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I have been raving recently about a new technology podcast from South Africa that is absolutely superb, called The ZATech Show. It is one of the very few podcasts that has me actually say “yay” when I see it is updated.
I am not sure why I find it so compelling, but the format just works. A group of South African technology journalists sit around and chew the fat about tech stories from that week, but the rapport between them, informal style and the fact that these guys really know what they are talking about makes it a pleasure to listen to.
Their last show featured a surprise guest, none other than Mark Shuttleworth, first African in space and man behind the Ubuntu Linux phenomenon.
He comes across as both extremely nice and utterly brilliant. His interview is a fine way to get introduced to the ZA Techcast
Pay attention to how Mark and these other very knowledgeable men speak to each other. Their manner and vocabulary are ideal for constructive group discussion.
Mark introduced me to he term Delta, used in a specific context. I had to look up what he meant, and oddly the Microsoft Lexicon site came to the rescue:
Delta: The distance, or period of time, between where a project or item is and where it should be. Derived from the mathematical term (as opposed to river mouth, Greek alphabet, or fraternity usages) describing “an incremental change in a variable.” Used in reference to all manner of things—”testing delta,” “production delta,” or “stock delta,” defined as the difference between an employee’s “strike price” (the lowest price of MS stock during the first 30 days of the blue badger’s employment) and the current price, often a figure inspiring boisterous gloating. [From Microsoft Lexicon A-F ]
The ZATech Show is available here: http://zatechshow.co.za/ (iTunes and other feed links at the URL)
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