Fruitful thoughts with Ruby Red Labs founders Jonathan Grubb and Thor Muller
Irina sits down with the melon men of Ruby Red Labs, Jonathan Grubb and Thor Muller, at their launch party that took place at Ritual Roasters in San Francisco aka ground zero for the web 2.0 bubble. Episode links: ruby red labs, jonathan grubb, thor muller, cocoa puffs, ritual roasters
Michael Shiloh and the land of Linux robots
Michael Shiloh takes Irina on a trip into the wide open world of Linux robots. Find out how you can make Michael's little wooden open source robot go, go, go. Episode links: michael shiloh, linuxrobots, hobbyists, robot1, robot2, play with robot, webzine, dorkbot
Scott Kveton espouses open source and marriage
Scott Kveton, open source evangelist and ordained minister of the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, tells Irina about the commodification of free software and what it takes to marry someone. Episode links: scott kveton, osuosl, thirsty bear, software by the ton, tim witham, mozilla blueprint, ordained minister, borscht
Macworld Expo 2006 Wrap Up
GETV's Irina Slutsky roams the Macworld Expo floor to find out what sort of igoodies are making consumers lives complete this year. Episode links: iKlear, LifePod, Delicious Monster, iDiddy, Skelly, new iMac, iSkin, Fetch, Rebe
Unreal Tournament finals at Macworld
Irina covers the Macworld Expo Unreal Tournament finals as a bloody and battered victor emerges. Alex Alt tellus us how he crowned himself king of the splatterers. Episode links: macworld expo, unreal tournament, podshow podsafe music
Freevloggers Ryanne Hodson & Michael Verdi at Macworld Expo
GETV is at the Macworld Expo this week where we caught up with Ryanne Hodson and Michael Verdi, vloggers of the first order and soon-to-be authors of The Secrets of Videoblogging. Irina discovers the art of freevlogging and takes a glimpse into the world of story telling and New Jersey exits. Episode links: ryanne hodson, michael verdi, freevlog, secrets of videoblogging, peachpit press, peachpit blog, dried prunes & rice cakes, seagull, my legs are too short, squeezing out a story, naked michael
Fire geekery at the annual Post Yule Pyre
A little departure from our normal format as we visit the annual fire geek Post Yule Pyre (that's burning Christmas trees to you) in San Francisco. No naked tree tossers, marshmellow roasters or fire spinners were hurt as far as we know. Soundtrack from Black Adam thanks to the Podsafe Music Network. File size is a little fat on this one for better quality [56MB] Episode links: pix, black adam, podsafe music
Billy Bicket non-profits from technology for social change
Social Changer Billy Bicket gives Irina the lowdown on the bling bling lifestyle of working for a non-profit technology provider. He wants you to come to the next Net Tuesday event on January 10th in San Francisco. Episode links: techsoup, netsquared, net tuesday, fispace
Teledildonicist Allen Stein nails it with his Thrillhammer
Allen Stein, inventor of the Thrillhammer, talks with GETV Sexpert Violet Blue about his Internet controlled, teledildonic pleasure machine. Work safe if you work in a sex shop, book store or the government. Episode links: the thrillhammer, violet blue, mapping lazy sunday, sex machines book, modern times bookstore
Citizen Journalist Dan Gillmor exposes his wretched excess
Professional Citizen Journalist Extraordinaire Dan Gillmor chats with amateur GETV Citizen Correspondent Irina Slutsky on wretched excesses of Silicon Valley and mistaken gender identity. Episode links: dan gillmor, bayosphere, wretched excess, google jet, larry page, sergey brin, hello kitty device, spot on