ITConversations.com

Over the past few weeks I've been listening to audio interviews downloaded from ITConversations.com. It started when I was burned out from listening to music while working on the computer and has now grown to the point where I've even burned a disc of these MP3 interviews to listen to in the car. The interviews range from 40 minutes to an hour in length and are available in streaming format, downloaded MP3 (my preference), or downloaded .m4b for the iPod.

I was drawn to the site after seeing that Philip Greenspun did an audio interview with them, a very interesting one as well. I was hooked. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, did a two-part interview in which he covers his quite impressive auto-biography. As a kid he was drawing on paper the logic circuits to create computers. It would be a few years later before he could afford the parts to actually build them with the advent of integrated chips.

There are some great interviews out there on the "not so nerdy front" as well. Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners talks about emerging technology trends and what is currently happening on the venture captial front.

If you've ever wondered what it would be like to listen in on a briefing at the Pentagon, Thomas Barnett may the closest most of ever get. His speech on the era of globalization is very interesting. Here's a bio from ITConversations.com:

Professor Thomas P.M. Barnett is a Senior Strategic Researcher in the Warfare Analysis & Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College. Currently, Thomas is on temporary assignment as the Assistant for Strategic Futures, Office of Force Transformation (OFT), Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he is working with OFT Director Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski (USN, ret.) on a cluster of strategic concepts that link change in the international security environment to the imperative of transforming U.S. military capabilities to meet future threats.

Thomas has published a number of articles explaining these strategic concepts, which he presents comprehensively in a briefing entitled, "A Future Worth Creating: Defense Transformation in the New Security Environment."

At the Naval War College, he serves as Director of the NewRuleSets.Project, an ambitious effort to draw new "maps" of power and influence in the world economy so as to expand the U.S. Military's--and specifically, the U.S. Navy's--vision of where and how it can wield maximum influence across the international security environment of the Era of Globalization.

I'm now a regular reader of Barnett's blog as well.