Irina gets the lowdown on the schwagosphere at the recent Valleyschwag Hoedown in San Francisco. An investigative piece on "scwhag" vs. "swag," hacking free ugly tshirts from companies you've never heard of and half-naked geeks. That and hoes in the Valley. Episode links: Valleyschwag, Valleyschwag Hoedown, pix 

Like a modern day Magellan, Jason Lewis is out to circumnavigate the globe though only using the power of his body. After several years of walking, biking, climbing, pedal boating and rollberblading Jason is closing in on the finish line. Irina catches up with the dedicated chap in San Francisco while preparing for his next leg of the journey. Follow along as he uses his video camera, laptop  and satellite modem to video blog his adventures among bush fires, insanity and hostile school children. Episode links: Jason Lewis, Expedition 360, journal

Second Life is a vibrant exploding universe onto itself. It has a thriving economy, a creative workforce, islands of virtual terrain to explore, build upon and events at all times of the day. It takes an embedded journalist to bring these virtual realities to the lowly first world. GETV's Irina Slutsky gets a first life interview with former Linden Lab'er Wagner James Au, currently an embedded journalist in Second Life who writes New World Notes. Find out how in-game citizens get fancy threads and make phat Lindens, also discover the secret double lives some gamers lead. Episode links: James Wagner Au, New World Notes, Second Life, Linden Lab, furry, robots, Catherine Omega, Snakekiss Noir

GETV RoboReporter Violet Blue found herself amidst deadly combat robots and their makers at RoboGames 2006 recently held in San Francisco. Violet talks to the creators behind competitors MegaByte, Pipe Wench, Snakebyte, Devil's Plunger and SubZero. Episode links: Violet Blue, RoboGames 2006, Robotic Death Company, Team PlumbCrazy, Team Hammertime

Digg had a super secret early preview party for digg version 3, slated to take over the world on Monday June 26th. Irina caught up with Kevin Rose, co-founder and chief architect of digg, to tell us about a secret feature that may or may have made it into version 3. She also chats with Timeless, a digg developer sweatshop worker about back doors. Finally, Irina talks with the Stamen Design kids, Eric Rodenbeck and Michal Migurski, who are behind the new elastic and bouncy data visualizations in digg version 3. digg it! Episode links: digg, Kevin Rose, party pix, borscht, digg v3, digg viz, Stamen Design, Eric Rodenbeck, Michal Migurski  Bonus video: Kevin Rose diggs deep with GETV

While at RoboGames 2006, GETV RoboReporter Violet Blue spoke with Monty Reed of They Shall Walk about the robotic exo-skeletal suit he developed to assist himself after being paralyzed in a parachute accident. Monty demonstrates prototype 13b for us. Episode links: Violet Blue, Monty Reed, They Shall Walk, Robert Heinlein, RoboGames 2006

We were recently at Vloggercon 2006 in San Francisco where GETV's Irina Slutsky prodded videobloggers to reveal their secret vlogger crush. Now that these secrets are out of the bag, there is no going back. Episode links: Vloggercon, Amber MacArthur, Kent Nichols, Paul Knight, Amanda Congdon, Casey McKinnon, Bre Pettis, Zadi Diaz, Eric Rice, Chuck Olsen, Dina Kaplan, Josh Leo, Will Pate, Richard BF, Bill Streeter

GETV was at Vloggercon over the weekend, where infamous Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble dropped some big news about his future. Irina gets the dirt on why in the world someone like Robert would leave a cushy job at Microsoft for a little podcast media startup job in the Valley. Really, it's all about the ladies. Episode links: Robert Scoble, Vloggercon, Big News, Podtech, Amanda, Naked Scoble

GETV invades the nonprofit geekosphere. Visiting Canadian GETV correspondent Sarah Pullman goes deep undercover at the Netsquared Conference focusing on the intersection of geeks and social change. Sarah asks the question that surprisingly almost everyone has an answer to. Episode links: Netsquared Conference, Sarah Pullman, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Mark Liu, Rachel Weidinger, Allen Gunn, Fresh White, Seth Mazow, Heather Gold, Zack Rosen, Neil Drumm, Alexis Geslani, Ruby Sinreich, Ethan Zuckerman, Gina Cardazone, Kaliya Hamlin, Rob Miller

Ever wondered how chocolate is made? Wonder no more as we take a tour with a real life Charlie and his real life chocolate factory. After winning the golden ticket and the hostile takeover of Wonka's factory, Chuck Siegel moved on and founded Charles Chocolates, a tasty little San Francisco Bay area chocolatier. Sit back so you don't drool on your keyboard for this one. Episode links: Charles Chocolates