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Sync My Ride
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September 12, 2007
Wine Tasting With Gary Vaynerchuk
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Heklina, Queen Drag Geek
from Geek Entertainment TV on July 14, 2008
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Irina has been shadowing dragstar Heklina around San Francisco for so long, she may as well get a Tranny Chaser t-shirt! You can get one for yourself at Heklina s legendary party called Trannyshack mucking up our fair city weekly for 12 years, the club night has been officially recognized by our own special mayor, Gavin Newsom. No Cher or Barbara Streisand here, these drag queens do songs by Arcade Fire, Peaches, Missy Elliot, Bjork and the inimitable Kate Bush. Heklina has hosted Mary Wilson of the Supremes, Charo, Gwen Stefani and NY party monster Lady Bunny. Ana Matronic of the Scissor Sisters performed frequently at Trannyshack before moving to New York. Heklina IS a super drag geek and here we get a piece of history and a totally different kind of geek. Episode links: Heklina, Trannyshack, Trannsformation photos [thanks Tara Spalty] Formats: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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WWWDC Smackdown!
from Geek Entertainment TV on June 30, 2008
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While some of tech nobodies thought some kind of Apple event crowded out San Francisco with geeky types, Irina knew better. Tens of thousands of people pummeled our fair city with their presence to attend the WWWDC the World Wide Wrestling Developers Conference, where nerdy alter ego s of pale weaklings body-slammed each other deep into the night! Irina s wresting twin, The Kazakhstane Krusher no impostor like Borat (the entire film was shot in Romania!) Irina was born in the nuclear waste fields of the former Soviet republic, and has the anatomic anomalies to prove it. Some of those anomalies are included in her signature moves, the K-Rocket Launchers! Lets see what kind of damage the bone-thin denizens of geekdom can bring in the wresting ring! Episode links: Buzz s WWDC Party, Kazakhstan Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight
from Geek Entertainment TV on June 16, 2008
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June 11 is John Wayne s birthday and what better way to commemorate the Duke s enduring legacy than the John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight at Alamo Square in San Francisco? Don t answer that, let s let Irina try. Episode links: John Wayne, John Wayne Memorial Balloon Fight, Music: Doctor Popular Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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Unified Theory of LOLs
from Geek Entertainment TV on May 30, 2008
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Ben Huh, chief cheezburger of I Can Has Cheezburger has turned his love of LOLCats into a popular site and even scored a book deal. While at MIT for ROFLCon, he stepped into the role of Stephen LOLking to explain the mysteries of his Universal Theory of LOLS to Irina. Episode Links: I Can Has Cheezburger, ROFLCon Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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JibJab Funny Guys
from Geek Entertainment TV on May 12, 2008
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JibJab is known for their short, funny music and political videos that you ve no doubt forwarded to your mother or sister at least twice. While at ROLFcon in Boston, we ran into three mustachioed men who are writers and producers for JibJab. Irina demands they be funny. Episode links: JibJab, ROFLcon, Scott Beale / Laughing Squid (Irina s photos) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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MC Frontalot is the Nerdcorest
from Geek Entertainment TV on April 27, 2008
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MC Frontalot, pioneer in the realm of the lyrically nerdcore, sits down with Irina to share some thoughts on life, movies and music. Episode links: MC Frontalot, Nerdcore Rising, Doctor Popular, ytcracker Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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What has the Internet done for you lately?
from Geek Entertainment TV on April 02, 2008
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While at our favorite geek summer camp known as SXSW Interactive, Irina polls a few peeps on what the Internet and SXSW has done for them lately. The answers are as varied as they are earnest. Episode links: SXSW Interactive, M dot Strange, Guy Kawasaki, AllTop, Tim Ferriss, Michael Verdi, Jason Toney, Liz Gannes, Clarence, Jessica Mah, George Oates, Daniel Burka, Gary Vaynerchuk, Paula Cavagnaro, John Halcyon Styn, Loren Feldman Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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Interesting Technologies Emerge
from Geek Entertainment TV on March 17, 2008
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O Reilly s Emerging Technology conference is often ground zero for useful and meaningful tech stuff and the geeks who invent these things. In 2004, Flickr debuted here. In 2008, many DIY projects bloom, such as Socialbomb, ariel drones, binary LED watches, modular programmable open source gadgets and cheap open source robots. We talk to a few of their inventors. Episode links: ETech 2008, Socialbomb, Nate True, Bre Pettis, monochrom, IPRE, Bug Labs, EFF Pioneer Awards, Mark Klein Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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A Day in the Life of a Pro Video Gamer
from Geek Entertainment TV on March 04, 2008
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It s a hard life being most excellent at most video games, but Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty doesn t shy away from the challenge. So what does happen in a typical day of a professional video game player? That s what we really wanted to know too, so Irina invades Fatal1ty s hotel room to find out. Episode links: Fatal1ty, Fatal1ty (wikipedia), PMS Clan Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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Pillow Fight: Make Feathers, Not War
from Geek Entertainment TV on February 21, 2008
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What better way to spend Valentine s Day than beating the crap out of someone else s lover with a pillow? That s exactly what happened when over a thousand lost souls gathered in San Francisco on this fateful day for the annual rite of passage known as Pillow Fight. Episode links: Pillow Fight San Francisco, Chocolate Rain 8bit Remix Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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Anonymous vs Scientology
from Geek Entertainment TV on February 11, 2008
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Anonymous is a nebulous and faceless group that normally lives comfortably on the Internet but has chosen to step into meatspace on this particular day to face off with the Church of Scientology, an organization which it considers to be illegal and immorally coercive. Scientology labels Anonymous a cyber terrorist group. Protests against Scientology were organized simultaneously in cities all around the world. Irina pays a visit to the Church s San Francisco headquarters to get a sense of what all the fuss is about. Episode links: Scientology, Anonymous, Project Chanology, Xenu.net, Lawrence Wollersheim, Mike Rinder, BBC Panaroma on Scientology Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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ANSI Art for the Masses
from Geek Entertainment TV on January 21, 2008
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Back before there was the Internet, early caveman dialed into computer bulletin board systems or BBSes to get their online fix. Many of these boards distinguished themselves with ANSI art, an early form of electronic cave paintings. ANSI was an extension to the even earlier form of caveman communication known as ASCII used in MS-DOS based computers. It is with great pleasure that we happened upon the San Francisco hacker art gallery 20 goto 10 where an ANSI art exhibition was in progress. Irina Slutsky talks to curator Kevin Olson who takes us on a tour of some of the amazing early work of two ANSI artists, lordjazz and somms. Episode links: ANSI Art (wikipedia), ANSI Art Gallery Show, 20 goto 10 Gallery, Sixteen Colors ANSI Archive, ACiD, Phlogiston (soundtrack) Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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A Day at the Cat Show
from Geek Entertainment TV on January 08, 2008
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We all know that one crazy cat lady who puts her complete love, money and affection into her feline friends. Do you know what happens when crazy cat ladies come together and subject their little love muffins to the scrutiny of the harsh lights and exacting judges? Neither did we which is why Irina Slutsky and Violet Blue decided to visit the Fog City Cat Show in Alameda, California. Episode links: Fog City Cat Show, lolcats, Doctor Popular, Drown Radio, Violet Blue Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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Commodore 64 Turns 25
from Geek Entertainment TV on December 24, 2007
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The Commodore 64 home computer celebrated its 25th birthday at the Computer History Museum with several luminaries of the 8-bit computing era present. We take a peek at this popular pesky piece of silicon and plastic and try to get an idea of why the Commodore 64 was the best selling personal computer in history at 30 million units moved. GETV s Roving Retro Reporter Violet Blue puts the question to Jack Tramiel, founder and head of Commodore, as well as his son Leonard Tramiel. Violet gets a bit of insight from a couple of the C64 s competitors, Steve Wozniak, creator of the first Apple computer, and Bill Lowe, known as the father of the IBM PC. Episode links: Commodore 64, Jack Tramiel, Leonard Tramiel, Steve Wozniak, William Lowe, The Commodore Billboard, C64 sounds [YouTube:Lavoraste], C64 games [YouTube:tr0d], C64 Turns 25 [news.com], Computer History Museum, Violet Blue Formats available: iPod/iPhone (.m4v) | Quicktime (.mov)
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Supporting the Striking Writers
from Geek Entertainment TV on December 12, 2007
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GETV pops down to Los Angeles to see how geeks can help support the striking television and movie writers of Hollywood. Solidarity through double-clicking or not double-clicking, that is the question. Irina catches up with several writers and actors on the picket line to find out from them how we geeks can help. Episode links: United Hollywood, WGA, Seth Rogen, Chris Provenzano, Phil Rosenthal, Richard Potter, Strike Dancing Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)
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A Festival of Vintage Computers
from Geek Entertainment TV on December 04, 2007
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Where do old computers go to die? We re not sure, but we do know where the digital old folks home is. We take a trip down the valley to Mountain View for the 2007 Vintage Computer Festival. We happily discover 8-bit wonders living life as if it were 1980 all over again. We find Commodore PETs and SuperPETs, Atari 400 800s, Tandy TRS-80s, Sols, Altairs, Data Generals, HPs and even a LINC from 1962. Episode links: Vintage Computer Festival, Commodore PET, TRS-80, David Welsh: Priming the Pump, Computer History Museum, Phlogiston Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)
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NewTeeVee Live: Old Media & New Talent
from Geek Entertainment TV on November 17, 2007
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Here s a bit more coverage from the NewTeeVee Live conference. Irina asks some new media talent about the old media game. Episode links: NewTeeVee Live, CNET Webware, French Maid TV, ICM, The Dot Comix, Tiki Bar TV Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)
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NewTeeVee Live: Pleats and a Long Tail
from Geek Entertainment TV on November 17, 2007
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We dropped into the inaugural NewTeeVee Live! conference this week so Irina could ask some burning questions on fashion, content, and of course everyone s favorite subject, the long tail. Episode links: Revision3, Laughing Squid, OpenRoad.TV, Xlntads, Heather Gold, Seesmic Formats available: Portable (iPod/iPhone) | Quicktime (.mov)
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What is GETV?
from Geek Entertainment TV on November 13, 2007
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Maybe this will help, maybe it won t. Thanks to the ever prolific Doc Popular for the hook up with some custom intro and outro theme music, debuting for the first time in this little inspirational piece. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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Exploring the PEZ Museum
from Geek Entertainment TV on November 01, 2007
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The fun dispensable candy known as PEZ is undoubtedly one of the geeky wonders of the world. We got super excited when we learned that the world s only PEZ museum was a mere half hour drive down the road. Justine Ezarik aka iJustine was in town, and it turns out that she s a huge PEZ fan and collector. Only Steve Jobs or a new Apple product launch could keep her away. iJustine and Irina pay a visit, take a tour and get the history of PEZ from Gary Doss, curator of the Burlingame PEZ Museum of Memorabilia. Episode links: PEZ Museum, PEZ Candy (official site), iJustine Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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Hip Hop Chess Tournament
from Geek Entertainment TV on October 23, 2007
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We got wind of a big chess tournament happening with some of the big names in hip hop, so of course we had to see what this was all about. Turns out the Hip Hop Chess Federation was putting on the inaugural Chess Kings Invitational, an event with the brightest young minds of chess competing for scholarships and the big belt. Chess, hip hop music and martial arts are the elements that build life strategies according to founder Adisa Banjoko. Irina gets the scoop behind the 64 squares and meets legends PopMaster Fabel of the Rock Steady Crew and The RZA of the Wu-Tang Clan among others. Episode links: Hip Hop Chess Federation, HHCF blog, Adisa Banjoko, Pop Master Fabel, Emma Bentley, The RZA, DLabrie, Davey D s wrapup, Chesspark, [full interviews: Adisa Banjoko, PopMaster Fabel, Emma Bentley, DLabrie, The RZA of Wu-Tang Clan, Rugged Monk] Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | YouTube
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Podcasters Take Over PNME
from Geek Entertainment TV on October 12, 2007
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Podcasters and videobloggers from all around the world converged recently on the eastern Los Angeles wasteland of Ontario, California for the Podcast and New Media Expo. As one can imagine, much incestuous self-referential media making went on among the attendees. And we at Geek Entertainment TV are no different. See which micro-celebrities Irina accosts with her microphone. Odds are, you are probably one of them. Episode links: Steve Garfield, Women of Warcraft Podcast, The Clip Show, Cinema Psychic, Daily Breakfast, Lab Rats, Total Podcastrophe, The Medical Minute, Nick Starr, Rocketboom, Paul Dateh, Midwest Teen Sex Show Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Viddler
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Halo 3 Launch Eve
from Geek Entertainment TV on October 04, 2007
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On the eve of the heavily anticipated launch of Halo 3, Microsoft opened it s Silicon Valley doors to developers and gamers for a sneak preview of the game that every kid in America wants. Irina catches the zeitgeist of a Halo 3 multiplayer tournament and has a chat with some of Microsoft s Xbox hardware engineers who made it all possible. Episode links: Halo 3, Bungie, Xbox 360, Microsoft Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone) | YouTube | Viddler
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Million Booze March
from Geek Entertainment TV on September 24, 2007
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A million virtual boozers can t be wrong, nor can they be drunk unless you bring them into reality. Reality is what happened at Booze Mail s Million Booze March event where virtual boozers came out of the closet to embrace actual reality based booze drinks. If reality scares you like it does us, stick to the uber popular Booze Mail Facebook app and you won t have to drink real drinks with real people again. Irina shows us why it s a bit scary. Episode links: Booze Mail (FB app), Million Booze March (photos), Renkoo Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod/iPhone)
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Sync My Ride
from Geek Entertainment TV on September 12, 2007
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It would really suck if your cell phone, iPod or Zune got you killed while driving which is why Microsoft s got your back. Their new Sync platform hooks up your bluetooth device to your car, assuming you have a new Ford and a Windows 98 install CD. OK, install CD is optional. It s all voice activated goodness from there. Velle Kolde of Microsoft Auto shows Irina how to call Bill Gates and find Bootylicious on her imaginary Zune. Episode links: Ford Sync, Microsoft Auto Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod) | Ogg Theora (.ogg)
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The Crankiest Geek
from Geek Entertainment TV on August 30, 2007
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The force is strong with this one, young geek viewer. We caught up with Mr. Cranky Geek himself, John C. Dvorak, while he was brushing up his crank skills with Master Yoda outside of George Lucas infamous Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco s Presidio. Irina goes into deep history with Dvorak to discover it all started with a fly in the sandwich. Episode links: John C. Dvorak, Cranky Geeks, ILM Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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Wine Tasting With Gary Vaynerchuk
from Geek Entertainment TV on August 24, 2007
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Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and Irina suck on rocks, eat dirt and taste wine like superheros. If you ve seen the Conan bit, this is similar until Irina turns the tables on Gary. Filmed at Technorati whom we love for putting up with our disruptions. Episode links: Wine Library TV, Gary on Conan, Technorati Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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Linuxworld 2007 Geekery
from Geek Entertainment TV on August 13, 2007
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We dropped by Linuxworld 2007 in San Francisco to see what s new in the world of Linux operating systems, stacks, racks and porn. Irina goes deep among the penguins. Episode links: Linuxworld, ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, LinuxQuestions Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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Mechanical Amusements From the Past
from Geek Entertainment TV on August 05, 2007
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Violet Blue visits the Musee Mecanique at Pier 45 in San Francisco for a refreshing, nostalgic trip through mechanical games of fun and fortune from the past. Some of these relics are downright morbid, others are delightfully funny. Violet takes us on a tour and relays a bit of the museum s history. Episode links: Violet Blue, Musee Mecanique Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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Captured! By Robots
from Geek Entertainment TV on July 26, 2007
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If you have any doubt that robots are taking over, can carry a tune and are mean fuckers, then check this video out. Captured! By Robots dragged their creator JBOT to the last show of their tenth anniversary tour here in their home destination of San Francisco. Irina corners JBOT around back of the Bottom of the Hill before the show and tries to find out why he lets his creations torture him so. Episode links: Captured! By Robots, JBOT, Bottom of the Hill Formats available: Quicktime (.mov) | Portable (iPod)
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recommendations2 reviews
Geeky yet ironic conversations with web2.0 players
By Peter on 2005-11-23 13:45:19
 The good:
Ironic, geeky, web 2.0 conversations with people in web 2.0
 The bad:
Good sound, but bad image
Review:
"Explain this for my father Boris who still thinks AJAX is a cleaning project." That kind of sums it up.
It's an ironic look at web 2.0. The good thing is: they interview the real players in this space. The bad thing: it's sometimes *too* ironic. I think they should ask some harder, real questions sometimes. Don't be afraid to be serious too, guys.
On the other hand, don't be afraid to tackle the people, instead of just the buzzwords. It's easy to be ironic about buzzwords, but more interesting to be ironic about people.
Geeky yet ironic conversations with web2.0 players
By Peter on 2005-11-23 13:45:38
The good:
Ironic, geeky, web 2.0 conversations with people in web 2.0
The bad:
Good sound, but bad image
Review:
"Explain this for my father Boris who still thinks AJAX is a cleaning project." That kind of sums it up.
It's an ironic look at web 2.0. The good thing is: they interview the real players in this space. The bad thing: it's sometimes *too* ironic. I think they should ask some harder, real questions sometimes. Don't be afraid to be serious too, guys.
On the other hand, don't be afraid to tackle the people, instead of just the buzzwords. It's easy to be ironic about buzzwords, but more interesting to be ironic about people.
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Geek Entertainment TV is an emerging global media empire, reporting from deep inside the bubble as it re-inflates. A geek is someone who is passionate about what they are into, whether that's living the web 2.0 life style, building robots out of toasters and power saws or moving chess pieces to the sounds of hip hop. GETV seeks out these geeks and takes a peek into their mystical lair.Â
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Geek Entertainment TV
Geek Entertainment TV is an emerging global media empire, reporting from deep inside the bubble as it re-inflates. A geek is someone who is passionate about what they are into, whether that's living the web 2.0 life style, building robots out of toasters and power saws or moving chess pieces to the sounds of hip hop. GETV seeks out these geeks and takes a peek into their mystical lair.Â
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Geek Entertainment TV
Geek Entertainment TV is an emerging global media empire, reporting from deep inside the bubble as it re-inflates. A geek is someone who is passionate about what they are into, whether that's living the web 2.0 life style, building robots out of toasters and power saws or moving chess pieces to the sounds of hip hop. GETV seeks out these geeks and takes a peek into their mystical lair.Â
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