Knowledge on demand:podcasts and videos

Enjoying interesting stuff that’s available online…

December 9th 2011Freek de Bruijn (NBIC)

Introduction: why be bored?• Often we talk about differences between biologists and computer

scientists, but we have a lot in common too• we want to know how stuff works• we like to learn new things• we work in rapidly progressing fields• it’s very easy to share information with colleagues

• We live in a great time with vast amounts of stuff available online• YouTube: 500 YouTube links are tweeted per minute, 3 billion video

views per day and 38 hours of video uploaded per minute• Warnings

• this presentation has a bias towards computer science• it is focused on podcasts and videos, but there is much more• you might get hooked…

• Feel free to tell everyone about your experience

Learning: “conventional” resources

• books• magazines• teachers (universities, workshops, courses)• conferences (Devoxx, JavaOne, NBIC, NPC)• radio programs• tv programs

Learning: online resources

• web sites, blogs, internet forums• Wikipedia• SourceForge• Stack Overflow• BioStar• SEQanswers

• RSS (JavaWorld, IBM developerWorks, Java Posse, etc.)• OpenCourseWare• slide sharing (SlideShare)• data sharing (ConceptWiki)• workflow sharing (myExperiment, Taverna, Galaxy)• podcasts• videos

Drinking from the firehose

• Beware of information overload…

SlideShare: rapid growth in 2007-2011

• SlideShare is the largest professional content sharing community in the world. It attracts 60 million unique visitors a month that together view 3 billion slides (each month).

SlideShare: lots of bioinformatics

• Searching for bioinformatics returns 4,497 results

• Among the results is… a presentation on Hadoop ;-)

Podcasts: who is listening?

• Who has listened to a podcast?• Which podcasts do you like?• How many hours/week do you listen?• When and where do you listen?

Podcasts: some examples• Futures in Biotech (audio and video)

Explore the world of genetics, cloning, protein folding, genome mapping, and more with the most important researchers in biotech.

• Software Engineering RadioTargeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast.

• The Java Posse (with a forum and a yearly unconference)News, discussion, and interviews about the Java programming language and associated Java technologies.

• .NET RocksFor anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. Ranges from introductory information to hardcore geekiness

• This Developer's LifeA podcast about developers and their lives.

Podcasts: more examples

• ScienceNature, Science, Hoe?Zo! Radio (Dutch), Noorderlicht (Dutch)

• TechToday in iOS, Mac Power Users, All About Android, Tech News Today, Triangulation, TuxRadar Linux Podcast, The Vergecast, etc.

• PhotographyThis week in Photo

• OthersManager Tools, Work Awesome, Get It Done guy, Cranky Middle Manager show, etc.

Videos: who is watching?

• Who has watched a biology/programming video?• Which videos/sites do you like?• How often do you view videos?• When and where do you watch? Is it easy or a hassle?

Videos: some examples

• Parleys• Google I/O• Channel 9 (Build, Tech Ed, MIX)• Galaxy instructions• Scala Days• FOSDEM• O'Reilly OSCON• Confreaks• blip.tv (PyCon)• vimeo.com/nbic