The Tech Blab Podcast

Run time: 42:12

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Show Notes:

• NYT Op-Ed: Search, but You May Not Find by: Adam Raff
• CNN: Cities embrace mobile apps, ‘Gov 2.0′ By John D. Sutter

Noah & Jason’s Top 10 Gov Tech Stories of the Year (in no particular order):

• Inaguration of geek Blackberry-weilding Preseident Barack Obama
• CDC promotion of H1N1 prevention techniques Flu.gov
• American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) aims for transparency with Recovery.gov
• Iran Election Aftermath Brodcast on Twitter
• TSA Continues as a new media leader – blog, manual leak, response to woman blogger
• Facebook – Sarah Palin, Secret Service finding Salahis
• The Net Neutrality debate
• WhiteHouse.gov to switch to an Open Source CMS
• NASA rocks out on social media – Tweetups, twitter accounts and other platforms
• Digital TV Transition

Run time: 34:25

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Tech Blab 10: Big Brother is Tweeting – with guest host Alon Cohen
Run time: 40:45

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Action item!

If the Comcast- NBC/Universal deal is approved what name would you give the new company?

Post your suggestion in the comments below!!! Winner can choose one of the following:

• USB Thumb Drive
• Selection of Stickers from local startups
• Secret random shwag

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Tech Blab 9: Black Friday Is All Year ‘Round
Run time: 35:57

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Tech Blab 7: More Twitter Than You Require
Run time: 35:44

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Recommendations of the Week:

• Noah – John Hodgman’s new podcast Today in the Past. A page-a-day calendar without pages. [Link opens in iTunes]
• Jason – Onion Video – Obama’s Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

Show notes to come…

Tech Blab 6: Flu-Like Symptoms
Run time: 30:35

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Recommendations of the Week:

• Jason – Fail Blog
• Noah – Rocket Boom’s Know Your Meme web series

Show notes to come…

Tech Blab 5: All Your Metadata Are Belong To Us
Run time: 30:31

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Recommendations of the Week:

• David – GovLuv.org
• Jason – Drop.io file sharing
• Noah – Put This On web series

Show notes:

Topic 1: Arizona ruling that metadata are public record

Topic 2: Twitter lists

• http://twitter.com
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2355051,00.asp

Topic 3: House Ethics committee file-share leak

• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/30/AR2009103003749.html
• http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/ethics-leak/

Tech Blab 4: Mr. Weinberg Goes to Washington
Run time: 33:08

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Show Notes:

Greg Gershman

• @GregGersh
• http://shelrick.com/

Tech Blab discusses Net Neutrality:

 

• Net Neutrality FAQ: What’s in it for You – PC World
• U.S. as Traffic Cop in Web Fight – WSJ
• Net neutrality’ would slow the flow – by Sen. John McCain

 

WhiteHouse.gov switches to Drupal:

• WhiteHouse.gov Goes Drupal – Personal Democracy Forum
• Thoughts on the Whitehouse.gov switch to Drupal – O’Reilly radar

Social Media Engagement by the Obama Administration:

• WhiteHouse.gov Breaks New Ground with Social, But… – Geoff Livingston

Recommendations of the Week:

• Jason - Morons With Signs
• Dave – Start-Up Nation by Dan Senor & Saul Singer
• Greg – Auto-Tune the News on YouTube
• Noah – TubeChop

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Tech Blab 3: TSA Agents Took My Son?
Run time: 35:23

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Show Notes:

Blogger Claims TSA Took Her Son

• Original post: TSA Agents Took My Son – My Bottle’s Up
• TSA’s blog response with video
• My Bottle’s Up blog responds to TSA

TSA security video of the trip through security:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN-wZC1v4dc&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6]

The Republican Party Launches the New GOP.com:

• GOP.com
• Forrester Research on Dems/GOP social media usage

Apple Makes Product Upgrades/Apple in DC?

• Apple Announces Major Consumer PC Upgrades – Business Week
• Google Offices in Washington DC

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Tech Blab 2: Dave’s Not Telling
Run time: 34:13

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Show Notes:

Social Media Club – DC October event

• SMC-DC October Eventbrite page

Event Moderator and Tech Blab Interviewee: Shana Glickfield

DC Concierge

• http://www.dcconcierge.com
• @dcconcierge

NextGenWeb

• http://www.nextgenweb.org/
• @NextGenWeb

SMC-DC Blogger pannel:

• Sarah Braesh - Sarah and the Goon Squad
• Amie Adams - Mamma Loves
• Leon Scott - Listen to Leon
• Latoya Peterson - Racialicious

Finland makes Broadband Access a legal right:

• http://www.intomobile.com/2009/10/14/finland-becomes-the-first-country-to-make-broadband-a-legal-right.html
• http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/14/applause-for-finland-first-country-to-make-broadband-access-a-legal-right/
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10374831-2.html

AT&T Allows VOIP on their 3G Network

• AT&T Extends VOIP to 3G Network for iPhone
• AT&T: Tethering is probably going to be a 2010 thing
• IPhone Tethering Still Unavailable, AT&T Says

Other:

• FCC Launches Its Net Neutrality Web Site
• openinternet.gov

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