Greater Than Code

01:13 – Pamela Podcasting, Since…well, FOREVER! Astronomy Cast (http://www.astronomycast.com/) 365 Days of Astronomy (https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/) Adam Curry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curry) 02:19 – Pamela’s Superpower: Solving Random Problems with Software 05:19 – Becoming a “Reluctant Coder” i.e. Coding Out of Necessity 10:58 – Battlestar Galactica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlestar_Galactica) => Greek Mythology => Space => Astrophysics 14:52 – Doing What You Have To Do vs Doing What You Love To Do 20:27 – The Goal of Podcasting and Target Audience 23:57 – Understanding and Knowing Everything: Good? Bad? 26:03 – Outsourcing Work as a Personal Loss and The Internet’s Graveyard of Abandoned Projects 32:06 – Open Sourcing Work Yourself for the Benefit of Others 36:58 – Writing Software to Engage People CosmoQuest Citizen Science (https://cosmoquest.org/x/) 44:22 – Crowdsourcing Requires Trust but Garners Better Results 48:02 – The Motivation of Citizen Scientists @cosmoquest