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Steve Lubetkin
The CompuSchmooze™ name is a trademark owned by Steven L. Lubetkin. It is the name of Steve’s newspaper column, published monthly in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey since 1996. These articles and associated podcasts are Copyright ©Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.
In this special episode of SBN Newsmakers and CompuSchmooze TV, SBN news director and
Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey “CompuSchmooze” columnist Steve Lubetkin chats with Gatsby Frimpong, creator of Gatsby.TV, a free search app for Android and Apple iOS devices.
Gatsby.TV consolidates search results for TV programs on broadcast, cable, and streaming services, and lets users share recommendations for shows, while keeping track of which streaming services are running the shows they are watching.
You can watch the complete interview with Gatsby Frimpong in the player below.
It may be hard to believe but this year marks the golden anniversary of a ubiquitous piece of technology that doesn’t have to boot up, doesn’t need a battery recharge, never needs a new style of USB cable, and has baffled an American president.
It’s the bar code, those vertical lines of varying thicknesses that you see with a bunch of numbers on just about every package of goods you buy in a grocery or retail store.
And despite the endless praise in the media for modern tech gurus like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or even the controversial Elon Musk, the bar code was the end product of a team of IBM researchers and engineers who labored anonymously to devise an inventory tracking technology that would be useful and practical for retailers to embrace.
In a new memoir, The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World’s Most Ubiquitous Technologies, IBM engineer Paul McEnroe tells the story of how the scannable inventory code came to be composed of bars.
Listen to my audio interview with Paul McEnroe about the history of the bar code in this podcast player.
“It had very poor reliability,” he recalled. “And it’s probably good that it didn’t get started because I think it would have been a big failure, because in the early days, before you get the label printing by the manufacturers in real high quality, you have to print it in the store, and you have to use inexpensive printers and the reliability goes way down.”
The bar code technology started out as a way to drive sales of IBM computers, McEnroe explained. He said IBM’s then-president, Frank Cary, thought expanding the amount of data collected and stored would drive demand for hardware sales.
Cary tasked McEnroe with assembling a team to tackle the project, and he says they eventually decided to focus on data collected at the point-of-sale.
The team developed a display terminal to replace conventional cash registers that would be connected to inventory computers in the stock room. By integrating scanners that could read symbols off packages, they could track details about each item purchased, McEnroe said.
“We and they both recognized that if you just put some kind of a label, a readable label, on every product that sold in the store, and you identify that label with a number, then you can just use the number, you can print out whatever description you keep with the number,” he said.
Oddly for IBM, once the code system was developed, it was released into public domain use instead of being patented and commercialized, McEnroe recalled.
“They knew if it was successful, it was going to be zillions of these things,” he said. “Ten billion a day is what it is today. And so they said, ‘if you want to submit a code, you have to put it first in the public domain and then you can submit it.’ So nobody will own any rights to the code. If you want to make money at this, you can build great scanners and great systems and sell the systems to the supermarkets.”
The ingenuity of the bar code system is the ability of lasers to scan the width of the black bars, but also measure the width of the white space between them. This enabled the bar code engineers to add an error-checking feature to ensure that the codes are read correctly.
The famous incident with President George Bush and the grocery scanner actually took place at a grocery industry conference, McEnroe recalled. Bush was looking for an opportunity to counter allegations from the Bill Clinton campaign that he was out of touch, and set up the photo op with Bush and the scanner, even though they had been in wide use for about 15 years already. But Bush expressed so much amazement afterward that ordinary people, long familiar with the technology, didn’t see him as tech-aware.
“It just was a bad perception of his awareness of modern technology,” McEnroe said.
In the wake of the horrific October 7 terrorist attack, the one thing that Israelis need most is to hear from friends and family elsewhere in the world, according to one technology industry executive.
The executive, Kendall Breitman, a community manager with Tel Aviv-based video recording company Riverside.fm, spoke with LMC’s managing partner, Steve Lubetkin, for his monthly “Compuschmooze” column, which has appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey since 1996.
This month, the publication asked its columnists to focus on the impact of the October 7 terrorist massacres in Israel. Lubetkin’s Compuschmooze column focused on tech industry workers in Israel.
The column is based on this video interview. LMC and its StateBroadcastNews.com subsidiary use the Riverside.fm video platform to record many remote video interviews and panel discussions for clients and for the SBN news report.
“If you know anyone living here, I can’t tell you how helpful and impactful it’s been to even be contacted by people,” says Breitman. “It’s one thing to experience this, and then it’s another thing to kind of feel alone in your experience. So if you know anybody that’s been affected by this, I think reaching out to them is just baseline, like a really great thing to do, and it makes people feel seen and heard and loved. And that’s something that I feel like we’re a bit lacking right now.”
You can watch the interview with Kendall Breitman in the player below.
You can get information about making donations in Israel here. You can learn about relief organizations helping Israeli victims of terror and Palestinian victims of Hamas at this link.
LMC Managing Director Steve Lubetkin gave a presentation on cryptocurrency for nearly 50 members of the Herzl Chapter of Hadassah, Cherry Hill, NJ. [Read more...]
In this interview, Hylio CEO Arthur Erickson describes his company's drone aerial spraying technology and why it's a breakthrough for farms both small and large. [Read more...]
Editor’s Note: This podcast is the basis for Steve’s 9/26/2018 Compuschmooze column, which appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. As the population ages, assisted living communities and nursing homes around the country are having a more difficult [Read more...]
You can read online copies of our tech column, "Compuschmooze" at the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey website. [Read more...]
The State Broadcast News division of Cherry Hill-based The Lubetkin Media Companies has been recognized again with three awards for its news reporting in radio, print, and video categories in the 2017 Memorial Journalism Awards [Read more...]
Editor’s Note: The audio podcast is now available How often do you want to share with friends what you just heard in an audio news story or podcast? Would you want to send them a [Read more...]
Editor’s Note: This column first appeared in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey on January 6, 2016. From the same folks who gave us Twitter, now may we present Periscope, aimed at smart [Read more...]
As I write this column, Hurricane Joaquin has just been upgraded to Category Three and may become a Category Four storm before you get this issue of The Voice. It is a serious reminder for [Read more...]
My March 18, 2015 “Compuschmooze” column discusses RarmaRadio, a software tool for recording and time-shifting streaming Internet radio stations, but the software comes with a catch. Read the column at the Jewish Community Voice website.
The path from Internet entrepreneur to Internet millionaire is not a straight one. Just ask Nooruddin “Rudy” Karsan. He just successfully sold his biggest Internet company, Kenexa, which makes human resources software, to IBM for [Read more...]
In my September 2014 CompuSchmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I write about an app and some social media issues that came up recently during the conflict between Israel and [Read more...]
Editor’s note: This column is crossposted from the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. You can see the original column there. It seems like web developers are convinced that the world’s attention span for [Read more...]
UPDATED 4/18/2014 TO INCLUDE VIDEO NEWS WRAPPER REPORT: When Super Storm Sandy ravaged New Jersey in 2011, small and medium sized businesses learned what larger companies had known for some time: If your business computer [Read more...]
Editor’s Note: The version of this column that appeared in the March 5 issue of the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey omitted the hyperlinks to the example websites and synagogues mentioned. This version [Read more...]
In my February 2014 “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I take an updated look at book, music, comic book, and movie inventory software from Dutch firm Collectorz.com, which does [Read more...]
In my January 2014 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I talk about the kinds of technologies US credit card companies and retailers could have been using already to prevent [Read more...]
In my December 2013 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I report on Julian Brodsky’s keynote remarks at last month’s Founder Factory conference in Philadelphia. Brodsky is the retired vice [Read more...]
In my November 2013 “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I tell about our experience using AirBnB.com to book accommodations during our October trip to Paris, Rome, Florence, and Venice.
In the October 2013 Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I talk about the Grape-Vine app developed with support from some large Jewish organizations in the hope that they can [Read more...]
In my September 2013 Compuschmooze column, I discuss that video of the over-the-top Bar Mitzvah party that recently went viral, and suggest that people need to do a better job creating context for their videos [Read more...]
In my August 2013 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I describe Evernote and its value as a cloud-based note-taking, reference-recording, database accessible from multiple platforms.
In my June 2013 Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I look at Adobe Corporation’s shift from software sales by the box or download to a subscription pricing model for [Read more...]
In my April 2013 Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I review the T-Lock Pro Call Blocker, a device that lets you add inbound telemarketers to a blacklist that keeps [Read more...]
In this month’s Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I report on a recent presentation at the Philly Net Squared group’s “Net Tuesday” event, where Philadelphia social media consultant Don [Read more...]
In my February 2013 “Compuschmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, as a nod to the Jewish holiday Tu b’shevat, the “new year for trees,” I survey some websites that marry Jewish [Read more...]
In my January “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, “Beware losing control of your photos when preserving them online,” I offer some strategies for protecting your photographs and other creative [Read more...]
In my latest Compuschmooze™ column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, “Encryption tools have drawbacks, but will keep your emails private,” I talk about how people forget that email is very insecure, [Read more...]
Alternative ways of funding arts and creative projects are gaining traction. Read more in my November “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey.
In my September 2012 “Compuschmooze” column, I respond to a reader who is having trouble opening “.docx” Word documents in his older version of Microsoft’s popular word processing program.
Update: We decided to use the August Compuschmooze column to update the available information about Talmud study materials on the web. You can read the column and check out the links we discovered at the [Read more...]
The CompuSchmooze podcast returns with an interview about event planning online, with our guest, Vanessa Schneider, senior public relations manager of Eventbrite.com, an online event organizing site. Listen to the podcast here: Read the article [Read more...]
My latest Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey talks about online conversion utilities that let you convert from one file format to another — and which can literally [Read more...]
My May 2012 CompuSchmooze column is about Bizzabo, an Israeli startup that hopes to make face-to-face networking connect with online networking for conferences and seminars.
In this audio podcast, we present a telescoped aircheck recording of an interview with Lori Katz, Cherry Hill resident and Parkinson’s Disease activist and advocate. (A telescoped aircheck removes the commercials and irrelevant content of [Read more...]
My latest “CompuSchmooze” column at JewishVoiceSNJ.org is about the lessons learned when we produced near-realtime video onsite for our newspaper at the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey’s annual SuperSunday fund-raising call-a-thon. Check out the [Read more...]
In this month’s CompuSchmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I review BIAS Inc.’s Sound Saver software, which converts audio recordings from vinyl records and other sources.
Read this month’s CompuSchmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, about my experience upgrading from Microsoft Office 2003 to 2010.
Israel might be putting the Stuxnet computer virus to very good use. Read about it in the October edition of the CompuSchmooze column.
Last month’s unique weather and geology, which featured an earthquake and a hurricane in our area, reminded us that it’s always important to have an emergency plan for our families. It’s also important to think [Read more...]
I’m a Senior Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research and they asked all of the Fellows to promote the Excellence in New Communications Awards, so here’s the blurb. The Society for New Communications [Read more...]
Updated 5/3/2012: The link to purchase this app has changed. It is now in the Amazon Marketplace. Thanks to Wizzard Media, which hosts our audio podcasts on Libsyn.com, we can now offer an Android App [Read more...]
In this month’s column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, I discuss Google Plus and its opportunity to attract social networkers away from Facebook. Have you tried Google Plus? What do you [Read more...]
Ted Mann, digital media director for Gannett newspapers in New Jersey, was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey in Voorhees, Camden County, on June 1, [Read more...]
This was an interesting story from The Jewish Week about Jewish day schools employing technology. I know that Kellman Brown Academy here in South Jersey has computers in many classrooms, and SmartBoard technology is embedded [Read more...]
I was the guest speaker in the May 19, 2011 “CommAmmo” #ICChat Twitter chat hosted by Cleveland-based Sean Williams, a corporate communications practitioner. The conversation about best practices for using video in internal communications settings lasted [Read more...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that students at Lehigh University got a first-hand opportunity to hear from Libyan rebels in Benghazi, who spoke with them over the Skype Internet video-telephony service for about an [Read more...]
Updated 4/25/11: Microsoft has released a hotfix for the problems caused by its Security Update last week that caused PowerPoint 2003 to have problems opening files with image backgrounds embedded in the slide template [Read more...]
Jacob Comenetz’ article, “Digital Diplomacy”, in “The Diplomatic Pouch” blog of the Washington Diplomat newspaper, discusses the role of social media in the civil uprisings rippling through many Arab countries. Comenetz notes that a lack [Read more...]
Last month I briefly mentioned the increasingly widespread use of services called “URL shorteners” that generate unique substitute web addresses for sites that are more compact and fit more easily within the 140-character constraint of [Read more...]
My March 9, 2011 “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey deals with how social and political activism has been changed by the rise of social media that facilitate communications among [Read more...]
My February 2011 CompuSchmooze column is about a utility that lets PCs read and write data on a MAC formatted hard drive. MacDrive, by MediaFour Software, does the trick.
Steve’s “CompuSchmooze” column in the latest issue of the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey deals with passwords and personal online security. You can read the column here.
Many Baby Boomers complain that they don’t want to be bothered with email, or have a website, or a Facebook page, or an iPhone. Any discussion of Twitter usually ends with a comment like, “I [Read more...]
The latest version of Apple’s iOS operating system for iPhones and iPads includes a wireless printing capability called AirPrint. The only problem is that, in typical Apple style, it’s restricted (or so they want you [Read more...]
This video podcast program features a slide presentation by Dr. Jerry Ehrlich, a Cherry Hill (NJ) pediatrician who volunteered in Darfur with Doctors Without Borders. He commented on artwork by children in Darfur and showed [Read more...]
My CompuSchmooze column this month is about my reaction to the Apple iPad. You can read the column here.
My CompuSchmooze column in the current issue of the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey is about FourSquare.com, the location-based social media networking site that lets users find out about special offers while connecting [Read more...]
Steve’s latest “CompuSchmooze” column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey describes using WordPress to redesign JewishSacredAging.com for Rabbi Richard Address (left), and the redesign of this site. Read the column.
HP today announced that Connie Guglielmo has been named vice president of Corporate Communications, effective Sept. 1. The company’s press release says Guglielmo has more than 20 years of experience as an editor managing fast-paced [Read more...]
The big tech story this week may be about more than just another CEO caught in a romantic entanglement with a vendor, according to 5 reasons HP’s Mark Hurd resigned in the latest issue of ComputerWorld. [Read more...]
The CompuSchmoozeTM name is a trademark owned by Steven L. Lubetkin, and is the name of a series of columns published monthly in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. These articles and associated podcasts are [Read more...]
In this month’s CompuSchmooze column, I give the nod to the Kodak Zi8 high-definition video camera. Many people use Flip cameras, but I think the Kodak wins because of its removable storage and external microphone [Read more...]
UPDATE, 9/18/2012: Tungle has announced it will discontinue the service in December 2012. Read their official blog post here. In this edition of the Compuschmooze podcast, we interview Marc Gingras, CEO and founder of Tungle.me, [Read more...]
By Steven L. Lubetkin steve@compuschmooze.com Copyright ©2010 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. Traditional photojournalism is racing to embrace the tools of the online world, and participants in the National Press Photographers Association’s “Northern Short [Read more...]
In this edition of the Compuschmooze podcast, we report on the March “Net Tuesday” meeting held in Philadelphia by Net Squared, a group that “enables social benefit organizations to leverage the tools of the social [Read more...]
In this edition of the Compuschmooze podcast, we interview Steve Schack, founder of BeMyNudge.com, a coaching and goal-setting website. According to the BeMyNudge website, Steve has coaching clients for many years, working with clients to [Read more...]
A new class of assistive technologies are dramatically altering the way people with various disabilities are able to engage in their daily activities. The Pulse SmartPen, from Livescribe (http://bit.ly/4DKjvU), is one of these devices. Lori [Read more...]
My article on the construction of the new museum at Independence Mall appears in the Fall/Winter issue of Attitudes. Download a PDF file containing the complete article. You can read the rest of this issue [Read more...]
In the CompuSchmooze Video Podcast Episode #4, we present a panel discussion on the new Federal Trade Commission regulations governing disclosure by bloggers about products and other compensation they receive in return for reviews or [Read more...]
This is the September 2009 column as published in the Jewish Community Voice. Ten years ago, everyone thought they needed a website. So much so, that a popular way to get a laugh from someone [Read more...]
In this latest Compuschmooze vidcast, technology columnist Steve Lubetkin reviews the NeatDesk scanner and software suite, from the Neat Company. This vidcast supplements the current Compuschmooze column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New [Read more...]
I will be writing about the technology planned for the new museum in the Fall issue of Attitudes, our sister publication to the Jewish Community Voice. There will also be a video podcast associated with [Read more...]
Click to Play PodcastSteve was one of 30-40 Philadelphia area Twitter users who got together in “meat space” for a “TweetUp” at the Manayunk Brewery on July 20. These short interviews introduce you to some [Read more...]
Last month, as part of our science press tour from which we posted the CompuSchmooze video podcast of the Galileo and Star Trek exhibits at the Franklin Institute, we had a chance to chat one [Read more...]
Click to Play Two exhibits at the opposite ends of the scientific spectrum are at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia through September. "Galileo, the Medici, and the Age of Discovery," brings one of Galileo's own [Read more...]
The Drexel University Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA) presents “Breaking Boundaries: The Revolution of Social Media,” a panel discussion held May 5, 2009 in the Bossone Auditorium at Drexel University [Read more...]
By Steven L. Lubetkin| steve@compuschmooze.com Copyright � 2009 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. WORD COUNT: 975 This is an extended version of the column that appears in the Voice this month. I spent the [Read more...]
The Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey celebrated Israel’s 60th birthday with “Israel #@ 60,” a daylong festival involving Jewish organizations in the community who paraded, sang Israeli songs, and enjoyed Israeli arts and crafts [Read more...]
The Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey celebrated Israel’s 60th birthday with “Israel #@ 60,” a daylong festival involving Jewish organizations in the community who paraded, sang Israeli songs, and enjoyed Israeli arts and crafts [Read more...]
In October, Ipsos Insight, a Canadian market research company, learned in its market research that “the popularity of online video services has grown significantly with women and older consumers, helping close the age and gender [Read more...]
Click to Play Jeff Pulver’s Real-World Social Media Tagging Breakfast in Philadelphia on February 5 included short remarks by Jeff about why he began creating opportunities for social media participants to meet each other in [Read more...]
On December 30, 2008, the Israeli Consulate General in New York hosted a “citizens’ press conference” and invited interested parties to send the Consulate questions about the recent Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip, [Read more...]
Thanks to Peter Shankman for the heads up and copywriting on this. It’s a pretty cute site, not like the traditional holdiay stuff. Ever wish they lit a giant menorah in Rockefeller Center or aired [Read more...]
Steve (“PodcastSteve” on Twitter) joined more than 60 social media experts in Melville, NY on November 13 for the “Social Media Jungle Conference organized by Internet entrepreneur and investor Jeff Pulver. Steve was one of [Read more...]
Backup for important business data now can benefit from additional protection from fires, with the FireKing MediaVault HD fire-hardened backup drive. Underwriter’s Laboratories® has tested the MediaVaultHD container according to standard UL72 and approved [Read more...]
In June, the International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC) held its international conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. In October, the Icelandic economy collapsed, the three largest banks were nationalized, and tens of thousands of Icelanders found [Read more...]
Click to Play PNC Bank has launched a new online banking product targeted at Gen Y customers, young people who’ve grown up with the Internet and prefer to manage their finances online. The product incorporates [Read more...]
We received an email question from a reader about cell phones and Bluetooth headsets: We read in Newsweek that Bluetooth headsets minimize radiation to the brain, as opposed to holding a cell phone to [Read more...]
In Episode #25 of the Compuschmooze Podcast, we interview Travis Todd and Scott Scheyer of GrowVotes.org, a social networking website devoted to local politics across the US; and Nathaniel Wice, co-founder of Mishare.com, which offers [Read more...]
In epsiode #24 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we speak with Voice Editor and General Manager Harriet Kessler about the Voice’s new website at http://www.jewishvoicesnj.org. We also speak with Stephen Larson, founder of Our-Hometown.com, the service [Read more...]
In epsiode #23 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, social media and internet entrepreneur Jeff Pulver discusses his commitment to early-stage investments in startup technology companies in Israel. We spoke with Jeff during a recent social media [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze is thrilled to be part of the Jewish Community Voice, and now, the Voice Just Got Louder. Try the new Jewish Community Voice Online. The Web version of the Jewish Federation of Southern New [Read more...]
I attended the New Jersey Technology Council‘s Networking Party at Triumph Brewery in Princeton last week. Many people from the high-tech sector were there and the conversation ranged from solar power to software to tourists [Read more...]
As I’ve previously noted, as a senior fellow of the Society of New Communications Research, I’m heavily involved in organizing panels and workshops for the New Communications Forum April 22-25 in Sonoma County, CA. Part [Read more...]
This podcast features a report on the breakfast for social media devotees hosted by Jeff Pulver in Philadelphia on January 31, 2008. Steve attended along with about 50 other social media users including bloggers, podcasters, [Read more...]
By Steven L. Lubetkin Copyright (c) 2008 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. WORD COUNT: 667 Last month’s column described how AliveInBagdad.org mobilized online donations using Twitter.com, an online chat service. Twitter is Citizen’s Band [Read more...]
In epsiode #22 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we have two interviews and spotlight some podsafe music. Download the podcast file here (53.8 mb stereo MP3 file, 00:39:14 length). First, a conversation with Mrinal Desai, one [Read more...]
Contact:: Michael Willmann856-616-2886 (o)856-216-9772 (fax)856-278-3333(m)michaelwillmann@wmsh.com (e) Web 2.0…a primer on social media: What It Is…and Why It Matters to Entrepreneurs and Leaders of Not-for-Profit OrganizationsFree Workshop on January 16th Will Feature Insider Tips from “New [Read more...]
Jason Hiner (above) writes the Tech Sanity Blog at Tech Republic, and in his Best of 2007: Tech Sanity Checkcolumn, he singles out a list of The six consumer technologies that are destroying traditional IT [Read more...]
(Crossposted to Lubetkin’s Other Blog) Have to give a big Shabbat Shalom to the Union for Reform Judaism, which is holding its Biennial in San Diego through Sunday. They are doing quite a respectable job [Read more...]
Sanity check: The 10 most important business technology products of 2007 TechRepublic.com has posted its list of important business tech products. What’s on your list of the most important consumer tech products?
In epsiode #21 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we have two interviews and spotlight some podsafe music. Download the podcast file here (55.0 mb stereo MP3 file, 00:40:02 length). First, a conversation with Stan Schwartz and [Read more...]
August 6 issue of Network World has an article about Wireless Philadelphia, the Earthlink managed wi-fi network being installed in a 135-square mile grid around the City of Brotherly Love. The magazine is asking for [Read more...]
One of the problems with free voice mail lines is that if you don’t use it at least once every 30 days, it goes away. So our (206) number has gone away. The good news [Read more...]
In this edition of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we present a collection of interviews: 1. Reporting on the floor of BlogPhiladelphia, the first of two “un-conferences” being held in Philadelphia this year. 2. Interview with Chris [Read more...]
I’ve been addicted to radio ever since my dad arranged for me to visit the military radio studios at Fort Monmouth when I was a teenager. I graduated from making “pretend” radio shows with a [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze April 2007: Encyclopaedia Judaica OnlineBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2007 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 636 The Encyclopaedia Judaica has been a mainstay for researchers in the to the history of the [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze? April 2007 (2): Limits of Blogs for Businesses By Steven L. Lubetkin Copyright © 2007 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. WORD COUNT: 691 Blogs and social networking websites may be the way many [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze February 2007: Jewish Webcasting Week Site Finds Multimedia By Steven L. Lubetkin Copyright © 2007 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. WORD COUNT: 614 There’s a growing effort to pull together a lot of [Read more...]
In epsiode #19 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we have a conversation with Matt Kleinschmitt of Ipsos Insight Research about his TEMPO study of digital music downloading behavior, and we talk with Brad Meador of ClearContext [Read more...]
In this podcast we present excerpts of remarks by Max Soliven, publisher of the Philippine Star newspaper, from his presentation to the Public Relations Society of the Philippines at the 13th National Public Relations Congress [Read more...]
Amy Webb In epsiode #18 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we have a conversation with Amy Webb, a journalist and editor of the DragonFire culture webzine at Drexel University. Earlier this year, Webb stopped reading printed [Read more...]
In epsiode #17 of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we have a conversation with Adam Wright, senior research manager at Ipsos Insight, the Canadian market research firm that conducts “The Face of the Web” Survey about worldwide [Read more...]
In this edition of the CompuSchmooze podcast, we conduct interviews on the exhibit floor of the AIIM/OnDemand conference held in Philadelphia in May 2006. (Photos all Copyright ©2006 Steven L. Lubetkin.) Participating in interviews (timecode [Read more...]
Screen Shot of NeatReceipts Rafi Spero, inventor of NeatReceipts, is our guest on the CompuSchmoozeTM podcast this week. Download the podcast file here (24.5mb stereo MP3 file, 17:23 length). Here’s the text of the related [Read more...]
Had a busy morning, and the day continues…started out speaking about podcasting at the Jewish Business Network of Southern New Jersey, networking group of business owners that meets every other Wednesday at the Katz JCC [Read more...]
Spent the morning at two press briefings, one for Canon, which has announced a whole new series of high-end commercial color printers. Individual announcements are at http://www.usa.canon.com/. These printers are for high quality commercial operations, [Read more...]
Good morning all. Blogging from the press room at the AIIM/OnDemand Show in Philadelphia. It’s a three-day program for document image management mavens, and on-demand printers (AIIM stands for Association for Information and Image Management). [Read more...]
Bruce Kramer of OneCall PC Help Bruce Kramer, owner of OneCall PC Help in Mt. Laurel, NJ is our guest on the CompuSchmoozeTM podcast this week. Download the podcast file here (33mb stereo MP3 file, [Read more...]
Alexis Brownstein, Proprietor of Dr. Database Alexis Brownstein, proprietor of Dr. Database LLC, helps customers design automated documents that integrate the functionality of Microsoft Access, Microsoft Word, and other software solutions. She’s our guest on [Read more...]
We’re happy to welcome a member of our local Jewish clergy to the blogosphere. Rabbi Aaron Krupnick, the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth El in Cherry Hill has entered the blogosphere with Rabbi Krupnick’s Musings. [Read more...]
WMF FAQ: What you need to know – Computerworld Computerworld magazine has some of the most authoritative coverage on the latest Windows vulnerability, the “Windows Metafile” flaw. Check out the link. Unfortunately for Microsoft’s credibility, [Read more...]
Dr. Steven Dinero, Philadelphia University Dr. Steven Dinero, a professor of human geography at Philadelphia University, attended the World Summit on the Information Society last month in Tunisia. He’s our guest on the CompuSchmoozeTM podcast [Read more...]
Copyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. Earlier this year, José Avila III, a young computer programmer from California, moved to Arizona for a new job. José didnt want to cause his roommates [Read more...]
This is the podcast of my interview with Matt Revis, product marketing manager for Dragon Naturally Speaking, the subject of my October 2005 CompuSchmooze column. Download the podcast file here (22.5 mb stereo MP3 file; [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze – October 2005: Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a well-spoken programBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. It’s been several years since we took a look at computerized dictation programs. I [Read more...]
Melitz’s “Engaging Disengagement is an interactive 90-minute to 2 hour program that gives participants a deep understanding of what the people of Israel are experiencing through the disengagement. Shown discussing the program are (from left): [Read more...]
David Booth is executive marketing manager of Prague-based JetBrains Software, maker of Omea Pro, an information management environment. Version 2.0 was released September 6. Omea integrates with Microsoft Outlook, USENET, Web bookmarks, RSS Feeds, IM [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze September 2005: Omea Organizes Microsoft Outlook and the WebBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 728 For nearly 20 years, many of us technology geeks have regarded a [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze August 2005: AudioGuardOffers Cost-Effective Security TacticBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 698 A British firm, AudioGuard, has created a highly cost-effective security tool to ward off casual [Read more...]
PDNOnline has a Q&A interview with Vincent Laforet, the New York Times photographer on the ground in New Orleans, whose dramatic photos have been illustrating most of the Times’ coverage of the disaster. [PDNonline: Today’s [Read more...]
No Need to Click Here – I’m just claiming my feed at Feedster feedster:48f1eab57b182d4c05bc94a55961c520
Gary Hawkes, the co-creator of Audioguard CDs, is our guest. Audioguard is the first installment of a series of low-cost theft deterrent products from Gary’s UK-based Steel Onion firm. The Audioguard CDs contain high-quality digital [Read more...]
All of the books in the Cherry Hill High School East Summer Reading List are available through Middle Chamber Books. Follow the link above to https://lubetkin.net/middlechamber/eastbooks.htm to order your summer reading books. We are an Amazon.com [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze June 2005 (2nd column) : Podcasting Gains Support from Network RadioBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 688 Podcasting has gone legit. In May, the Sirius Satellite Radio [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze June 2005: AIIM On Demand Conference Spotlights Digital DocumentsBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 656 From May 17-19, more than 20,000 professionals involved in document creation, publishing, [Read more...]
We interview Tod Maffin, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation technology reporter who has just been named to host a new program about podcasting on the CBC’s radio network. More info on Tod at: http://todmaffin.com/speaking/bio.htm Tod’s new podcast [Read more...]
Podcasting is gaining ground in the radiosphere, that is, the in the“legitimate” sphere of radio broadcasting. CBC Radio, Canada’s public broadcaster, is developing a weekly on-airprogram about the blogosphere and podcast community, using the voices [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze Podcast #5: AIIM OnDemand Steve attended the AIIM OnDemand show in Philadelphia this week. It’s one of the largest shows devoted to the digital document management, printing, and publishing industry, and more than 20,000 [Read more...]
When I started the www.lubetkin.net website, I thought 600 mb was a lot of webspace. That was before I began podcasting with high-quality 192kbps MP3 audio files to take advantage of the stereo quality I [Read more...]
Another mention for the blog and podcast from Neville Hobson, one of my interview subjects in the current CompuSchmooze podcast. Thanks, Neville! http://feeds.feedburner.com/typepad/NevOn?m=259
CompuSchmooze April 2005: Daf Yomi Lectures Go Portable By Steven L. Lubetkin Copyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. WORD COUNT: 677 Around the world, thousands of traditionally observant Jews (and other Jewish [Read more...]
Podcast entry on the syndication feed does not include the podcast link. The link is correct in the blog, but we’re resyndicating it so that you can get the podcast. —–Original Message—–From: Steve Lubetkin [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze Podcast #4, interview with Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson, hosts of the For Immediate Release podcast. Produced in conjunction with my article on blogging and podcasting in the Spring 2005 issue of Attitudes, the [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze Podcast #3, 4-13-2005, Interview with Yehuda Schmidman, creator of the ShasPod, an Apple Ipod delivered fully loaded with the Daf Yomi Talmud study lectures (shiurim) recorded by Rabbi Dovid Grossman of Los Angeles. [Read more...]
Copyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved. Those of us who have been bitten by the genealogy bug are often discouraged from doing detailed research on our ancestors because we’re not sure how [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze March 2005 #1: Podcasting Makes Everyone A DJBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 582 When I was a kid, I had a multiband radio in my room [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze Podcast #2, 3-21-2005, Interview with Dexter Sealy, Chief Technology Officer, CardScan Inc.
Yehuda Shmidman is offering Apple IPods fully loaded with Talmud lectures by Rabbi Dovid Grossman of Los Angeles, the New York Times reported on March 17. Read more about the ShasPod at http://www.shaspods.com/index.html. We’ll be [Read more...]
OK, I’ve decided to make the full text of CompuSchmooze columns available on this blog following their publication in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey. It’s a way of getting greater visibility for [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze, my column on technology with a Jewish focus from the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, is now a podcast! The first podcast is now available. It features Aaron Underwood, developer of GenSmarts, [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze® February 2005 – Easier Way to Track Business Cards from CardScanCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.By Steven L. Lubetkin CompuSchmooze Podcast #2, 3-21-2005, Interview with Dexter Sealy, Chief Technology Officer, CardScan [Read more...]
CompuSchmooze – January 2005: Yad Vashem Database of Holocaust Victims Now OnlineBy Steven L. LubetkinCopyright © 2005 Steven L. Lubetkin. All rights reserved.WORD COUNT: 658 Yad Vashem, also known as The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ [Read more...]
I originally intended to post hyperlinks from my CompuSchmooze column in a blog associated with my web hosting company, but Blogger.com seems to be far more robust, so we will post them here. Each month, [Read more...]