Scattercast is 70 … and it’s a long one!

- Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins makes his first appearance since episode #4, but instead of getting all social media this time, we take on a common enemy … sci-fi TV shows that annoy us.

- Mark and I have had many late night conversations about sci-fi shows that get it totally wrong, and in particular lately we have had one favorite target … Chakotay’s total lack of usage on Star Trek: Voyager. I made an off hand comment to Mark once about pay attention about how they used him less and less as the show progressed, and leave it to Mark to actually start timing his appearances!  This led us to a lengthy essay named Chakotay: The Walking Plot Hole, and off to the races we go.

- We do move pass Voyager and take on current sci-fi shows and the very sad and sorry state they are in. Smallville in particular gets raked over the coals, and you really need to Dan Liebke’s Smallville recaps … they’re better than the show.

- I eventually name the best sci-fi show currently on TV in my eyes (which Mark disagrees with), and it may surprise you to hear me say which one it is.

- This is a lengthy episode, but easily one of my favorites of all 70 I have done, and Mark and I have already discussed doing a follow up based on sci-fi movies.  Stay tuned!

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

A whopping 40 articles this week … just too much breaking news this week in the technology realm.

iPhoneTouch.BLORGE.com

• Top 10 best free iPhone and touch racing games

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Ricoh introduces GXR “interchangeable unit camera system”
• Eye-Fi adds FTP uploading

SeanPAune.com

• Waterford Teacher’s Aide Arrested For Sexual Contact With Three Students
• The Berlin Wall: 20 Years Later
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Breaking News: Hopkins acquires dairy producer & cereal maker
• Modern Warfare 2 Day Is Here!
• Carrie Prejean Is A Moron
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Go to Twitter and collect $200 from LinkedIn
• Dollhouse Officially Cancelled
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Is Twitter’s light shining too brightly too soon?
• Joss Whedon Comments On Dollhouse Cancellation
• Clash Of The Titans Trailer
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter numbers – the good, the bad, and the bullshit
• Scattercast Episode 69: Yeah, You’re An “Expert”
• Here Come The Board Game Movies

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of November 2nd
• Google Acquires AdMob For $750 Million In Stock
• Rumor: Google To Purchase VoIP Solution Gizmo5
• Google Acquires Gizmo5 Soft Phone Service

SitePoint.com

• 18 Great Shopping Carts to Power Your Online Store

StarterTech.com

• EA Purchases Social Gaming Company For $400 Million
• Google, Yahoo And Microsoft Offering Free Wi-Fi For The Holidays
• UK Firm Launches Computers Designed For The Elderly
• RIM Introduces BlackBerry Theme Studio
• Facebook Status Message Used As Alibi In A Crime
• Beware Of Purchasing Xbox Units On Calssified Or Auction Sites
• Retrevo Gives Shopping Advice On The Go

Tech.BLORGE.com

• ZuneHD firmware version 4.3 released
• Nokia to replace 14 million defective cell phone chargers
• EA acquires Playfish for $400 million
• Amazon launches Kindle reader for PCs
• Blockbuster launches video rentals on SD cards; world wonders “why”
• Google Latitude gets location history and friend alerts
• Google slashes prices of cloud storage and ups the limit
• Intel to pay AMD $1.25 billion settlement as the companies make peace
• Google looking to speed up the Web with new protocol
• Rupert Murdoch will remove content from Google within “months”
• Walmart launches iPhone app for holiday shopping
• Apple looking to hire in-house game developers

Scattercast is 69 … and I am wearing old glasses.

- I lost a pair of glasses to the tiny terror tonight …

- Modern Warfare 2 has its moments.

- There is no such thing as a social media “expert” … get over it.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Only 32 articles this week … oh no, I dropped again!  I am such a slacker.  (although I will say I already have three articles done for this coming Monday …)

iPhoneTouch.BLORGE.com

• Top 10 best free iPhone and Touch role-playing games

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Camera companies making the iPhone more picture friendly with apps
• Olympus E-P2 gets official details

SeanPAune.com

• Shut Up, Natalie Portman
• Is Marvel Entertainment Angling For Its First Oscar With Thor?
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter Lists, swing and a miss – It’s all now a game
• It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Nook v. Alex – a Don Quixote quest to recoup their losses
• CBS Launching Video Games Based On Television Series
• Modern Warfare 2 Launch Trailer
• Scattercast Episode 68: Come Together
• Buffy Season 8, Issue 30

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 26th

SitePoint.com

• 20 Merry Icon Sets For Christmas

StarterTech.com

• High School Popularity Contests Come To Twitter In The Form Of Lists
• DVRs Now Being Embraced By Network Television
• Peek Launches Dedicated Mobile Twitter Device
• Barnes & Noble Sued Over Nook Design
• Apple App Store Now Has 100,000 Apps … So?
• Google Dashboard Gives You Control Of Your Data
• iPhone Gaming Company Sued Over Harvesting Cell Numbers
• Rumor: Apple Preparing To Move To Other Carriers

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Creative to enter crowded e-reader market
• Sales of the iPhone in China are tepid
• Apple looking to bring you television for $30 a month
• Best Buy preparing for the death of DVDs
• Google adding bookmark sync to its Chrome browser
• EMI suing BlueBeat while preparing MP3 release of The Beatles catalog
• Google launches new Commerce Search for retailers
• Judge orders BlueBeat to halt sales of Beatles MP3s
• Facebook passes 325 million user milestone
• OpenOffice gets a branded mouse with 18 buttons

Scattercast is 68 … and it has been another long week.

- Guy Fawkes night.

- My condolences to all of those affected by the tragedy at Ft. Hood.

- What happened to this country coming together?

- Christmas is already upon us?

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Only 35 articles this week … oh no, I dropped one from last week!

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Canon issues service Notice over EOS 7D residual images
• Eye-Fi wireless memory cards add direct Facebook uploads

SeanPAune.com

• And Hollywood Prepares To Unleash Another Slew Of Sequels
• Shut Up, Bono
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Microsoft screwed if they do, screwed if they don’t
• The Cup Of Tears Trailer
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – What … Google is a search engine? Seriously?
• Oscar-Winning Writer Paul Haggis Leaves Scientology
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Google are innovators but they are also market depressors
• R.I.P. Chuck Biscuits
• Avatar Trailer
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Hey Robert it’s not all just about you – kthxbai
• Scattercast Episode 67: Google, What Is It Good For
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Come on Microsoft, quit being such a wuss
• Celeberity Death Hoaxes

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 19th

SitePoint.com

• 10 Fantastic Spam Filtering Solutions

StarterTech.com

• Google Docs Adds Mass Downloading
• Sony Adding Netflix Streaming To Playstation 3
• Google Voice Now Lets You Use Your Own Number
• Amazon Video Game Deal: Spend $80, Get $40 In Credit
• Amazon Introduces PayPhrase To Ease Online Shopping
• Marvel Entertainment Joins The Downloadable Comics Game
• How To Report A Malicious Site To Google

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Daylight Savings Time isn’t until next weekend
• Netflix adds streaming service to Playstation 3
• Rumors of the Apple tablet spin up again as Apple denies
• Roku introduces two new set-top boxes
• Google’s Android 2.0 gets Google Maps Navigation
• Google launches new Music Search service
• Netflix Streaming coming to the Nintendo Wii
• WordPress launches iPhone app 2.0 with new features
• Apple Tablet may be mostly about video instead of books
• PDF error reveals how many users Google Voice has
• BlueBeat website offers up Beatles albums for download; lawyers drool

Scattercast is 67 … and it stay awake this week!.

- Um … could someone remind Google that they’re a search engine? Thanks!

- Seriously, shut up, Bobo.

- More thoughts on the passing of Chuck Biscuits.

- And a bit of music for the season.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Only 36 articles this week … there I go creeping up again.

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Canon announces EOS-1D Mark IV with HD video recording
• Mamiya DM22 and DM28 get price tags that could choke a horse

SeanPAune.com

• DVRs Need Time Update Features
• The Batman
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – How time flies when talking tech, politics and stupidity
• Fawlty Towers DVD Giveaway
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Nook: opening new worlds for content producers
• The Barnes & Noble Nook Gets Called A “Kindle Killer”; I Weep For Journalism
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter deals and the impact on realtime search
• Here We Go Again: Dollhouse Cancellation Looking Likely
• Scattercast Episode 66: The One In Which Sean Can’t Stop Yawning
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – MySpace has a better chance of recovery than Friendfeed
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Twitter: Silicon Valley’s perpetual welfare case
• I Want To Be An Analyst!

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 12th

SitePoint.com

• 11 Virtual Machine Solutions To Ease Your Cross-Platform Checks

StarterTech.com

• Yes, Twitter Is Down; World Still Rotating
• New E-Reader Offers Both B&W And Color Screens
• Sidekick Users Get Their Contacts Back Today, More Data At A Later Date
• Barnes & Noble Launches Nook E-Reader
• New Apple iMacs Add Widescreen Displays
• 27″ iMacs Double As HD TVs
• Universal Charger Approved For Cell Phones
• Why Is Free Internet Only At Cheaper Hotels?

Tech.BLORGE.com

• New camera will document your whole life while it leads to endless mocking
• Verizon to offer cell phone service with home produts packages
• Internet Archive prepares to enter the e-book store fray
• Apple launches new iMacs, MacBooks, Mac minis and Magic Mouse
• Barnes & Noble announces new e-reader, the nook
• Rumor: Google preparing to launch a music service named Google Audio
• Microsoft begins selling computers in its online store in celebration of Windows 7
• Amazon rushes to cut International Kindle price to stave off B&N nook sales
• Hulu to begin charging in 2010 says exec
• Netflix earnings up while it plans to go international with streaming services
• Amazon beats the analysts and soars to an all time high
• European Union cracks down on file-sharers

Scattercast is 66 … and it’s getting drowsy.

- It’s a short one this week as I couldn’t stop yawning for anything … and fell asleep for 2 & 1/2 hours as soon as I finished recording. Oops.

- What was the media thinking with the coverage of Balloon Boy?

- What is Google Audio? No one seems to know for sure.

- What is BookServer, and could it change the e-book landscape?

- The new Mac lineup had some interesting new entries, but they’re still too expensive.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Only 31 articles this week … I must have been slacking.

Photo.BLORGE.com

• Adobe launches Photoshop app for the iPhone and iPod Touch
• Nikon’s new D3s adds HD video recording

SeanPAune.com

• 35 Years Of Saturday Night Live
• Homophobia In Online Gaming Brought To Light
• Schools Finally Telling The Truth About Christopher Columbus
• Disney Asks Steve Jobs For Help With Its Retail Stores
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Social media snobbery and transparency
• DVD Set Design Changes Are Annoying
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – BREAKING: Microsoft & Danger sabatoge Mark’s KFC order
• Meghan McCain Draws Flak For Twitter Picture … Seriously?
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Does this mean we were right – again?
• Scattercast Episode 65: OH NOES! Not … breasts!
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Sexism is alive and well in social media & blogging
• More People Begin To Cry Foul Over New FTC Guidelines For Bloggers

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of October 5th

SitePoint.com

• 16 Fabulous Web Browser Options

StarterTech.com

• T-Mobile Sidekick Users Lose Their Data
• Hold Your Horses Before You Proclaim Email Is Dead
• T-Mobile Allowing Sidekick Users Out Of Their Contracts
• AudioMicro Adds 13,000 Production Music Tracks
• Florence Henderson Launches Generic Tech Support With FLoH Club
• Microsoft Confirms Sidekick Data Will Be Recovered; Lawsuits Begin
• Amazon Adds Same-Day Delivery In Select Cities
• Security Company Calls For Internet Passports To End Anonymity

Tech.BLORGE.com

• Rumors circulate that Twitter wants to add video
• Online music industry getting more crowded thanks to Deezer and Sky Songs
• Blockbuster teams with TiVo for on-demand rentals
• Wi-Fi devices will soon to talk to each other without needing a router
• Google to launch ebook store
• Hollywood contracts contain new language that cracks down on Twitter
• New York court sides with consumers against ASCAP over ringtones

Scattercast is 65 … WOO-HOO is it retirement time yet?

- Okay, yes, the SNL DVD set rant was probably a bit much, I admit it.

- Christopher Columbus is finally being treated properly by schools … about time.

- Okay, seriously, someone explain to me why Meghan McCain wearing a tank top is such a horror? (Warning: If you don’t feel you can deal with a man talking bluntly about breasts, but in a none sexual way, you may want to skip this episode)

- A brief follow-up to the whole FTC Guidelines (PDF link) debacle.

- An even briefer discussion of ebooks.

Here’s a link to the MP3 for those who wish to download it, subscribe to Scattercast via iTunes.

Up to 33 articles this week … don’t think it will go up again like it has been.

Photo.BLORGE.com

• New poll from a wireless image provider finds death of film cameras “imminent”
• Epson PowerLite Presenter is a projector with everything but the kitchen sink

SeanPAune.com

• Third Modern Warfare 2 Trailer
• …And There Was No One Left To Speak Out For Me
• CobWEBs Special Daily Edition – Anyone thinking the FTC blogger rules are good are f***wads
• Monty Python’s 40th Anniversary
• ‘Arrested Development’ Script In The Works
• The FTC Situation Just Keeps Getting Worse
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – FTC’s mysterious Mr. Cleland responds – confusion continues
• The Full FTC Guidelines Make Your Head Hurt
• Earth Declares War On The Moon!
• CobWEBs Daily Edition – Where we’d talk about sex with midgets but not Snuggy sex
• Scattercast Episode 64: Disclose This!
• Buffy Season 8, Issue 29

SiliconANGLE.com

• Mobile Monday: Mobile App News for Week of September 27th
• The Cynical Bastards take on the FTC
• Android OS to be number 2 by 2012 according to Gartner

SitePoint.com

• 12 APIs For Creating The Next Big Mashup

StarterTech.com

• @drew Auctions Off Twitter Name For Livestrong Foundation
• FTC Launches New Guidelines For Blogs
• Email Passwords Compromised In Phishing Attack
• Why Is There A Barcode On Google?
• Are You Ready For Windows 8?
• Microsoft Launching Office 2010 Starter
• Barnes & Noble Getting Ready To Launch Ebook Reader

Tech.BLORGE.com

• @drew Twitter name being auctioned off for charity
• FTC announces new advertising guidelines that could see bloggers facing $11,000 fines
• Verizon and Google strike deal to co-produce Android phones
• Google PowerMeter secures its first device partner
• Amazon lowers US Kindle price and launches an international version
• FTC says the $11,000 fine for bloggers is “not true” … well, sort of
• YouTube serving up 1 billion videos daily, but how many are spam?
• Netflix CEO predicts DVD has two years of life left