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find out who correctly guessed Blobert‘s weight and won the canned ham!
I also discuss the Macworld Keynote with Tom Morris
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YR736 Robert Scoble Canned Ham PodBlogging Spectacular with Tom Morris
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I was wondering…..does Cheryl have hooves?
I mean, I’ve never seen her walk…but she kinda strikes me as the kind of person that walks with their knees pointing backwards….like a goat.
I’m just sayin’.
cheryl = http://g.photos.cx/backwards-b4f.jpg
I was shocked at how thin Scoble is. I attribute his low 300s weight to the calories burned off by the furious eating process itself.
I am NOT fatter than Scoble!
This show was so fun and interesting. I can’t believe you actuall got Scoble on, that was funny. Tom was just fascinating. Loved this show. You’re on fire Madge.
I meant to catch this live, but lost track of time.
The Toms Morris makes a lot of sense in his tech-blogger rant. I couldn’t agree mwhore.
The MacBook Air is the new Cube.
why the fuck do people look to tech blogs for anything? If you dont want to read about narrow minded comsumerist and world-ignorant topics… dont go to the fucking source! Stop with these tech blogs. Boing Boing slash this scoble all these things are without serious human value, they contribute nothing to helping improve society and it is the fault of the readers who give them legitimacy.
Groups like democracynow and YEAStradio should be awash in cash and audience, not this useless navel gazing sites.
For Tom Morris, a great guest, I wanted to say: Don’t overlook the fact that academia is one big business. And universities are and will increasingly be run like businesses. So once youre in that world, youll see alot of familiar evils. The pressure to publish, to have status, to make big money by boosting enrollment and increasing prices while handing out diplomas and trying not to give bad grades because that might discourage rich kids from applying.
is there a live show today? i need to plan my eating routine.
“Don’t overlook the fact that academia is one big business. And universities are and will increasingly be run like businesses. So once youre in that world, youll see alot of familiar evils. The pressure to publish, to have status, to make big money by boosting enrollment and increasing prices while handing out diplomas and trying not to give bad grades because that might discourage rich kids from applying.”
And it’s unsubstantiated sweeping statements like that seperates citizen journalists from journalists that pony up evidence to back up the statements they make.
Good show with cutting analysis of the all exciting and one last thing never to be forgotten MacWorld Expo Keynote speech by Sleeve Jabs. The Scobelly part of the show had me in stitches.
I have to disagree with Tom Morris on the Channel 4 comedy about Tony Blair being theoretically prosecuted for war crimes. The problem with Channel 4 is that they have lost any credibility due to Big Brother and their descent towards the lowest common denominator in their programming. They have comissioned more than one comedy about Tony Blair to the point where they seem to be obsessed with satirising him for no obvious reason. The comedy was trying to make a serious point but ended up being so lame that it wasn’t even a comedy but a terrible muddle and missed the moral point it was trying to make about war crimes and prosecution thereof. A serious Dispatches programme would have been better, but .
Anyone who actually knows anything about politics watching that show and seeing the actor from My Family try very poorly to portray Tony Blair would draw a conclusion that the character is at best an over-exaggeration and that he is not an image-obsessed, bumbling idiot who’s an arsehole. Tom has a valid point about being proud that Channel 4 in the UK can do this type of programme in the same way that ITV could do Spitting Image.
The programme did not get good reviews and here is why I think so:
1) Tony Blair is a solicitor, so he’s definitely not an idiot
2) You don’t get far in politics by being an arsehole, more like you should be kissing them
3) Show me a politician who isn’t careful about their image. The reason in the UK can be traced back to Thatcher and the early 80’s taking the American approach (look at her before 1979 and after) .Those pictures of Michael Foot in the 1983 UK General Election changed everything. The (mainly Murdoch) media made it perfectly clear that image, soundbites and policies were part of the same package. And people in the UK have judged accordingly ever since – the proliferation of celebrity magazines, reality tv, macro-political commentary on vacuous topics such as Westminster gossip or what shirt someone’s wearing, PR firms and Primark shops prove it.
4) The UN has got problems of its own dealing with corruption and cliques. Even though Kofi Annan said that the Iraq War was illegal it was only his opinion. The UN has the power to arrest people for war crimes, so if that is what he believes then why are the so-called guilty parties still at large?
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I completely agree. I don’t think it was a particularly great programme. It was a mildly amusing distraction, which is what TV does best. It was more a point that I don’t think that NBC or CBS will be broadcasting even a flawed dramatic comedy about Bush even after his replacement gets elected in November. There are plenty of reasons for this – including the corporate takeover of large swathes of the mainstream media. The fact that getting dissenting opinion in the United States means either watching the Daily Show/Colbert Report or listening to things like Democracy Now or bloggers and podcasters is something that the world needs to learn from.