The Drill Down

• Published:May 12th, 2008
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This week’s episode suffered a fatal crash during the live recording of the show Friday evening, using Audacity. Unfortunately the first 10-15 minutes of the show are lost to the ages.

This week we’re joined by LatinoReview.com blogger El Mayimbe, who offers advice to Web 2.0 movie blogs on the best way to wield power against the movie studios and get them to cater to you. We also cover the myth that videogames steal movie profits, Nine Inch Nails’ new FREE release, Yahoo’s final(?) rebuff against Microsoft, a hack that’ll supercharge your Canon point-and-shoot, and the upcoming Digg Town Hall. PLUS El Mayimbe reveals a couple of breaking scoops on our show.

Show Links
Digg - Call for Topics: Digg Townhall this Monday
Second Digg Townhall Liveblog Coming to Mashable
New Digg Comments coming (finally)
Iron-Man and GTA IV Team up to Crush a Modern Marketing Myth
Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc
Yahoo Stock Plunges After Microsoft Backs Off
nin.com [download]- the slip
Camera Hacks: Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera
The A-TEAM and THOR movie updates!

Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business - Get more documents

• Published:May 11th, 2008
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Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

In the episode 12 of The Round Up, Andy gives us a sample of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with the brand new trailer for the film. Greg discusses the sequel to Donnie Darko, called s.DARKO, and plays Sara Hickman’s version of the song Mad World in the desperate hope that the movie won’t suck…

Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/

Show Links:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
SlashFilm: Donnie Darko sequel begins shooting on May 18… Wait, What?
Sara Hickman - Official MySpace.com Page
Sara Hickman - Official Site
The Dark Knight - Second Trailer
Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex - at Facebook.com

• Published:May 5th, 2008
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Reg is out this week, so we’re joined by Dave3, webmaster of Geeks of Doom, a terrific blog catering to geek culture. We discuss the decline of quality stories on Digg, GTA IV & Mario Kart Wii, a $200 3G iPhone in our future?, and Metallica does an about face.

Show notes

The Decline and Fall of Quality on Digg
GTA game smashes UK sales records
AT&T’s 3G iPhone Is $199 This Summer
Michael Arrington - The 2008 TIME 100
Purchase New Movies on iTunes Same Day as DVD Release
Metallica Considering Radiohead-Style Release
Apple 2.0 Safari market share tripled on Windows after Apple gambit
Twitter Said To Be Abandoning Ruby on Rails
7 Confessions Of An Apple Macintosh Specialist
Confirmed: Facebook Apps Are Useless

Recently, Andy Sorcini spoke at a Mixergy event called How to Grow Your Site’s Traffic. Here’s a video highlight of that event:

• Published:May 4th, 2008
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Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up - a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

In the eleventh episode of The Round Up, Greg gives us a preview of the brand new trailer for The Dark Knight, while Andy plays a sample of the new single Echoplex by Nine Inch Nails.

Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/ - and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/

Show Links:

The Dark Knight - Second Trailer

Nine Inch Nails - Echoplex - at Facebook.com