Posts Tagged ‘myspace’

I started blogging many years ago, long before it was called blogging.  My first “blog” was an essay about how any pathetic loser (including myself) could make themselves a web page, express themselves for all to see and completely mess up the ability for search engines to return useful information.  And while that was true all those years ago, it is even worse now.

Ever since mainstream Web 2.0 threw up on pop culture with MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku, Plurk, Identica, Rejaw, Laconica, Friendfeed and a myriad of other similar services, it has allowed every moron and their pets to think they are bloggers as they express themselves in status messages that are about 140 characters long.  This phenomena, known as microblogging, has been the worse thing to hit the internet since HTTP.

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This week Regis Jack rants about IMAX Star Trek, Roz Savage, Dragon Con, Social Networks, HD TV and other stuff.

Alrighty then, another week and another podcast, netcast, or whatever the hell they are calling it this week.  I give a shout out to Roz Savage who has completed the 2nd leg of her row across the Pacific, a bit of Dragon Con information along with a bit of PAX mixed in.

I didn’t watch any new movies this week, but I did see the most recent Star Trek at the local IMAX theatre – huge screen and 12,000 watts of sounds!  The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is now in High Def, which is absolutely awesome, but I’ve noticed that many of the other HD shows on TV are not really HD.  Some are stretched, some have been panoramic’d (is that a word?), and others have just been zoomed in – which is bad because there is a widescreen version of some of these shows that could be shown. I also talk a bit about Top Gear (the best car show on TV).

Since TV and movies were in short supply I spent some time on privacy on the social networks, which turns out does NOT exist (big surprise) and how to eat M&M’s.

In this episode there is a clip from No Agenda, with Adam Curry and John C Dvorak – I’ve always wanted to talk about these drug commercials on TV and their long list of side effects, but they do such a good job, I thought I’d give them praise by including it here.

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This is episode #062 for Monday, September 7, 2009 and clocked in at 37 minutes 26 seconds.

Movies, TV, fake social sites, Dragon*Con and other stuff.

*** Show Notes ***

Steve Jobs (again!); TV Show Spotlight (2008 Olympics, Democratic Convention, 90210, BB10); Notable News Stories (which includes virus’s or is it virusees?); Fake FaceBook and MySpace pages; Dragon*Con 2008 – in progress report;

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This is episode #010 for Saturday, August 30, 2008 and clocked in at 34 minutes 14 seconds.  For podcast subscription information (aka RSS feed) – click here!