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New Media douchebag, YAAY!

1. Don’t do real work
2. Talk, type, tag, text & twitter
3. Hate a lot of stuff
4. Celebrate other douchebags

Yaaaay!!

AppRising video interview, can you do this with Skype?

I was recently interviewed by Geoff Daily of AppRising. Geoff describes his blog as:

App-Rising.com covers the development and adoption of broadband applications, the deployment of and need for broadband networks, and the demands placed on policy to adapt to the revolutionary opportunities made possible by the Internet.

App-Rising.com is written by Geoff Daily, a DC-based technology journalist, broadband activist, marketing consultant, and Internet entrepreneur.

Unfortunately, I can’t embed the video here, but you can watch the video interview at Geoff’s blog. I start off a little slow, but I think the interview gets pretty interesting once I get comfortable with the format.

On the topic of the format. I think it’s fantastic. I’d like to do interviews, picture in picture, like this, but I would prefer to use Skype and then I would upload the finished product to Viddler. Viddler rules. Geoff is using SightSpeed, but to get all the features Geoff uses costs money and no one I know uses the application; so, I would have to ask them to install. Skype video would be so much better. Anyone know an easy way to do this? Tools?

Top 100 analyst blogs « Technobabble 2.0

Top 100 analyst blogs « Technobabble 2.0

Killer! Graeme makes top 100! Congrats Graeme! You do indeed have an excellent and insightful voice.

What happened to 60 Minutes?

I was once fond of 60 Minutes. I just watched <time-shifted> the 60 Minutes interview with Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad from last Sunday (September 22, 2007) in which Scott Pelley “interviews” Ahmadinejad. What a farce. That wasn’t an interview. This was an attempt to publicly ostracize the radical Ahmadinejad. The result was making this radical anti-semitic Islamic religious nut seem like the moderate and well-reasoned of the two. Pelley you’re a moron! My God. Way to go. You smug prick. Are you working for an Iranian PR firm? You may as well be. Here is the transcript. To fully appreciate it you have to see Pelley’s condescending grin as he proudly proclaims he is “quoting George W. Bush directly for the record” whom he declares to be “without question” a very pious and learned leader. So I inserted learned bit, but it’s certainly implied. It takes a special kind of prick to make Ahmadinejad look rational. When did 60 Minutes become a propaganda mouth piece for the United States? You’ve lost my viewership Pelley. You frickin’ dong.

Murdoch could use a good ass kicking

Murdoch, up close and personal - Reuters Blogs
Reuters landed its first exclusive interview with News Corp. kingpin Rupert Murdoch since agreeing to buy Dow Jones.

LoudounExtra.com launches …

I *love* community publishing. One of my core beliefs is that newspaper web sites need to be much more of a dialogue. But building a site with essentially just community-publishing tools and calling it “hyper-local” seems a little lazy/crazy to us. - Rob Curley: LoudonExtra.com Launches

Rob Curley is a bad ass mofo.