Jay Adelson, CEO at Digg, Inc., Chairman, Founder at Revision3 Corporation, Founder and former CTO of Equinix, Inc.

Happy Holiday of choice from The Plan8 Podcast. That is right people its that time where people of their chosen judeo-christian creed celebrates the modified form of the pagan festival for the winter solstice. But that all aside I have quite the special guest for you all today. He started out a boy raised in the Motor City. But shortly after college he developed; during the first Dot Com, the company that made the “inter” part of Internet actually mean interconnection. That man is Jay Adelson.

Founding Equinix, the company that provided a neutral point of  interconnection for the segmented networks of the titan level powered networks of AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, and other by gone big player ISPs of the early 90s. Jay Is also the CEO of one of the most popular social filtered news aggregating sites, Digg.com. That’s dee eye double gee, dot com. Also he is co-founder and is Chairman for the ever growing and popular podcast network, Revision3.

Again when I say he is a special guest, that is in all ways an understatement. His influence on the very fabric of how the internet is currently ran today has made it possible to have the internet we have today and as cheap of a price as it is now. His current ventures of Digg and Revision3 with respective TechTV alum co-founders Kevin Rose and David Prager are changing the landscape of how media is viewed on the internet now.

But listeners of my podcast know my modus operandi. For all my interviews I try to help my listeners discover what makes that special guest tick. What got them to do what they have done or are doing. So as usual I take Jay back on memory lane to discover his roots, particularly talking about:

• Jay’s childhood in Detroit
• Jay’s hobbies growing up
• What Jay’s parents were like
• Jay’s first major jobs
• Jay’s years shortly after graduating Boston University with a degree in Broadcast & Film with a minor focus in computer science.
• Jay’s passion for technology
• Jay’s views on the essence of democratic access to information
• Jay’s roller coaster adventures in startups and Silicon Valley
• Jay’s roll as a Father in the new digital world and how his children will grow up in it
• And much more …

• Suggested Reading:
  • Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by John Palfrey
  • Neuromancer by William Gibson

I hope you all enjoy this because I know I did. And let it be known, Jay’s Wikipedia page is gonna need an major update after this comes out.

Today’s music is:

Digging In The Diamond Mines by D!4m0nD k!D of the 8bit Collective

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Guest Co-Host:

Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com

Show Notes:

1.) Google Starts the Google Public DNS. [Link]

Metaspoloits’s HD Moore take on the security of Google Public DNS. [Link]

BustedT Google Skynet Tee. [Link]

2.) FCC talking about spectrum re-allocation for the looming “spectrum crisis”…which could include mobile data sharing the 6MHz block with broadcast TV. [Link]

3.) Comcast Buys NBC universal, planning to control 51% of the company. [Link]

Engadget fears Hulu will be bug crushed now. [Link]

Alex Baldwin belive’s his 30′s Rock show’s Character GE Executive Jack Donaghy would hide in his office and not come out till Former GE Head Jack Welch told him to. [Link]

AMAZON: “30 Rock” Dvd Box set

4.) Motorola LaJolla  a new e blackberry pearl flip of Android phones [Link]

5.) Sony Playstation turns 15,  the evolution from home entertainment system to home entertainment computer and back. [Link]

6.) Google Visual search coming to an android phone near you soon! [Link]

7.) Machines figure out how to make their own Maths, wired article on the Cornell Computational Synthesis Labs Project called Eureqa, a software project that can find the connections between large data sets and then make the formulas it self using robotic learning. [Link]

8.) Apple Purchases music streaming service LALA media. [Link]

9.) Paypal mistakes it’s own emails as phishing attacks. [Link]

10.) Physics book sales rise as Tiger woods crash&burn affair comes to light. [Link]

AMAZON: “Get a Grip On Physics” by John Gribbin

11.) I got 99 problems, but a breach ain’t one, Geordi La Forge meme now a real song. [Link]

Co-Host:
Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com

This podcast is released by its owner, Patrick Roanhouse (twitter), under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License.

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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

This podcast is released by its owner, Patrick Roanhouse (twitter), under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License.

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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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The Plan8 podcast had the pleasure of having a skype interview with actor, internet podcast host, and over all cool geeky guys, Jeff Cannata (Twitter).

Raised in California, he graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1999 with a BFA in theater. Cannata has been acting since 2000 and has appeared in movies, commercials and theater. He became the co-host of the geek culture review podcast  “The Totally Rad Show” (2) in March 2007. He is also an improv comedian, performing with the group “The Returning Champs“. Jeff also is a member of the cast of the online dark comedy podcast “Very Angry Neighbors“. Cannata has also began appearing on the World of Warcraft video guide series Project Lore.

Today in the podcast, me and Jeff talk about …

• Jeff’s Younger Years of Geekdom
• Jeff’s early career as a published game reviewer in the early days of home computer games
• What ticks off Jeff about the mocking between factions of geek culture
• What got him into theater
• Video Game Addiction
• and many more ….

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