Hello fans of the Plan8 Podcast, I apologize for being a little late, currently at South-By-SouthWest and will have tons of episodes to post this week. So without further wait here is the latest for the 2nd week of march, 2010.

Plan8 Host: Patrick Roanhouse

Tech Journalist: Mark Milian

Today on the Plan8 we talk about:

1.) Apple sues HTC on 20 patents, hopes to kill the hydra that is Android dead [Link]
1a.) Ex-Sun honcho calls Apple’s HTC suit an “act of desperation” [Link]

2.) Telecoms continue move to metered Internet, AT&T CEO says [Link]

3.) Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’ says over 75% in a new pole [Link]

4.) BmoreFiber project to get Google Fiber to Baltimore [Link]

5.) Chromium OS on a $199 Tablet powered by Freescale [Link]

6.) Google buys DocVerse, look at this spending spree [Link]

7.) Newegg selling ASUS Eee Box with Red Flag Linux pre-installed [Link]

8.) Facebook Will Allow Users to Share Location [Link]

9.) Energizer Bunny’s software infects PCs – USB battery recharger status software contains Trojan, says US-CERT [Link]

10.) More Microsoft Courier details (and iPad April 3) [Link]

11.) The phone of choice by terrorists leaders? iPhone! [Link]

Today’s music is:

“Weatherbee” by J. Arthur Keenes 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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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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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

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

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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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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 Todays show:

The Plan8 Podcast host, Patrick Roanhouse (Twitter), sits down with one of the many people that inspired him to make The Plan8 Podcast, Revision 3 Host and Producer, Patrick Norton. Patrick Norton tested products and wrote for PC Magazine, Computer Shopper, and InfoWorld, and managed the hardware reviews section of Windows Sources magazine. Patrick was also the co-host and managing editor of the now defunct TechTV Technology show “The Screen Savers” and Ziff Davis Media’s podcast “DL.TV”. Currently he hosts and co-hosts Revision3′s podcast properties “Systm” and “Tekzilla“.

In today’s session we talk to Patrick about:

• Evolution of media production for the web.
• Kicking it old school with tech.
• The hay days of TechTV
• Evolution of independent citizen made content.
• From the days of Public Access to YouTube.
• The tragic passing of a good friend and colleague
• The ability of being open to the public about personal demons
• Toys at CES that Patrick Norton wants

The Music in today’s podcast was:

Blow the SID By EightMinusEight

Media and Revision3 Logo provided by Revision3

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

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