Internet trends report | Mary Meeker, KPCB | Code Conference 2016 & 2017

Mary Meeker has just given her annual Internet report, so I thought I might review last years presentation, before hand, available on YouTube. Before I start on this years show.

Its fast paced, and busy, she breaks all rules on slide presentation but who cares, you have little time to read them anyway. The slides can be downloaded from LinkedIn, and perused for information, which is vast, and shows all sorts of graphs on computer use, by who, and such things as general population growth, which is why i started to watch these presentations. I have down loaded both 2016 & 2017 slides and added them to both Evernote, but more importantly now, Google Keep, with multiple tags.

You might want to review this excellent article on Backchannel, a news site I particularly like, giving a great overview of her work and a very light back ground.

You might ask why I listen to her, its simple, the growth of computer use and the type of computer used have a direct link and influence to Architecture, plus the way we perceive the use of computing to draw, share our designs, and how the data generated is used, a subject we have yet to explore fully.

This years presentation was given on May 31st 2017, again her slides are available on LinkedIn, as yet I can't see any video on YouTube, but Recode have a video up together with slides.

Its highly entertaining and packed as before, and with 355 slides forget trying to read it, sit back as listen and go back later to the slides.

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On Air CPD with Podcasts

I am a massive fan of podcast, they are usually the audio versions but some like Leo La Ports Twit shows I often take as the lite video version.

I am appalled that so much is made of strict manufacturer lectures,  have aired my feelings on this in many of my blogs, and just recently at the Region 5 meet.

Its to ridged and inflexible, perhaps another way is to listen to the many podcasts that are available, My list stretches from History, through to Technology, touching on a little social, and a lot of global news both general , and political, the SA elections at present are a real interest.

But Tech news for computing is probably my favourite at the moment with Twit tv blogs, I like This week in Google, even though I have gone away from them back to Apple, and Triangulation. a show that looks at the greats of computing.

The FT is my business new blog, and I also like the Guardian, although I don't buy the paper, the podcast is not bad.

I don't have to make a specific time, to listen to my blogs, I tend to do it either driving, or walking my dog, don't ask, Barley is well up to speed on computing.

I am also a big fan of Science and love the Guardian's Science podcast.
All downloadable from iTunes store and onto the Podcast play app, which auto downloads all my listening and shows them as unplayed,

There are not many construction podcasts of note, I am trying "The Construction Leading Edge Podcast" at present, it seems to publish quite regularly, 7 issues so far this year 2016, so I'll let you know. Its lot and I mean a lot of effort to produce a show thats worthy of releasing, so I am not surprised at the lack of shows related to our industry, I would like one just for us, and I have thought about it many times, but the time just is not there.

So there it is, another way to increase your quality CPD without spending at leat 2 hours either side of a 1 hour manufacture presentation, just plug in and enjoy.