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Steve chats with Paul McEnroe, the leader of the IBM team that invented the bar code, and the author of the new memoir, "The Barcode: How a Team Created One of the World's Most Ubiquitous Technologies"

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…

LMC Managing Director Steve Lubetkin gave a presentation on cryptocurrency for nearly 50 members of the Herzl Chapter of Hadassah, Cherry Hill, NJ.

LMC Managing Director Steve Lubetkin gave a presentation on cryptocurrency for nearly 50 members of the Herzl Chapter of Hadassah, an American religious organization dedicated to preserving and promoting Jewish social and religious values in the United States and to strengthening ties between U.S. and Israeli Jewish communities. Besides producing podcasts, videos and other journalistic pursuits,…

Compuschmooze Podcast: Conversation about artificial intelligence as a tool to improve elder care

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 time recruiting workers to provide care for the residents. The employee shortage is fast becoming a crisis, too.

In Texas,…

Our News Division Earns Three New Journalism Awards for Its Content

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 sponsored by the Garden State Journalists Association. It’s the company’s second, third, and fourth awards in the competition. In 2015, SBN was honored with a second-place…

Steve and the book profiled in Jewish Community Voice of Southern NJ

The Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey, where Steve has written the “Compuschmooze” computer column since 1996, profiled Steve and The Business of Podcasting in its September 16, 2015 issue. The publication, distributed by the Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey in print and on the web, reaches about 15,000 members of the South Jersey Jewish community.

CompuSchmooze: There’s good news—and bad—about recording streaming Internet radio

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.

CompuSchmooze: Kenexa Founder Rudy Karsan Keynotes at Founder Factory

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 $1.3-billion. Karsan’s personal share of that deal was reported by the Financial Times to be about $56-million.

Karsan was a keynoter at the Founder Factory Conference…

Compuschmooze May 2014: Videos get shorter but viewers stay longer

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 any kind of information is getting shorter and shorter.

A few years ago, when YouTube debuted, video producers were advised to keep their programs under three minutes in length,…