Are we, beautiful denizens of the internet that we are, destined to spend our lives grovelling for a decent broadband connection? Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge question whether there really are decent ISPs out there, and if there are why they’re not rolling in money from the entire open source community.
Lots of people have said: is there an Ogg Vorbis podcast feed for Shot Of Jaq? Well, I can now happily announce that there is. See the footer at the bottom of the page, or point your Ogg-capable podcatcher at http://feeds.feedburner.com/ShotOfJaqOgg. Sorry it took so long.
In the first (of many) Jaqbacks, Stuart Langridge and Jono Bacon look at your emails and what’s going on in the Shot of Jaq community! The Jaqback shots appear outside the regular show schedule, so you won’t ever miss a show: email us your thoughts and opinions, or tell us here on shotofjaq.org!
With the inclusion of PiTiVi into the next release of Ubuntu, video editing — the kind of video editing that doesn’t involve repeated software crashes — may finally be making its way to the free desktop. Jono Bacon and Stuart ‘Aq’ Langridge look at the state of play in video editors on Linux, and ask the question: have we now reached the stage where you can use your desktop of choice to put your dog on YouTube?
OpenOffice.org is constantly criticised for having a complex and wrong user interface. The office suite’s UI is undergoing changes, though, through their recently-announced Project Renaissance, a plan to “create a User Interface so that OpenOffice.org becomes the users’ choice not only out of need, but also out of desire”. Stuart Langridge and Jono Bacon talk about what Renaissance means for OpenOffice.org and the open source desktop.
Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge dive into the fetid and yet compelling pool of microblogging loveliness and celebrity that is Twitter. If Twitter defines the social media bubble, what does that mean for you and me, to say nothing of Ashton Kitchen or whatever his name is? Where’s the money coming from? And who will be first against the wall when the revolution comes? Find out in Shot of Jaq!
The first Shot of Jaq! Jono Bacon and Stuart Langridge explain what SoJ is all about and how it’s going to work. There’ll be two Shots of Jaq a week, on Tuesdays and Fridays, and each one is where the conversation starts, not where it finishes. So tell us what you think: leave a comment for us and the community here, or chat to us live on IRC, or email us directly!
It’s the start of a whole new adventure, and you’re here right from the beginning. Let’s go.
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