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No Global Geek News Podcast Tomorrow
Aug 23rd
Greetings fellow geeks! I come bearing some bad news. There will be no Global Geek News podcast released tomorrow like usual. I’ve been sick since Friday and still don’t feel up to doing the show. If I start feeling better, we might be able to get a show up later this week but my crystal ball is currently out of order so I don’t know what is going to happen.
However, I do know that next week is the 4th birthday of the show and I don’t care if I have to do a show from a hospital bed, we will have a show! I am still working on booking guests for the show so stay tuned to find out who the special guests will be for the event!
Chris Cashman Interview
Aug 14th
Earlier this week, I did an interview with former 1 vs 100 Live host, Chris Cashman. We talk about everything from the demise of 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live to the future of entertainment consumption. It is a little long at around 45 minutes but well worth the listen. If you have already subscribed to the Global Geek News podcast feed, you should already have the interview ready for you to listen to. Check it out! Sorry it is later than I said it would be!
Chris Cashman interview on Global Geek News this week
Aug 10th
I thought I would give everybody a heads up that you will be seeing a special item in your Global Geek News podcast feed this week. Tonight, I am doing an interview with Chris Cashman, the former host of 1 vs 100 Live on Xbox Live, and I will be putting it in the podcast feed for all to enjoy. The interview should be online tomorrow.
This is definitely going to be a can’t miss for fans of Chris and 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live as we are going to try to find out just what happened that killed 1 vs 100 on Xbox Live and just what is next for Chris. If you have any questions you would like me to ask Chris tonight, stick them in the comments no later than 9PM PST and I will make sure to ask them!
Enjoy the special interview!
UPDATE: This special will not be up until late Thursday or early Friday. Sorry for the delay.
Help! The future of our comment system is in your hands!
Jul 28th
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it looks like we are in need of a new comment system.
As I am sure most of you are aware, we use JS-Kit’s Echo comment system. I have always liked it and think it is one of the best, if not the best commenting system available. I am particularly fond of the feature where it grabs comments about posts on all kinds of social media platforms like Twitter and friendfeed and you can log in with all of the major login providers from Twitter and Facebook to OpenID. Unfortunately, they have upped their prices so much that I can no longer afford to keep them as a comment system.
I learned about them shortly after they were launched and signed up after seeing how great the service was. At the time, the cost was $12/yr for the service, which was a good value for what I got. Unfortunately, sometime in the past year, they decided to change their pricing structure and even the cheapest option which is for sites with under 100k views a month, the cost has gone up 10x. Going from $12/yr to $120 is a tad on the insane side. If we had lots more comments on posts than we currently get, it might be worth it but when I haven’t made a penny on this site in a couple of months, I can’t justify the expense. Global Geek News has always been a money pit anyway between hosting, domains, comment systems and everything else, I have spent hundreds of dollars more on the site than I have ever made. So here is where I need you help.
I have 28 days to come up with a solution. At this point, I see two options, I can either go with another comment system or if we get enough donations, I will keep Echo. Ideally, I would like to see us get some donations to keep it but if history has shown me anything, that isn’t going to happen. It would be a great surprise if it did though! Assuming that doesn’t happen, what I am looking for is suggestions for what comment system to go with. I really don’t want to go back to the normal WordPress comment system but I can if I need to. I have seen a number of other really nice comment systems that bring in comments from other services such as Twitter but I am not sure which one to go with. I am leaning toward DISQUS but I would love to hear YOUR thoughts on what I should do. Do you have suggestions for another service? I want to hear about it!
If you would like to see the Echo comment system stay, please consider donating either through our Donation page or by signing up for a $5/mo subscription with the PayPal button below.
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The Global Geek News Podcast returns next week
Jun 24th
Hey everybody!
I just thought I would give you guys a heads up that despite my best hopes, there will be no Global Geek News Podcast this week. This week has been really hectic for both myself and Wesley so there won’t be a show this week.
We will be back on Tuesday though! Stay tuned!
Next Week on Global Geek News: MIX 2010
Mar 13th
Greetings fellow geeks!
As I mentioned on this week’s podcast, I will be traveling to Vegas to attend Microsoft’s MIX 2010 c0nference. There will be a ton of MIX coverage right here on the Blog and I am even going to try to do a podcast live from the event with whatever special guests I can grab from the conference to join me on the show.
What kind of coverage will we have? Myself and my fellow Student Insiders will be doing a live blog of the keynotes on both day one and two (Monday and Tuesday) and I will be doing a number of interviews with various people of great influence that will be posted here as soon as I can get them posted (I’m not sure what bandwidth is going to be like). I expect there to be announcements regarding Internet Explorer 9, Silverlight and what I am most looking forward to, Windows Phone 7 Series. I plan to focus most of the coverage around Windows Phone 7 Series but I will have to wait and see what the big announcements are to know for sure where the focus will be.
Bandwidth permitting, I will be posting lots of pictures and videos from the event and blogging most of the time as well. If you want to make sure you catch all of the conference coverage, make sure to subscribe with the great big button above!
The first keynote kicks off at 9AM PST on Monday morning, so make sure to be here for the live blog!
If there is anything specific you would like to see me cover or somebody you want me to interview, leave it in the comments and I will do my best to satisfy your request!
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A new idea for the podcast and your feedback is needed!
Feb 9th
Greetings readers and listeners!
Earlier today, I had an idea for a change to the Global Geek News Podcast that I thought I would run by you guys before I acted on it. What is this wonderful idea?
I would like to start doing interviews with various influential people in the MET (media, entertainment and technology) space such as journalists, podcasters, bloggers, CEOs or whoever I think would be interesting to talk to and make it as part of the podcast. I’m thinking that I would like to dedicate at least 10-15 minutes of every show to talking with different people about themselves and a major topic from the week. Would this be something you guys would be interested in?
What I am also unsure of is how best to do it. There are two different ways that I am considering, either cut down on the number of stories we cover so that the show will still be right around an hour, or tack the interview on at the end of a regular show so that the show would then run around an hour and 15 minutes or so. Just to make sure there is no confusion, this won’t change how we handle guests on the show. We will still have an occasional guest on the main part of the show, this would basically be just me and whoever I am talking with as a one-on-one conversation.
What do you guys think? Should I do it? Which format would you prefer? Should I just make this idea into something separate from the show but still apart of Global Geek News? I need your feedback!
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Nominate us for a Shorty Award!
Jan 6th
Greetings Readers and Listeners!
Those of you that follow Global Geek News on Twitter know that I do my best to pass along all kinds of great tech related links. Whether it is links about a big merger or just announcing that a new podcast is up, I do my best to tweet the tech content that you would find interesting. If you agree that we pass along all kinds of awesome tech info, we would really appreciate it if you nominated @globalgeeknews for a Shorty Award!
What is a Shorty Award? Shorty Awards are awards honoring the best producers of short, real time content on Twitter. If you have people you follow that produce great Twitter content, you should nominate them for a Shorty Award in a good number of categories ranging from tech (where you should be nominating @globalgeeknews) to food and even advertising!
I really want to win this year, so I am begging you guys to please nominate @globalgeeknews for a Shorty Award!
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New blog design! What do you think?
Oct 12th
Greetings Readers!
For a while now, I have been looking for a new design for the Global Geek News Blog and I think I have finally found one I really like. For those wondering what happened to the old Vista looking design, it doesn’t play well with the ECHO comment system so until I found this design, I went back to the previous design.
What do you think about the new design? Participate in the poll on the right to let us know what you think about it. Feel free to leave a comment below on what you think about it and if you have anything on it you would like to see changed.
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We are looking for writers!
Oct 7th
Greetings Readers!
We are looking for people interested in writing for the Global Geek News Blog. If you want to write news as it happens or if you just want to share your opinions in the media, entertainment and technology space, we want to hear from you!
In effort to have fresh content all of the time on the blog, we are looking for dedicated writers with thoughts and opinions on just about anything. All we ask is for a few posts a week at least but we won’t limit you on how much you can write. You are welcome to never stop writing if you want! If you are interested in writing for us, shoot me an email at pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com or put your response in the comments with a way to contact you (email preferred).
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