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Archive for March, 2006

Dr. Friendly & Nurse Nicely Bring The Boing!

Friday, March 31st, 2006

The Boing! is a fun, bouncy, elastic, blinky, bleepy invention by Dr. Friendly aka Dr. Aaron Wolf Baum. The good doctor and Nurse Nicely take us on a bouncy trip through the boing-o-sphere. If you’ve been watching the reality television show American Inventor, you might already know about boing! Episode links: dr. friendly, boing!, american […]

Lawrence Lessig, Just a Lawyer

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Larry Lessig is caught in the Shine photobooth with Irina. He shares his deepest Common secrets, talks a bit about his Supreme Court showdown and where he likes to get his music among other things. Episode links: lawrence lessig, creative commons, shinesf, cc salon, 7 million on flickr, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, […]

SXSW2006: Jimmy Wales, Uber Wikipedian

Friday, March 24th, 2006

While in Austin, Texas for SXSW Interactive, Irina corners Jimmy Wales, a man hated by ivory tower encyclopedians everywhere for his Wikipedia. Jimmy tells us about the brutal Danzig/Gdansk edit wars, Wikipedians from the shire, David Hasselhoff, Alabama and grits. Episode links: jimmy wales, wikipedia, danzig/gdansk, shire, wikipedian1, wikipedian2, hasselhoff, nice people

SXSW2006: Now that it’s 1997…

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

GETV is in Austin, Texas for the SXSW Interactive festival. We all know the bubble is back. Now that it is 1997 all over again, what mistakes are you going to make this time around? That is the question Irina poses to the unsuspecting geek masses in the hallowed halls of the Austin convention center. […]

SXSW2006: Blogging While Black

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

GETV is in Austin, Texas for the SXSW Interactive festival. After the popular Blogging While Black Revisited panel, Irina caught up with black bloggers Baratunde Thurston, Lynne d Johnson and George Kelly to find out if they’ve ever been pulled over on the information superhighway because of their skin color. Episode links: sxsw: blogging while […]

SXSW2006: The Robot Group

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

GETV is in Austin, Texas for the SXSW Interactive festival. This is some of the weirdness from the EFF/Creative Commons party at the Elks’ Lodge #201. Robots and theremins brought to you by the Robot Group. Episode links: sxswi, robot group, thereping

Caterina Fake Knows the Canine Secret to Web 2.0

Friday, March 10th, 2006

Irina gets the scoop from Caterina Fake, conference food critic and Flickr Co-Founder, on all manner of subjects including Internet fame, web 2.0 canine secrets, beads and Caterina’s favorite tags. Episode links: caterina fake, flickr, pcforum food, hair more often, smart dos pesos, mean little bastard, hungry pesos, gerbil, fuh2, the wild tag

What is Adaptive Path?

Monday, March 6th, 2006

GETV crashes Adaptive Path’s fifth anniversary party. This is the special episode you’ve been waiting for as everyone tries to answer the question, “What is Adaptive Path?” Thanks to all the party people! Episode links: adaptive path, tub of lust, party pix, Merlin Mann, Paul D Smith, Evan Williams, Thor Muller, Lane Becker, James Hong, […]

Drupal Boys from Belgium, Dries Buytaert and Steven Wittens

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

GETV’s Vancouver Correspondent Sarah Pullman catches up with the Belgian boys who created Drupal. Dries Buytaert and Steven Wittens talk about the itch that became the most popular open source content management system in the world. Episode links: drupal, dries buytaert, steven wittens, belgium, northern voice, os cms summit