telephone where one child speaks into another child’s ear and that child speaks into another child’s ear and, by the time the last child repeats the original statement, it has transformed into something completely different. Chairman Ben Bernanke stepped up to the microphone at the press conference after… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by long time Home Sever Show host and Microsoft Windows Home Server MVP John Zajdler (@Dieharder) and Paul Baran (@Tinkererguy) from http://Tinkertry.com for Home Tech episode #123. Buy a ASUS 23" 1080p Widescreen LCD Monitor for Only $160.99 at Geeks.com! Best Deals Every Nanosecond! Join us for the show… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson and VGo’s cofounder and COO Tom Ryden for Home Tech episode #122. In show 117, we spoke about the VGo Telepresence robot. Christian was using one of these devices back in the spring to remote into NASA for his work there. Tom was good enough to… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Like a funhouse mirror, investors’ concerns about whether and when the Federal Reserve will begin to end its quantitative easing program contorted market responses to economic news last week. Unexceptional economic reports were treated as good news and pushed stock markets higher; strong economic reports were treated as bad news and pushed stock markets lower.… Click for more / Podcast Player>