• Ep. 291 - Do Facts Have a Half-Life? Sam Arbesman Says "Yes!"

    TOPIC:  We have a great interview today with the author of the book "The Half-Life of Facts," Sam Arbesman!  It's a fascinating and deep book, and Sam does a wonderful job of explaining how all of the "facts" we know are constantly being overturned ... and that this is occurring at a mathematically definable rate.  If that scares you, don't worry, we also spend a lot of time talking about Popeye, astronomy, and who e...
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  • Ep. 217 - Facebook for Old Folks!

    TOPIC:  Dave and Mike have a GREAT time with return victim ... errm, guest that is, Mike Miller!  He talks to us about his new book Facebook for Grownups (or as I like to call it - "Facebook for Old Folks"). This wouldn't really be TechTalk without our good friend Jay Garmon as he asks us this toughy: What classic board game was used by the Allies to help rescue POW's during WWII? We wind up with just enough t...
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    Special Report - Who's Your GoDaddy!? Round 2

    I have some important follow-up to my last post about the GoDaddy issue. Back on Friday, July 17, I posted to the blog here the lack of responsiveness that we got regarding what seemed to be pretty clearly a configuration issue on GoDaddy's mail servers.  I'm including my written email to their support below, as well as the eventual written response that I got from their Office of the President as well. Late ...
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  • Episode 114 - Matt Richtel and Your Email Footprint

    TOPIC: August 16th, 2008 (A CLASSIC FROM OUR ARCHIVES) - This week's geek trivia winner receives a copy of Matt Richtel's "Hooked", and then we talk to the author himself about the craziness of a monkey-style brain trying to recreate it's arboreal roots via electronic stimulation. No, really. And yes, it does make sense! Of course we've got our awesome cool sites of the week - www.criminalsearches.com will expose...
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  • Ep. 288 - Alexandre Montagu on Intellectual Property

    TOPIC:  Alexandre Montagu, founder of MontaguLaw - a leading intellectual property law firm - joins us to talk about all things IP!  Did you know that the color red can be considered intellectual property, and sued over?  We don't stick with fashion, but have a very interesting and in-depth discussion about what IP is and how it affects you and the technologies you use every day.  We even have time to freewheel some ...
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  • 300

    Ep. 300 - Alex Knapp of Forbes and Asteroid Contingency Planning

    TOPIC:  Wow! Episode 300 ... and what a great one it is too!  Oddly enough, our tricentennial goes unremarked, either through excessive humility or rampant obliviousness (long time listeners of the show will be placing their bets on obliviousness), but with Dave "Sparky" Saganaki, good friend Jay Garmon and new friend of the show Alex Knapp of Forbes magazine tech and blog fame, this is an outstanding reflection on t...
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  • Ep. 223 - Nextworth's Robert Wesley!

    TOPIC:  Dave's back and just in time for us to have a great show!  Not only does Mike get in a nice rant on how not worth living life is without a smart phone, but Robert Wesley of NextWorth.com joins us for a fantastic discussion of what you should do with all that old - or gently used - tech ... including finding out if any of it is really worth anything at all! Of course we're able to find time for Jay Garmon w...
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  • Ep. 298 - PBS American Experience's "Silicon Valley" Filmmaker...

    TOPIC:  Fabulous show this week, as we get a sneak peek and in-depth discussion about the upcoming documentary "Silicon Valley."  Randall MacLowry gives us his take on the genesis of not only the technologies and hardware we depend on every day, but also the innovations to culture and business that men like Robert Noyce (founder of Intel) heralded.  The show comes out February 5th on your local PBS station, so set yo...
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    Ep. 257 - 9 Algorithms That Changed the Future

    TOPIC:     Dave and Mike have a great time, joined by John MacCormick discussing his new book "9 Algorithms That Changed the Future"!  John breaks down the basics of everything from Euclid's algorithm to modern day cryptography, web search and compression and somehow makes it accessible and easy to understand.  If you've ever been mystified and impressed by all the goings-on that must be happening in that electronic ...
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  • Ep. 296 - Singularity Rising Author James Miller

    TOPIC:  The coming AI singularity - that point when the growth of non-human intelligence surpasses our ability to control (even understand it) is coming.  Do you know how it will affect you, and what you can do about it?  This week we have a fantastic conversation with author James Miller about his new book Singularity Rising ... tune in to find out if you should be excited, afraid, or both! Jay Garmon hits us up ...
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  • Ep. 247 - NYT Tech Writer Nick Bilton

    TOPIC:     Mike fights through a bad headcold to bring an excellent show to your ears - thanks mostly to his guests of course!  Lead technology writer for the New York Times and author of the book "I Live in the Future & Here's How it Works" Nick Bilton comes on for a solid half hour of cerebral social networking discussion, and we have Scott Andraschko, Director of IT for the Round Lake Area Schools as a spec...
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  • Ep. 172 - Total Recall sans Arnie

    TOPIC:  Jim Gemmell scares the h-e-double hockey sticks out of Dave and our station manager when he talks about how the e-memory revolution, lifelogging, and cloud-based information storage is going to change your life!  He and Gordon Bell, both of Microsoft, have written a not-so-little book called "Total Recall," and we really get into the nitty-gritty of what the coming decade could mean to you - and how you can g...
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Ep. 232 – Bitcoins, Amazon and Education?

Jun 14th

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TOPIC:  Dave and Mike try to figure out how many bitcoins make a kilocoin, which somehow leads Mike into (yet another) rant on Amazon and the public education system … a deep, deep rant on the public education system.  But don’t turn that dial just yet, there’s even more great stuff to listen to!

Jay Garmon joins us again and asks the question:

What two major game console manufacturers almost collaborated on a game unit?

We do deliver on the coolsite front this week again too:

  • Nemo Documents – Document storage and retrieval by date!
  • Quick Forget – Set an expiration date for that email or message link!

And we end with the podcast only song of the week “Buildings and Mountains” by the Republic Tigers!

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Ep. 226 – Poker is Busted!

Apr 20th

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TOPIC:  Like playing poker online?  Well, so did a lot of people apparently; enough so that when the government decided to bust ‘em all for money laundering and fraud there was quite an outcry!  We miss Dave, but that’s just as well as he’s probably sick of Mike’s rants about Amazon and tax laws at this point, not to mention more discussion on the Kindle :)

Jay Garmon comes on and as usual stumps us with this trifle of trivia fun:

What word in the OED is directly credited to the Simpsons?

Without Dave, there’s finally ample time to get to a whole bunch of really cool cool sites of the day:

  • EReaderIQ – Gets you connected to the best free kindle books (and alerts you if there’s a price drop on watched books)
  • KindleFish – Google translate … for your kindle!
  • MarkUp.io – Edit and markup web pages and then share the notes with your friends!
  • LightWorks Beta – Llightworks open source video editor.  Professional-grade movie editing software.

We end this week with the podcast only song “We Got Tonight (say it again)” by Sleeperstar!

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Episode 143 – Outright.com Co-Founder Kevin Reeth!

Mar 30th

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TOPIC: March 28 – Have a small business, or thinking about getting one off the ground? Co-founder of outright.com Kevin Reeth tells us all about a very cool (and free) accounting and invoicing application that will get you off the ground!  As a small business and startup expert, he also provides a wealth of information about  the current business climate and ways to make sure you are getting every deduction you can.   Can’t tell a 1099 or 1065 from a can of WD-40?  This show’s the one for you!

Jay Garmon’s Geek Trivia gives us the opportunity to give away a copy of Digitally Daunted by Sean and Jean Westcott to Dan in Utah (tune in next week to hear about more giveways avaialble!), and finally then crank up the tunes with “I Am (What You Want Me to Be)” by Camille Jones.   Tune us in and turn it up!

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