Andrew Himes's guest appearances

Andrew Himes

Emerging Future Podcast

Content Strategy Insights

Reversing Climate Change

Elon Musk

Joe Quirk

Bryan Caplan

Gabe Brown

Anne Biklé

Jason Bradford

John Collins

David King

Joel Salatin

Jonathan Safran Foer

Mary Berry

Nathanael Johnson

Paul Greenberg

Phoebe Yu

Dan Brown

OwlTail

Andrew Himes  He didn't use the term then, but Andrew Himes was one of the web's first content strategists. Years before Bill Gates' famous "Internet Tidal Wave" memo, Andrew and his co-founders at the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) were working on a proprietary hypertext document system, code-named Blackbird.  Then along came the web.  Andrew and his colleagues at MSDN were uniquely positioned to pioneer some of the very first enterprise-scale web content strategy. They had tons of digitized information - newsletters, code examples, etc. - published on CD-ROMs with Blackbird. They served a community of several hundred thousand tech-savvy readers around the globe. They had access to the best programmers. Andrew had already gone to school on Apple's early Hypercard program and had worked on one of its successors, PowerCard, so he knew how to work in a hypertext environment. This confluence of a huge tech-savvy global audience, access to programming talent, a huge storehouse of digitized information, and familiarity with hypermedia led to the creation of what was likely the world's first content management system.Andrew's BioAndrew Himes is a consultant for Carbon Innovations. Himes was founding editor of MacTech, the leading Apple technology journal, then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft, Himes became a nonprofit startup specialist before founding Charter for Compassion International. He produced the documentary "Voices in Wartime" and is the author of "The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family."VideoHere's the video version of our conversation:  https://youtu.be/yw7o7H_CVMc  Show Notes/"Transcript"[Not an actual transcript - just my quick notes on first listen-through]  0:00 - long-winded intro by yours truly . . .1:30 - Andrew intro - one of several co-founders of MSDN - connect, learn, get software, SDKs, tech info, APIs, etc. - used to need a brother-in-law at MS to get that stuff - early SaaS - orig delivered on CD along with monthly newsletter, "MSDN News" 3:40 - his accidental introduction to the world of publishing for developers - Puget Sound Computer User - wrote about consumer software in early 1980s - learning as he went - local Apple user group + 25K in Apple coop - then Macintosh came out so Apple launched Mac mag - consumer mag - never went anywhere - started a software mag for Apple developers and he became, reluctantly, founding editor of MacTech magazine - once you have that job description, people talk to you as if you are an expert, even if you aren't6:20 - Apple launched Hypercard - shipped with every new Mac - he was fascinated - got into hypertext, other technologies that prepared him for web - brought that intense interest to MS7:30 - 1993 - discovered web browser - immediately realized power of online publishing - over next couple of years MSDN launched online access via SAAS developer access to SDKs,  sample code, advice, interaction, and online network - extraordinary learning experience for him - got to implement brand-new stuff9:30 - from monthly paper newsletter - microsoft.com existed, but only content was random pieces of content, just random info - they wanted to build online application, but no tools yet, so created VBScript, Access database, and pointers to Word docs, converted to RTF and then to HTML, added home page - only tool he know of then - the first CMS? - yes, first database-driven, auto-built, structured set of documents - 12:25 - information architecture - an intense, sophisticated methodological group already in place at MS, working with SGML - only folks who knew about SGML were PhDs - they used SGML to create CD-ROM product with structured content - 600 MB of info - thousands of pages of content - created hieararchy and imported into Media View file - one big file on a CD-ROM - only worked with structured info and link...

Andrew Himes He didn't use the term then, but Andrew Himes was one of the web's first content strategists. Years before Bill Gates' famous "Internet Tidal Wave" memo, Andrew and his co-founders at the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) were working on a proprietary hypertext document system, code-named Blackbird. Then along came the web. Andrew and his colleagues at MSDN were uniquely positioned to pioneer some of the very first enterprise-scale web content strategy. They had tons of digitized information - newsletters, code examples, etc. - published on CD-ROMs with Blackbird. They served a community of several hundred thousand tech-savvy readers around the globe. They had access to the best programmers. Andrew had already gone to school on Apple's early Hypercard program and had worked on one of its successors, PowerCard, so he knew how to work in a hypertext environment. This confluence of a huge tech-savvy global audience, access to programming talent, a huge storehouse of digitized information, and familiarity with hypermedia led to the creation of what was likely the world's first content management system. Andrew's Bio Andrew Himes is a consultant for Carbon Innovations. Himes was founding editor of MacTech, the leading Apple technology journal, then co-founded the Microsoft Developer Network and led the first web development project at Microsoft. After leaving Microsoft, Himes became a nonprofit startup specialist before founding Charter for Compassion International. He produced the documentary "Voices in Wartime" and is the author of "The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family." Video Here's the video version of our conversation: <a href="https://youtu.be/yw7o7H_CVMc" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/yw7o7H_CVMc</a> Show Notes/"Transcript" [Not an actual transcript - just my quick notes on first listen-through] 0:00 - long-winded intro by yours truly . . . 1:30 - Andrew intro - one of several co-founders of MSDN - connect, learn, get software, SDKs, tech info, APIs, etc. - used to need a brother-in-law at MS to get that stuff - early SaaS - orig delivered on CD along with monthly newsletter, "MSDN News" 3:40 - his accidental introduction to the world of publishing for developers - Puget Sound Computer User - wrote about consumer software in early 1980s - learning as he went - local Apple user group + 25K in Apple coop - then Macintosh came out so Apple launched Mac mag - consumer mag - never went anywhere - started a software mag for Apple developers and he became, reluctantly, founding editor of MacTech magazine - once you have that job description, people talk to you as if you are an expert, even if you aren't 6:20 - Apple launched Hypercard - shipped with every new Mac - he was fascinated - got into hypertext, other technologies that prepared him for web - brought that intense interest to MS 7:30 - 1993 - discovered web browser - immediately realized power of online publishing - over next couple of years MSDN launched online access via SAAS developer access to SDKs, sample code, advice, interaction, and online network - extraordinary learning experience for him - got to implement brand-new stuff 9:30 - from monthly paper newsletter - <a href="http://microsoft.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">microsoft.com</a> existed, but only content was random pieces of content, just random info - they wanted to build online application, but no tools yet, so created VBScript, Access database, and pointers to Word docs, converted to RTF and then to HTML, added home page - only tool he know of then - the first CMS? - yes, first database-driven, auto-built, structured set of documents - 12:25 - information architecture - an intense, sophisticated methodological group already in place at MS, working with SGML - only folks who knew about SGML were PhDs - they used SGML to create CD-ROM product with structured content - 600 MB of info - thousands of pages of content - created hieararchy and imported into Media View file - one big file on a CD-ROM - only worked with structured info and link...

Andrew Himes: Microsoft’s First Web Content Strategist – Episode 18

Andrew Himes is a partner at Carbon Innovations, currently working with the University of Washington’s Carbon Smart Building Initiative. The project seeks to transform the built environment from an existential threat to a net carbon sink that absorbs more than a billion tons of CO2 each year by converting captured carbon into useful building products and creating market demand for carbon capture.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/messageSupport this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support

Andrew Himes is a partner at Carbon Innovations, currently working with the University of Washington’s Carbon Smart Building Initiative. The project seeks to transform the built environment from an existential threat to a net carbon sink that absorbs more than a billion tons of CO2 each year by converting captured carbon into useful building products and creating market demand for carbon capture. --- Send in a voice message: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/message</a> Support this podcast: <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/reversingclimatechange/support</a>

11: Andrew Himes of Carbon Innovations

"Graphene is the most unusual and potentially the most valuable material on the planet." -Andrew HimesAndrew Himes, author, internet pioneer, and imagineer is now the Director of Network Orchestration for The Carbon Trifecta, a new non-profit initiative that uses CO2 as the path to a global sustainable economy.  You heard that right, it uses CO2 (carbon dioxide), which is currently the primary human cause for global warming and ocean acidification, by sequestering it in the form of graphene which can be used to create nearly every product known to man...only better.The Trifecta represents their 3-fold plan to:1. Capture gigatons of CO2 before (and after) it enters the atmosphere.2. Turn carbon-based businesses into allies, processing the CO2 into valuable graphene.3. Accelerate market demand for graphene via 3D printing.The Carbon Trifecta is working to partner with researchers, CO2 emitters like coal fire generating plants, and pioneering 3D printers to help everyone involved focus on the CO2 opportunity and gain an understanding of the possibility of this path to global sustainability.The vision of the Trifecta can be realized by:-Using carbon dioxide that would otherwise be contributing to global warming and ocean acidification, to:-Address the increasing burden on the world's base materials caused by a transition to an advanced global economy,-By enabling the remarkable capabilities of computer software and 3D printing to deliver profoundly efficient, beautiful and locallymade materials and products - and by introducing graphene into 3D printing as a path for converting this technology into a manufacturing platform capable of delivering complex materials despite a limited number of jets.Having been discovered merely a decade ago, graphene is relatively new in our consciousness.  It is nothing short of a miracle material being both the strongest and most thermally conductive material known to man.  But it doesn't end there.  It is also extremely flexible, thin, lightweight and transparent.  It can be used to build nearly every physical thing we produce from clothes to buildings to computers, and can also filter salt water into fresh drinking water.  If the Carbon Trifecta initiative works, life on planet earth will change drastically.  We will essentially be able to build everything we need, locally, with zero negative effect on the environment by using additive manufacturing.  In other words it will be the end of the era of extraction of all of our precious and limited natural resources and the end of human-caused CO2 emissions causing global warming.In this conversation, Andrew not only talks about this innovative and valiant endeavor to save the planet, but he also offers his heart of compassion.  In fact, Andrew recently delivered the keynote address at the Eighth Worldwide Meeting on Human Values in Monterey, Mexico, where he unveiled what he calls his Grand Unified Theory of Compassion.Andrew's Grand Unified Theory of Compassion says that awareness multiplied by compassionate action times the power of networks yields the result of a flourishing world."I wanted to describe compassion systematically — not just as a vague sentiment or a nice feeling — but as something measurable, replicable, structurally necessary." - Andrew HimesThis theory is what drives Andrew's work and lives at the heart of the Carbon Trifecta initiative.  Be sure to share this episode with your networks.  The one ask that Andrew had from us is that we help get the word out to enable the Carbon Trifecta to become a real global story that people are conscious of, excited about, and committed to exploring on behalf of humanity and planet earth.

"Graphene is the most unusual and potentially the most valuable material on the planet." -Andrew Himes Andrew Himes, author, internet pioneer, and imagineer is now the Director of Network Orchestration for The Carbon Trifecta, a new non-profit initiative that uses CO2 as the path to a global sustainable economy.  You heard that right, it uses CO2 (carbon dioxide), which is currently the primary human cause for global warming and ocean acidification, by sequestering it in the form of graphene which can be used to create nearly every product known to man...only better. The Trifecta represents their 3-fold plan to: 1. Capture gigatons of CO2 before (and after) it enters the atmosphere. 2. Turn carbon-based businesses into allies, processing the CO2 into valuable graphene. 3. Accelerate market demand for graphene via 3D printing. The Carbon Trifecta is working to partner with researchers, CO2 emitters like coal fire generating plants, and pioneering 3D printers to help everyone involved focus on the CO2 opportunity and gain an understanding of the possibility of this path to global sustainability. The vision of the Trifecta can be realized by: -Using carbon dioxide that would otherwise be contributing to global warming and ocean acidification, to: -Address the increasing burden on the world's base materials caused by a transition to an advanced global economy, -By enabling the remarkable capabilities of computer software and 3D printing to deliver profoundly efficient, beautiful and locallymade materials and products - and by introducing graphene into 3D printing as a path for converting this technology into a manufacturing platform capable of delivering complex materials despite a limited number of jets. Having been discovered merely a decade ago, graphene is relatively new in our consciousness.  It is nothing short of a miracle material being both the strongest and most thermally conductive material known to man.  But it doesn't end there.  It is also extremely flexible, thin, lightweight and transparent.  It can be used to build nearly every physical thing we produce from clothes to buildings to computers, and can also filter salt water into fresh drinking water.   If the Carbon Trifecta initiative works, life on planet earth will change drastically.  We will essentially be able to build everything we need, locally, with zero negative effect on the environment by using additive manufacturing.  In other words it will be the end of the era of extraction of all of our precious and limited natural resources and the end of human-caused CO2 emissions causing global warming. In this conversation, Andrew not only talks about this innovative and valiant endeavor to save the planet, but he also offers his heart of compassion.  In fact, Andrew recently delivered the keynote address at the Eighth Worldwide Meeting on Human Values in Monterey, Mexico, where he unveiled what he calls his Grand Unified Theory of Compassion. Andrew's Grand Unified Theory of Compassion says that awareness multiplied by compassionate action times the power of networks yields the result of a flourishing world. "I wanted to describe compassion systematically — not just as a vague sentiment or a nice feeling — but as something measurable, replicable, structurally necessary." - Andrew Himes This theory is what drives Andrew's work and lives at the heart of the Carbon Trifecta initiative.  Be sure to share this episode with your networks.  The one ask that Andrew had from us is that we help get the word out to enable the Carbon Trifecta to become a real global story that people are conscious of, excited about, and committed to exploring on behalf of humanity and planet earth.

Andrew Himes: The Carbon Trifecta—A Global Warming Solution & Graphene—A Miracle Material