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Today’s Guests:
Vanessa Fox, Founder, NineByBlue.com
Roger Chang, Senior Producer, Revision3
Andrew Eisner, Director of Content and Community, Retrevo
The Topics:
The New Twitter
IDF 2010
Intel’s New Wares
Steve Jobs, Ninja
The Killer Kindle Ad
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#51 Sorry, not an option.
#60 You didn’t need to watch it live. You could download the video and watch it later. I saw many a show on my plasma both from a computer and streamed with the wii.
Am remembering back around 1984 when John was a columnist/pundit & computer magazines were a quarter of an inch thick with tiny print & ads for everything then under the sun as far as computing gear. Articles would show code snippets. They were seductive, fascinating, & I would stare at them & began to comprehend them somewhat. Fun times, long gone.
sad to see this show go. i really enjoyed hearing non-fanboys of every product critically hashing out the tech news of the day. heck, i even bought one of the cranky geek shirts from jinx when they came out. that shirt gets me the most comments in public when i wear it. oh well, keep up the good work john!
There were always a lot of ads for 30 minutes, figures someone greedy was at the top.
But we need a cranky geek somewhere in cyberspace!
Not sure Revision 3 is a good fit, they seem to be aiming at the popcorn set as well, with a lot of small pods.
Twit could work – you and Leo could do a wine show and call it “Sloshed Geeks” *g*
Wow, hard to relive I have been watching it for over four years. Always enjoyed it, Thanks John.
never posted to anything before but as an old fart who stared programing with punch cards I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed JCD keeping me current with the good the bad and the ugly of IT. Unbiased (yeah right!)and unabashed. Like other’s here it got to the point over the years where actually looked forward to some down time so I could listen to the podcast on my old school blackberry. Good luck John.
Geek Brief become Geek Beat.
Hopefully the same will happen with Cranky Geeks. He has had a lot of Rev 3 guests lately.
Do miss Sebastian.
I loved the show would always watch it Thursday on my blackberry on the subway. I think you are a great host and the only podcast I cared to watch. Hopefully you can keep it going.
I’m gonna really miss the Show. This was the single show I turned on the TV for.
CG was by far the most entertaining, intriguing and funny tech shows around.
John, we’ll be waiting for your return
Lets hope this news is an early April Fools joke.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I loved this show.
I guess I’ll have to start over back at show #1 and listen to them again. (I saved all of them)
Good Luck John ;,,,(
Those “advertising agencies” seem to be douchebags, I for one used code “crank” when I ordered at godaddy.
The TwiT network shows that the longer format is working and is what the geeks that watch theese kinda shows want and respond to most. Actually I always thought CG was too short and a bit rushed, i prefer the relaxed athmosphere of the Laporte shows.
Well greetings from Austria and thanks for all the great shows!
I like whatever you do John. You will always have a following. I hope “Big Bucks” understands the tech aspect of whats been said on Ziff productions – be it TV or the Internet.
Now I’ll be a half hour short on shows to watch while ironing. I will miss CG even though the sound has really been crappy lately, and there were way too many commercials and self-serving ‘analysts’ and ‘consultants. The best guests were the cynics; the guys from The Register. Why they don’t do a weekly show full of critique and snark is beyond me. But in place of CG, we need something- and no not that clown Laporte.
John what ever you do it’s great! Cranky geeks is no exception,I will miss it.
People take for granted how hard it is to expose and put yourself out on this thing they call the internet and in media,advertising is how the game is played.If you don’t like something…don’t.I wonder if people that post hate comment’s about other people ever look in the mirror,they should and I do,hate myself more then anyone on this planet.Go on people keep the hate going!We can all watch this planet go into the dumper…Peace out:(
I have wondered when this would happen for the last several months — JCD’s attitude toward it all seemed to have changed somewhat. I have watched every single episode of Cranky Geeks (except, of course, the one where they forgot to record the audio!).
Like many others here, I was also a big fan of the predecessor show, Silicon Spin back in the old ZDTV/TechTV days. I was really surprised and bummed when that show was cancelled. This time the surprise is less, though still present.
Apologies to anyone who will see this as spam, but in the spirit of nostalgia, I have decided to celebrate the life of Cranky Geeks/Silicon Spin by putting one of my Silicon Spin mugs up for auction on eBay.
Heartfelt thanks to John and all the crew and guests who managed to overcome confusion, clumsiness, recession and flood to put out almost ten dozen shows! I look forward to the next incarnation, whatever that might be.
Very disappointed to hear the show is going away.
I definitely think CG was the best tech podcast I’ve come across. TWiT and others are nice, but Cranky Geeks was the one I look forward to most.
Wow can’t believe this is being wound up.
This is a great show. believe it or not, besides it being great to watch,
I watched it every week on my iphone on my train home from work.
Its adverising worked on me. I actually got Godaddy accounts and got others buying godaddy accounts too.
If that’s not the power of adverising at work what is??
Bring back the show!!
Jay
Southport
UK
I have one thing to say (well two including “thanks for making my Thursday morning shower time informative and productive”). What will my neighbors think when they no longer hear polka music blaring out of my bathroom window?
OK – ONE THING TO SAY:
“Cronky Geeks”
Check the definitions at Urban Dictionary. Nearly every form of the word could be applied in one instance or another.
Is our attention span really that short. What the hell?
Wait, what was I just saying?
Thanks John – we are here with you. It’s revolution time.
CrankyGeeks kind of grew on me. I listened to BOL for a while but it went from something I could tolerate to giggly crap. I tried Twit, but just did not get into the Leo crowd. However, I do like the Tech News Today that Tom Merritt has on Twit.