Shawn, Lisa, Jim and I recorded GeekCast 25 today. It was one of our best (in my opinion).
GeekCast 25: It’s a Google World : GeekCast.fm: “The regular gang of Lisa Picarille, Shawn Collins, Jim Kukral and Sam Harrelson once again commenced for GeekCast 25 (our silver anniversary!).
This week, the GeekCast gang all stuck around for the entire show and tackled topics ranging from the PMA to the iPhone to smart blogging.”
Here’s the mp3.
this could be nifty for use with the blackberry.
Want:
Mordechai Cogan and Hayim Tadmor, II Kings: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary « Biblical Studies Notebook (BSN): “II Kings (Volume 11 in the acclaimed Anchor Bible) is the chronicle of the raging conflicts that tore the United Kingdom of Israel apart, creating the rival nations of Israel to the north and Judah to the south. It tells of the time of the great prophecies of Elijah and Elisha, and of the legendary conquerors of not only the Jews, but the whole of the Middle East – Sennacherib, Hazael, Tiglath-pileser III, Nebuchadnezzar, and Shalmaneser.”
Looks like a great translation by two highly respected scholars.
I joined a new political themed podcast with a few friends from the online marketing industry today:
RedHatBlueHat 1: Who’s Wright and Who’s Left? : GeekCast.fm: “This is the inaugural episode of the ongoing weekly political podcast RedHatBlueHat featuring Todd Crawford, Tim Jones, Shawn Collins, Mike Allen and Sam Harrelson.”
The show goes about an hour but is really entertaining and full of political theory and analysis from all sides of the playing field.
Here’s the mp3 or head over to GeekCast for the stream.
Let me know what you think!
Here’s the first lap of the Richmond Race from Saturday night May 3, 2008:
There’s also a set entitled “Richmond Race Pictures” on my Flickr page if you’d like to see how things went on Friday for the Nationwide Series race and Saturday for the Cup race.
I had a blast.
More soon (and Darlington pics coming next week after the race there followed by Charlotte)…
So I’ve gotten really lax with my decision to open source as much as I can with my life as a form of my own little protest against corporate control of our content and art production.
I’m typing this on a Mac while listening to DRM’d music on iTunes, so clearly I failed.
However, I’ve been playing around with the new Ubuntu distro and it’s quite compelling. It’s compelling enough to make me consider going back to Ubuntu as my full time operating system (as it was for about 2 years during the 5.10-6.10 days).
But, as with all things, there’s a tradeoff. I enjoy the simplicity yet power of the Mac when it comes to podcasting, movie editing and even blogging (MarsEdit ftw). That’s not to mention great apps like Evernote, TextMate, Skitch, Pukka, Coda and wireless EVDO that I use on a hyper daily basis. I know there are analogs for all of these within Ubuntu or on any Linux distro, but they aren’t as polished and intuitive on the front end.
Not only that, but the “cloud applications” that I use and love such as GMail, Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Calendar, etc are things that I would need to give up to make myself feel more at ease. I could certainly use Ubuntu’s built in suite of apps or either move to platforms like Fastmail or 30boxes that don’t sare me as much as Google’s suite (I know, I know… tin hat).
Yet, Ubuntu keeps calling to me. Others have done it.
Anyway, just thinking out loud here.
So true…
Frustratingly sad…
New Babylonian Town Found: “He added that his team has come across several cuneiform tablets but ‘there is no one to read the ancient writing because Iraqi experts with the knowledge to decipher Mesopotamian script have fled the country.’ “
I feel like we’re living out an Arthur C Clarke story.
I’m in San Francisco for Web2.0Expo this week (see banner thingy over on the right). I participated on a great panel (I thought it was great) this morning with a few of my favorite people on the topic of affiliate marketing in the social media world… fun stuff.
I’m shooting some video that I’ll upload this evening. The best way to follow my whereabouts is via my Twitter stream (again, see the banner thingy over on the right).
In the meantime, here’s a great new vid from Mark of 45n5.com:
Why Most Cpa Companies Suck: “I know some great people at a few CPA networks and hope they don’t take it personally but Cpa networks suck because they run fraudulent offers in my opinion, and hopefully they will clean up their act.”
Mark’s comments go hand-in-hand with something I wrote four years ago about my disgust with parts of affiliate and performance marketing (and I still think it’s the best thing I’ve written about affiliate marketing)…
Looking for an Angry Fix: “Over the next six hours, I one by one dissected all the programs present and tried to figure out where things were coming from, who was serving them and how they got onto my poor father’s hard drive. Many were unexplainable. Almost all of them contained affiliate links to the big networks or affiliate programs that we are all familiar with and some that are even represented in this forum. I wrote down everything and was shocked at some of the brands, links and deliveries present. Of course the favorites were there but there were a good deal of surprises.”
Thanks for making me revisit that, Mark.
More soon from sunny San Fran.
Picasa Web Albums – Phil – Assyria in th…
Sigils are the new advertising/marketing/branding…
I’m testing out Flickr Video embed with this awesome flick of my daughter:
Flickr Video is going to change the way I do online video publishing.
Can’t wait till Mary Hudson lives on the City’s Northern Border one day:
http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/271548489
I made my first podcast in a couple of weeks today. Basically, I’m tired of the “how to” type format and need to be who I am on the shows.
Here’s the mp3 or you can head over to GeekCast.fm for a stream.
Thoughts?
I got a new office on Woodfin Street for Big Idea Agency…
so i’ve decided that i’m going to start writing about things that i hate and love about myself here (in no particular order).
blogging about blogging, etc is stupid and not what i want to do here (or there).
i’m loving ryan adams’ blog these days b/c we (seem to) share a similar sentiment that “everybody wants to go on forever, but i just want to burn out all hot and bright.”
seriously, the best blogs or experiences are those with endings. ze frank’s the show was epic b/c we all knew it would end in a year. we purchased the feeling. timeless. people don’t get that.
ryan will kill this thing anyday now. and that’s what makes it so fucking sweet (sorry jangro).
go enjoy now while he’s making the next record, a ton of amazing posts and some downright kickass videos.
(D.R.Adams Films Inc.)
Thanks for the mention, Gary.
You’re good people. Nice meme. Let’s rock it.
blogging has run its course. we’re back to 1991 with zines.
only difference is that i don’t have to tell my dad i’m making all of these copies for a school report.
thank god.
559 wonderful scifi ebooks waiting for you to download and read them (and lots of other categories too)…
Bill Clinton gave a stump speech here in Asheville last night at Asheville High (here’s a pic from after the speech):
Scrutiny Hooligans » Clinton wows ‘em @ Asheville High: “Love him or hate him, President Clinton knows how to deliver a speech. He’s a master at working a crowd even if he’s ultimately preaching to his own choir (reports have come in that several Obama supporters were denied entrance into the venue).”
Here’s the mp3 and head over to ScrutinyHooligans for the audio stream (runs about an hour).
