This week The Drill Down team is pleased to welcome the creator of the massively successful webcomic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Zach Weiner. We ask him about SMBC’s origins, his influences, the creative process behind the strip, and how comedy can inform and inspire social commentary. We also discuss his latest sketch comedy venture, SMBC Theater.
Later, Zach joins us as we discuss Apple’s latest tablet lifestyle device, the iPad, its pros, its cons and its missed potential. We also talk about VOIP over 3G for the iPhone, cyberbullies, how pirates are the music industry’s best customers, Avatar’s new world record, and Google Xistence™.
Show Links
- SMBC – The Mom Call (scroll down to blog post below comic)
- Apple iPad: Everything You Need to Know
- Apple iPad First Hands On – Gizmodo
- Hands-on, first impressions, and Photo gallery of Apple iPad
- Ten Things Missing From the iPad
- The iPad provides the ultimate browsing experience?
- iBummer: Augmented Reality Fans Disappointed By iPad
- First look: Google Voice’s improved Web app for iPhone
- Apple opens up VoIP via 3G on iPhone, and maybe even iPad
- Phoebe Prince, 15, Commits Suicide After Onslaught of Cyber-Bullying From Fellow Students
- Pirates Are The Music Industry’s Most Valuable Customers
- Avatar Passes Titanic as the Top Grossing Movie Ever
- Google Xistence isn’t real, but it’s pretty funny and not a phishing scam (despite what Google says)
Zach Weiner links