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.

 

 The Drill Down 040 [48:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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

• 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.

 

 The Drill Down 039 [69:24m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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:April 28th, 2008
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This week Mu regales us with tales of his trip to Web 2.0 Expo 2008, and we discuss Ning.com, More 3G iPhone rumors, the new Ubuntu, Muxtape, and KipKay’s big payday.

 

 The Drill Down 038 [69:37m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

3G IPhone Due on June 9, Analysts Say
The second-gen iPhone: 3G, GPS, only slightly thicker
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) Released
10 Percent of Broadband Subscribers Suck Up 80 Percent of Bandwidth But P2P No Longer to Blame
The Pirate Bay Smashes 12,000,000 BitTorrent Users
Muxtape With Coverflow Using Fluid


Making Money, the How-To Way


Experiential Typography | One Day Poem Pavilion

• Published:April 21st, 2008
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This week we hold an impromptu podcast clinic on optimizing your presence to social media with Kellvin Chavez of LatinoReview.com. Later we discuss Twitter saving lives in Egypt, the return of the Mac Clone, Pirate Bay’s new blogging service, and iJustine does Madonna.

 

 The Drill Down 037 [62:29m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Demonoid.com is back!
‘OpenMac’ Promises $399 Headless Mac… But Not From Apple
German Startup Community Makes Us Proud Once Again: Freundefeed
Senator: Let’s Spend $1B to monitor P2P for illegal file
Twitter Saves Berkeley Student Arrested in Egypt
The Pirate Bay Launches Uncensored Blogging Service
New Facebook Feature: Import Your Digg Stories!
How to make a Sawed-off USB Key

• Published:April 14th, 2008
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This week Andy, Mu & Reg talk about Yahoo vs. Microsoft (Chapter XXXVIII), Flickr does Video, The top 25 blogs (as voted by Time), and the nightmare that makes Mu wake up in cold sweats.

 

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