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Just a quick update from the Digital Slob in Waikiki post quakes, from his still standing shoebox in paradise. Sunday morning Hawaii was hit with two separate earthquakes, a 6.7 and a 6.0, within minutes of each other. Thankfully there was no tsunami ... if there was, I'd be typing this under water.

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EXPO EXPOS FACTO WEEK

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Many stories have already been told about the 2006 Podcast and Portable Media Expo ... it was in late September, after all ... many say that train has left the station ... but my hangover has just now left me, so it's time to review:

Highlights include:

1) My wife, Olga, the publicity machine
2) Meeting cool people
3) My panel discussion
4) Two orders of room service buttermilk pancakes that I didn't have to pay for.
5) The Parties

Lowlights include:

1) My wife taking heat from Jason Calacanis
2) Leo LaPorte's keynote
3) The unfortunately still too impenetrable podcast bubble.

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The camera adds at least 10 extra pounds of ego.

Dvorak surprised Hawaii has computers

After a long day of conk blowing and virgin sacrificing up on the volcano, I came across this post from noted tech columnist John C. Dvorak after he heard I'd compared him in a column to Stattler, the famous Muppet curmudgeon who heckled acts from the balcony with his partner-in-crime Waldorf:

"This takes the cake for off-handed compliment/insults. Curt 'Digital Slob' Brandao writing in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin says I look like the Muppet Show character Stattler. I was shocked when I read this. I had no idea they used computers in Hawaii."

A nice little jab back from Dvorak, since whatever admiration I have for him -- considerable, he knows more tech stuff than I do and can bore normal people at 10 times my top speed -- was probably deeply cloaked in my apt comparison -- but come on, you don't have to go after the entire Aloha State ;-). We've got quite a tech industry here, actually.

Truth is, I am a Dvorak fan. Here's the link to what I had to say about his "Cranky Geeks" video podcast. It's generally positive, I think, though, admittedly, something gets lost when it's translated from its original hula.

Yes, John, Hawaii has computers -- it's amazing what you can make out of coconuts.

Mmmmm ... publicity

Seems a comment AOL exec Jason Calacanis made to my wife/supermodel/digitalslobpod cohost/digitalslobpod spokesperson Olga Timakova at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo has caused many in the blogosphere to rise up to defend her honor ... I would have led that fight, of course, but we've been sleeping off the expo in a Vegas hotel, and I didn't want to pay for Net access until now b/c I wanted to save my resources for blackjack ... as it turns out, there was no point, however.

Apparently, as I've just learned, when I was working the other side of the expo hall in Ontario, Calif., last weekend, he told my wife "You're podcasting? Let me give you some good advice, no one wants to hear you talk." Olga didn't tell me about it, but that was no surprise ... she usually spares me from looking at the vast, cavernous inventory of comments she gets from men because it's been known to give me vertigo.

Seems Valleywag has a poll up, asking who you'd rather listen to talk ... Jason or Olga ... right now, Olga's ahead w/ 93 percent of the vote ... I think the campaign poster helps.

Webpronews.com reporter Jason Lee Miller also bravely refuted Calacanis' claims in a story he posted today about us ... maintaining that Olga has a wonderful speaking voice, especially when near a Marriot hotel pool party, although he did, technically, also call her a liar.

Chris Heuer, the expo attendee and blogger who took the photo above, said in his estimation Jason wasn't being sexist, but simply commenting on the quality of Olga's voice ... as for Olga? Her direct quote ... "Listen to digitalslobpod, and judge for yourself."

Rarin' to go Expo

Havin' a blast at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, Calif., this weekend ... lost pretty quick at the Pickle Poker Tourney ... but that is to be expected ... going to wear the shirt shown here I had made up so people could instantaneously tell if I was someone important enough to talk to down on the expo floor ... I'm thinking they should hand these out next year, anywhere from "not very important" "very, very, important." Got another shirt that says "Slack Off on Your Day Job."

Apple gone a courtin

Looks like Apple has decided to claim a trademark on the term "podcast" in much the same offical way Daisy, my beagle mix, claims the neighborhood fire hydrant every day around dusk, sending cease and desist orders to certain smaller site owners that use the term.

This has lots of folks upset, and rightly so ...

So, far, I'm one of the lucky ones, though Cupertino could be working its way down a list and might go after those who use "pod" as a suffix, as well as a prefix or a root word, eventually. Still, guess I better delay the unveiling of my new show until I contact a lawyer ... I was planning to call it "Live With Regis, Kleenex, Mo-Ped, Xerox and Jet Ski."

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HURRY UP AND GO WEEK

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Segment one and only: Pre-convention prep Q&As ... what to say, or what to ask, during all the sure-to-be-recorded conversations at the upcoming Podcast and Portable Media Expo.

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NEW LIPSTICK ON A PIG WEEK

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Segment One — Makeovers, makeovers, makeovers:
Check out the new digitalslob.com Redesigned, for your pleasure.
The new "Digital Slob" comic that may (or may not) ever come out of beta.


Podsafe Music: Adama with "Show Me the Exit." Exactly how I felt watching "The Covenant" this week

Segment Two — A shocking way to stop snoring.

Segment Three — The Podcast Poker Tournament (oh, yeah, and the Podcast and Portable Media Expo).

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WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE PART II WEEK

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Segment One — Podcast Reviews:
The Eclectic Review
#2 Show
Bucket
Geek News Central
Cranky Geeks
Buzz Out Loud

Exlcusive Podsafe Music: DJ Miklos with "The World is Beautiful"

Segment Two — Podzinger minute

Segment Three — digitalslobpod's beta catch-phrases, with apologies to the Pussycat Dolls.

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WHAT ELSE IS OUT THERE WEEK

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Bring the back back, Beyonce, bring the back back.

Segment One — Podcast Reviews:
Ask A Ninja
Cotolo Chronicles
GeekBrief
the show with zefrank
Daily Giz Wiz
Hometown Tales

Exlcusive Podsafe Music: DJ Miklos with "Do you Love Me?"

Segment Two — DSPMTN Newsdesk (Digitalslobpod's Mostly True News:
Apple at WWDC: Something less than "one more thing.",
Pacific Girl Keith Hellcasts

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I WANT FOOD AND MAKE IT FAST WEEK

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Segment One: If you see a worm moving inside in your turkey sub, do you tell EVERYONE at the table?

Segment Two: DSPMTN Newsdesk (Digitalslobpod's Mostly True News) -- AT&T wiretapping, Zune, and Jessica Simpson.

Podsafe Music: Roadside Zoo, "This Love is Rare."


Segment Three: A cautionary tale about microwaves and the tech perils of early adoption.

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WALK DOWN MEMORY LANE WEEK

Happy Birthday Digitalslobpod!!!!

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Segment One: "Web 2.0" puts us all on the auction block.

Segment Two: Thank you (no, thank you). No, thank YOU (no, no, thank YOU). You're embarassing me now, THANK YOU! (n-n-n-n-n-no, THAAAAANK YOU!) Listen, THANK YOU!!!!!! (please, please, please, thank you, really). OK, that's it, you wanna take this outside?

Sign off:

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BACK TO THE FUTURE AGAIN WEEK

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Segment One: Breaking news from the DigitalSlobPod Mostly True News (DSPMTN) newsdesk:
* How will the Rocketboom implosion affect global warming?
* How many millions of dollars in Venture Capital does it take for Podshow to get an html proofreader?
* Is the space shuttle auditioning for Simon Cowell?

Segment Two: Time traveling to the 2018 Consumer Electronics show:
* FingerRibbon 2.0
* Clone Army Credit Counseling
* RespectMySpace

Podsafe Music from the motherland: ozonoviy sloy, "Russian Morning After Party."

Segment Three: Podzinger Minute
The View, irritable bowel syndrome, Star Jones, gastric bypass, Michael Jackson, Family Guy, Karl Rove, Ask a Ninja, SWIFT, David Beckham, Al Roker, Rosie O'Donnel, France, hybrid, World Cup, Britney Spears, Portugal, Superman, Podshow Plus, premature ejaculation, Pirates of the Caribbean, Rocketboom, Rocketbubble, feathered hair, flag burning, Nicole Kidman, SNL, Brandon Routh, blueberry, Davey Jones Locker, metrosexual, Colbert Report.

Sign off:

Russian lyric translations courtesy of Olga ;-)


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SECOND CHANCES WEEK

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Before the show starts, an important, urgent statement about "The View." Brace yourselves for a gastric bypass of the soul.

Segment One: Second Life can make you feel all tingly in your naughty nether regions — if not from the cybersex, then from how it overheats the batteries on your laptop.

Segment Two: The debut of DSPMTN, Digitalslobpod's Mostly True News — Tech news in a world where everything is tech. (Vista, Office, iPod, Gnomedex, Google, World Cup).

Segment Three: High school reunion survey ... don't ask a question if you're not prepared to hear the answer.

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Segment One: It's a GPS-enabled World, After All. Hopefully, these new tech tools will increase our successes, b/c the privacy they take away will make it much harder to cover up our failures.

mologogo.com
geominder software at ludimate.com

Podzinger minute: Jessica Alba, Net Neutrality, Vista, breast augmentation, bittorrent, Tom Cruise, Spyware, Katie Holmes, The Apprentice, Bradd Pitt, Digg, Angelina Jolie, Red Bull, Namibia, lasik, Belly Shirts, Shiloh, YouTube, Suri, Pokemon, Tomkat, Brangelina, BraTomKatElina, Web 2.0, Britney Spears, Deparment of Child Welfare, Paris Hilton, Department of Motor Vehicles, Pixar, Eva Longoria, Cars, Dallas Mavericks, Evolution of Dance, Lindsey Lohann — MacBook Pro — , three-armed baby, Jessica Simpson — Hillary Duff, Shakira, Diet Coke and Mentos

Podsafe music: Beth Thornley, "Done."

Segment Two: Two different kinds of forgetting — convenient and actual.
panik-design.com's Card Beeper
babyalert.info's Child Minder
The Lady Bag

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FAINT SIGNS OF SECOND LIFE WEEK
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No podfade here ... standbye for a new original episode of digitalslobpod for the week of June 18. Until then, enjoy my live, 2-hour joyride down the Hallelujah Trail with veteran broadcaster Frank Cotolo on "Cotolo Chronicles," with an extended pitstop at Second Life, where I now have a permanent address.

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ONE LANE CLOSED FOR CONSTRUCTION WEEK
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Reached my Libsyn limit, lost at poker, learning Garageband 3.0 = a short show this week.

Podsafe Music: Casey Desmond, "Did We Make It."

An open memo to Corporate Media re: Saving TV Commercials -- Pay Slobs to watch TV.

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MOTHER'S DAY WEEK
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Listener feedback: jvond.com
Guest announcer: My mom, Loretta Brandao
Podsafe music: Chub Creek Music, "Patricia - Mother's Day Song"
Essay: Grandma said in the old days, people just "stunk more." The Roomba is the new washing machine.
Podsafe Music: Trucker Cleavage, "Single Mother."

See, hear, and potentially feel and smell the "Digital Slob" in the flesh at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo.

Special After-Show Extra: Hear the mother of the Digital Slob, unedited, talk about the old days (she gave me permission to add our whole talk).

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SENIOR PRANK WEEK
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Semi-creative practical jokes are now called pre-9/11 thinking.
Podsafe music: Life Has Teeth, "You're So Cool."

Essay: Ridiculous busy work in high school sociology class: What's your idea of a Utopian Society? Answer: A world without busywork.

Podsafe music: Cassandra Kubinksi, "Hiding Underneath."

Essay: Staring directly into my high school principal's dark black eyes of death.

Audio Feedback: Mark Baars checks in from the Netherlands, worried about the tsunami triggered by the 7.8 quake out of Tonga.

Looking for voice actors for my digitalslobpod skits.

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FORCES OF NATURE WEEK
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Thank the maternal instinct for keeping Britney Spears from making new music for three years and counting.

Beer -- taking the edge off since the 5th millenium B.C.
Flu bugs —— are low-carb hot pockets the answer?

Podsafe Music:

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Val Davis, "Court of Greedy Kings."

Beth Thornley, "Mr. Lovely."

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No.digitalslobpod.this.week...spilled.Gatorade.on.my.wireless.keyboard.and.it.shorted. out...now.the.space.key.spits.out.periods.but.that's.just.the.beginning..Should.have next.week's.show.up by.Friday.after.a.trip.to.CompUSA.

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JUNK-DRAWER WEEK
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Time for a little spring cleaning ... rarely (if ever) heard digitalslobpod clips. The Beatles do this every 18 years, so why can't I?

Christmas Jingle: The Tale-Tell Gift

Hawaii Association of Podcasters

Olga upstages me (again) auditioning for the Daily Source Code.

Vitalpodcasts.com ad contest entry.

Cable-deprived depravity takes a toll on the soul.

digitalslobpod fever (the planetarium mix).

Bloom-in media

Ron Bloom of Podshow predicts that in five years, 50 percent of all media consumed will be produced by consumers ... The Age of Mr. Microphone is finally upon us.

I predict the other 50 percent of media consumed will be produced by nanobots that are constantly regenerating Oprah’s cellular structure.

Regardless, his point (directed at advertisers) seems to be that corporations need to enlist the support of hundreds or thousands of tiny worker ants to viral-market their message in renegade, off-the-cuff, uncontrollable ways, podcasts presumably being among those ways. Hip, cool hipsters passing out virtual fliers in virtual airports wearing virtual togas.

Fascinating point from someone who has both the gift of foresight and the gift of venture capital. That said, I look forward to seeing how the ad messages will filter through the podcasting community. Will 50 percent of all the top 100 podcasts suddenly work Diet Pepsi, somehow, into their format one week? That could come across a bit creepy. Bodysnatcher-esque ... bringing perhaps too much old meaning to the term "Pod People."

I'm sure I missing the point. I usually think clearer after I've had some DIET PESPI!!!! OH NO!! AAAAAAUUUGHHHHHH!

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FEVER-INDUCED PARANOIA WEEK

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I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me?

News Alert: Adam Curry has a Mini-Me.

Demanding a recount with Rob Walch's Podcast411 baby-weight contest.

While I'm still recovering from my nasty bug, this week, digitalslobpod advances the spread of the theme by sucking the life out of another podcast like a parasite, the Cotolo Chronicles, with Part Two of Curt's conversation with veteran broadcaster Frank Cotolo. Snuff-fetish topics include:

The death of newspapers, the death of live entertainment, the death of "professional content." The death of the phrase "the death of." And, plotting the demise of Digital Rights Management.

We may be entering the paperless society, but it's not stopping the Media Grim Reaper from being up to his eyeballs in paperwork.

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ROLE-REVERSAL WEEK

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Sorry for the delay ... Curt has the flu, so his wife Olga sits in for him, editing highlights from his appearance last week on Cotolo Chronicles. So Olga hosts, instead of Curt, on a highlight show where Curt is the guest, not the host, on Cotolo's Hallelujah Trail ... hence, role-reversal week.

Highlights:
Olga: "Americans do everything to do nothing."
Mixed marriages: Sometimes the easiest thing to do is not so easy.
If Curt tried to move to Russia, within 72 hours, he would be dead. Not a dishwasher, not mopping floors. He'd be dead, and someone would have stolen his shoes.

Where does Curt get his ideas? Charlie Brown.
Why become a writer: It had the best praise-to-work ratio.

Live podcasts vs. edited podcasts. Frank's is free-form, Curt is a control freak ... each has it virtues (but some podcasts are more virtuous than others).

Why "Digital Slob"? Mixing the clean world of external expectations with the messy world of internal contentment.

Using tech to amplify who you are, rather than tech using you to absorb who you are.

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MONEY MANAGEMENT WEEK

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IRS tip: Faking your own death and moving to Mexico. Coinstar helps you pick up the monetary crumbs left around your house after April 15. Podsafe Music: Theory in Motion with "Money." DRM is one acronym that doesn't provide consumers with TLC. Survey says 10 percent of telecommuters work in the nude (anecdotal observations via my amateur telescope suggest that's about 9 percent too many). Stay tuned at the end for a surprise guest who has a daughter named Ivanka.

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MONEY MANAGEMENT WEEK

IRS tip: Faking your own death and moving to Mexico. Coinstar helps you pick up the monetary crumbs left around your house after April 15. Podsafe Music: Theory in Motion with "Money." DRM is one acronym that doesn't provide consumers with TLC. Survey says 10 percent of telecommuters work in the nude (anecdotal observations via my amateur telescope suggest that's about 9 percent too many). Stay tuned at the end for a surprise guest who has a daughter named Ivanka.

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For those wondering if the woman who possess the sexy voice behind the "standby for installation" voiceover was as easy on the eyes as she is on the ears, here's a photo she made on a recent model shoot. Her career is taking off. She's also my wife ... something I keep trying to say with modesty, but always comes out with beaming pride.

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BRACKET-BUSTER WEEK

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Intro: Todd Lerner. NCAA office pool. Retroblog, hoop dreams edition. Podsafe music: Todd Lerner, Song for Free and Jroq vs. Dr. Trey, Unsociable. Huge uptick in digitalslobpod listeners ... looks like my subscriber data bar charts popped a Viagra pill. I'll be a featured guest next week on the Cotolo Chronicles, live at 9 p.m. EST on Thursday, March 30. Audio/email feedback at digitalslob@gmail.com. The wireless revolution comes with strings attached. Retroblog: Sixth-Grade Field Day.

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US VS. THEM WEEK

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Plans for a tiered Internet — shouldn't all our pipe dreams go through the same pipe? How to use the Net to avoid the DMV (short quiz). Podsafe music: Kaimoku with "Honolulu Shuffle." The age of the beep ... pagers, cell phones, garbage truck in reverse. Background noise is fridge ... not turning it off b/c I'll forget to turn it back on, and my marriage is but one melted leftover smoothie away from the dust heap of history.
tags: MTV, A Flock of Seagulls, Toni Basil ("Mickey" 1982), Department of Motor Vehicles, refrigerator, disturbing the peace, The Marx Brothers, Henry Ford, CNN, first amendment, digital slob, Robert Frost,

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Podsafe music -- in the broadest sense of that term.

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Your Next American Digital Slob edition ... this show's so good, it would make Paula Abdul spout out a fountain of non sequiturs during the results show ... if we had one.

The Death of Live Performances. Howard Stern, last King of all Media. Podsafe Music: Delphinium Blue "Body Of My Lover." Podcasting: Where are we, where do we need to go? (short answer, nowhere, and somewhere, respectively).

tags: Koko the Gorilla, Bruce Vilanch, Angelina Jolie, Chris Isaak, Dawn and Drew, Milton Berle, Saturday Night Live,

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Your Next American Digital Slob edition ... this show's so good, it would make Paula Abdul spout out a fountain of non sequiturs during the results show ... if we had one.

The Death of Live Performances. Howard Stern, last King of all Media. Podsafe Music: Delphinium Blue "Body Of My Lover." Podcasting: Where are we, where do we need to go? (short answer, nowhere, and somewhere, respectively).

tags: Koko the Gorilla, Bruce Vilanch, Angelina Jolie, Chris Isaak, Dawn and Drew, Milton Berle, Saturday Night Live,

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Health and Happiness Week

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From the Virgin Islands, "The I Can't Find Food Diet." From married life, "The Argue Until We Eat Diet." Live longer by watching more television. The life force of ketchup. Podsafe music from Todd Lerner, "Television Light." What's with "healthy" fast food?

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Health and Happiness Week

From the Virgin Islands, "The I Can't Find Food Diet." From married life, "The Argue Until We Eat Diet." Live longer by watching more television. The life force of ketchup. Podsafe music from Todd Lerner, "Television Light." What's with "healthy" fast food?

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Back on Track

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Little audio trouble today ... got a new headset ... had to be worse than the old one b/c it's more expensive.

Unsubscribing from matchmaking Web sites.
How Steve Jobs saved my marriage.
Podsafe music from Beatrice Ericsson — listen to her and try to guess where she's from.
New software threatens the ancient art of mooching.

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Back on Track

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Little audio trouble today ... got a new headset ... had to be worse than the old one b/c it's more expensive.

Unsubscribing from matchmaking Web sites.
How Steve Jobs saved my marriage.
Podsafe music from Beatrice Ericsson — listen to her and try to guess where she's from.
New software threatens the ancient art of mooching.

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Sorry for skipping a week ... making up for it by hijacking the "Cotolo Chronicles," veteran jack-of-all-media Frank Cotolo's live 2-hour weekly Internet radio show, which features me for the last 90 minutes.

I know, I know, but he gives everyone persmission to do this with the first words out of his mouth every week — so put your lawyers back in their holsters.

We talk about everything from the future of podcasting and live radio shows to Tom Selleck's sexuality and how much Hawaii marks up Macaroni and Cheese.

Meanwhile, my wife and I both celebrate our birthdays this week (she's 28, I'm 38) ... she's so pretty everyone thinks she married me for my money ... it really sucks when the one thing people think you've got going for you, you also DON'T HAVE!

Having a party tonight ... maybe we'll post some pictures if I can crop any of them into PG-13 dimensions.

Aloha,
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The 2018 CES, myspace condos, the iPod Twiki (Twiki is shown here with his former significant other, Dr. Theopolis).

Podsafe Music: Fumataka Anzai

An interview with the three-star general in the The People's Army of North Korea that I met on Myspace.

Listener and reader feedback.

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digitalslobpod -- The Soundtrack:

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From the Podsafe Music Network: Hawaii 5-0 Theme Song by Eric Kauschen

Podsafe Music — Tom Byrne, "The Buddha in the Internet."

Podsafe Hawaii music: Jroq vs. Dr. Trey, "Another Blue Day."

And then my little mishap ... "digitalslobpod fever: the planetarium mix."

Great podcasts about podcasts:

The Podcast Reviewer
Digitally Distorted
Podcast 411

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DIGITALSLOBPOD YEAR IN REVIEW Part 3 — download a better version of 2005

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Finally, the episode that ties up all the loose ends.

Scary Halloween stories ... lack of cable, and the RIAA monster.

The Space Elevator.

Thanksgiving leftovers

How a Digital Slob should pack for the trip home

The quest to make it to the gym before being captured by Jack In The Box.

Holiday gift-buying tips.

Should we change Digital Slob to win the "undition"?

The Hawaii Podcasters Association

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DIGITALSLOBPOD YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 — download a better version of 2005

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Digititalslobpod concentrate ... just add water and mix.

Digitalslobisms

Back to the future at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Victoria's Secret nanobots
Sirius Satellite Microwave
Wearable computers = "Nude Jeopardy!"

The Retroblog
The politics of Macaroni & Cheese
Stealing touchdowns and intellectual property rights

When parents become Big Brother

Back to the future at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
eBait
SpaceShipOne becomes SpaceShipProm

Gas prices
Silient religious births -- If a Scientology mother has a baby in the woods and a tree falls on her

Tech death & tech anti-death devices

Music Piracy — the Everything's Not Worth a Dollar Store. My Brave New Economic Plan for the music industry.

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DIGITALSLOBPOD YEAR IN REVIEW Part 2 — download a better version of 2005

Digititalslobpod concentrate ... just add water and mix.

Digitalslobisms

Back to the future at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
Victoria's Secret nanobots
Sirius Satellite Microwave
Wearable computers = "Nude Jeopardy!"

The Retroblog
The politics of Macaroni & Cheese
Stealing touchdowns and intellectual property rights

When parents become Big Brother

Back to the future at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES)
eBait
SpaceShipOne becomes SpaceShipProm

Gas prices
Silient religious births -- If a Scientology mother has a baby in the woods and a tree falls on her

Tech death & tech anti-death devices

Music Piracy — the Everything's Not Worth a Dollar Store. My Brave New Economic Plan for the music industry.

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DIGITALSLOBPOD YEAR IN REVIEW Part 1 — download a better version of 2005

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Best highlights of 2005 ... What every good podcast needs ... a cutting-room floor!

It's been a great year for podcasting, making it into the Oxford Dictionary as the new word of the year, Adam Curry's hair has never looked better, and Angelina Jolie has yet to try to break up Dawn and Drew.

Check out the Digital Slob page on myspace

Digital Slob Quiz
Computer speech software auditions for Romeo & Juliet
Time traveling to the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show
Retroblog
TiVo diary

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Extended Christmas edition

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Promo: The Tell Tale Gift (1:12)
Podsafe music from Jill Parr "Do You Hear What I hear."
Escape from Christmas: Key gadget gift ideas that will keep both groups of huddled masses (Respectable People and Digital Slobs) in your yuletide den from turning against you.

The Digital Slob Media Day: Last Thursday, between 5 and 8 p.m. Hawaii time, I was almost a busy as Adam Curry in a coma, doing interviews for Hawaii Public Radio, Doctor Trey's podcast, and the 808Talk podcast ... Doctor Trey and 808Talk did a unique, massive, multi-segmented, tag-team show this week ... Wonder Twin Podcast Powers, Activate!

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Extended Christmas edition
Promo: The Tell Tale Gift (1:12)
Podsafe music from Jill Parr "Do You Hear What I hear."
Escape from Christmas: Key gadget gift ideas that will keep both groups of huddled masses (Respectable People and Digital Slobs) in your yuletide den from turning against you.

The Digital Slob Media Day: Last Thursday, between 5 and 8 p.m. Hawaii time, I was almost a busy as Adam Curry in a coma, doing interviews for Hawaii Public Radio, Doctor Trey's podcast, and the 808Talk podcast ... Doctor Trey and 808Talk did a unique, massive, multi-segmented, tag-team show this week ... Wonder Twin Podcast Powers, Activate!

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Short clip: How the Daily Source Code and Adam Curry almost ruined my marriage.

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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick ...

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Gadget gift guide
Podsafe Hawaii music: Jroq vs. Dr. Trey, "Another Blue Day."
Spitballing digitalslobpod format changes to improve my chances on Podshow's upcoming undition (among them, going blue and changing my podcast's name to the "Dawn and Drew Show" minus the "r.")
The Hawaii Association of Podcasters dinner — proof Aloha State podcasters can not only share laughs and ideas, but also eat solid food.
Listener feedback, and new e-mail: digitalslob@gmail.com

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Thanksgiving Tryptophan Hangover — the good, the bad, the bloated.
1. Shopping fever — Thanksgiving is quickly turning into Black Friday Eve ... shopping online or off ... do you want to be fleeced standing up, or sitting down?
2. Podsafe Music — Tom Byrne, "The Buddha in the Internet."
3. Adam Curry's iTunes Podfinder show, The Official "Lost" Podcast, the unoffical "Lost" Podcast, The Transmission by Ryan and Jen, fellow Hawaii-based podcasters. The undition, for podcasters, a cross between The Rapture and the Cannonball Run.
4. Turkey Day no-man's land — 24-hour fitness centers.

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Thanksgiving Special: Tetracycline Bash 2005:
Sound effects you should be glad you can't smell.
From the Podsafe Music Network: Hawaii 5-0 Theme Song by Eric Kauschen
1) How to know you've made it home for the holidays — the only thing deadlier than Aunt Sally's Watergate Salad is hubris. Three things to be thankful for any Digital Slob can cling to.
2) How to know what to pack for the roadtrip home for Thanksgiving.
3) The five-week final furlong as the holidays is about to begin: Key small-talk talking points for the Turkey Day dinner table — from crocodile dung to divorce.

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Digitalslobpod theme song — "Digitalslobpod Fever," dance music for the Ph unbalanced — Podsafe but deadly. You really should have to have a license to play with GarageBand.
Space Elevator: Listen to Musak until you can't tell up from down.
DishMaker: Stop washing those dishes, start melting them.

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Halloween Special: Cable-deprived depravity takes a toll on the soul. My cable provider gave me back 36 hours of my life that I'll never be able to throw away.

In Defense of Piracy, Part 2: Supreme Court succumbs to peer-to-peer pressure. How the terms "Britney Spears" and "intellectual" can be used in the same sentence. The entertainment industry's global game of "Clue." The yard sale economic model for entertainment pricing. Historically, all pirates are misunderstood. Old habits die hard — old free habits die harder.

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1)In Defense of P2P Piracy (an ongoing series) — sleeping easy while downloading through the night.
2) How a podcast promo, Adam Curry and the Daily Source Code almost ruined my marriage

Slobisms:
Slobs eat exclusively while staring at computer screens
Coming soon: One Phone to Rule Us All

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"Thank you, Digital Slob" promo
If a Scientologist has a baby in the woods, and a tree falls on her ...
Digitalslobism — posting bail
Product review, Roomba robotic vacuum vs. Hoover/Slob/Potted Rubber Tree plant
Digitalslobism — time management
Immortality — post-mortem gadgets have grave problems

Andriods will procrastinate at light speed (once they achieve consciousness and develop an opinon about the Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes relationship

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The 2018 CES (eBait, SpaceShipProm), more Digital Slobisms, fossil fuel alternatives

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Back to the future to the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show, Slobisms, playing the "Blame Game, Blame Game," Retroblog, GPS devices track bad parenting via satellite.

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Hurricane Katrina washed away all of the media's lame excuses for ignoring those in need.

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Getting out of the Emotional Tramua Center after visiting the family on vacation — time traveling to the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show — uncovering what my TiVo has been saying about me behind my back — excerpts from the Retroblog.

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The Digital Slob discusses podcasting for newbies "if the Internet is an insane asylum, then podcasting is art therapy."

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Hear the debut of the digitalslobpod, get a free button, take the Digital Slob quiz.

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A better version of your life awaits, you just haven't downloaded it yet.