Brian McCullough

Big Tech just faced a courtroom reckoning, with Meta and Google found liable for platform "addictiveness" in a social media trial that could unleash a tidal wave of lawsuits. Find out why attorneys, entrepreneurs, and everyday users are suddenly on edge. • Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube • Section 230 and First Amendment implications debated after court verdicts • Supreme Court sides with Cox; ISPs not liable for user piracy • Elon Musk's lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out • Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims • FCC's confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout • Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs • The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification • Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography • Antimatter on the move: CERN's oddball truck experiment • Sci-fi and reality blur as Neal Stephenson walks away from the metaverse • Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance • Digital shelf pricing arrives at Walmart and Kroger • Flipper Zero: voice-controlled hacking gadget gets an AI upgrade • Age verification laws create headaches for OS and app developers • Official White House app called out for surveillance and security blunders • Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Harper Reed , Brian McCullough , and Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: doppel.com outsystems.com/twit zscaler.com/security meter.com/twit ZipRecruiter.com/twit

Big Tech just faced a courtroom reckoning, with Meta and Google found liable for platform "addictiveness" in a social media trial that could unleash a tidal wave of lawsuits. Find out why attorneys, entrepreneurs, and everyday users are suddenly on edge. • Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube • Section 230 and First Amendment implications debated after court verdicts • Supreme Court sides with Cox; ISPs not liable for user piracy • Elon Musk's lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out • Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims • FCC's confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout • Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs • The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification • Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography • Antimatter on the move: CERN's oddball truck experiment • Sci-fi and reality blur as Neal Stephenson walks away from the metaverse • Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance • Digital shelf pricing arrives at Walmart and Kroger • Flipper Zero: voice-controlled hacking gadget gets an AI upgrade • Age verification laws create headaches for OS and app developers • Official White House app called out for surveillance and security blunders • Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future? Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Harper Reed , Brian McCullough , and Cathy Gellis Download or subscribe to This Week in Tech at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-tech Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: doppel.com outsystems.com/twit zscaler.com/security meter.com/twit ZipRecruiter.com/twit

There has been a lot of talk about growing Detroit, Southeast Michigan and Michigan's economy through startups and technology. But how do you actually do it - not just here, but in a number of cities across the country that aren't Silicon Valley, Seattle, New York City or other existing hubs? I thought I'd get some outside perspective with some experience dealing with Michigan, in Brian McCullough. Not only is he the founder and host of the daily Techmeme Ride Home podcast (among others), he's an enterpreneur, investor, and internet historian. We have a very real conversation about the topic, with a lot of experience and perspective. Full transcript will be available on our website, dailydetroit.com For more Brian McCullough: Techmeme Ride Home: https://www.ridehome.info/show/techmeme-ride-home/ Rad History (about the 80s and 90s): https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/rad-history/id1767242487 Resume writers, a business he originally started in Michigan: https://resumewriters.com/ We do shows every weekday on Daily Detroit, sharing what to know and where to go in Southeast Michigan. Follow us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get shows.

How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough is a history of the companies, entrepreneurs, technologists, and financiers who launched the modern online world. Covering the years 1993 to 2008, this sweeping volume helps the reader understand not only who the important players were in fostering online communities, e-commerce, social networks, and connected mobile computing, but also the context from which they emerged. We are pleased to be joined by the author of How the Internet Happened , Brian McCullough. Show Notes How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone by Brian McCullough via Amazon Brian McCullough on Twitter Techmeme Ride Home Podcast Internet History Podcast Ride Home Fund Follow us on Twitter @BusinessBooksCo and join our Amazon book club . Edited by Giacomo Guatteri Find out more at https://businessbooksandco.com Read transcript

For our second episode (and the very first one with a guest!), we sat down with Brian McCullough, creator of the Internet History Podcast , one of Ilya’s all-time favorite podcasts. Brian’s current podcast is Techmeme Ride Home , a popular daily summary of tech news that has over a million downloads every month. Brian is also an investor running the Ride Home Fund and a resident at TED (check out Brian’s talk ). Brian is on Twitter as @brianmcc ( https://twitter.com/brianmcc ). Chapters 00:00 - Cold Open 00:18 - Welcome and Guest Introduction 03:06 - Brian's Background and Career 08:40 - The Dot-Com Bubble Explained 11:24 - ResumeWriters.com and Google AdWords 18:40 - Social Media Before Facebook 20:46 - Why Quentin Tarantino 23:02 - How Brian Got into Podcasting 28:06 - Leveraging Interviews for a Book 32:20 - Launching the Internet History Podcast 37:02 - Growing an Audience Strategically 42:00 - Being Where the Action Is 47:20 - Research and Interviewing Sources 50:57 - From Podcast to Book Deal 55:40 - Techmeme Ride Home Origin Story 59:32 - Interview Technique and Preparation 1:05:00 - Performing a Script 1:09:00 - Daily Show Workflow 1:10:32 - Editing Tools and GarageBand 1:15:00 - Recording Gear and the Port-A-Booth 1:17:00 - Sound Quality and Audience Forgiveness 1:22:58 - Podcast Advertising Economics 1:28:50 - Dynamic Ad Insertion Show notes Software Descript -- a tool that can help you edit audio similar to editing text in a word processor. SquadCast -- a powerful tool for recording interviews. It saves high quality audio locally and uploads files to the cloud, so you can download and process them later. Zoom -- video conferencing and audio recording. GarageBand -- the audio editor that comes for free with MacOS that Brian uses for podcast editing. Libsyn -- a podcast hosting platform we mentioned in the conversation. Gear Shure SM7b -- a kick ass condenser mic for podcasters and radio hosts. It's pretty much the golden standard in the industry. It's expensive and also requires an audio interface because it only has an XLR output (no direct connection to your computer's USB port). Blue Yeti -- an inexpensive USB mic that has multiple recording modes (e.g. cardioid, condenser, etc.) Arnab recorded this (and other) episodes using a Blue Yeti mic. Brian was also using a Blue Yeti for this recording! Harlan Hogan's Porta-Booth -- the foamy thing that helps prevent the room echo during recording that Brian uses for recording Techmeme Ride Home in the home office. Podcasts The Tim Ferriss Show WTF with Marc Maron Dan Carlin's Hardcode History This American Life (Ira Glass) Comedy Bang Bang </li

This week Claire is joined by Dr Brian McCullough of Texas A&M University and The Sport Ecology Group. Brian is one of leading global academics on sport and sustainability and they discuss everything from the environmental impact of sport organisations, strategies to implement environmental initiatives, and how data can be used to promote behavioural change among sport spectators and participants. Enjoy! #ClimateofSport #SportPositive Support the show

The Internet has transformed humanity. The Internet is the result of a long series of innovations from military, academia, business, and the open source community. In his book, How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone , Brian McCullough tells the story of the last 25 years of Internet development through the lens of companies like ebay, Amazon, Google, and Apple. Whereas other books have focused on the trajectory of these individual companies, Brian explains how innovations in one company often lead to success in another. Without the lessons from Napster, we might not have Spotify. Without the trust model pioneered by ebay, we would not have marketplaces like Airbnb. Brian is also the host of The Internet History Podcast and the Techmeme Ride Home podcast. In The Internet History Podcast, Brian interviews entrepreneurs and engineers who were firsthand witnesses to the developments that led to our modern Internet, including early employees at Amazon, Tesla, and TheGlobe.com. In his other podcast, the Techmeme Ride Home, Brian gives a daily overview of the day’s Internet news. Through his podcasts about the Internet’s past and present, Brian has also accumulated an intuition about the future. He joins the show to discuss his book, the art of podcasting, and the historical lessons of technology. The post Internet History (and Future) with Brian McCullough appeared first on Software Engineering Daily .