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The Current Podcast Renaissance Friday evening, my fellow Mashable writer Steven Hodson sat in on a sort of round-table podcast with Profy writer Cyndy Aleo-Carreira, Inquisitr’s (and occasional Mashable contributor)…
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What I've Been Busy With You may have noticed the lack of updates here. Several reasons for this. Chief amongst them is the fact that I’ve been increasingly busy with Mashable’s new video podcast series, which is getting…
Jun
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Rampenfest and the Sportka I’ve been reading coverage here and here as well as elsewhere about a supposed PR blunder that BMW made with the “Rampenfest” viral video campaign. I’m pretty certain this analysis by all these…
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A Quick Camera Test This is a ridiculously short video of me and my son, and I know it looks silly sandwiched between my bumpers, but I’ve got the new video platform more or less configured, and I wanted to know what it…
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Logitech's Mac Tax Hey folks.

You look around the blogosphere today, and it’s apparent that Logitech finally decided to cash in on this whole “Apple Craze.” They have suddenly realized that labeling all their web…
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Soliciting Your Suggestions I spoke with a brand new video platform provider today, and based on our conversation, my new podcast should be launching here in the next day or two. Maybe three. It all depends on how quickly I…
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Seven Words You Can't Say On This Blog George Carlin died at the age of 71.

There are four things I wanted to show you that you need to see from Carlin. First of all, I want to apologize that the last clip is plastered with Ron Paul…
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Been Busy This Weekend First of all: congrats to Louis and his family. I know how amazing it is to see your children appear before your very eyes. It’s lifechanging, amazing, and can reduce an otherwise stoic man to…
Jun
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Comments Are Blog Posts I’ve been doing a lot of retro-active blogging. At Mashable, my posts are constrained to things that happened that day, for the most part. Here, I can look back a couple days on something and…
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Robert Scoble is Wrong - Short Form Video Rocks The upload process took a lot longer than I expected (I need to encode to a slightly smaller format, apparently), but I managed to eek out an under-produced response to Robert Scoble’s assertion…
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So About That Question... I’ve got a question. I know I have six readers, at least, so I expect at least three answers.

Should I do a video podcast? I’ve got the urge to do something a little bit freer than the constraints…
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Jabberwocky 2.0
I had this great question I was going to ask all five six* of you today, but I want to share this instead. I wish I could say I made it up, but credit for that has to go to Brendan Cooper…
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Elite Tech News #11: Hot Coffee Pods



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Hey Rizzn-ites,

I figure, since I’m posting here regularly, there’s no reason I shouldn’t use this personal blog platform to pimp my other podcast as well, Elite Tech News, to all…
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Cleansing the Palette Hey Rizznites,

I really don’t have a lot to say today, I’d just like to cleanse the palette of my blog a little bit, since the last several entries are largely about how I’ve been wronged, offended…
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Todd Cochrane: Making Dumb Moves. Even For Him. It’s late, and I’m tired.

I was going to do this whole long thing with veiled references to yet another Web 2.0 business that’s decided to pick a fight with me, and make it a sequel to this one I…