It has been a somewhat light week in technology news, but that doesn’t stop Leo and crew from having some great discussions. Om Malik, of GigaOM fame, is on this week and it’s hard not to feel inadequate when listening to someone this intelligent. He’s a great guest and manages to be a great ying to Dvorak’s yang.
There is not too much hard news, but this allowed the guys to discuss more issue-based topics than usual. The conversation ranges from Google’s recent foray in digitizing “orphan” books to platforms for building web technologies. Stay tuned until as the topic swings to a story which Dvorak wrote about the incompetence of the of the current Chief Information Officer and Malik’s subsequent piece that took a bit of wind out of Dvorak’s sails. Don’t worry, they make up.
Dvorak delivers and absolutely classic quote this week as well. While talking about the only book has ever read in 1 sitting, he says “It’s really good so I thought I might as well get is over with.” There is probably no sentence that sums-up John C. Dvorak any better than this one.
The Apple-Google-ATT conspiracy, the US CIO babbles, and TWiT goes digital…
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