What's hot in video, blogosphere, mobile and podcasting news.


6 mins.

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Show notes

• Happy Birthday to Podcasting! Terrible 2
  
• Weddings as advertising content
  
• Disney Mobile...magic?
  
• Users to CNET TV....um, no thanks.
  

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Zadi Diaz leads us through an event that shook the vlogger community. A young man dies on camera at a party and it's posted to the web. The post neglected to mention that the video was a student project in experimentation with video.

23 mins.

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Show notes

• Zadi lays out the story
• Lack of disclosure can impact your audience deeply at an emotional level
• Relationships online versus offline
• A hoax or not, well, maybe
• The vlogger community got the corrected message out
• Online communication and missing context awareness
• English as a second language missing context awareness
• Missing context = Fox News
• Connecting to people's lives in corporate media (ex., Natalie Holloway)
• Video manipulation is common in marketing and ads
• Warning about recording illegal activities
• Human nature comes to new media
• Trust in citizens journalism through technology
• Sometimes video is media imitating life imitating advertising
• Do you trust video online? What builds trust in new media for you?

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
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What's hot in video, blogosphere, mobile and podcasting news.


8 mins.

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• AOL's video sharing service
• Blogging business models continue to grow
• Nokia bans the word phone, and predicts that 50% of content consumed by mobile subscribers will be created by individuals
• What impact will free Skype calls have?

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Move over Amanda, Brookers is making a scene. This chick's a star. <3

A short form of Media Slaves which presents the news of the day from the blogosphere, podcasting, video, mobility and social networks or communities. Would love to hear your thoughts on the topics considered by Media Slaves.


8 mins.

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The big big community adds IM.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.
A digital rights land grab.
MobileMe

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Fortunately, I got a new mic which should provide clearer sound quality than the $15 headset I was using. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how much popping and breath noise I was creating. My bad. It'll be better next time...promise.

Schlomo Rabinowitz one of the organizers of Vloggercon 2006 is our guest, and talks about the conference and his, um....personal life. It's a fun show.


Part I: 26 mins.

Part II: 25 mins.

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Show notes

• Part I
• Vloggercon and how it all started
  
• Vloggercon Sessions Examples
  
• What about mobility?
• Conference theme Content and Collaboration
• Media Slaves is the place to get your muffin buttered
• Schlomo's version of Save the Children
• You can be a star if your son is a vlogger
• Why go to Vloggercon? Zadi's going for the after party
• Consumer Generated Content, Creative Commons
• Schlomo's Mom
• Don't let Schlomo die alone

• Part II
• Schlomo's real motivation for organizing Vloggercon
• Cupids of the Vlogs, Ryjay, Jayanne or Dedry? The new Benifer
• Node 101 gets funding from Vloggercon
• The 411 on Node 101
• The Media Slaves hookup advice column
• Vlogging Fight Club or Naked Vlogging
• Schlomo on getting laid, will he or won't he?
• Zadi's mind turns to the naughty, again
• Tune in next time for the continuing saga on Schlomo's sex adventures.

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Experts in Social Media, Part Deux completes our discussion on what skills and knowledges are required to qualify for expert status in social media.


34 mins.

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Show notes

• User, intermediates and super user from tech, does it apply to social media?
• Media expertise isn't so different from expertise in new media
• A profound moment: it takes expertise to be an expert
• Marianne stuns the slaves
• The hard sell: you gotta be a peer
• Still struggling with those darn video doer labels
• Old media skills don't provide understanding and expertise in the social part of social media or online tool sets
  
• Time v. Knowledge in skill building
• Calling Vloggercon - please settle video doer labels? really.
• What about that other platform? You know....mobile.
• Can you be an expert in social media and not know the mobile environment?
• Nicole prefers the title consultant over expert. (and she doesn't use a mobile phone)
  
• We envision The Highlander version of finding "the" expert.
• Rocketboom does provide mobile ready video ( http://www.rocketboom.com )
  
• The importance of being literate - that's media literate
• The importance of being fast - mobility
• Interview recommendations for discovering today's social media expert.
  

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
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What's in a name? Or label? How do the labels that we use or that are used by others impact mainstreaming of new media and perceptions of what blogs, podcasts, and video blogs/podcasts and other new media are about?

38 mins.




Show notes

• The video producers definitely win for the most labels or terms used and created.
• Nicole channels Darth Vader through a mystery of Skype.
• Marianne asks what about the Mid West?
• Zadi raps video labels.
• Debi, Nicole and Marianne play who's on first with coining terms.
• Marianne takes us back to basics with goal + audience = appropriate label
• Is Podshow Social Media?
• Let's Play Name that tune or label
• Zadi says, "We don't need no stinkin' labels."
• And now...a word from our marketing department
• What about advertisers and these labels? Podcasters and bloggers for sale.
• Nicole builds an empire.

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
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The Tech Guy for 28 November 2009 - Show 617

Host: Leo Laporte

Home theater, live streaming, HD camcorders, GPS, bit rot, underwater photography, and your calls.

For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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Running time: 1:59:31

The Tech Guy for 28 November 2009 - Show 618

Host: Leo Laporte

Leo's daughter Abby on technology, Cyber Monday, upgrading to Windows 7, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:32

Debi a.k.a. Mobile Jones interviews Peter K. Lee, CTO of VoiceIndigo about their service which provides the delivery of audio podcasts to mobile phones. VoiceIndigo also includes Podsense which connects advertisers to podcasts, and implements click-to-call revenue sharing and click-to-call connections to podcast feedback lines.

Nicole has been very busy lately helping to organize Podcastday 2006 in Cologne, Germany. It seems that one of the problems Peter and I discussed on simplifying listener interaction was discussed by a panel at the conference. If you are mobile when you listen, why would the answer be more PC browser tools? If podcasts work because they are time shifted why would real time call participation (Skypecast) be the answer? Think mobile! ...especially when the activity is mobile.

Media Slaves uses Voiceindigo and if our listeners have any feedback or experience to share it would be greatly appreciated.

40 mins.

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Show notes

• Meet Peter
• How Voiceindigo works for podcast listeners
• How Voice indigo works for advertisers
• How Voiceindigo works for podcasters
  

The Tech Guy for 9 December 2009 - Show 619

Host: Leo Laporte

Jail time for recording Twilight, 48 core Intel processors, Darpa Network Challenge, Scott Wilkinson on home theater, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:31

The Tech Guy for 16 December 2009 - Show 620

Host: Leo Laporte

Cyber Monday, Comcast buys NBC, TWiT at CES, the Magic Mouse, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:31

Martin Sauter, network technologies consultant with Nortel Networks discusses mobile network capacity as it relates to mobile social media.

42 mins.

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Show notes

• Meet Martin Sauter
• Communication Systems for the Mobile Information Society
  
• Mobile network cellsite capacity
• Number of subscribers by network technology
• Applications pre-loaded on the device or downloaded that put pressure on networks
• A single mobile with high demand usage can require 100 to 200 MBs per day
• Growth of flat rate tarrifs (data plans) - where competition exists
  
• Skype is promoted by one operator in Germany
• The friction between user's desire for an ISP and mobile operator's desire to broadcast
• WiMax will disrupt - in 2 years
• Mobile devices which include Wi-Fi also distrupt
  
• What mobile social media is in your pocket?
• What will you quit this year? 2006 Year of the Quitter

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The Tech Guy for 12 December 2009 - Show 621

Host: Leo Laporte

Home theater tips, Zune HD, Excel for the Mac, Barnes & Noble nook reader, and your calls.

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Running time: 2:00:00

The Tech Guy for Sunday 13 December 2009 - Show 622

Host: Leo Laporte

Google phone, a helmet cam, home servers, netbooks, virtual PBX, and your calls.

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Running time: 2:00:00

This interview was recorded back in early March on Steve Rubel's Social Media Tour. We discuss social media, mobility, what role companies can play and what's next for social media.

53 mins.

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Show notes

• Steve joins PR firm Edelman directing Word of Mouth Marketing
• He wanted to be on the field of play instead of just watching from the stands
• Companies should team and collaborate with the edge of the network
• Content on geeky goodness and life hacking is more popular than marketing content
• How does Steve Rubel define Web 2.0
• We now join the History Channel
• Hype draws companies, and now they are ready to engage
• Spelling checkers and more fun
• Defining Social Media
• Syndication, syndication and feeds
• A little word play
• Steve flashes his geeky side
  
• Microsoft owes Amy Gahran $$$
• Follow the money when Social Media is defined
  
• Servers on the Oprah Winfrey Show
• MySpace
• Communities and brand monitoring and intergalatic transport
• Small publishers and impact
• Enabling shooting stars
• Technology v. Media
• Steve's turns the table
• Mobility
• Innovation in advertising and word of mouth marketing
  
• What's next?
  

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
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The Tech Guy for Saturday 19 December 2009 - Show 623

Host: Leo Laporte

Avatar effects, home theater, Facebook video, changing web hosting services, Vista SP2, and your calls.

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Running time: 2:00:00

The Tech Guy for Sunday 20 December 2009 - Show 624

Host: Leo Laporte

Filtering your child's Internet access, too expensive cables, modern radio, Droid, and your calls.

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Running time: 2:00:00

Media Slaves presents the Slave Spotlight. These are interviews with one of the Media Slaves giving you a chance to hear more about them in their own words. Today features a chat with Zadi Diaz, mistress of video.

25 mins.

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Show notes

• In the beginning.
  
• From the frying pan into the fire or moving from NYC to LA.
• But it's hard isn't it?
  
• Tools - we got tools.
  
• Music in videos and the long arm of the law.
  
• Current practice, fair use, MySpace musicians.
  
• Beastie Boys with a new plan.
  
• I've got your back....um I mean your middle $$$
  
• Bye bye media middlemen and hello technology middlemen.
  
• Vloggercon 2006 - your chance to meet Zadi.
  
• The party list.
  

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
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The Tech Guy for Saturday 26 December 2009 - Show 625

Host: Leo Laporte

Home theater, guitar-to-computer hookup, iPhone email problems, RFID, and your calls.

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Running time: 2:00:41

The Tech Guy for Sunday 27 December 2009 - Show 626

Host: Leo Laporte

Avatar, Chris Marquardt's photo tips, Linux vs. Windows, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:30

Eric Rice is in da hizzle. It was great to have Eric join us and hope that he will be back in the future. It was a fun change of pace.

Part I of the show is focused on MySpace viewed through the rubrics of media: niche, mass market, corporate and social. And of course, no one gets out alive without looking at the mobile lifestyle.

Part II is about Second Life and Hipcast. It's hip.


Part I: 41 mins.

Part II: 18 mins.

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Show notes

• Part I
• Who is Fox's MySpace media company competing with?
• MySpace is music, books, film, and now even jobs
• MySpace and sustainability
• Forget the media this demographic follows people not stuff
• MySpace v. Linkedin Where's the community?
  
• Does the pursuit of niche media and community threaten communication enabled through shared media and culture?
  
• New media or old media? Both?
  
• Technology artisans will break new ground as artisans always have
  
• Mobile and independent media is better
  
• Mobility and video
  
• Phones and user experience for video
• Small peer to peer groups and media sharing
• Mobile and buddy lists
  

• Part II
• PC envy of the Mac variety
• Growth of Second Life and Business relationships
• Don't be skimmin'
  
• Merging online and offline personas, and the digital history or reputation
• Word of the Seagulls Mouth
• Functional Celebrity
• Hipcast - check it out.
  

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The Tech Guy for Saturday 2 January 2010 - Show 627

Host: Leo Laporte

Home theater, online backup, looking for manuals, Windows Media Center on Macs, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:27

The Tech Guy for Sunday 3 January 2010 - Show 628

Host: Leo Laporte

Google Nexus One, photo tips, clean Windows installs, 4G, LCDs, universal power supplies, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:36

Carnival of the Mobilists Volume 1 Issue 33 is up at m-trends.org. Rudy does a very nice presentation of the entries for this week.

Anyway, lots of interesting perspectives on the mobile industry, tech and lifestyle. Dive in and enjoy.

The Tech Guy for Saturday 9 January 2010 - Show 629

Host: Leo Laporte

Live from CES in Las Vegas with guests Dick DeBartolo, Macworld's Jason Snell, Paul Thurrott, Star Trek TNG's LeVar Burton and Brent Spiner, and more.

For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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Running time: 1:59:46

The Tech Guy for Sunday 10 January 2010 - Show 630

Host: Leo Laporte

Live from CES with Scott Wilkinson on Home Theater, Ford CEO Alan Mulally, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:56

Slave Tickles and Cowbells is a new segment from Media Slaves. Occassionally we will publish an out take, snafu or behind-the-scenes clip, but it will only be made available through our feed other than this first one. This is our way of saying thanks to those who subcribe to Media Slaves via their RSS reader, iTunes or VoiceIndigo.

Here's the pre-recording chit chat with Schlomo.

2.5 mins.

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The Tech Guy for Saturday 16 January 2010 - Show 631

Host: Leo Laporte

Google Nexus One, creating iPhone apps, HDTV, managing your iTunes library, and your calls.

For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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Running time: 1:59:41

The Tech Guy for Sunday 17 January 2010 - Show 632

Host: Leo Laporte

Home theater news, photo tips, YouTube, cell phone contracts, Dolby 5.1, robots.txt, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:48

Slave Tools will consist of discussion on the productivity and media creation tools that are used by Media Slaves. We've devised a simple rating system. Tools that we like, use or recommend will be designated as "Is a Slave Tool." Those which don't measure up or we find annoying will be designated "Is not a Slave Tool." Pretty simple.

25 mins.

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Show notes

• Paper calendars. What's paper?
• Google does calendars
• Mobile calendars can save your life
  
• Sync, sync.....did I say sync.
  
• No more terra incognito.
  
• Marianne and Zadi are unwhelmed.
  
• Zadi learns that she's not banned and puts her data in a bunker.
  
• Did I say sync?
  
• Debi wants freedom from the tyranny of a single device.
  
• Did she say synchronization again? I didn't mean sync'ing I meant access.
  
• Marianne shares her computer pain.
  
• Nicole comes out as a paranoid European.
• More advantages to online storage.
• Google Calendar - What do you think?
  

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
Trumpet solo from Daydream by Robin Stein available on Podsafe Audio
Guitar, drum transition from Bittersweet by Artificial Intelligence available on Podshow Music

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The Tech Guy for Sunday 24 January 2010 - Show 634

Host: Leo Laporte

Apple Tablet speculation, Scott Wilkinson's home theater tips, Chris Marquardt's photo tips, online security, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:40

The Tech Guy for Saturday 30 January 2010 - Show 635

Host: Leo Laporte

Apple announces the iPad, making movies with consumer gear, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, keeping data in the cloud, and your calls.

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Running time: 1:59:55

Social Media is a young area with early adopter uptake. So what does it mean to be an expert podcaster, an expert in blogging, or any of the other domains of peer production? In Part I, we discuss distinctions between critics and "doers," the importance of participation and people may be dying from eating Oreo cookies. Stay tuned for Part Deux.


26 mins.

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Show notes

• Can you be an expert if you're not a doer? Minus the evil, of course.
• Do you need to know how to cook to tell if food tastes good?
• Wait! Are talking about Siskle and Ebert or Oliver Stone?
• If you're gonna be a critic, we'll respect you in the morning if you're also a creator.
• Debi masters the obvious. New media is new.
• There's more to evaluating a blog than reading one.
• What's the skill set for social media? Could you write a job description?
• The go to people have hybrid skillsets.
• Having a blog is the gateway drug to social media.
• Blog bias in social media.
• The invisible 45%. Which way did they go?
• When social media goes mobile it picks up speed.
• Speed kills. It kills control.
• Chevy Tahoe experiment.
• Expertise has shifted from time-based to knowledge-based.
• Who dies from eating Oreo cookies?

Credits

Media Slaves Intro
Trumpet solo from Daydream by Robin Stein available on Podsafe Audio
Guitar, drum transition from Bittersweet by Artificial Intelligence available on Podshow Music

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The Tech Guy for Sunday 31 January 2010 - Show 636

Host: Leo Laporte

Home theater tips, photo tips, Pioneer Elite Kuro Plasma, Windows 7 upgrades, international iTunes, and your calls.

For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com.

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Running time: 1:59:54

Media Slaves is a roundtable podcast produced by Debi Jones, Zadi Diaz, Marianne Richmond and Nicole Simon.

We are taking on topics that arise when anyone and everyone can be a publisher, producer or media mogul.

The name Media Slaves comes from a mashup of the "slave generated content" label and social media. There are many if not all Web 2.0 companies and some communities that look at "user generated content" as their property. Merely a read of the TOS (Terms of Use) and EULAs (End User License Agreements) from corporate users of user generated content like Yahoo! proves that point. If we are preceived as free labor to companies, then we - as slaves, speaks to their desire to leave us out of the value chain and revenues. We are slaves because of our addiction to producing and consuming the many forms of conversational media.