3 Additional OLPC Laptops Purchased
I have purchased the 3 additional OLPC laptops from the donations received. Geek News Central Listeners raised enough money for 3 Laptops and 2 of the three had already been ordered.
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2007
624 posts
24 Hour Podcast Site
Everyone has been asking about the 24 Hour Podcast Archive and I wanted you to know that I am starting to put the content online. The content is going to be hosted at 24hrPodcast.com. Angelo Mandato was nice enough to register the domain for it. The site is a primitive wordpress site at this point but I wanted to get
GNC-2007-12-21
Special Edition of the Geek News Central Podcast recorded during the 24hr Podcast. All the regular great coverage plus the live components which were a lot of fun. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use Code Todd [Try GoToMeeting free for 30
Some mainstream opinion of podcasting
This week a major Australian daily paper put out a story on how podcasting is gaining acceptance there. What they are seeing is similar to what we have been discussing here on GNC recently. Their view of podcasting is more of an extension to radio, than a replacement of it. Not hard to understand why they have this view when mainstream radio dominates the podcast charts on iTunes.
24hr Podcast Starts Here at 11am EST
Schedule of Guest that will be joining me! Hawaii is GMT -10
24hr Podcast Rundown and Connection Instructions
The 24hr Podcast is about 36 hours away and I wanted to share the details of the event and talk about some expectations. I really do expect this event to be very dynamic event and have planned on being very flexible.
Wait and see with Knol
The Knol service is an interesting idea from Google, but like some of its other ideas could as easily disapear before it ever even reaches a Beta stage. It is likely to hit public space at some stage though or it would not likely have announced as they did. Of the discussions on the topic, the Ars one is probably
Build your own surface(ish)
The video linked to here on Dvorak Uncensored shows how to build an interactive whiteboard or table top, multitouch, with a projector, a Wiimote and an IR light pen. Looks pretty easy, and the software to make it work is free from his website. I have to try this. If I get it working I will post about it.
Amazon needs to screen their Third Party Vendors!
On Dec 11th I placed a very substantial order through Amazon.com on a fairly expensive item. The price was about 20% below normal retail prices and I was happy with the purchase price.
GNC-2007-12-18
Big ramp up for the 24hr show lots of details of the event and I hope that you will join me live for the event. Particpate be heard and lets have a lot of fun. Sponsors: Special Promotion code 20% off on 1 Year Shared Hosting Plans use Godaddy Code Todd20 [Save 10% off on any order at GoDaddy.com!] Use
24 Hour Podcast is really Shaping up
I am getting a lot of request to be on the program and I am going to have to start double booking people. But it should be a good event and we will definitely have a lot to talk about.
Looks like we are a go for ShowStoppers!
Last year at CES we knew we missed one of the hottest post show hours events. That event is simply known as ShowStoppers, and it looks like we will be getting confirmations to attend later in the week. Big thanks to all those that provided suggestions on getting registered.
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