So the year is about to draw to a close. How best to look back on 2009 in the festive holiday trope of judging who was naughty and who was nice and  who might not make it to another new year? So today on the podcast we are taking our past panelists to talk about their personal top pick for the companies in the tech world of 2009 that were nice, naughty, and the Tiny Tim!

The Panel includes:

The Plan8 Podcast Host: Patrick Roanhouse

Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com

Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Times

Blogger / Tech Journalist: Gus Sentementes of The Baltimore Sun

Who will end up nice, naughty or destined for the grave by our panelists’ opinions? Listen to find out!

Today’s Music is:

8-bit NES The Good The Bad and the Ugly (Holiday Twist) by Patrick Roanhouse

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Welcome back to a new season of the always precocious podcast, The Plan8 Podcast!

We have been on hiatus for a while since getting back from E3 Video Game Expo 2009. If you would like to see just a few of the clips we got while in LA for E3 2009 you can check it out on The Plan8 Podcast’s Youtube Channel. Also we have tons of photos on The Plan8 Podcast E3 Video Game Expo 2009 FlickR Collection.

In today’s podcast I had the pleasure of interview the lovely, talented, and spunky co-host of Cnet.com’s “Buzz Out Loud” and host of CnetTV’s “Loaded“, Miss Natali Del Conte (twitter).

Natali Del Conte

We both reminisced back on memory lane starting recently with our mutual experiences at E3 Gaming Expo 2009 talking about Activision’s new game, Tony Hawk Ride , produced by Chicago based game studio Robomodo , and the strangely addictive skateboard controller that goes with it.

Other topics we discuss in today’s podcast include:

• The future of media
• The future of Journalism
• Media Theory
  • Media Theory authors Natali Mentions
    • Todd Gitlin Books
    • Jeff Jarvis Books
    • Clay Shirky Books
  • Media Theory books Natali Mentions
    • The Myth of Digital Democracy by Matthew Hindman
    • Being Digital By Nicholas Negroponte
    • What Would Gooogle Do? by Jeff Jarvis
• Feeding Trolls and flame-wars
• Growing up under “The Watchtower“
• Tech Journalism
• Grad School, is it right for you?

Also listen as we not once, but TWICE, get GHOST PHOWEND!

Today’s music is

Regardless by Dise-a.g.m of the 8bit Collective

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While out in California in January for Macworld 2009 I was able to use twitter to setup an interview with Revision3 podcast host Patrick Norton (twitter). It snowballed from being just Patrick Norton to also Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback (twitter), whom I had met at the Diggnation Live Show/Meetup at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California. This is the same event in which I was recorded in Episode 186 – Live In Los Angeles! as the Palm Centro & Macbook Pro break dancing heckler. As the day came for the interview, Revision3 Producers Roger Chang (twitter) and David Prager (twitter) also joined in to be interviewed on camera for The Plan8 Podcast.

So over the next five video session podcasts The Plan8 Podcast visits Revision3.

On Today’s show:

The Plan8 Podcast host, Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter) interviews Revision3′s Senior Producer, Roger Chang (Twitter)

We discuss:

• Roger’s Geek past times
• Life going from Broadcast TV to the Interwebs.
• The “Democratization” of content production, examples like web show “The Guild” and concepts like citizen journalism.
• Hosting content and getting the “numbers” for web shows viewer ship for commercialization.
• Geek TV choices, Battlestar Gallatica to Doctor Who.
  
• Comicbooks, Roger tells us why Green Lantern: Ring Wars will be the most epic story arc
• Current Video Game Addictions

The Music in today’s podcast was:

Blow the SID By EightMinusEight

Revision3 Logo provided by Revision3

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While out in California in January for Macworld 2009 I was able to use twitter to setup an interview with Revision3 podcast host Patrick Norton (twitter). It snowballed from being just Patrick Norton to also Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback (twitter), whom I had met at the Diggnation Live Show/Meetup at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California. This is the same event in which I was recorded in Episode 186 – Live In Los Angeles! as the Palm Centro & Macbook Pro break dancing heckler. As the day came for the interview, Revision3 Producers Roger Chang (twitter) and David Prager (twitter) also joined in to be interviewed on camera for The Plan8 Podcast.

So over the next five video session podcasts The Plan8 Podcast visits Revision3.

On Today’s show:

The Plan8 Podcast host, Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter) interviews Revision3 CEO Jim Louderback. We discuss:

• Jim’s geek past
• Monetizing Revision3
• Future Revision3 Partnerships
• Future Technology choices for Revision3
• Tech toys Jim looks forward to
  

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The Plan8 Podcast’s (Twitter) host Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter) got to inverview Boxee CEO Avner Ronen (Twitter), Boxee Head UI Designer Whitney Hess (Twitter), and Boxee Communications & PR officer Andrew Kippen (Twitter)

Today on the podcast we talk about:

• Boxee the social networked Media Center Application
• Boxee’s User interface design
• Mark Cuban Vs Boxee Debate
• Hulu Vs Boxee, the game of cat and mouse
• Future of Boxee in the home theater arena
• Boxee user made apps

The Plan8 Podcast host Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter) also has a special annoucement to make:

“…

Last week I got word that the Plan8 Podcast now has press passes for two of the largest geek events on the internet.

First is the E3 Electronic Gaming expo, in Los Angeles, California. Once the Largest and Grandest of Industry Expos, the last few years it had tried to sit back and cool down a bit. But now, by popular demand, it is back and bigger than ever. This will be my first time going and being able to cover it.

The Second event is the 13th Annual Webby Awards in New York City. The Webbys have been going on since 1996 celebrating the wonders of the web. Web Media covering in blogs, podcasts, and graphics in a wide range of topics are celebrated and awarded in this red carpet event. The likes of Al Gore, Steven Colbert, David Bowie and many more have either hosted or been there to receive awards for their contributions to Internet and Digital Media Culture.

I have lined up a Film crew as well this time to help me cover these events and I really am hoping to raise the bar of my podcast for you, my viewers and listeners.

But there is a small problem and I need your help,

I need to get sponsors to help cover the cost for these shows to cover the travel costs for these events which would cost about just shy of three thousand dollars. If anyone of my followers can help in getting any corporate sponsorship to help cover the costs I will be in your debt.

Also you can donate personally via the paypal donate button on the the Plan8 Home page. If you donate $15 Dollars or more you can be entered in to win one of  five Cradlepoint Mobile Routers I will be giving away monthly.

Thanks again for listening to the show and thanks for your help. For any suggestions feel free to email me at Podcast@Plan8ts.com or leave a voice mail message on our skype line at +1.443.483.4350. Thanks for listening to the show”

The Music in today’s podcast was:

Symphony Kids (Microchip REMIX) by Hurrigame Boy (Myspace)

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