Bad Philosophy

Imagine having an army of workers ready to do your bidding, no matter how menial and trivial, as long as you pay them some semblance of a decent wage. That’s Amazon Mechanical Turk in a nutshell, with which people are doing strange and wonderful things. To discuss this and other randomness, we had the pleasure […]

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Amazon, CastingWords, Clear Channel, conferences, crowdsourcing, Dinosaur Comics, Facebook, Foursquare, GetGlue, GI Joe, Glenn Beck, Gowalla, Kevin, LEGOs, location, Machine of Death, Mechanical Turk, Paul Newman, questions, radio, Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, Randall Monroe, SDCC, Simon, social media, Stephen, SXSW, Texas Tech University, Venn Diagrams

There is a place where, once a year, every geek worth his or her salt comes together in the magically weird city of Austin. For five days we mingle, bond, network, and bring our alcohol consumption up to par with our 3G bandwidth consumption. We call this beer- and bandwidth-infused tribal gathering SXSW Interactive, and […]

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alcohol, Ashton Kutcher, AT&T, augmenting reality, Austin, Bigg Digg Shindigg, business, business cards, crowd surfing, Dan Ariely, Evan Williams, Foursquare, geocaching, geotagging, Google, Gowalla, hyperlocation, interactive, Jediah, Leo Laporte, local, location, meta, news, newspapers, panels, QR codes, Simon, smartphones, social media, Starbucks, Stephen, SWACURH, SXSW, SXSWi, TWiT, Twitter, wifi, Wordpress, zombies

I know, I know… I was horribly late with the editing on this one, but I swear that two weeks ago we recorded a new BF on the first day of the new decade! This one was a pretty straightforward retrospective, but the first time we actually had an episode one year ago that we […]

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2010, 2012, Apple, AT&T, automated cars, bittorrent, cloud computing, Cory Doctorow, Dollhouse, economy, Facebook, Flickr, Ford SYNC, Foursquare, Google, Gowalla, GPS, Hulu, iGuide, iPhone, IPTV, Iraq, iRobot, iSlate, iTunes, Joss Whedon, Kevin, Korea, Large Hadron Collider, Matt, Microsoft, Mike Leach, Milk, Minority Report, MySpace, New York City, recession, RFID, Rotten Tomatoes, SkyNet, social media, Stephen, tablet, Terminator, Texas Tech University, texting, The Jetsons, The Pirate Bay, Total Recall, Twitter, underwear, VH1, Windows 7, Wolverine, Yahoo!, year

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve lost a lot of celebrities–Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, even Billy Mays. It’s been tragic, but it got us here at BF thinking… what will happen to our social graphs when we pass on? We decided to answer this pressing question in possibly our most daring setup ever; inside […]

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2Pac, Aaron, AIM, archival, baseball, Beatlemania, celebrities, death, Douglas Adams, encryption, ethics, Facebook, Fake Steve Jobs, Farah Fawcett, Flickr, funerals, George Orwell, Helen Keller, Hichhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, history, identity, iPhone, Jediah, Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic Park, Kevin Rose, lawyers, marketing, Matt, Michael Jackson, music, privacy, Satan, security, Skype, social media, social networking, Stephen, Steve Gibson, The Beatles, Tony LaRussa, trust, Twitter, World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, YouTube