Autonomo.us Podcast Episode 2: Interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikia

evan — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:12:23 +0000

I’m proud to announce the second episode of the autonomo.us podcast. In Episode 2: Interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikia, we discuss:

Richard Stallman’s quotes in a recent article in the Guardian
our efforts to make our own Web site a Free Service
our interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales about Wikia Search, his company’s project to create a Free Network Service for Web search.

The episode is about 53:30 minutes long, and alternative formats are available at the Internet Archive. It includes these musical samples:

Dropping out of School from the (awesome) album Out of It by Brad Sucks (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0)
minimal ground by bayboom.
San Anton from the album Bistro Malaga by Estupendo (ad hoc “free to re-use” license)

I had a great time making this podcast with Mako, Brett, and Bradley, and I think we all appreciate the participation of Jimmy Wales in this recording. We recorded on October 18th — one month after our previous recording — but it took me the last couple of weeks to find time to learn Audacity well enough to slice-and-dice this episode and stick in theme music and bumpers and level out the voices and all that jazz. Fun stuff, glad I know it know — and glad we have such great Free Software at our disposal for making recordings like this.

Please comment here or on the Podcast wiki page. I’m looking forward to more exciting podcast recordings in the coming months.

autonomo.us podcast coming soon

evan — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:51:40 +0000

One of the things we’re planning for autonomo.us over the next few months is production of a podcast on a monthly basis. We just recorded our first episode on September 18th, the 6-month anniversary of the “mini-summit” meeting that launched the Franklin Street Statement and the autonomo.us group. Many of the original summit attendees called in to talk about the state of Free Network Services and the future of our project.

Our next episode will be an interview with Jimmy Wales and Gil Penchina of Wikia. Wikia is working on a Free and Open Source search engine service, with Open Data. Dubbed Wikia Search, it seems to be the closest thing that we have today to a Free Network Service for search. We’ll be asking Jimmy and Gil about their plans for Wikia Search, the underlying technology, the licensing for software and data, and the involvement of the great Internet community in their project. I’m also interested in their take on Free Network Service businesses, since Wikia is one right now.

The episode after that, we’ll have on Brion Vibber, CTO of the Wikimedia Foundation, to talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia is probably the most popular Free Network Service on the Web, and we’ll talk about Brion’s dedication to using 100% Free Software for this massive Web site.

Future episodes? I’d love to talk to folks from Automattic about WordPress.com and their other services. Maybe a round table on the Affero GPL? Distributed programming models? Libre Services?

If you have any questions for our upcoming guests, or you can think of other subjects or topics we should cover in future podcast episodes, drop us a comment here and let us know. We’re interested in exploring the space around Free Network Services and I think we’ve got some interesting discussion ahead of us.

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Autonomo.us Podcast Episode 2: Interview with Jimmy Wales of Wikia

autonomo.us podcast coming soon