TechCab Confessions: MC Frontalot
For our third installment of TechCab Confessions we have uber nerdcore rapper (the one who coined the term!) MC Frontalot take the hot seat, err, back seat of the taxi. For those of you joining us in medias res, GETV’s TechCab series takes geeks for a ride while they confess their technological sins to a live streaming camera for all the world to see. In this episode, we are honored to have Front — as he’s known to his fans — take a break from performing at SXSW and promoting his latest album Final Boss to tell us a whopper of a story for which, we are happy to say, the statute of limitations has TOTALLY and COMPLETELY expired. A great hacker caper of yore, involving the inaugural Lillith Fair, the Levi’s website and an amateur musician’s online contest — all this, and someone ended up in jail after all! We’ll just leave that to the great nerdcore rapper and elegant hacker to tell you the rest.
Episode links: TechCab Confessions, MC Frontalot, essence, Lilith Fair, guest editor: Madge Weinstein, photo credits: jeans, cookie, steel barbie, angy barbie, stiff barbie, pants down, seattle coffee
Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)
TechCab Confessions – Part 1
We know in your drunken stupor you all forgot that you went to SXSW and Texas last month, never mind what you confessed to Irina as she drove you around in our gloriously luxurious TechCab …. But guess what, it’s all on tape for ever and ever and ever on the internet! After our newest editor Kevin and intern Calum (he lives in Nova Scotia!) slaved over hours of footage, we’ve put together a few precious secrets that fell only on Irina’s lovely door-knocker-earringed ears….and the entire internet! First, we start off with our own and dear blip.tv coder Justin Day (next to him is blip.tv’s money man Ryan Chambers) — Justin recounts how he tortured his fellow students in college with spontaneous eruptions of solitaire. Cali Lewis, a queen of geeks if ever there was one — takes a ride with Irina and Eddie in her pajamas with her miniature daschund Zoe and explains how she dissed Jason Calacanis. Cali is SO not sinful, I had to give her a little nudge there. Rudy Jahchan and Casey McKinnon take a ride during which Rudy describes how — through hacking skills — he drove a colleage 1) out of his department and 2) insane. See if you can guess which tech celebrity videoblogging god Steve Woolf is talking about in his confession. Ellie Rountree’s story from Rocketboom involves a bottle of wine, breaking NY State law and Justin.tv —- and its still available online! TechCab fun for everyone.
Episode links: TechCab Confessions, Justin Day, Cali Lewis, Rudy Jahchan, Steve Woolf, Ellie Rountree
Format: iPod/iPhone (.m4v)
What has the Internet done for you lately?
While at our favorite geek summer camp known as SXSW Interactive, Irina polls a few peeps on what the Internet and SXSW has done for them lately. The answers are as varied as they are earnest.
Episode links: SXSW Interactive, M dot Strange, Guy Kawasaki, AllTop, Tim Ferriss, Michael Verdi, Jason Toney, Liz Gannes, Clarence, Jessica Mah, George Oates, Daniel Burka, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paula Cavagnaro, John Halcyon Styn, Loren Feldman
Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
Twitterdildonic Stimulation
While at SXSW Interactive in Austin, Texas, Roving RoboReporter Violet Blue caught up with a unique hacker by the name of Kyle Machulis. Kyle isn’t your ordinary teledildonic hardware hacker. No, Kyle created the ultimate real-time sex device mashup by linking public Twitter updates to a Rez Trance Vibrator allowing users to FEEL Twitter messages. Kyle demonstrates and explains how it all works. You will never regard Twitter the same way again. (This video is safe for work, no matter what your industry).
Episode links: Violet Blue, qDot (slashdong), MMOrgy, IGDA Sex, Twitter, Rez Trance Vibrator
Where’s the Action at SXSW?
GETV was in Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive (SXSW), the annual geek summer camp. It was all about the panels, hallways and parties. So what's the score on who hangs out where? That's what Irina finds out.
Episode links: SXSW 2007, Hugh MacLeod, Srini Kumar, Bre Pettis, Dale Dougherty, Violet Blue, Jonathan Moore, Robert Boyle, Kris Krug, Casey McKinnon, Rudy Jahchan, Eric Rice, Molly Wright Steenson, Scott Beale, Gabe Rivera, Joshua Pollack, Aaron Valdez, Douglas Sarine, Twitter, Jennifer Robbins, Jackson West, Chuck Olsen, Kent Nichols
Craig Newmark Services Customers
Another gem from SXSW. Irina discovers Craig Newmark at the Elk’s Lodge in Austin, just after helping retirees post ‘missed connections’ ads on Craig’s List. Episode links: craig newmark, craig’s list, craig & jimmy
SXSW2006: Bad Accent Throwdown
Bad Accent Throwdown is a little comedic diversion that our own Irina Slutsky and Min Jung Kim dished out at the Fray Cafe in Austin during SXSW 2006. Bitches better recognize! Episode links: irinaslutsky, minjungkim, fraycafe, redeyedfly, sxsw2006
SXSW2006: Jimmy Wales, Uber Wikipedian
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…
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. Episode links: biz stone, alex williams, david galbraith, jimmy wales, markos moulitsas, paul scrivens, heather champ, blow your own internet bubble, hugh forrest, lynne d johnson, molly ditmore, tony pierce, sxswi
SXSW2006: Blogging While Black
