I’ve had to keep this under wraps for quite a while, but I’m incredibly excited to announce that Technolotics will be returning in the Autumn, as a prime time television show on RTE Two. We were approached by the channel last October after submitting an independent production proposal, and commissioned to produce 22 episodes to be broadcast weekly. Jason, Francis and I have spent the past six months jetting furiously back and forth across the Atlantic to NY and San Francisco, interviewing web 2.0 luminaries like Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis, …

After re-listening to many of the excellent podcasts from 2005′s Accelerating Change conference, available from IT conversations; I got a hankering to read Charlie Stross’s highly recommended, and Hugo award nominated, post singularity novel Accelerando. The book is available to download under a Creative Commons license. Or rather, the book was available for download. Accellerando.org is down, and although the site itself can be accessed for now via Google’s cache, the PDF of Stross’s novel is unavailable. So too is the site which originally seeded the novels torrent, and the …

Justin Hall is a fascinating character. One of the pioneers of blogging, and amongst the first to see the potential of the web as a truly interactive medium – a hyper enhancement of human communication, and an experiment in group consciousness. This view, long considered naive and vaguely communist, is once again returning to vogue – even John C. Dvorak, that arch cynic, wrote recently advocating the “do it yourself” nature of web2.0 communities and services. Hall, currently attending a graduate interactive media course at USC, has launched a research …

Thanks to the inimitable Bernie Goldbach, Francis and I got to give a technolotics shoutout (recorded at the Blog Awards Podcasting Seminar), which was included in Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code.
If memory serves, Curry’s show is available on XM satellite radio in the states, where it has about half a million listeners. Sweet!