San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom was a recent guest speaker at the Long Now Foundation’s SALT (Seminars About Long-term Thinking) monthly speaker series. Typically, SALT hosts big thinker uber geeks like Jimmy Wales, Clay Shirky and Neal Stephenson. San Francisco being the geek capital of the world, it’s no surprise that Newsom knows how to Twitter around on his iPhone and is savvy in the ways of the networked world. Violet Blue grabs the mayor for a few questions covering timely geek topics like tidal and wave energy systems, keeping up with constituents using Twitter and Facebook as well as YouTube distribution for his State of the City address.

Episode links: Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Mayor’s Office, Long Now Foundation, Gavin on Twitter, Gavin on YouTube, Sea Generation Ltd, WaveRoller, Wave Dragon, Greenpeace UK Efficiencity

A million virtual boozers can’t be wrong, nor can they be drunk unless you bring them into reality. Reality is what happened at Booze Mail’s Million Booze March event where virtual boozers came out of the closet to embrace actual reality based booze drinks. If reality scares you like it does us, stick to the uber popular Booze Mail Facebook app and you won’t have to drink real drinks with real people again. Irina shows us why it’s a bit scary.

Episode links: Booze Mail (FB app), Million Booze March (photos), Renkoo, Schlomo