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The Plan8 today is discussing the rise of the use to pocket & phone cameras to record police and then posting it to YouTube, and the legal grounds of wiretapping laws being used to “silence” anyone who posted. A visible backlash from the police caught in wrong doing. Today the Plan8 has guests David Rittgers, a Legal Policy Analyst from the Cato […]

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Today on The Plan8 we have 8-Bit musician Nick VanHolt AKA Albino Ghost Monkey. He is a Michigan based chiptune musician who has provided the new theme music for the podcast now. Today we talk about: Tools of the trade – Gameboy, Nanoloop & Commodore 64 Chiptune social website – 8Bit Collective Creative Commons RIAA & File sharing – the […]

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We go through though are top picks of news for the week of August 1st 2010  in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews.com The top stories of the show are: 1.) Happy Sys Admin Day july 30th [Link] 2.) State of Maryland declares September 21st Sid Meier Civilization V day.  [Link] 3.) YouTube Increases Video Upload […]

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Guests Kelly Sutton & Rob Blatt join host Patrick Roanhouse for an in-depth discussion about the future of IPTV & Internet Provided Video, and the future of content production in general. Our discussion focuses on the issues of IPTV. Trying to understand the semantics of IPTV and all the possible options to replace traditional TV all together. Other topics touched on include Content Creation in the future, […]

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The Plan8 host Patrick Roanhouse has the  pleasure to interview Leo Laporte. Chief TWiT of TWiT.Tv podcast network. Leo Laporte has created a little Podcasting Empire that now pulls in a millions dollar a year profit from doing audio / video podcasts that have hosts talking about a range of thing. Originally starting with technology the TWiT network has shows that focus on […]

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The Plan8 again has the hosts of the long running podcast GeeksOn. But this time we are talking about geek culture and the history of the podcast done by Aaron Hendricks, Donald Marshall, Peter Robinson, and Matt King. The Topics we discuss are: Geek Groups – some are liberal some are conservatives Racist Geeks – Lord of the Rings is […]

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Today the Plan8 has the hosts of one the very first podcasts that started on the internet, GeeksOn. We discuss E3 Expo 2010 and gaming. The Hosts of GeeksOn: Video Professional Aaron Hendricks, Professional Actor Matt Yang King, Video Game Professional Donald Marshall, and Screenwriter Peter Robinson Today we talk about: 1.) E3 Is back; year two, the history of the change […]

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This is the wrap up episode from E3 Expo 2010 with Guest co-hosts Timothy Torres – Lead Reviewer, www.2d-x.com , Jeffery Wilson – Editor-in-Chief, www.2d-X.com , Terry “Valcor” Lewis – Senior Editor, www.the-Other-view.com , Thomas Rivas – Features Editor, www.2d-x.com Topics: 1.) Xbox Kinect, The Console Addon Formerly Known as Project Natal 2.) PlayStation Move 4.) Xbox Kinect Vs PlayStation Move 5.) Nintendo 3DS : 3DS Game demos of Metal Gear Solid, […]

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The Plan8 goes though our top picks of news for the week of June 7th 2010 in tech and internet culture with guest co-host Devindra Hardawar. You can also read his work on the popular movie blog Slashfilm.com and as a Tech reporter for Venturebeat.com. You can also listen to him on the Slashfilm Filmcast & on his own tech show, The Symbiotek Podcast. Today on the Plan8 […]

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The Plan8 goes though our top picks of news for the week of March 16th 2010 in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Time. 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 […]

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Today The Plan8 interviews Lokesh Dhakar. A mild manner Baltimore based web designer and developer, you might not know changed how webpages are designed. He created the JavaScript web app called Lightbox, a new take on how to overlay information on webpages without use of popups. You use it’s derivatives in such things as Facebook connect, blog image galleries, and a host […]

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We go through though are top picks of news for the week of Feb 26th 2010  in tech and internet with guest host Paul Capestany The news in tech for this week. 1.) Why Apple’s New Ban Against Sexy Apps Is Scary [Link] 2.) Octazen: What The Heck Did Facebook Just Buy Exactly, And Why? [Link] 3.) FBI probing Pa. school webcam […]

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We go through though are top picks of news for the week of Feb 12th 2010  in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com Today we talk about: 1.) Unannounced Core i7 Apple MacBook Pro surfaces in online benchmarks site GeekBench’s logs. [Link] 2.) Engadget shuts off comments, tells people how to behave? [Link] 3.) Apple killed […]

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The Plan8 goes though our top picks of news for the week of January 27th 2010 in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Time We Talk about: 1.) Haiti, how to donate and the $24 Million raised via cellphone txt message donations [Link] 2.) Google.cn & Google.com hacked by China’s Government [Link] […]

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The 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show has ended. In this audio panel episode of Plan8 the mental break down of five geeks that survived CES 2010. Listen to them talk about their harrowing tales of survival from the floor of CES 2010. Listen as they enjoy the wonders of the amazing victory feast at the amazing burger joint Fatburger. Topics we discuss […]

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So the year is about to draw to a close. How best to look back on 2009 in the festive holiday trope of judging who was naughty and who was nice and  who might not make it to another new year? So today on the podcast we are taking our past panelists to talk about their personal top pick for […]

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Today The Plan8 interviews Jay Adelson CEO of Digg.com and Chairman of Revision3. Co-founder of  Equinix, the company that provided a neutral point of  interconnection for the segmented networks of the titan level powered networks of AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, and other by gone big player ISPs of the early 90s. Jay Is also the CEO of one of the most popular social filtered […]

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We go through though are top picks of news for the week of December 19th 2009 in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Times  Show Notes: 1.) Nvidia introduces new official 3D HD Blu-Ray Spec. [Link] 2.) Google adds real-time web results to search. [Link] 3.) Samsung teases new Linux mobile phone OS, Bada. […]

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We go through though are top picks of news for the week of December 8th 2009 in tech and internet culture with guest Co-Host: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com Show Notes: 1.) Google Starts the Google Public DNS. [Link] Metaspoloits’s HD Moore ‘s view on the security of Google Public DNS. [Link] BustedT Google Skynet Tee. [Link] 2.) FCC talking about […]

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In today’s episode host Patrick Roanhouse leads the discussion on the future of cellphones. Today’s Panel includes: Blogger / Tech Journalist: Tim Conneally of Betanews .com Blogger / Tech Journalist: Mark Milian of The Los Angeles Times Blogger / Tech Journalist: Gus Sentementes of The Baltimore Sun Blogger / Tech Podcaster: Devindra Hardwar of The Symbiotek Podcast The Future of Cellphones. Part 1: Smarter Phones What is the future of phones with the new age […]

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In today’s podcast I had the pleasure of interviewing 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). 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 […]

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The Plan8host Patrick Roanhouse (twitter) interviews the founding members of Super Art Fight. A Baltimore, Maryland based geeky art and music monthly event If you follow The Plan8 Youtube Channel you would have seen clips of one of the Super Art Fight shows that featured over the top, over 9000, epic japanese punk band PeeLander-Z. that was one of the many events that Super Art Fight holds at the […]

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The Plan8 interviews the original unscrewed, infected, web drifting, internet superstar himself, Martin Sargent (twitter). Martin was a Segment Producer on TechTV‘s The Screen Savers and later as the host of his own late night talk show Unscrewed with Martin Sargent. Being a true master of navigation of the weird side of the web Martin started the Revision3 podcast Web Drifter which garnered several awards for its wacky exploration of the internet’s strangest […]

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The Plan8 interviews the Boxee home media center software company  CEO Avner Ronen (Twitter), Boxee Head UI Designer Whitney Hess (Twitter), and Boxee Communications & PR officer Andrew Kippen (Twitter) Today on the podcast we talk about: Boxee the social networked Media Center Application Boxee’s User interface design Mark Cuban Vs Boxee Debate Hulu Vs Boxee, the game of cat and mouse Future of Boxee in the home theater arena Boxee […]

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Today’s show The Plan8 interviews Gadget Guy Dave Matthews (Twitter). He is frequently seen as the definitive on-camera gadget reviewer for several media sources such as G4TV; covering events such as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), MAKE Magazine; covering gadget hacking and repurposing, and several other publications and media companies. He is also known for his work as a technology evangelist, working with the […]

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The Plan8 had the joy of interviewing Dr. Kirsten Sanford, PhD. (Twitter). She is a PhD in Neurophysiology and is also an independent science journalist. She is lovingly known by her fans as Dr. Kiki. She is heard weekly on her UC Davis based radio show “This Week in Science”, also available in podcast form. In this week’s episode me and Dr Kiki […]

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The Plan8 interviews popular internet podcast host, and over all cool geeky guy, Jeff Cannata (Twitter). Raised in California, he graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 1999 with a BFA in theater. Cannata has been acting since 2000 and has appeared in movies, commercials and theater. He became the co-host of the geek culture review podcast  “The Totally Rad Show” (2) in March 2007. He […]

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The Plan8 today interviews Jonathan Coulton. Jonathan is known for such projects as his Thing a Week. A Project where he would make a new song and post it each week. A few of those songs became big internet hits. Such as a folky cover of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back“, a funny video called “Flickr“, a popular viral song “Code Monkey“. […]

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The Plan8 had the pleasure of chatting with the geeky tech show host Veronica Belmont. Veronica is the co-host of Revision3’s tech-centric show, Tekzilla, and Qore on the Playstation Network. Previous to that, she hosted several other online video shows and podcasts, including Mahalo Daily, Buzz Out Loud, MP3 Insider, and Crave. She also created tech video content for CNET TV, including the popular series Prizefight. Veronica frequently guest hosts […]

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The Plan8 had the joy of meeting up with Peter Rojas. He is the founder of such well-known gadget news sites such as Engadget, Gizmodo, and now GDGT. He has covered technology and gadgets for ten years now and took the time to sit down with me and talk about where he feels we are going in the brave new tech […]