Top Ten Podcasters of the Year: TruXter’s Choice

Well the year has brought so much news to the tech world, Via podcasts. Since that is a media source, TruXter tech Review will list the choice of podcasters for 2009. From tenth place down to the number one spot.

These podcasts are not necessarily  all tech, it’s the means in which this media is brought to us that makes it tech. There is great talent and tons of devotion in these people, that is why they are making the list. There are some that are very talented but had no devotion or motivation to carry on this year as they had in the past years. So this year they will not be making it to this list. Some are great talent but a bit slacking this year so their scoring isn’t as wonderful as it could be. This post is not to bash, but show apreciation, keep that in mind if your or your favorite podcaster is not in the top 2.

There will be no award that can be given other than readers of this site, a chance to listen to the media on the podcaster’s site. So i hope they enjoy the notoriety, no matter how small the traffic might be or low the number of interested link followers their are.Well without further  blathering, this is the list of 2009’s podcasters we hope to hear more from during 2010.

If you know someone with a podcast that should have made the list, leave their link. If it’s your link please let me know. i will gladly listen to more than one episode. probably every episode you do within 2010. Just respond to this post.

#10. Leslie Katz-Cnet News Daily Podcast, voice is kind of cool and not disruptive. Topics are clear and interesting.

#9. Alex Albrecht-Diggnation He drinks with Kevin Rose and reads from digg.com frickin a.d.d. train wreck lol!.

#8. Kevin Rose- Diggnation Gets drunk with Alex and gets off topic so often, I love it. Weekly Show.

#7. Andrew G.R.-Jobacle.Com s.Mostly writing there now. but still doing shows.

#6. Bryan LundukeComputer Action Show Computer Action Show. Seems like it’s up to twice a month nowe.

#5. Chris FisherComputer Action Show Computer Action Show. Seems like it’s up to twice a month now.

#4. Veronica Belmont-TekZilla New episodes: Thursdays usually around 45 minutes.

#3. Patrick Norton-TekZilla New episodes: Thursdays usually around 45 minutes.

#2. Leo Laporte –The Tech Guy Podcast Two Podcasts a Week for this show, Hours of entertainment while at work in a Zone.

#1.  Andrew McCaskey- Slashdot Review SDRNEWS SDR News Producer and Host – Slashdot Review about 15 minutes of just straight to the point tech news. No worries if you get super interested and can’t keep up, he has show notes on his website.

Joost Gets Bought up

Well, I had so much hope for joost when it first came up.

Leo Laporte and Amber Macarther talked so much about it.

I had to run out and get me a beta test. The first branch of i.p. TV tree had sprouted. They had a program you had to install that seems a whole lot like what  is now called Adobe Air. The program and the videos ran and played really smooth, looked pretty good also. One day a bunch of people started complaining about the install process (a whole 4 seconds to download, 12 seconds to install..) So the Joost team dropped the installer and started at going with online streaming video, much like Hulu. I really liked the program, it ran like a torrent  program or good ol Kazzaa. On a peer program.

Sad to say though, Joost never had any really good videos, other than “The Lexx”.

Joost  is sold to a company called “Adconion Media” . Really I never heard of them. I hope they make the best of it. I was actually hoping for nbc,cbs and or hbo/showtime/usa to merger on a deal to buy it. Oh well .

Good luck gang.

Akismet Down?

Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.

After clicking that link I get

The key you entered could not be verified because a connection to akismet.com could not be established. Please check your server configuration.

The key below was previously validated but a connection to akismet.com can not be established at this time. Please check your server configuration.

Since I updated to the latest version of WordPress I have been getting that error.

and below that error I get another

Server Connectivity

Unable to reach any Akismet servers.

A network problem or firewall is blocking all connections from your web server to Akismet.com. Akismet cannot work correctly until this is fixed. Please contact your web host or firewall administrator and give them this information about Akismet and firewalls.

Akismet server Network Status
66.135.58.62 Obstructed
66.135.58.61 Obstructed

Last checked 1 min ago.

On every one of my sights. The spam count is freaking high right now and everything is getting past akismet, ofcourse akismet’s count still says 100% accuracy.

Anyone got a work around ?

btw, my job blocks twitter and my posts send directly to twitter, soo I am not just yelling in the dark.

And of course after posting I get fatal error even though my posts do actually get to the web

Need More Tech Podcasts

After Leo Leaving the country and not recording the tech guy podcast, I realize how few tech podcasts are left out there.

Linux action show is computer action show now, that’s fine but heck there used to be a tech podcast network. that network kinda fell off the blip now.

anyone know some good tech podcasts ? please leave the link or rss feed in response to this thread.

Fake ipod From Ebay Compare

Maybe it’s safer to just say they are an MP3 players that to me look very similar to the ipod.

Purchased one for about ten dollar and it has 2 gigs storage. got it cheap because it’s pink. No one gives their daughter a fake ipod (i would because it really looks like linux). No one gives their son anything pink, so i grabbed it. If I cared, I would take it apart and paint the exterior.. Who knows, maybe a later post :-P. Took the MP3 player out of package and set it on the counter. Three days it sat there untouched. The comparison MP3 player came in , While opening the comparison MP3 player, I knocked the first one (the pink one) on the floor. blah blah blah, I stepped on screen area.

All seems to function well on both of them, so no harm no foul. I now have two mp3 players that I can plug into my VR3 car stereo I bought for $79 at walmart.

Here is a place for firmware and software knowledge base

The first one that came in has a phone book,mp3 player, mp4 player,Fm Radio, picture viewer

mp3 player I got on ebay for ten bucks

2g mp3 player I got on ebay for ten bucks

The fm Player, is nothing to brag about, Signal was rough, almost had to hold it on my head in a clear open area before I got single signal in a major U.s. city.

MP4 Player, The format isn’t exactly  an mp4 and not high quality at all, it’s like a really fast flipping gif.

Picture Viewer, yeah you guessed it, looks bad, really pixelated, so don’t let that sale you on the deal.

Phone book, exactly what you think it is, it is a phone book, you can add email address, home phone number and cell phone

Mp3 Player, 2 gigs is many hours of podcasts for me to listen to. The battery plays for exactly 6 hours 20 minutes. To play 6 hours of podcasts, i barely consume 100 megs of storage, leaving me 1.9 gigs of unused storage.

the usb connection plugs into my car stereo and the stereo sees it as a storage device, and charges the mp3 player at the same time. I have no idea how long it lasts, because I am usually where ever I am headed, within just a couple songs. Bad side is, it does not resume as you left off. Could be the stereo. Most likely is. Does it with the black one also.

512 megabyte mp3 player

512 megabyte mp3 player - 40 bucks

The black one is 512 megs and costs more than the pink one and is more squared, interface is exactly the same minus fm radio. less storage, and the ear connection busted within an hour of use and only plays out of one ear. Plugs into car stereo like the pink one, but battery dies unless I turn it off for a few minutes.Screen area is very very tiny. little more than half an inch looks great but very frustrating.

I have to give all  credit to the Pink one with round edges. sound is better, storage is greater price was cheaper (circumstantial though)
Display a tad larger, 1/16th of an inch larger, at best.

They will both make for good media storage devices to listen to in the car, that’s what I bought them for anyway. but the rounded edge one is the better quality . I have no model numbers on either one, sorry for the lack of info.

Tech Podcasts to start out August Work Schedule

Every week every day I have to start out listening to my shows. I start with sdr then move to the tech guythen caffination and then twit. Through out the week I pick out the rest.  Following week, I start all over. Occasionally I get lucky  and Jobacle has a new episode. If you send topic requests, he might actually research the topic and hook you up.  Really well done program, just not enough of it there.  The unsigned musicians portion of the show really is good stuff, most of time!

Twit This Week In Tech, a network created by Leo Laporte. Shows I highlight that I must listen to every week.

The Tech Guy, Net@Nite,TWIT.

Tech Podcast Network Place to hear tech podcasts and select from a few. sdr, linux news log, Mike Tech, CaffiNation,

Podnutz A gathering of tech podcasts on one network. pretty good stuff.

At the top of every page on the tech news site, there is a tool bar, you don’t have to use it but it does already have the podcasts I listed here in the rss feed and the radio player. I use that tool bar on my bootable linux thumb drive, my home pc, my laptop, my work pc , scanned a million times over  there is nothing to fear from that bar it really is very useful. but again, you o not have to use  it to try the podcasts I listed.

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Guest: Andy Baio of Waxy.org.

Facebook’s URL land rush, Twitter launches verified accounts, Andy Baio of Waxy.org, and more.

Sarah’s site of the night: Hunch.com

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WordPress 2.8 Is out

WordPress of course developed another fine version of WordPress.

Of course the auto update did not work well for me so I had of course tomanually install it.   just download and walk-through the instructions, nothing more, nothing less.

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.8.zip

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Is up and ready, Swing by Leo’s site (click his name) and send him a thanks. Don’t forget Sarah an Amber Mac! (is it still Mac?)

Hosts: Amber MacArthur, Sarah Lane, and Leo Laporte

Guest: David Cann of almost.at.

Facebook’s vanity URLs, tweet reading cat burglars, Keyboard Cat, Jauntsetter, and more.

Site of the week: Sarah Lane shows us Jauntsetter

Audible.com pick of the week: Raise Your Social I.Q.: How to Do the Right Thing in Any Situation , unabridged by Michael Levine, Narrated by Mary Woods. For a free audiobook, visit Audible.com/night.

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