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Jeff Bonforte was scheduled to talk about the future of VoIP. However, instead of a description of what he calls Telephone 3.0, he delivers an entertaining and typically forthright argument in favor of anger and its power to drive innovation. Bonforte challenges the nerds and dorks of the IT industry to spend less time enjoying problems and to ignite the passion that comes with anger as a way to stimulate innovative ideas and drive the uptake of new technology.

Many of the large technology companies are well known for purchasing new, innovative products developed by smaller companies. As part of his work at Yahoo, Bradley Horowitz leads in-house teams trying to advance new ideas from within. He joins Phil and Scott to talk about Yahoo's development plans and how the company hopes to grow the next Flickr internally. He also talks about Yahoo's Hack Yahoo program, where developers are given the opportunity to take ideas from idea to prototype in a very short period.

The many software development communities that have surfaced over the years have started to see an increasing relevance of social issues around them. They are not just engineering activities but full-fledged social communities. In this talk, Bdale Garbee, the Linux CTO at HP, draws a parallel between real world social communities and open source software development communities revealing similarities in the evolution of both, the issues they're concerned with, from financial viability to gender issues, and the roles and responsibilities of their participants.

On this episode of Interviews with Innovators, Beth Kanter describes the strategies she uses to teach digital immigrants in non-profit organizations how to use Web 2.0 strategies to communicate and collaborate more effectively.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with former USA Today technology columnist Kevin Maney, about his new gig at Conde Nast Portfolio.com, music collaboration over the internet, and the constant trade-offs we make when it comes to choosing between technologies.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with the chair of ISAAA's board of directors, Dr. Clive James, about biotech agriculture. He confirms that the United States grows more biotech crops than any other nation.

On this week's Bio-Issue, David Ewing Duncan considers the fact that not all scientific studies carry the same weight, despite following all the appropriate guidelines.

For many years, only very large businesses could afford to create and deploy innovative voice applications, such as looking up account balances or tying voice applications into their existing business applications. Now, with Asterisk and other open-source applications, the field is wide open for businesses of all different sizes. Jared Smith, Community Relations Manager of Digium, the creator and primary developer of Asterisk, the industry's first open source telephony platform, joins Phil and Scott to discuss the present and future of open source telephony.

Optaros started an internal list of open source projects that become the Enterprise Open Source Directory, a growing online community still under the editorial guidance of Optaros. The EOSD includes case studies, grouping of software by categories, and Optaros' trend rating showing which open source projects are stable, up-and-comers or fading glories. Gynn explains why the directory includes open source software whose license does not match the Open Software Initiative's definition of open source, as well as commercial versions of open source software.

This brief program is an update from The Conversations Network's Executive Director, Doug Kaye. Topics include the status of the re-integration of IT Conversations into The Conversations Network, a pitch for new volunteers, a new version of The Levelator, and The Conversations Network's plans for the Podcast and New Media Expo.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Joshua Spanogle, author of a number of medical thrillers, and student at the Standford Medical School, about the bio-ethics of cosmetic surgery.

On this week's BioTech Nation discover how a visit to the pet store spurred on a biotech company, and learn how Britain's National Health Service decides who gets what medical treatment as Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Sir Michael Rawlins, Chairman of the National Institute of Health & Clinical Excellence.

On this week's BioIssue, David Ewing Duncan talks about Craig Venter, the American biologist and businessman who founded the Institute of Genomic Research.

Joining Jon Udell on this episode of Interviews with Innovators is Edward Iacobucci, co-founder of DayJet. Widely known in IT circles as the co-founder of Citrix, he left in 2000 to pursue his interest in aviation. In 2002 he co-founded DayJet, a company whose mission is to deliver on-demand, per-seat jet travel service.

Rich in linguistic play and delivered with both wit and panache, Eben Moglen's talk is an intellectual delight. Beginning with a look at the history of memory from the public recording of England's 11th century Domesday Book, Moglen leads us through the private memory palaces of 14th and 15th centuries to the problems of privacy that started with photographic technology. Convincing us that we have willingly given away our data and that those who now possess it have the right to use it, Moglen proposes voluntary data collectives as the answer.

On this edition of IEEE Spectrum Radio listen to Google's Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton Cerf speak about his favorite work of fiction. Also, hear about Spectrum's Senior Editor Tekla Perry's cell phone shopping experience , and why an old shoe box might be better storage than your hard drive. Finally, Spectrum interviews the Swedish mobile technology engineer Stig Nordqvist on his vision of future news reading.

At the 2002 Emerging Technology Conference, Rohit Khare gave an influential talk on an architecture he called application layer internetworking (ALIN). Five years later that thinking has evolved, and now he's describing syndication-oriented architecture (SynOA). On this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell asks Rohit Khare why he thinks that syndication-oriented architecture will enable business users to achieve that same kind of awareness.

Some technology companies founded and headquartered in the United States aren't outsourcing to India and China, but are spreading technology centers around the world instead. Ron Levy, CTO of BEA Systems Inc., explains to Dr. Moira Gunn how BEA is making things work when their staff works in wildly different time zones.

On this Bio-Issue of the Week, David Ewing Duncan speaks with Dr. Moira Gunn about a familiar topic: having your DNA read. Duncan explains that -- like many things in the BioTech world -- there's more to it than that.

Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Lyn Beazley, the Chief Scientist of Western Australia. As it turns out, Beazley is the first woman to be assigned to that position.