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Braindead TechCast EP27: Google TV – yet more spaghetti thrown against the wall

Written by: Steven Hodson on March 18, 2010

Google, Google, Google, when will it end?

I mean really, just how much spaghetti are you going to throw against the wall hoping that maybe this time you’ll actually get something right. I am of course talking about the news today that Google has set its sights on television land as its next conquest. Hopefully for them it will do better than some of its last attempts at world domination because so far things aren’t looking to good.

Along with that Sean and I have a little bit of fun with a couple of other subject amongst which is the nameless blogger who announced today that they were sadly leaving a job they loved for … well their not sure. this of course comes after announcing to the world that the latest tech conference sucked even though they didn’t really do any work while they were there.

And then there’s the matter of $334 million and just how much money one person needs.

Post referred to in the show

Google Coming To Your Television Via Google TV – StarterTech
Google TV Should Finally Push Apple TV Beyond A “Hobby” – TechCrunch
It’s Inevitable: Google TV – Technologizer

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Twitter Quote of the Day: Brad King

Written by: Steven Hodson on March 18, 2010

Perfect advise.

via @Brad_King

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Margaret Wente needs to get off her high horse – or is that too much of a guy thing to say?

Written by: Steven Hodson on March 18, 2010

Earlier today Mark Dykeman DM’ed a link to his posted reply to a post at the Globe and Mail by Margaret Wente titled Why are bloggers male?

I have to give Mark a tip of the hat because he managed to pull off a great even-handed response to what has to be one of the most moronic and arsine fourteen paragraphs of ill-informed opinion of the blogosphere that I have ever read. I’d suggest that even Andrew Keen and Nick Carr at the most cynical have a better understanding of the blogosphere except they are men so they probably wouldn’t count as valid references in Wente’s world.

She points to how tilted the blogosphere is towards the male gender and not just your gym change room type of males but rather 12-year-olds having pissing contests in the snow. She doesn’t deny that woman don’t have a place because after all they can do a better job of opinionizing than their male counterparts – they just don’t have any interest in doing so.

Excuse me?

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Braindead TechCast EP26: Mark school’s us on the SXSWi that Jodie O’Dell missed

Written by: Steven Hodson on March 17, 2010

It appears that our show from yesterday where Sean and I had some fun doing a little bit of SXSW bashing was enough to prompt our third host, Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins to actually join us for a show. Of course this visit from our illustrious third host is due to a post by Jolie O’dell yesterday about how SXSWi was becoming a pointless exercise in tech conference going.

As far as Mark is concerned nothing could be further from the truth. In fact he said this year in contrast to last year actually has some potentially great tech being shown as long as you weren’t fooled into believing it was all about ‘location’ as some bloggers would have you believe.

It was that subject that took up a good portion of the show as both Sean and I asked Mark about this so-call location war that was suppose to be the biggest and hottest news to be happening during the whole SXSWi conference.

Here’s a hint: it wasn’t.

Posts referenced in the show.

Why SxSW Doesn’t Suck – SiliconAngle
Why SxSW Sucks – Jolie O’Dell

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Braindead TechCast EP25: SXSW: Bring on the sponsorships never mind the sharing & learning

Written by: Steven Hodson on March 17, 2010

At some point, somewhere in the world, at any time there is probably some sort of tech conference going on and they seem to be growing in numbers worse that fleas on a dog. This week of course is the big spring break of tech conferences happening in Austin, Texas, called SXSWi.

Each year of the conference the number of people going has been climbing to the point they have seen a 40% increase of people attending this year over last year. That is a crap load of people no matter how you slice or dice it but it seems that just as the numbers are growing so is the undercurrent of feelings that being there is approaching pointless.

Posts referred to in the show.

Why SXSW Sucks – Jodie O’Dell
Chris Brogan at SXSW – 1938Media
The Great Privacy Con of Social Media and Web 2.0 – The Inquisitr

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Twitter Quote of the Day: Art Lindsey

Written by: Steven Hodson on March 16, 2010

Perfect!

via @artlindsey3

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