Adi’s Blogging Again, and More Narcissism

So, I’ve decided to blog on here some more. I tried using Tumblr, which I thought was nice, but a kind of a weird quasi-combo of Twitter and WordPress and such. Used it for a bit—that didn’t last. I’ve been tweeting quite a bit, though. It’s a good community I’m following. I’ve also been blogging over at the Open Video Alliance. So essentially, I haven’t stopped blogging… I’ve just stopped here.

Anyways, a few press-y updates. (This is the more narcissistic part of this post.) I was just interviewed by BBC Radio 5 Live about Yale’s pending transition to Google Apps for Education and Gmail. Essentially, there was an article in the Yale Daily News “announcing” the switch. Christian Csar, eloquent speaker and overall brilliant guy, offered for me to contribute to an op-ed about the issue, and I agreed to help. This was our response. I guess someone at the BBC caught wind of this and messaged me ON FACEBOOK (hooray social networking?) about setting up an interview, so I called, things were planned, and I spoke on “Up All Night” with Rhod Sharp. This was about 9:45pm Eastern time… which means it was about 2:45am in the UK, so for all of you night-owls in London, I’m hoping my voice was steady and that I made a point. (If I didn’t, read the op-ed!)

UPDATE: The clip is available (for a week?) on the Up All Night website. Luckily, thanks to a nice thing known as the analog hole, I was able to (crappily) record an mp3 of the clip:

~~Adi talks Gmail on ‘Up All Night’ .mp3~~

UPDATE 2: The almighty Brad Rosen uploaded a much cleaner mp3 of the interview. Check it out by clicking on these words dot mp3.

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Also, last weekend was Free Culture X, the conference for the larger Students for Free Culture group. Yale had relatively solid representation down there—Paul Ramirez, who is the reason Yale Students for Free Culture is running so smoothly this year, and I travelled together; Daniel Ayele and Andrew Gu headed down too. Overall, the conference was awesome—great people, great speakers, great workshops, great bowling, etc. (Hopefully I blog about it sometime in the future.) While down there, though, Marc Parry of the Chronicle of Higher Education joined my buddy Parker and me to lunch and asked us a few questions for an article he was writing. Lo and behold. Overall, the article’s pretty good—though I’m hoping that first quote of mine isn’t taken out of context

Anyways, since my mother told me she reads my blog (and since I always have trouble finding time to call home), I’ll hopefully be updating this more often. Be sure to check out our Yale Students for Free Culture blog too—It’s still in the works, but once we start posting to it, it should be great!