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Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge call a day to Shot Of Jaq, and reminisce about the experience. Thanks to all of you for all of your wonderful discussions and contributions; it has been a blast!

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With everyone piling onto Facebook about privacy concerns, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge dig into the issue to see if there is realy a problem or whether it is just a bunch of tin-foil hat wearers getting their knickers in a twist.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do yo think there are reasonable privacy concerns with Facebook? Have you experience what you consider to be a breach of privacy? What can Facebook do to help quell these concerns?

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Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge take a look the Ubuntu Software Center and look at the good and bad points and what it poses for the future.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you like the Ubuntu Software Center? Does it do what you need it to do? Do you use something else which you think is better? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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Between the Shot Of Jaq listenership there is probably thousands of old tired computers sitting in our houses gathering dust. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore what we can use these aging dinosaurs for and what challenges we face in revitalizing them.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? What do you use your old computers for? Do you know some cool software tools that can make that old machine useful again? What challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them?

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Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge kick of another shot in the popular Perfect 10 series, this time exploring the perfect 10 hosted web applications.

Of course, we are the start of the conversation, but what do you think? What are your favorite hosted web apps? Do you agree with the ones we picked? Which apps should we have picked in our list? share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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Recently we have been seeing something of a revolution in not only indie gaming, but indie games that turn a buck or two. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore whether the time is ripe for indie games developing to fund their projects, and whether Linux users are happy to pick up the tab.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think indie games are any good? Would you pay for them? What games have you played and which ones did you pay for? Are we really at the beginning of a revolution? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below!

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In our popular Perfect 10 series, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge discuss what their favorite install web applications are, but…what are yours?

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? What do you think of the applications we chose? What are the installable web apps that you would recommend to the Shot Of Jaq community?

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Today it is possible to download an application that tells you the name and address of sex offenders in your local area. While this information has always been available, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore whether the fact that technology makes it easier to access and visualize is causing safety concerns that were outside the scope of expectations when the information decided to be made publicly available.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think we need to reflect on the access to information? Do you think that we need more information or less available to us? How do you think we can mitigate safety concerns? Share your thoughts in the shot comments!

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In the continuation of our Perfect 10 series, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge take a look at the top ten latest and greatest Linux desktop applications.

Our Perfect 10: Simple Scan, gEdit, Calibre, avant-window-navigator, D-Feet, Gwibber, Shutter, Mumble, Guake, XChat-Gnome

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What are your fave apps? Which lesser known applications help you do what you want to do every day? What are your fave games? What do you think about the applications that we picked? Share your thoughts in the shot comments…

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Everyone has gone a little crazy recently about tablet.s Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge peel back the hype and explore what different options we have available for tablets…not just the iPad…and what the opportunity for Open Source is for touch and tablets.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think tablets are valuable? Do you think they are a fad? With the iPad’s success, should anyone even bother? Is Android going to cut the mustard for tablets? Share your thoughts in the shot comments!

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In a new series in which the Shot Of Jaq team highlight the top ten of a given category, Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge give Android the Perfect 10 treatment, highlighting their fave apps, many of which you may have never used.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation, and this is a great opportunity for the Shot Of Jaq community to come together to share what your fave apps are. Do share your recommendations in the shot comments!

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The world is being rocked by mobile Internet via 3G. Despite such technological revelations, it has taken Linux a little longer to catch up. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about whether the free desktop is really ready for the mobile Internet revolution, and whether we should be dossing around with tethering or just bite the bullet and buy a USB dongle (assuming the damn thing works).

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? What is your experience of mobile Internet? Have you managed to get 3G dongles working well under Linux? Do you find tethering just works for you? What do you feel the Linux desktop still needs to make the mobile experience really rock our worlds?

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We often celebrate multiple languages as one of the many outputs of the Open Source methodology. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore how the translations community works and ask how effective it currently is, and how effective it could be.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think the translations community could be improved? Do you think we should care about translations? Have you got any experience or stories that you want to share about translating software? Do you think the commercial approach to translations is better or worse?

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Yesterday in a feat of great pomp and ceremony the mighty Google announced Google TV; their entrance into the consumer TV market. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge take the announcement apart, assess what it means for the industry, what it means for Google, and whether Google TV will be more of a GMail (epic) or a Google Buzz (fail).

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do you think Google TV sounds like a compelling product? What does this mean for the cable providers? Do you think that Android can really cater to TV apps? Do you think that Google are overstretching themselves?

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Talking over the internet isn’t new. But there is a new kid on the block: Mumble, a group voice chat system. What can it do for us that we don’t currently have? Will we see Mumble displace Skype or IRC? Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge discuss the chat client and new ways of working that it might give our community.

If you’ve used Mumble, or things like it, join the conversation! Tell us how you think we could be better with tools like this!

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RSI is a growing problem in the tech community. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about whether it’s given the importance that it deserves and how to alleviate the problems so you can be a happy hacker. Join the conversation and tell us how you avoid RSI, and whether you’ve ever had problems with it?

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Who do you need in a dream software team? If you had enough money to set up a software startup, would you spend it all on developers? How important is management and sales and marketing and HR? Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge look at which parts of a company are the most important, and what to do if you win the lottery. Join the conversation to tell us what you think!

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We have a wide variety of professions represented across the Shot Of Jaq community. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about their typical work days, covering the kind of work, tools and approaches involved with the hope of the community sharing your typical work days too.

Remember, Shot Of Jaq is all about the conversation, so do share with us what your typical work day is. What do you do? What tools and approaches do you use? How much time on the phone are you? How crazy is your INBOX? How do you manage your work?

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Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore Jono’s Severed Fifth project and the different lessons learned in trying to bring Creative Commons music to the world.

Of course, we are the very start of the discussion! What do you think? Do you think Creative Commons artists can be successful? How do you think this intersects with the traditional music industry? Do you feel that promotion or production is more important? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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In a world filled with seemingly endless network bandwidth, ultra-thin computers, and with the recent banishing to history of the floppy disc, is there really a need for physical media any more? Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore what physical media means for us, the digital divide, and whether we need those physical discs any more.

We are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Do we still need physical media? Do you still use floppies, zip drives, or tapes? Do you use USB pendrives? Do you think getting rid of physical media will increase the physical divide? Would we ever look back in anger? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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If there is one thing that Open Source has proven is that a large group of organized and coordinated people can make incredible things happen. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore whether just because took on the big guns in the software world, could we do the same with the movie world?

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! Do you think we could make a fully Open Source movie? Do you think we have the tools to do this? Do we have the creative and organizational abilities to do this? If this is possible, why hasn’t it happened? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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Printers are shit. There is no denying this. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore why printing technology is so riddled with problems and how Google wants to change it all with cloud aware printers.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Are we giving printers too much of a hard time? Is printing changing? Do you think the cloud approach to printing makes sense? Do we even need printers?

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These days we live in an age where we never, ever, delete anything. Email, photos, blog comments, music, documents…it all follows around, much of it living on the Internet, and moving from one service to another is an incredible pain. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore whether we need to re-seat the balance and develop a culture in which we delete things we don’t need anymore, and whether this is even possible or not.

Of course, we are the very start of the discussion! What do you think? Can you see a world in which we get rid of data we don’t need? Do you like to have data lying around? Is it really that much of a problem to move between services? Would you be suspicious of someone who deletes data? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…

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Not a day goes by when we are not asked to make your voice heard about this terrible law and that terrible restriction of freedom. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge talk about the common approach digital rights and other lobbyists groups use to raise awareness of an issue an whether it actually works when contrasted to how the opposition approach these issues. Is it time to change the approach?

Of course, we are the very start of the discussion! What do you think? Do you think digital rights and other lobbyist groups are effective? Do you think their contributions are effective? Do you think we need to propose positive legislation or always be on the retaliatory and defensive about oppressive legislation and laws? Share your comments in the shot comments below…

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Traditionally, from an application perspective, people have been divided between the web and the desktop. Some believe the web is easier to develop and deploy for and the desktop is sooooo 1998, and some believe the desktop offers a far richer and more integrated experience and that the web is just a fad perpetrated by square-orange-sunglasses wearing poseurs. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge explore whether we need this divide and whether Open Source can’t bring both together in perfect harmony.

Of course, we are the very start of the conversation! What do you think? Are you a web or desktop person, both or neither? Do yoiu think that we can merge together more effectively? Do you think there needs to be divide, or that one even exists? Do you think that Open Source can solve these problems? Share your thoughts in the shot comments below…