Baldur reflects on his family’s history in radio broadcasting, his path to interactive media and writing books and how he moved away from listening to tech podcasts.Content warning: some coarse languagePodcast case study: Accidental Tech Podcast (listener)Find Baldur at baldurbjarnason.com.Read a transcript of the episode as a styled PDF or in plain text.Links and Show NotesFourth Generation RSSPerlInteractive mediaRÚV is the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service.World War IIBritish invasion of IcelandAllied occupation of IcelandAttack of Pearl HarborTelegraphyAxis powersHotel BorgVox populi (or vox pop)Web developmentInteractive Media Environments Software widgetGraphical widgetCOVID-19 pandemicHyperCardMacintosh SESolitaireTetrisWhat You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG)Comparative literatureComputer science (or ‘comp sci’)University of the West of England (UWE)Bower Ashton campus mapBBC RadioDot-com bubble (including reference to the dot-com crash)Adobe FlashSandbox (software development)Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)ebookAmazon KindleiPhoneiPadDefamiliarisation Artificial intelligence (AI)Cryptocurrency (or ‘crypto’)Popular culture (or ‘pop culture’)The Real World of Technology by Ursula FranklinRecordings of public lectures in the Internet ArchiveProcessor (computing)Musical genre mash-up!Pop-punkPost-punkNeosurrealismAccidental Tech PodcastJason SnellDefamiliarisationViktor ShklovskyBertolt BrechtYouTubeLine Goes Up – The Problem with NFTsDefunctlandDisney’s FastPass: A Complicated HistoryApp Store (iOS/iPadOS)Tom Abba*This is not the future of the bookOut of the Software Crisis by Baldur BjarnasonOpen sourcePick and Choose Round tableNarrative journalism20 Macs for 2020 was released in multiple formats:a podcast on Relay FM;a series of written blog posts at Six Colors; anda YouTube playlist hosted at 512 PixelsFacebookTwitter (rebranding to X)Revenue sharingThreads (social network)Bluesky SocialMastodon (social network)AlgorithmPatreonWhisper (software)DescriptSubstackEmail listApple PodcastsSpotifydu jour = ‘of the day’, e.g. ’soup *du jour’ = soup of the dayMy Computer Identity Mac (computer)Macintosh PerformaMicrosoft WindowsmacOS (previously referred to as Mac OS X and OS X)Pro ToolsApple Human Interface GuidelinesUser interface designApple simplified System Settings for macOS Ventura, moved many items from AppleInsiderSystem Settings (previously named System Preferences)Disk UtilityLinuxGNOMESafari (web browser)ARM architecture familyAmy HoyUser experience (UX)ChromeOSSoftware bugNetscapeJamie Zawinski (a.k.a. jwz)HAL 9000Plumbing of the Web HTMLXMLMarkup languageStatic websitesFlat fileClient-sideiBook G3 ‘Clamshell’ (or what Baldur’s dad refers to as the ‘toilet-seat iBook’)NetNewsWireOPMLDomain nameStacking the Bricks (podcast)CreditsRecorded and edited by Martin Feld, using Audio Hijack and Ferrite Recording StudioOriginal podcast theme music by Alex CanionContactWebsite: rsspod.netEmail: [email protected]Mastodon: social.lol/@martinfeldMicro.blog: micro.blog/martinfeld