Geek Dads Weekly * QAQN.com
By Daniel M. Clark, Joe Magennis, Drew Bennett
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Podcast Description
Join Daniel M. Clark, Joe Magennis and Drew Bennett for a twice-weekly discussion about tech & internet, society & digital culture and raising kids. The dads juggle work and family and pass along their stories and advice, along with interviews and special guests.
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Put a Bullet Through This Podcast – Geek Dads Weekly #111 | In which Daniel, Drew and Greg talk about one of the biggest stories in the intersection of parenting and social media this week: the father who put eight rounds into his daughter's laptop because she wrote an expletive-filled rant about him on her Facebook page. ...or did he? | 2/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let’s Have Some Hot Dogs! – Geek Dads Weekly #110 | In which Daniel and Drew (and later, Greg) welcome Rob Merlino to the show. Rob - The Hot Dog Man! - is on the show to talk about hamburgers and chicken--wait, what? Oh. Right. Hot dogs. The Hot Dog Man is on the show to talk about hot dogs. That makes more sense than what I was going to say. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Pinterest for Men? – Geek Dads Weekly #109 | In which Daniel, Drew and Greg mull over the next generation, the history of blogging, Gentlemint.com, Drew's new recording setup, and the travesty that is the grocery store toy aisle. | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Have Been Warned – Geek Dads Weekly #108 | In which Daniel, Drew and Greg talk about a few things revolving around Affiliate Summit in some way or another. Plus, Game of Thrones, which was saved for the end in case people want to avoid spoilers and talk of taboo subject matter. | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A New Geek Dad! – Geek Dads Weekly #107 | In which Daniel and Drew welcome a new co-host to the Geek Dads Pantheon of Awesomeness - Greg Hoffman. The show notes will be completed later this evening. I apologize for the delay, but I wanted to get this thing posted before it got ridiculously late. Not that MONDAY isn't pretty ridiculous already, I suppose. I'll explain later. | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Always Made My Jumps – Geek Dads Weekly #106 | In which Daniel and Drew welcome Sam Harrelson back to the show for our New Year's Special. Topics include spotty resolutions, video games, social media, Shoemoney, affiliate marketing and more. | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Three Years? Really? – Geek Dads Weekly #105 | In which Daniel and Drew talk about a forgotten anniversary, the Affiliate Summit Newcomer Program, holiday decoration deals and 2012 being the best year ever for movies. | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Noted Joke Thieves – Geek Dads Weekly #104 | In which Daniel and Drew tackle such heavy topics as cello-based Star Wars videos, joke thievery, Louis CK and a Green Lantern contest. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just One of Those Days – Geek Dads Weekly #103 | In which Daniel and Drew get a late start, don't do the show live, and have to deal with Ian wandering into the studio. Turned out to be a pretty good show nonetheless. | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Still Great, Just Different – Geek Dads Weekly #102 | In which Daniel and Drew welcome Eric Nagel to the show to talk about his epic Christmas lights display. Also, Drew and his wife just added another human being to the planet and we mourn the loss of a Geek Dad. Still great, just different. | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emo Wolverine Feels Nothing – Geek Dads Weekly #101 | In which Daniel and Drew welcome the Affiliate Marketing Fanatics to show, talk about divorce, Facebook, the Rocky Horror Picture Show and a video game. None of which have anything to do with the other, sadly. Also, Emo Wolverine. | 11/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Milestone – Geek Dads Weekly #100 | In which Daniel, Joe and Drew celebrate the first 100 episodes of Geek Dads Weekly! | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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I Got 99 Episodes But a Bitch Ain’t One. (Wait, that doesn’t make sense.) – Geek Dads Weekly #99 | In which Daniel, Joe and Drew talk about video game systems, Gmail's new look & feel, managing giveaways & contests and Zac Brown. Hang on, who's Zac Brown? Oh, and I'm going to start betting on sports. | 11/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let’s All Sue Klout! – Geek Dads Weekly #98 | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe talk about Halloween, Pinterest, Pixar movies and the debacle that was Klout this week. Also: more information about the big 100th episode coming up! | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who is Gary Johnson?! – Geek Dads Weekly #97 | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe talk about girls vs. boys, DC vs. Marvel, grown-up humans vs. a corn maze, and husbands vs. wives (with the new iPhone 4s as the weapon of choice). Also, Klout. | 10/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #96 – Bronies, iOS 5 and Faceb–wait, Bronies? Really? | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe talk about… My Little Pony. Seriously. I know, I know. Also, combining Facebook and Spotify, upgrading to iOS 5 and all the headaches it caused, Shoemoney vs. the PMA and a bunch of other fun stuff. | 10/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #95 – Moving On | In which Daniel, Joe and Drew talk about the death of an icon, updates from the kids and the genesis of the Shoemoney/PMA episode of Inside Internet Marketing. We began this week with a discussion about Steve Jobs' impact and the legacy he left. It was not my most shining moment. 56 is just too damn young for anyone. Next up, Drew's daughter's birthday celebration is in full swing, with cupcakes and crowns at school. There's a local artist's collaborative that has a kids' birthday party area. For Eva's party, princess-themed sock monkeys! And more cupcakes. There was a big discussion about peanuts in school. Where did all these kids with peanut allergies come from? We don't remember it being like this when we were kids. Schools all have different rules about how peanut products can be brought in for lunch, and Joe's daughter's school says that if you bring in a peanut butter sandwich, you have to sit at a table away from all the other kids in the cafeteria. Last Tuesday was National Night Out, which we participated in. My wife and kids and I headed to the neighborhood park met a few neighbors (including everyone from the homeowners' association and the mayor of our town, who lives near us). Unsurprisingly, Joe and Drew had never heard of this event. Neither had I, though my wife swears she's known about it forever. You'd think after ten years of marriage, she would have dragged me to at least one of them by now... One of Joe's neighbors is missing a cat. You will not believe the lengths to which they are going to get it back. Listen to this segment and tell me you're not thinking of joining the search. The episode of Inside Internet Marketing that pitted Jeremy "Shoemoney" Schoemaker against the Performance Marketing Association is the most downloaded episode of any show I've ever produced. It was an insightful show and if you've not yet checked it out, you should! Here, I explained how that episode came to be and how it was produced. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #94 – Take Me to the Gifting Suite | In which Daniel and Drew get fired up about the Kindle, give updates on the state of the comics wall, and talk a lot about toys - some of which were for the kids. | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #93 – Ever Seen an 8-Year-Old Chef? | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe talk about child chefs, the Netflix drama, and the idea that not every kid has to be a winner. | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #92 – Spongebob Makes You a Stupid Gay Kid | In which Daniel and Joe discuss "bad" television for kids, throwing away your kids' stuff and accepting jobs outside of your comfort zone. Oh, and the nearly complete destruction of major studio equipment. Good times. | 9/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #91 – They Feel Good in My Mouth | In which Daniel, Joe and Drew cover the new school year, rant about advertising to girls vs. boys, and romanticize the immortal mix tape. Oh, and something about sweaty balls. | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #90 – She’s a Terrible House Guest | In which Daniel and Drew talk about getting mellow with the neighbors, rude hurricanes, and comics. Without Joe to restrain us, we went nuts with the comics. | 9/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #89 – She’ll Change Your Perspective in 3 Minutes -or- The Affiliate Summit East 2011 Recap | In which Daniel and Drew attempt to recover from Affiliate Summit East 2011, make sense of it all, and tell you all about it. | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #88 – Help! | In which Daniel flies solo, Superman gets his big reveal, and Obama turns 50. None of which have anything to do with the others, but wouldn't it be cool if they were all three related? | 8/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #87 – Countdown to Affiliate Summit East 2011 | In which Daniel, Joe and Drew give away $2,200 worth of passes to Affiliate Summit, talk about Captain America and Chevy Camaros. This was quite possibly the most American show we've ever done. Pass the apple pie. | 7/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #86 – Why Own When You Can Rent? | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe talk about live streaming issues, Apple news and Spotify. Glorious, glorious Spotify. | 7/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #85 – It Was a Two-Incher! | In which Daniel and Joe talk about suicidal cockroaches and Google+. | 7/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #84 – Google Minus | In which the guys talk about one of the most unpleasant subjects for parents: child pornography. Your faith in humanity may well be shaken after this one, folks. Also, Google+ and dealing with bad neighbors. We opened the show this week with a bit of talk about QAQN Live! and what it means to the show. I'm broadcasting episodes live on Ustream and Mixlr as they're recorded, and for my fourth attempt at doing a show this way, it worked pretty well! Almost perfect! Oh, there's a chat room, too. Keep an eye on my Twitter to learn when the next broadcast will be - there will be a set schedule someday, but right now, days and times vary. Do you have bad neighbors? Drew does. Listen to find out why... it's entertaining! The main segment this week is probably the most sobering conversation we've ever had on this show. We've talked about child safety before, but this is a whole new ballgame. To paraphrase a popular movie, it's not the same ballpark, it's not even the same sport. I participated in an online discussion (I know, that was my first mistake) about child pornography. There are those that were defending it in the name of art "because who's to say what art is or isn't?" and because it's protected as "free speech" under the law. NO IT ISN'T. Are you someone who uses the label "art" as a shield to defend free expression? We've heard this a number of times in the past. Everyone's art is valid. Everyone's art is special. Everyone's art is not to be censored. But photographed, painted or drawn, child porn isn't art. Please listen to this segment and speak out if you run into one of these lunatics in your life. Putting children in sexual positions isn't art, it's illegal. Moving on to a happier subject... Google+. We're not 100% on board with it and Joe is pretty annoyed that because he runs Google Apps, he can't tie into Google+. Peter Shankman had an article about this yesterday. We'll see how it shakes out in the next few months. Will it be another Google Wave? Or will it turn out more like Google Maps? Could be huge... could be a massive failure. Anyone want to place bets? [side note: aw, man. I just saw that Peter used the same play on words I did in the title, Google plus, minus. Oh well, I'm sure he wasn't the first and I won't be the last.] We wrapped with some updates from Drew about TeleNav and Kodak, and a voicemail entry into the Affiliate Summit Gold Pass Giveaway. If you would like a free Gold Pass to Affiliate Summit coming up in August, you need to enter the drawing! There are lots of ways to stack the deck in your favor, so check it out, all the details are in the show notes of episode 83. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 6/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #83 – Prepare to Be Cooked | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe care not about getting cooked by a solar flare. The rest of you are toast. | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGeek Dads Weekly #82.1 – Go the F**k to Sleep | In which Daniel, Joe and Drew talk about hockey riots, Affiliate Summit East 2011, and going the f**k to sleep. It's the QAQN: Rebirth episode of Geek Dads Weekly! We began the show this week by reintroducing ourselves - who we are, where we live, what our lives are like, and why we are geek dads. If you know someone who would enjoy a show like ours, this is the perfect episode for them to get to know us and get up to speed on what's what around here. We jumped right into the big news in the hockey world. Not that Boston won, but that Vancouver lost - and lost spectacularly... as a city. They played a good game by all accounts, but the post-game focus wasn't on the game, it was on the rioting that went on in its wake. We each have some thoughts about that careless and brazen lack of self-control by the citizens of that beautiful city. Next up, Affiliate Summit East 2011. I'm leading a panel called Affiliate Improv! for the second time along with Drew, Mike Buechele, Jen Goode, and Wade Tonkin. It's going to be a great time - the session was good the first time we did it, and we're taking what we learned and making it even better! Along with this news comes the announcement of a contest! We're giving away several Gold passes (a $549 value) to lucky listeners of various QAQN podcasts. We're beginning with the first pass this week; details on how to enter and win are below! Samuel L. Jackson narrated the audiobook version of the children's(?) book that our title this week references. If you haven't read Go the F**k to Sleep yet, you need to stop what you're doing, go to Amazon—here's a link—and get it. Then log into Audible—here's another link, see how helpful I am?—and download the audiobook for free. If you're put off by profane language, it's not for you, but if you're cool with the language, it's hysterical. Disclaimer: we blew out our iTunes Explicit setting on this one; normally we do a profanity-free show, but this was too good to pass up. The show is clean with the exception of that segment, which we warn you about as it comes up. We wrapped up with my story about surprising my wife with an overnight trip to Austin to see Rush play at the Frank Erwin Center earlier this week. It was a fantastic trip and a great mini-getaway for us. I wrote about the trip a few days ago, and told a couple of stories here that I didn't relate in text. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm Affiliate Summit 2011 Gold Pass Giveaway Contest Extravaganza #1 Official Rules and Entry Methods Entry is based on comments left here, below. There are lots of chances to stack the deck in your favor, so make sure you take advantage of all these opportunities! You must leave one SEPARATE comment for EACH entry. All but the first are completely optional. 1 Entry – Mandatory to Enter – To enter the contest leave a comment below telling us why you'd like to attend Affiliate Summit East 2011 in New York City. Leave this as your FIRST comment. We're interested in what you think about Affiliate Summit and why you want to go! (If this is not done your entry will not count) 1 Entry – Follow @QAQN on Twitter (Leave a Comment with your Twitter name) 1 Entry – Follow @BenSpark on Twitter (Leave a Comment with your Twitter name) 1 Entry – Follow @joemagennis on Twitter (Leave a Comment with your Twitter name) 1 entry – Like QAQN on Facebook. (Comment here after you’ve done this.) 1 Entry – Subscribe to the QAQN Newsletter - in the sidebar, to the right, up top. Right over there... see it? (Leave a comment letting me know you signed up) 1 Entry – Tweet about this contest… something like An Affiliate Summit #giveaway from @QAQN - free Gold pass! http://qaqn.com/gdw82-1 #ase11 (Leave a comment with a link to your tweet.) Bonus! TWO entries! | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #82 – In Search of Jarvis | In which Daniel and Drew manage to do almost a whole show without Skype crashing on one of us. I guess I shouldn't complain too much, it's not like Skype crashes are a regular occurrence. It's very annoying when it happens, but at least we were on the last few minutes before it happened. Some have been blaming the larger spate of Skype issues on Microsoft, noting that the service was more stable before the software giant bought Skype, but that's not exactly how things work, folks. We kicked off the show with an update about the QAQN: Rebirth inititative. I'm creating a jumping-on point for each of the QAQN shows to make it easy for new listeners to come on board. This is something that I intend to do every summer - if you know someone who might like Geek Dads Weekly, next week's episode #82.1 will be the one to introduce them to. All the QAQN shows will be delineated with a '.1' episode to mark the occasion. Speaking of updates - Drew's getting ready to close on his house! It's a stressful time, so don't hassle him more than usual. Maybe just a little more than usual, because, you know... fun. In talking about houses (both of us are recent/about-to-be homeowners again) we brought up the idea of home automation and home security. Is home automation voice activated yet? Can I call Jarvis, the automation AI from the Iron Man movies? Jarvis! Turn up the lights! I want a Jarvis; I'm going to start looking into home automation options since we'll be in this house a good, long time. Oh wait, someone already did. On the security question, my brother-in-law uses NextAlarm.com, which seems like a really good product/service. Next up, movies. Drew has had a chance to see X-Men: First Class, whereas I have not. That doesn't stop me from sharing my opinions about the flick. Do you shop online? Do you shop online just to save on sales tax? Yeah, me neither. Sure, I shop online - but it's because Amazon will ship almost anything to me for free in only two days, whereas I hate the very thought of walking into Walmart (which I do, sometimes, because let's be honest... cheap). Lastly, Drew has some recommendations for iPad apps for kids: Spot the Dot Ansel & Clair's Adventures in Africa Crayola ColorStudio HD We wrapped with a short bit about our friend Jim Kukral's new eBook, How to Catch Happy: A Guide to Reeling in the Biggest Fish of All! It's only 99 cents on Amazon, and it comes highly recommended. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #81 – Rapturous | In which we discuss the upcoming Rapture, what to do with your pets in the event you get taken, feelings of insecurity in mom-dominated situations, and computer security. If you're reading this after May 21st, 2011, congratulations (or condolences), you weren't taken in the Rapture. As I write this, it's a day away, and we're running out of time to prepare. What will become of your pets should you be taken? Thanks to a link shared by Logan Thompson on Twitter, I see that the small furry ones are covered. *whew* As work-at-home/stay-at-home dads, we are often called to take the kids places that are dominated by moms. Gymnastics, swimming lessons, ballet... very often, we're the only male in the room. In this segment, we talk about what's going through our heads in these situations. You might be surprised. Lastly, computer security and passwords. Do you have one password you use for everything? Do you use unique passwords but keep them written down on paper next to your computer? How strong are your passwords? We've got some good ideas in this area. Coming up, we'll be giving away complimentary GOLD passes to Affiliate Summit East 2011 - keep listening to Geek Dads Weekly to learn when you'll have a chance to win! All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 5/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #80 – Surprise! | In which Daniel, Drew and Joe talk about... wait, there's three of us? All at the same time? On the same episode? Aw, yeah Geek Dads! We got the band back together. We are once again a trinity, a three-piece, a triad, a trio, a... threesome, if you will. Drew has made the transition to weekend night shift at his company and is now joining Joe and I on Thursdays. The past few weeks have seen the QAQN podcasts in a state of flux, with all of us Geek Dads going through some serious life events that have prevented regular recordings of this and other shows. Drew's aforementioned job, Joe's transition from work-at-home-dad-with-kids to work-at-home-dad-with-kids-in-daycare, and my own struggles to balance time between work and buying, fixing & moving into a new home. This week's show almost didn't happen either, but here we are. After some witty banter (is there another kind?) we jumped into the heady topic of... punctuation. Yes, thrilling, I know. But what if we were to suggest that the smiley face emoticon - :) - might, in fact, be worthy of the descriptor "proper"? Listen up, grammar nerds, because we suggest exactly that. Next up, comic books, iPads and piracy of 70 years' worth of printed material. Drew pointed out an article to me that was posted on TUAW titled "Publishers' choice: Will the iPad be the hero or villain of the comic book industry?". The premise is that the comic book industry - a multi-billion dollar industry, make no mistake - is in a similar position to what the recording industry found itself in about ten years ago. It's not hard to demonstrate. Check out this Google query: DC Comics Chronology torrent. Do you understand what you're looking at? The results have titles like "Post-Crisis Pack 089" and "Post-Zero Hour Pack 72". People armed with scanners are scanning comic books, old and new, bundling them into torrents, and making them available online. How bad is it? The Google query I linked to? The Chronology series? That's every single comic book that DC Comics has ever published. Ever. EVER. Well, apparently there are a few missing, but if the torrents' contents lists are to be believed, it's probably upwards of 90-95% of every issue DC has ever put out. And that's just one company. Marvel fares no better, nor does Image, Dark Horse, Boom! Studios, IDW or any of the others. Ah, but I shouldn't ramble on about it here in the show notes... listen to the podcast to hear me ramble about it! We finished up with a surprise announcement from Drew, and I'm not going to spoil it here, it's just too good. Fast forward through the—fast forward? What is this, 1988? Are you listening to the show on cassette?—skip to the end if you like, you'll not want to miss this, because the official media blitz won't be coming for a little while longer. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm PS - just realized that episode 79 didn't get posted. Like I said, it's been a rough few weeks. Well, apparently I didn't hit Publish in Wordpress, and my show notes got nuked, too. So much for autosave. I'll be posting that anew over the weekend. Sorry. If you just want to listen and not wait for the notes, you can access the MP3 file directly. | 5/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #78 – Recovery | In which Daniel and Drew talk about massive computer failures, backups and other... stuff. It's been a rough couple of weeks. I was in a really great groove right before I went into the hospital, but that visit totally derailed me. I found it hard to work for a few days after, and just when I was feeling like I could focus enough to get going again, I had a catastrophic operating system failure and had to reinstall OS X. In the five years I've been on a Mac, that's a first (I used to reinstall Windows three or four times a year, so I'm feeling pretty OK about it). This episode was recorded four days ago, on Sunday. Clearly, I'm still not caught up yet, but if I have any hope of getting back on track, I've just got to put it out there and let it go. I just can't find the time to listen to the show again to come up with the rest of the show notes - we closed on our new house yesterday, so we're in full-on moving mode now. The next few weeks might be a little hectic. This was a great show though, and I hope you give it a listen despite the lack of a preview by way of detailed show notes. I'll be back in the groove soon enough, and better than ever. This, I know. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 4/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #77 – Updates Part 2 | In which Daniel and Joe catch up. After a couple of weeks between shows, me and Joe are back for the Thursday show. All this and more – thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN(7276). Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 4/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #76 – Updates | In which Daniel and Drew catch up after a couple of weeks off. | 4/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #75 – Who Needs Instructions? We Do, Apparently. | In which Daniel and Joe talk about decades of kid safety, our Lightboard contest, and awesome toys (Matchbox > Hot Wheels!). | 3/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #74 – We’re Not Really Geeks After All | Wherein Daniel and Drew talk about entrepreneurship, multinational corporations and affiliate marketing. You know, fluff. | 3/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #73 – Your Mother Will Not Mind if You Do | In which Daniel and Drew wonder about parental decisions, riff on television programming and scoff at people who tell us how to live our lives. | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #72 – Altercations | Wherein Daniel, Drew and special guest Brendan talk about dealing with in-laws, car trouble, kids media and not having time to ride. | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #71 – Frustrating, Funny and Exceptional | In which Daniel and Joe discuss the kids for the better part of the hour and briefly chat about the iPad 2. Also, there's a great story about destroying a BMW. You can see where the priorities were in this episode. | 3/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #70 – The King of the Man-Date | In which Daniel and Drew talk about some of our favorite podcasts, Charlie Sheen (of course), not watching the Oscars, and going on man-dates. Seriously. | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #69 – If you guys are really us, what number are we thinking of? | In which Daniel and Joe catch up after a week off and talk about the kids, the new Macbook Pros, buying new cars and the Pulse Network. | 2/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #68 – The Thrill of Victory, the Agony of Defeat | Wherein Daniel and Drew congratulate Sarcastic Voyage, talk about steampunk vs. Renaissance Festivals, and examine Drew's new gadgets. | 2/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #67 – Transformers and Our Barefoot Books Contest Winner! | In which Daniel and Drew talk about Transformers across various media and announce the winner of the Barefoot Books contest. | 2/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #66 – Never Record a Podcast When You’re Sick | In which Daniel and Joe prove that podcasting while sick is not a good idea. Yeah... I know. I know I said show notes for the last episode were forthcoming and I haven't done 'em yet. Well, I'm not doing them for this episode, either (yet). I'm still very sick, and still quite unable to get anything done. This sentence took me 20 minutes to write. So, yeah... no show notes just now. Sorry. | 2/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #65 – Raise Your Hand if You Like Tibetan Food | In which Daniel and Drew discuss Super Bowl ads, movie trailers, buying a fixer-upper and the revised Barefoot Books giveaway. Detailed show notes forthcoming, sorry. I'm very, very sick since Sunday. Oddly, despite being sick last night, this turned out to be one of my favorite episodes lately! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 2/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #64 – SaveJasonsMom.org | Wherein Daniel and Drew discuss home buying troubles, comic books, our friend's plea for help with his mother, and our Barefoot Books contest. Well, it looks like we'll be leasing a house rather than buying. Between the large down payment required and the taxes & fees (Homeowners Associations suck), it's just not feasible right now. The new plan is to lease a house so we can get out of this little apartment. Drew's been looking at houses up north for a while, too. We haven't talked about comics lately, so we discussed a few character deaths, the new Infestation crossover from IDW (Transformers, GI Joe, Ghostbusters and Star Trek - for real) and new TV shows GI Joe and Young Justice. Our friend, Jason Rubacky, is going through hell right now. His mother was hospitalized last week and his father was hospitalized over the weekend. The medical bills have been mounting, and Jason took to social media to help raise some funds to help his mom out. Learn more at SaveJasonsMom.org and please, give if you can. My great-aunt suffered from the same affliction, and I can tell you, it's not something I'd wish on anyone. Lastly... We're continuing our contest thanks to Barefoot Books. We’d like you to call our feedback line at 281-241-QAQN and tell us two things: what your favorite book was when you were a kid, and what you think your favorite Barefoot book might be. That’s all there is to it! The winner will receive 5 free books from Barefoot. Here are the official rules: OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES Open to U.S. residents only. Shipping address may not be a P.O. Box. Deadline for entry is 7:59pm Eastern on February 6th, 2011. The winner may either pick five (5) books from BarefootBooks.com or elect to be surprised and have the books chosen by Daniel and Drew. Voicemails may be played on a future episode of Geek Dads Weekly with contact information masked. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Side effects may include drowsiness, which is probably what you’re looking for when reading to your kids at bedtime. All this and more - thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 1/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #63 – Cyberbully II with Jim Beeghley | In which Daniel and Joe welcome special guest Jim Beeghley to talk about cyberbullying, kids getting "sick" at school, and inappropriate media for kids. [Sorry for the delay in getting the show notes up - I felt it was better to get the show out there notes-less rather than hold it until life slowed down enough for me to get them done!] Jim Beeghley, someone I'd helped with a podcast recording dilemma a while back, heard our Cyberbully episode and got in touch with us. Jim has first-hand experience with cyberbullying, as it happened to his daughter. You'll want to hear Jim's story and how he and his family dealt with this tough situation. The next segment was devoted to the stories that kids tell. Winter had an issue last week with getting "sick" at school. Yeah, those are we're-not-so-sure quotes right there. We finished up with a bit on advanced technology going into the next few decades (download your brain to a computer, anyone?). All in all, some really good stuff, here. Here's a few links: Jim's Secrets of Harry Potter podcast at sqpn.com Jim's blog, Civil War site, and Twitter Jim and I met via Cliff Ravenscraft's GSPN Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer We all hate - as parents - iCarly. WhatsWhat.me is live! A safe social network for kids. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #62 – For Those That See the World as Their Playground | In which Daniel and Drew discuss Barefoot Books, Late Night Parent and a new contest. We kicked off the episode with a recap of our weekends. Mine was pretty relaxing, though Angela and I missed a prime opportunity for some alone time by falling asleep at 8:30 on Saturday night. Drew reported back on a tremendous pizza place up near where he lives. The major segment of the show this time was our discussion of Barefoot Books, an excellent publisher that Drew and I are both really enjoying right now. Drew loves their books so much that he resurrected an old project, Read to Me, Dad, over at BenSpark.com. He and his daughter Eva are recording videos of themselves reading Barefoot books each night and talking about them. Drew and I are both Ambassadors (affiliates) for Barefoot Books, and Drew is using the commissions from the sales he generates to fund Eva's future education. I didn't say so on the show, but I'm committing to do the same with Ian and Winter. Any commissions generated through my affiliate link, qaqn.com/barefoot will go directly into an account for the kids. Drew's link is benspark.com/barefoot. We have a new contest to announce thanks to Barefoot Books! We'd like you to call our feedback line at 281-241-QAQN and tell us two things: what your favorite book was when you were a kid, and what you think your favorite Barefoot book might be. That's all there is to it! The winner will receive 5 free books from Barefoot. See below for the official rules. After we finished our praise of Barefoot Books, we talked about getting an email from Twitter saying that we'd both been followed by @LateNightParent. Further investigation revealed it's a live show on Monday nights starring Adam Cohen and Josh Becker, two guys we've come to know through Twitter and #DadsTalking (and Adam was a guest on the show a few months back). Check out the Late Night Parents show on Mondays at 10pm Eastern on MomTV.com. As we got near the end of the show, Drew talked about a project to raise awareness of Sanfilippo disease. Please check out Drew's post about it! OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES Open to U.S. residents only. Shipping address may not be a P.O. Box. Deadline for entry is 7:59pm Eastern on February 6th, 2011. The winner may either pick five (5) books from BarefootBooks.com or elect to be surprised and have the books chosen by Daniel and Drew. Voicemails may be played on a future episode of Geek Dads Weekly with contact information masked. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited. Side effects may include drowsiness, which is probably what you're looking for when reading to your kids at bedtime. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 1/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #61 – Everybody Does it at Some Point | In which Daniel and Joe discuss potty training, DVD vs. hard drive storage for home movies, podcasting gear and upcoming video productions. We opened the show with updates from "Potty Trainin' Joe" on the progress of his youngest. In an interesting take on using rewards to encourage potty use, Lily blows out a candle each time she successfully goes. She's really getting into it! Angela and I are on the cusp of training Ian, so we'll be giving that a try. Next up, we talked about storing home movies on hard drives or discs. Hard drives fail, but discs can break (and break down, over time). My current solution is to put things in three places: the internal hard drive, the external Drobo unit, and online to the Backblaze. I brought all my new podcasting equipment to Las Vegas, and I described on the show how I traveled with. It all fit in the carry-on suitcase, and TSA was surprisingly cool with it. It was very portable! Listen to learn why I would never, ever pack expensive electronics in my checked baggage. Affiliate Summit was great, and I devoted a bit of time in the show to talking about the Blogger Lounge and the reaction that I got to my little portable studio. Will we be doing video anytime soon? Maybe not soon, but there will be video coming from both QAQN and Joe's Baseballisms.com. One of the first things I'll be trying is something that Randy Cantrell of Bula Network does: an in-studio camera setup, a simple one-shot that shows me doing the show. Joe's a little more ambitious in what he wants to do over at Baseballisms. Next, a few of my plans for QAQN... I'm thinking of bowing to the pressure of the crowd and just calling it "Quackin'". It seems to be what people like. We wrapped up with coverage of the Amazon.com/Living Social deal - over 1.3 million gift cards sold in 24 hours. I bought one, did you? I'm not a massive fan of the Living Social/Groupon deals generally because it seems to be little more than teeth whitening, spas and laser hair removal half the time. This somehow led into a bit of a rant about companies buying other companies and how that kind of behavior stifles creativity and competition. Check out WhatsWhat.me for a safe social networking experience for kids. It's live, and it's awesome! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #60 – Hospitals, Conferences and Snow. Lots of Snow. | In which Daniel and Drew discuss a recent hospital stay, Affiliate Summit West 2011, the North American International Auto Show, and trying to get home in a massive snowstorm. I kicked off the show today with a report from my stint at the hospital this morning. I went in for some tests related to the abdominal pain that I've been having for the past few months and they found some fairly distressing things. The good news is that it's all reversible through diet, exercise and [possibly, if needed] medication. I've been trying to lose weight anyway, so this is just one more reason to kick that into high gear. The big keyword this time is TRAVEL. We talked about Affiliate Summit West 2011, Drew's made-up drink winning the contest at the buy.at party, and our session - Affiliate Improv - which got great reviews. Eric Nagel had my favorite feedback of all - in the hall later on he was very constructive and offered suggestions on how to make the session even better. Drew had to blast out of there nearly immediately after the session ended because he had to catch a plane to... The North American International Auto Show! Drew was sponsored by GM to attend the show and report on it. Before Drew gave his take on the show, I talked about my stunning defeat in the Purpose Inc poker tournament Sunday night and how a random stranger made me feel better about it. Drew's story of getting to, attending, and getting home from the auto show is a harrowing one, full of fluffy white drama at the end: the snowstorm that New England enjoyed last week kept him from getting home for an extra couple of days. Not cool. But his report is pretty awesome. [Incidentally, the Sonic restaurant chain is not the chain that operates under different names in different locations. I was thinking of Checkers, a similar drive-in-style chain, that operates under the name Rallys in some markets.] In other news... deep fried turkey, the Hub channel, and an introduction to Barefoot Books (the monster story that Winter liked so much was "Rona Long-Teeth" from Tahiti). Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 1/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #58 – Roll with the New | In which Daniel and Drew discuss hardware, flying with an iPad on the cheap, our kick-ass Affiliate Summit session and Boston Media Makers. It's a new year! Last year, we celebrated by changing the name of the show. This year, we're celebrating by changing the theme music; we rather like the name and figure we'll keep it. Drew and I open with a short recap of the past few days and then I played a bit of feedback that we received from Greg, a listener who had a bit to say about our Cyberbully episode and his $10,000 bike (side note: *choke* - ten grand??) Bike riding is great exercise, if you can find the time. Next up, Affiliate Summit! I talked about how I'm already packed and mostly ready to go - a first for me. I'm the guy that runs around like a maniac hours before I'm supposed to leave for the airport getting things ready, usually. Part of getting ready is my makeshift iPad stand for the plane. No way I'm paying $40 for a piece of molded plastic to hold up the iPad on the tray table... let's see how a $2 mousepad works instead. During Affiliate Summit, Drew and I will be doing a session called Affiliate Improv, along with Jen Goode, Mike Buechele and Wade Tonkin. Listen up for all the details, it's going to be a ton of fun! Drew attended Boston Media Makers and has a full report, including his time spent with Fitarella.TV's Jacqueline Carly. The Pulse Network is an exciting new network of productions that you should definitely check out. (The bluetooth speaker system that Drew mentioned is the Jabra Cruiser2. Worth a look!) Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-241-QAQN. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #57 – Farewell and Goodbye, 2010 | In which all three Geek Dads record together to say goodbye to 2010 and recap the year-that-was. It's been a great year for Geek Dads Weekly. Back in January, we re-branded the show from Geek Dads @ Home to Geek Dads Weekly, and in April, brought on Drew Bennett as a third co-host. Both Joe and I moved to new parts of the country, and all of us has seen some amazing milestones in our kids. We can't thank you, our listeners, enough. The upcoming year promises to be even better, and we're looking forward to sharing our experiences with you. See you in 2011! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #56 – Blizzards, Both Literal and Figurative | In which Daniel and Drew talk about snow, video games, and plans for the new year. After a rough start (the record button is your friend, never forget that), we kicked off with discussion about the blizzard-like conditions that Drew is dealing with in the Northeast. Being a New Englander originally myself, I find myself not really missing that part of the country at this time of year... though the skiing is probably amazing right about now. From snow blizzards to video game companies named Blizzard, next we talked about my recent foray back into World of Warcraft. It's a great geeky topic, folks. 's why we call the show Geek Dads Weekly. We also got into our various plans for the new year, which is coming up way sooner than I think either of us would like. We've both got some exciting stuff coming up - Drew talked about his plans for BenSpark, Road to Thin and a couple of other things, while I talked about QAQN and launching a podcast consulting service. The show notes are a little thin this week because I'm super short on time. Comcast decided that my 20Mb internet connection would be better off performing at under 1Mb for two days, Adobe Audition gave me editing headaches (I figured out what was wrong, so at least I learned something) and we're still recovering from the holidays. So... you'll just have to listen to the show if you want to find out what else we talked about ;) There's one more episode coming before the end of the year, so stay tuned! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #55 – Mommy Blogger, A. Bennett | In which Daniel and Drew discuss the failings of Yahoo, the pointlessness of StumbleUpon, the difficulties of physical fitness and Drew's status as a Mommy Blogger. It's not all negative! True, the leaked information about the closing down of Delicious is yet another nail in Yahoo's coffin (I'm amazed they're still in business, to be honest), and true, we did go on a bit of a tear about StumbleUpon's usefulness (there is none). But we weren't all negative. We also talked about fantastic Christmas displays at La Salette over the years and the strange fact that my family used to drive by Drew's house to get there 25-30 years ago. All this time later, here we are co-hosting a podcast. Weird. That led into a bit of a trip down memory lane, talking about points of interest to us in New England (incidentally, the restaurant we talked about that was featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives was Evelyn's, in Tiverton). Drew gave a run-down of what we've been doing with Road to Thin and his latest article about how technology keeps him honest. It's good stuff; if you're into weight loss at all, Road to Thin is an exciting new project you might enjoy. We talked next about Facebook games and World of Warcraft and how these things can really suck you in and make you lose track of time. Still, a little willpower, a little planning... you should be able to set aside some time for fun, right? When you're done sitting in front of the computer or TV, how about a little exercise? We talked about treadmill desks, iPad attachments for treadmills and my ideas for the new house we'll be in early next year - and we also covered Drew's YMCA membership and its benefits. Lastly, Drew had tickets to a great show, comped to "Mommy Blogger, A. Bennett". We might have to change the name of the podcast if Drew's going to count himself among the moms, but we'll see. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112.Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #54 – An Interview with Jim Turner of #DadsTalking | Wherein Daniel and Drew talk Battlestar Galactica, hard drive crashes and Dads Talking with Jim Turner. We opened with a bit of discussion about back pain, then went right into Battlestar Galactica, my new all-time favorite television show. Never has a TV show affected me as frequently as this one has. There is nothing not awesome about it, and it's all available for streaming on Netflix. As we get closer to 2011, thoughts of future podcasts begin to take shape - Battlestar? Thundercats? Go-Bots? Snorks? Rainbow Brite? Yeah, probably not any of those. Probably. Maybe. We'll see. The world is begging for a SilverHawks podcast, after all. Speaking of podcasts, as I'm working up a new episode of Daniel Destroys, I've discovered that blip.tv works for video distribution to YouTube, iTunes and other services. If you're thinking about producing video but are concerned about hosting, they're worth a look. Following that, we talked about the tragedy of losing media in a hard drive crash. Back a few years ago, I had a hard drive crash and lost thousands of music files and movies that I'd ripped from my extensive CD and DVD collection. Unfortunately, there were a few items, like Sponge's New Pop Sunday that had gone out of print. My CD had been broken, then the drive crashed. What do you do then? Drew and I talked about backup options. [Follow-up: apparently, that disc is available as an Import on Amazon now. Very cool - guess I know what I'm ordering next from Amazon.] Have you ever tried to coordinate a conference call between five or six people spread out in different time zones? Drew and I talk next about the trials and tribulations of coordinating schedules; I'm using tungle.me to help keep things straight. Drew will be heading to the North American International Auto Show, which is happening at the same time as Affiliate Summit. He'll be in Vegas for Summit Saturday and Sunday morning, then on a plane to the auto show Sunday afternoon. That means he gets to participate in the Affiliate Improv panel, but he and I won't get to do that footrace down the strip that we'd been talking about. Next up, we brought on Jim Turner from Dads Talking (@genuine on Twitter). We haven't had a ton of guests on the show, but when we do, we're always thrilled with the result, and Jim's appearance here was one of my favorites. Dads Talking began as little more than a collection of dad bloggers using the hashtag #dadstalking on Twitter. Jim gave us the history of the hashtag and his site, as well as his involvement with Blogworld and his efforts at building a community of dads online. One of the first things I asked Jim was, how can dads turn 'daddy blogging' into a business? The 'mommy bloggers' have their own gig, how can dads make a go of it? He has some great insights there. Jim turned the interview around on us, and asked what our plans are for the future of the podcast. Are we shopping this thing to Rupert Murdoch? [no.] I explained a bit of the history of the show and what our ideas for 2011 are. We're looking to bring on guests - and in fact, we mentioned that if you're using the #dadstalking hashtag, you're probably someone we're interested in talking with. Give us a shout! Like Jim did at Blogworld, I'll be at Affiliate Summit with a recorder and a microphone. I'd love to talk with you in person. I'll be spending a lot of time in the Blogger Lounge when I'm not out making the rounds. If I don't find you, feel free to come find me! I'm barely scratching the surface of all the great stuff Jim had to share with us, and if you're anything like me, and I know I am, you'll really enjoy this interview. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #53 – So Lonely, Oh So Lonely | In which Daniel goes again on his own. Walkin' down the only road he's ever known. Like a drifter, he was born to walk alone. But he's made up his mind... he ain't wastin' no more time. Whitesnake lyrics? Srsly? It's just me this time, as Joe is down in Atlanta packing up the rest of his house to finish the move up north to the Boston area. I decided against bringing in a co-host because as I get closer to 2011 and the launch of new podcasts, I decided that I want more time behind the mic solo. Practice makes perfect, as the saying goes. I opened the show with a bit of a podcasting lesson about the differences between solo and co-hosted recordings. I then announced the winner of our fifth Affiliate Summit Gold Pass - John from WickedFire! I'll be DMing him on Twitter shortly after I post this with his special registration code. Thanks for participating, John. Speaking of Summit, I signed up for Purpose Inc's poker tournament in Vegas on January 9th. Wish me luck. I hope to be able to do both the tourney and the ShareASale Under the Stars party. Next up, I talked a bit about LinkedIn and why I don't use it. My time is limited, and I have to pick and choose how I spend it, and LinkedIn just isn't on the list right now. Penultimately, a synopsis of the recording schedule through January. In a nutshell, it's like this: up through December 19th, normal. December 23, 26 and 30 are up in the air depending on what my co-hosts have planned for the holidays. January 2nd should be back to normal, but then we're in Las Vegas for Affiliate Summit. We'll be putting out shows while we're there, but not on our normal schedule. More on that as we get closer to the event. Finally, there was a short bit there at the end about the differences between talk radio and podcasting. If you're a podcaster, if you produce podcasts, don't call your show "an internet radio show". It's not radio. Radio's got nothing to do with it. It's like going to see Avatar and calling it a play. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Also, you can email us at feedback@qaqn.com. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #52 – Cyberbully | In which all three Geek Dads talk about cyberbullying and a great new startup aimed at providing a safe social network for kids. Also: Drew rides a $2,000 bike. Srsly. Joe sent me a message about an article in the New York Times about cyberbullying, a topic that hits us both as geeks and as dads. Is cyberbullying fundamentally different than bullying that has gone on in generations past? What do you do when you find out it's your child that's doing the bullying? What tools are available? We barely scratched the surface of this complex topic, but it's one that we will be spending some good quality time on in shows to come. Using facial recognition for the login process is something that startup What's What hopes will keep its community safe from bullying behavior (as well as from identity theft and potential adult abuse). It doesn't stop there. Check out WhatsWhat.me to learn how this new social network aimed at 7-14 year olds is trying to fight the good fight. Our prediction is that will be one of the services to watch in 2011. Here's the survey that Joe mentioned. Moving on, Drew's made an offer on a house for the first time! Sweet! Fingers crossed. After that, I gave an overview of the Attention! This Book Will Fight Breast Cancer charity project. Author Jim Kukral was my guest on Inside Internet Marketing a few days ago, and made a generous offer that we hope will generate more interest in the project. The signed book will be up for auction during Affiliate Summit West 2011. Drew then spilled the beans about "that thing with those guys" that we've been teasing about for the past couple of shows. The project is called Road to Thin, and it's five guys on a mission to drop at least 50 pounds each - myself, Drew, Kevin Metzger, PJ Mullen and Donny Claxton. We've got a site set up, a bi-weekly podcast, and it's going to be awesome. We're on Twitter, too. Lastly, Drew had a test drive on the EliptiGO that he mentioned on last week's show. It went really well, but... it's $2,000. For a bike. Still, it's pretty damn cool. We wrapped with a short bit from Drew about a press conference that he did with some of the cast of Leverage, including noted joke thief Wil Wheaton. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #51 – Advent Birds | In which Daniel and Joe discuss friends and family, Angry Birds, another Affiliate Summit pass giveaway, and why Derek Jeter needs to be a Yankee. We began this time with some family talk - high school reunions, the perils of moving kids from school to school, and settling in new places. We also talked about Facebook/Twitter usage among the general population (I meant a hundred and four or five million, not "four or five million" Twitter users. Sorry for the misspeak. Don't know where my head was in that moment.) Also, Ancestry.com. More on the kids - my daughter Winter will be tested for the "Gifted & Talented" program at school, which is awesome. Joe and I talked about what that means exactly, and I told my story about skipping Kindergarten and how that affected me in later years. Next up: Angry Birds! The expansion was just released and it's... weird. You get 25 new levels, but they're doling them out one per day, like it's an Advent calendar. Ugh. I'm not a fan. Gimme mah levels! Groupon is (apparently) being bought by Google. We kicked a few thoughts around about Groupon and I pose the question: does Google have to buy everything? Joe's Sports Minute is about Derek Jeter this time, with the free agent currently out of a Yankee uniform. We both agreed that's ridiculous and the club needs to sign the guy and be done with it. He's a Yankee. Sign him. Lastly, we have one more Gold pass for Affiliate Summit to give away! Call us at 281-826-2112, leave your name and Twitter handle (or email), and a reason you'd like to attend Affiliate Summit. We'll draw one name next Thursday morning (at noon Eastern). Gold passes are valued at over $500, enter today! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 12/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #50 – Midlife Crisis | In which Daniel and Drew talk about weight loss, give away some Affiliate Summit passes and wonder about celebrity replies on Twitter. This being a milestone episode (half a century old!), it's only fitting that we celebrate by having some technical difficulties, in the spirit of Geek Dads @ Home and Geek Dads Weekly episodes of yore. I'll get to that in a minute. We started out with a brief discussion about weight loss and the new podcast at QAQN.com, Yet Another Weight Loss Show. I'm on a mission to drop about 50 pounds, and if that's of any interest to you, the new show might be right up your alley. I'm sharing my strategies, my successes and my setbacks - and I'm not doing any kind of fad diet, either. Next up, speaking of food - Thanksgiving! Drew and I each recapped our holiday, and we both agree that a great time was had all around. Leading into the segment about the winners of the Summit passes, I mentioned that I was using WireTap Anywhere to route audio around my Mac. It's what made it possible to play the voicemails from our winners in realtime rather than add them in post-production. Turns out, that wasn't a great idea. The software caused major Skype latency, and actually killed the call at one point. The whole thing was just a mess, and I strongly recommend against this software unless you do some thorough testing first. Maybe it'll work for you - it didn't work for me at all. We do have some winners to announce! Each of our four contest entrants has won a Gold pass to Affiliate Summit West 2011 - congratulations! Our winners are: Patrick Hughes Amanda MacArthur Michele Hall-McCaffry Randy Cantrell We did have five passes to give away, but four entrants means we'll be giving away that final pass at a later date. Winners will be contacted shortly and given a special code to use when registering for the event. Drew followed that up with an update of his SwagsGiving contest, which, depending on when you're reading this, might be over. It ran the month of November and Drew gave away some amazing stuff. Mark your calendars for next November, because there's sure to be a sequel. Next: have you had a celebrity reply to you on Twitter? Was that a special moment for you? Did you feel like you connected somehow with the celebrity? I got a reply from Kurt Busiek (okay, not exactly a Kanye-level celebrity, but someone I hold in very, very high esteem). It made me think about celebrity Twitter connections, and we discussed this on the show... right before WireTap crashed the call. Erm. Anyway. We came back and wrapped up with a bit from Drew about getting ready to try out the new EliptiGO bike. This thing looks awesome in a funky way, and I can't believe nobody came up with it sooner. Very cool stuff. I wouldn't mind seeing a bit more of a... realistic... price. Yow. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #49 – One Week Left | It’s the Sunday... okay, Tuesday, episode with Daniel and Drew! We kicked off the show this time with a reminder that we’re running a contest: we're giving away five Gold passes to Affiliate Summit West in January. Call into our voicemail feedback line (281-826-2112), let us know why you want to go, and we’ll put your name in the pile for the drawing at the end of the month! Your voicemail should include your name, Twitter ID or email, and a comment. Voicemails may be played on the show, but your contact info (email, if you give it) will be masked out, don’t worry. We played two voicemails from our first two entrants, Amanda and Patrick! [Update: it occurred to me that we haven't clarified this... each winner will receive one Gold pass, not all five. There will be five winners. Sorry if there was any confusion!] Drew had a great weekend, starting last Thursday with a meeting of Boston Parent Bloggers at Barefoot Books in Concord, MA. The event was catered by the Pea Pod service in partnership with Stop & Shop. Later, Drew went and saw Tangled, and gave it very, very high marks. It was Eva's first experience going to the movies, and she had a great time. You've got to hear Drew explain it, it's precious. We talked about a few other movies, including Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I, Tron: Legacy, Starman, and the Chronicles of Narnia series. Next up, we did a bit about comics and ancient Greek & Roman gods. Drew wrapped up his weekend with Boston Media Makers and Southern New England Media Makers. The greater Boston area is shaping up to be a real hotbed of geeky social activity. Drew spent two hours talking with the group about tech, what they're doing with video, audio and internet efforts including affiliate marketing (related links: stevegarfield.com and buzzfarmers.com) We wrapped up the show with a short discussion about Patch.com and then an upcoming race that Drew and I will be having in January during Affiliate Summit West 2011. We'll have more to share as we finalize those plans, but we're planning on a walking race down the strip. Listen for ways that we're going to make it interesting! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #48 – You Can Have Any Kind of Media You Want as Long as It’s Social | It’s the Thursday episode with Daniel and Joe! Before today's episode, I fired up my RSS reader to look for topics to cover on the show today. What we ended up with was a list of topics that all (almost all) in some way or another were related to social media. Weird. We kicked off with, of course, The Beatles on iTunes (affiliate link). It's hard not to talk about that, as it was the thing on a lot of lips (virtually speaking) on Monday and Tuesday. What's Apple doing now? Is it streaming music? Is it the Beatles? Is it iOS 4.2? What do those clocks mean? Hey, that kinda looks like the cover of the Help! album. Gotta be the Beatles... Neither one of us was particularly enamored of the way Apple handled the situation. A day you'll never forget? Hardly - and Joe's been a fan for several decades. This discussion led into a bit about bands remastering and re-releasing albums. Are you an audiophile? Can you tell the difference between the Beatles' 1987 remasters and the 2009 remasters? Next up, Joe melted some rock recently with the Rockmelt browser - the new browser that seeks to integrate social media into the browsing experience. Time will tell if it's able to make a dent in the browser market - or if it will ignite a new round of browser wars (something one of its creators is intimately familiar with). I proved that I know way too much about silly things when we talked about the Smurfs' Village game for iOS and how it's the biggest grossing game now, beating out Angry Birds. It's not without controversy, though. There were two Twitter-related pieces that we covered next. First, in a bit of a funny story, Shaq gave out his phone number on Twitter. And if you think it was his real number... yeah. Nobody ever accused Shaq of being dumb (not twice, anyway). It was a fun prank. The next story was that of Target buying the #BlackFriday hashtag on Twitter. Neither of us are really on board with the whole Promoted Trend thing, but we kicked it around a bit and tried to come up with some justification for it. Penultimately.. Google Voice is back on the iPhone. *Yawn*. We both have it, neither of us is going bananas over it. Joe's Sports Minute this week is not about baseball, but about NASCAR. As ratings decline, there is some real drama happening in the sport going into the final few races. Some great drivers are neck and neck going into the final standings, making for some pretty exciting stuff. Situations like this could serve to catch the attention of the casual fans that seem to have their attention elsewhere. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #47 – Facebook Outs Your Private Emails (Future Headline) | It’s the Sunday episode with Daniel and Drew! Great show this week, here's the rundown on the topics we covered: Have you ever seen a person talk on a cell phone with one hand, flip you off with the other, and drive 70 miles per hour all at the same time? I have. Just did, yesterday. Then I encountered someone who likes to floor it, get up to about 75 then slow down for the traffic light less than a mile down the road. Weird, huh? Why bother speeding? I shared a radical idea for driver education that probably won't be very popular. Nintendo is trying to trademark "It's on like Donkey Kong" because nothing says "We're hip! We're relevant!" like trying to trademark a popular phrase that you didn't invent for your own gain. On a related note, check out the Super Secret Project on YouTube (it's like a Six Degrees game, the connection between the trademark attempt and the video is explained in the show). Next up - Facebook mail. What do you think the odds are that your private emails will remain private when they're being handled by a company that routinely blows up its privacy settings and exposes your private data to anyone who wants it? Oh, don't worry, you'll be able to go in and reset your privacy settings after your emails get exposed to all those marketers. One alternative to Facebook mail, one that Drew and I both use, is Gmail. We talked a bit about Gmail, account forwarding, using mail clients vs. the web interface and the quality of Google's spam filters. Lastly, don't forget we're running a contest, giving away five Gold passes to Affiliate Summit West in January. Call into our voicemail feedback line (281-826-2112), let us know why you want to go, and we'll put your name in the pile for the drawing at the end of the month! Your voicemail should include your name, Twitter ID or email, and a comment. Voicemails may be played on the show, but your contact info will be masked out, don't worry. Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #46 – Podcasting, Veteran’s Day, and Baseball Cards | It’s the Thursday episode with Daniel and Joe! Today kicked off with a pretty detailed discussion of podcasting practices and methods, inspired by someone that I have a lot of respect for in the field, Cliff Ravenscraft. We talked about workflows, equipment and software. Joe followed that with a story related to Veteran's Day and - well, just watch this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KC0dUUg57M4 We wrapped with a discussion about baseball cards and the nuns who recently netted over $200,000 for a found Honus Wagner card. Joe's got some exciting stuff coming up at Baseballisms.com, so don't miss out - keep an eye on the site in coming weeks! Thanks for listening! We’d love to hear your thoughts. Leave us a voice mail at 281-826-2112. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #45 – Why Are You Screaming!? | It’s the Sunday episode with Daniel and Drew! We began this week with a major snafu - I sort of... well... forgot to hit the record button. Once we got it rolling though, things were good. We started with a bit of a rant about the afternoon that I had to spend at our local Chuck E. Cheese's (we won't be taking them on as a sponsor anytime soon, trust me). Drew had a much better day than I did, hanging out as he did with guys like C.C. Chapman and Steve Garfield at Boston Media Makers. Drew followed up his description of his afternoon with an update on some new video production equipment he just picked up - a Sony ECM Condenser Stereo Microphone and a Sima SL-20LX Ultra Bright Video Light (affiliate links). Next up, we discussed two contests that we're running. Drew is still running his SwagsGiving contest over at BenSpark.com - definitely go check that out for some awesome prizes - and here at Geek Dads Weekly we're giving away five Gold passes to Affiliate Summit West 2011! Want to win the first pass? Give us a call! Pick up the phone, dial 281-826-2112 and tell us your name and why you'd like to go to Affiliate Summit West in January. We wrapped up with a short discussion about a story that's been getting a lot of media attention this week: the mom that went along with her five-year-old son's desire to dress up as Daphne, from Scooby-Doo, for Halloween. Neither of us have a problem with the kid's choice of costume - but we agreed that it's strange that a mom who takes care not to mention her son's real name on her blog thought that it was A-OK to put an unaltered picture of him in-costume in the article. Hm. Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #44 – Disciplining Kids, Facebook Places and The Simultania Project | It’s the Thursday episode with Daniel and Joe! The episode kids off with a bit of parenting talk. How do you discipline a two year old? What about a five year old? How about a five year old who shrugs off the methods that worked when she was two? Some big news this week came from Facebook with the launch of Facebook Places to compete with services like Foursquare and Gowalla. I'm not too enthusiastic about it, but Joe is a little on the bullish side - we'll see how it all plays out in the next few months. Will Facebook be able to supplant those dedicated location-based products? Joe gave a heads-up about The Simultania Project, a site that anyone with a video camera and a minute to spare next Saturday morning should check out. It's an awesome idea! Joe then wrapped up with a Sports Minute - probably the last baseball-related Sports Minute until the season starts up again next year. This time it's about Candlestick Park and the "Croix De Candlestick" that was handed out to hardcore Giants fans back in the day. Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #43 – Boo! Halloween, Free Wi-Fi Dangers and New Twitter Rules | It's the Sunday episode with Daniel and Drew! Well, Monday, really. With Halloween falling on a Sunday this year, Drew and I decided to do the show after the kids had gone to bed the following night. We lead off with discussion about bedtime routines for our young kids - what works, what doesn't, what mistakes have been made. Following that, staying on the family topics, we recapped Halloween. Drew went out as Peter Pan, or alternately, Robin Hood. I went out as a podcaster. Or a web developer. Basically, I went out as whatever you can think of that would be well represented by a white t-shirt and jeans. All of our girls - wives and daughters alike - went out as fairies. Drew talked about Swagsgiving next, which is an awesome contest that you need to be involved with. He's giving away a ton of conference swag that he's collected and if your first thought was "yeah, like I want to win a crappy t-shirt", think again. He's giving away autographed books, cameras, and all sorts of really awesome stuff. And his method of giving away the prizes is pretty cool, too. Peter Shankman wrote an article that we discussed next, about the dangers of free wireless hotspots, or wi-fi. There is a vulnerability in the way websites serve up their pages that allows anyone with the Firesheep add-on for Firefox to see you on the network and login to whatever website you're logged into. Signed into Facebook? Someone with this add-on can get into your account using your login name and password. Same with Twitter, Yahoo, and any number of similar sites. We highly recommend you read Peter's article about this. Also in the news, Twitter has rewritten a few of its rules. First, you have to capitalize the T in Tweet. No, seriously. That's a new "rule". Listen for more "rules" and how we feel about them. We wrapped up with a discussion about profane language - when it's appropriate, when it's not. What happens when the kids discover profanity? You might be surprised at my answer. Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #42 – The Future of Social Networks -or- Daniel is a Crackpot | It's the Thursday episode with Daniel and Joe! We began this week with a bit about recording a podcast using a USB microphone, Apple's Camera Connection Kit and an iPad, including a bit that I recorded at a session at Shareasale Think Tank (cameos here by Jason Rubacky, Shawn Collins, and Chris Pearson). Next is discussion of social media and networks. Are there too many? How many do average users use, and what would it take to get someone to use a new one? Is that even possible? I'm probably a crackpot for suggesting what I did in the next segment... have computer operating systems hit a dead end? I think they might have. Sure, they'll be improved - you can always tighten up your code, reduce bloat and increase speed and efficiency... but features? What can Microsoft or Apple add to their operating systems that third parties haven't already perfected? Where's the innovation? (I'm lookin' at you, OS X Lion) You know what I hate? Arrogance. There's a difference between having great self esteem or a solid sense of worth and true arrogance. I told a story on the show about a podcaster who is very, very arrogant. I didn't name names because it's not necessary to make my point, but if you are an aspiring podcaster, I have a very valuable lesson for you this week (and that's not arrogance talking, that's fact ;) Joe's Sports Minute this week is devoted to the World Series and the history of the Texas Rangers. Did you know that the team began as the Washington Senators? I didn't. Joe did. That's why it's Joe's Sports Minute, not Daniel's Sports Minute! Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #41 – Battlestars, Chevy Tahoes, and Think Tanks | This is the Sunday episode with Daniel and Drew! We were both tired going into the recording this time; Drew had just returned from an awesome road trip, and I decided to stay up until 3am Saturday night watching Battlestar Galactica (hey, the title isGeek Dads Weekly, folks). I narrowly avoided laying some spoilers on Drew - even though the show debuted back in 2003/2004 and has been off the air since 2009 and I think it's fair game to talk about, I'm not going to lay a bunch of spoilers on him (or the audience, in case folks are, like me, late to the party). Next, Drew talks about an awesome road trip he had in a Tahoe supplied by Chevy. He made arrangements with the company to have the vehicle delivered to his home and spent a few days driving to various events. He'll have write-ups and video soon at BenSpark.com. Pretty cool! Someone on Twitter earlier in the day talked about children calling adults by their first names, and seemed to support that. I don't, and I asked Drew about it. Lastly, my recap of the Shareasale Think Tank event, which was simply awesome (the event, not the recap - although the recap is pretty good, too). I arrived Monday afternoon, had a lovely lunch withGreg Hoffman, Tricia Meyer and Cindy Ballard, then checked into the Ritz-Carlton. The reception Monday night was fantastic, the sessions on Tuesday were fun and informative, and the wine tasting Tuesday night was... well, I explain it on the show. Wednesday we wrapped up, and once again, Brian and the Shareasale crew knocked it out of the park. Think Tank continues to be one of the highlights of my year. Links! Whrrl.com Flickrvision.com Dad of Divas Drew's Vimeo page Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #40 – Alligators! | This is the Sunday... no... Tuesday... wait... Thursday! episode with Daniel and Drew! Episode 40 was recorded on location at Shareasale's Think Tank event on Tuesday, October 19th. The full report about Think Tank will come later (as it was still going on at the time) but Drew offers up his full run-down of his time at Blogworld. Show notes are a little sparse this time, sorry about that. My post-Think Tank hours have been packed with work and family, so I'm planning on adding to the notes over the weekend. It's not ideal, but it is what it is. Drew's recap of Blogworld is awesome, well worth a listen even without a summary. Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #39 – So Bad it’s Good! | It’s the Geek Dads Weekly Thursday Edition with Daniel M. Clark and Joe Magennis! We've got a great show for you today. Joe and I start off with an update on each of our living arrangements - selling houses and doing it digitally when possible. We then jump into an exciting new development from Google - the automated car. It's a car that drives itself, folks, and if you don't think that this is the single most important advancement in human transportation since the invention of the car itself... well, you might be right. But we disagree. In fact, I take it one step further in suggesting that this might be the first step toward the mythical flying car. Jetsons here we come! Joe has connected Facebook to Skype and explains a bit of the whys and hows of it. Doesn't it seem like Facebook is just everywhere right now? Joe's sports segment - we'll have music for it eventually! - is dedicated to Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, who retired recently. Cox was the manager of the Braves for over two decades, and will be missed by fans of the team. His managerial record is astounding. Enjoy retirement, sir. We close with a lesson learned from the previous episode's production - and then another podcasting lesson as Skype disconnected our call. Things happen. Nobody and nothing is perfect. You just do your best and if something goes awry, you learn from it and move on. (That said, Sunday's episode 40 will definitely be late. Drew and I are planning on recording possibly Monday from Think Tank since he's on a plane home from Blogworld on Sunday and I've got an early flight Monday morning.) Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #38 – Irony | Hey, Daniel here. Remember last Thursday's episode wherein I was saying how doing two shows a week was great because I work well under pressure? Remember how I was saying that the schedule was good for me because I know that I can't be posting Sunday's show on Wednesday because there's a new one to post on Thursday? Check the post date on this episode, recorded Sunday the 10th. But you know what? These things happen. I'm not going to explain why the show is late being posted because it's not important. The important thing is the lesson that no matter what your best intentions are, sometimes mistakes get made and you just have to accept that. Your blog posts won't show up on time, your newsletters will get hung up on the server, your podcasts will be late. As long as you make your best effort and it's not a regular occurrence, you just have to apologize to the audience and let it go. So... sorry. Moving on! This is the Sunday show with me and Drew! I'm not gonna lie to you kids, this is an especially geeky episode. We talk at length about things like Smallville and whether or not Superman should put on the cape or not. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Here's the rundown: We open with a great idea for a new award: The Poddys! If they can have Webby awards, why not an award for podcasters? Poddys, potties - we talked a bit about potty training as well. What works, what doesn't, and how I've never subscribed to Bosnian Parenting magazine. Speaking of magazines, SkyMall is awesome. Well, awesome in ironic way, in that it's not awesome at all. It's quite bad. In a good way. You follow? Drew took some pictures of a few things from SkyMall and put some funny captions to 'em. If you're connected to Drew on Facebook, you can see them there. Right at this point in the show we start talking TV - How I Met Your Mother, Smallville and all the geeky stuff that goes along with it. Then we tear apart the Fantastic Four movies thanks to an awesome quote from Gail Simone. More superhero TV as we talk a bit about a new show called No Ordinary Family. Sunday was Eva's third birthday! Drew's got the recap of the big day. That leads into a discussion about cup cakes - what on earth is the deal with these $5.00 cupcakes? How insane is that? Drew's checking out the Kodak M580 and has a bit of a review for the show. I dropped the big news about my new podcast! It's called Inside Internet Marketing. It's an interview series and the first few episodes will be recorded at Shareasale's Think Tank event next week. I'm not linking to the site yet because it's not complete, but soon... very soon... like Geek Dads Weekly, it'll be hosted at GeekCast.fm. I went into some detail about how I'm going to be recording the interviews while on my trip, and what equipment I'll be using. (I got the Blue Snowball USB mic (in black) delivered last night, it's pretty great.) [affiliate link] I also go over my plans for a couple of other podcasts related to comics, which may or may not see the light of day before the end of the year. They'd be video podcasts most likely (shout out to Jim Kukral's Online Video Toolkit here). Drew has more details to share about Blogworld at this point, and if you're going, be sure to check out his panel because there's going to be prizes! (and because it'll be a great panel, of course). Kodak is giving out some great stuff at the panel. He's heading to Blogworld courtesy, in part, of Seagate via Collective Bias. Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm. | 10/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #37 – Daddy Needs a New Pair of Shoes | It's the Geek Dads Weekly Thursday Edition with Daniel and Joe! Today the duo talks about Affiliate Summit West 2011 and the impetus behind the Affiliate Improv session (only a day left to vote as this is being posted!). Daniel also drops the news that there are five Gold passes to ASW11 that will be given away on the show starting in late October. The show title is explained with a segment all about Daniel's new shoes - a pair of Vibram Five Fingers. Wearing gloves on one's feet is an interesting experience. Special thanks to Chris Pearson for the inspiration to try them out. (I got my first comment in public about them shortly after recording the episode while grocery shopping. "Nice shoes!" Indeed. ~Daniel) Daniel's real big news though is that his house in Albuquerque has sold. All the papers have been signed, and if all goes well, the buyer will sign once FedEx delivers the package on Friday. Joe has the run down on the historical goings-on in the world of baseball right now. A no-hitter in the regular season followed by a no-hitter in the playoffs? Roy Halladay is on fire. From MLB.com: [Roy] Halladay, who threw a perfect game May 29 in Florida, became just the second pitcher in baseball history to throw a no-hitter in the postseason. Halladay is just the fifth pitcher to throw two no-hitters in the same season, but the first to throw one in his first postseason start. Halladay is also the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter and a perfect game in the same season, and the first starting pitcher in postseason history to get more hits than he allowed -- he hit an RBI single in the second inning. Let's see if he can follow that up with a no-hitter in the World Series. Lastly, Joe's got some great news of his own - his new eBook is available! This is a great one; it's called Hope Springs Eternal: Tales From Opening Day and it's all about Opening Day and the optimism that baseball fans feel toward their favorite team. It's a fantastic collection of essays and Twitter updates from fans all around the world, and it's highly recommended for fans of the game. Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #36 – I’m Going to Dizz-Knee World! | This week's Sunday Edition with Daniel and Drew leads off with discussion of the proposed Affiliate Improv session at Affiliate Summit West 2011. This is a panel that both hosts are a part of, and it could really use your support! Visit the voting page and give it a tick, won't you? According to Todd Farmer, Daniel is an amazing podcast master. With the relaunch of his AffPlan podcast, Todd got some inspiration from the intro format that has been used on Geek Dads Weekly. The short, five-minute relaunch episode (similar to something GDW did with episode zero) is great - though it sounds like Lisa Picarille has a cold. Get well soon, Lisa! Drew just returned from spending a week at Disney World, and the bulk of the show is dedicated to discussion about the most magical of kingdoms. There were ups, there were downs, if you're planning a trip to Orlando in the near future, Drew's tips might be helpful. The comics segment this skipped week, the pair deciding instead to touch on a new DVD release from DC Animated (affiliate link) and Drew's experience with Transformers media. The show wraps with a bit of coverage for the Flipboard iPad app (Drew likes it, Daniel finds it too unorganized for his liking) and a plug for Drew's upcoming panel at Blogworld - you won't want to miss that if you're hitting Vegas next week! Thanks for listening! Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 10/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #35 – Time Machine | It's Geek Dads Weekly Thursday Edition with Daniel and Joe. The show kicks off with Daniel explaining why the Sunday Edition got skipped this week, and there are some valuable tips for new podcasters in there. It turns out that producing a show with a co-host is vastly easier than going it solo - and Daniel's got some good advice in that area. Next, Joe reviews Seesmic Desktop 2, a significant upgrade from past iterations of the venerable Twitter client. More than just Twitter now, Seesmic supports plugins for apps like feed readers. Daniel saw Rush perform in Houston over the weekend, and was blown away by just how awesome it was. From Rush to Star Wars, as it was announced this week that George Lucas will be re-releasing (again) all six Star Wars films converted to 3D. What do you think of the 3D craze? Daniel's not a fan, and despite his being a life-long Star Wars geek, he might sit these out. Joe wraps the show with a bit of baseball history unearthed - a film of the 1960 World Series, game 7, was recently discovered in the closet of Bing Crosby (of all people). This is significant in that no other footage of the legendary game exists. It's a major find, and will be shown to the world in just a couple of months. Subscribe to the show in iTunes, and hey, why not leave a voicemail at 281-826-2112 for the guys? Your message could end up on a future show! Thanks for joining us! Links for this episode! Seesmic Desktop 2 Rush interviewed on CNN - Rush.com Star Wars to be released in 3D The 1960 World Series film surfaces Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 9/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #34 – Beware the Flying Baseball Bat of Death! | [more show notes to come, sorry. just wanted to get it posted before lunch & putting the kid down for his nap.] Links for this episode: A previous show wherein we discussed CSAs Melding a modern DSLR camera with a 108-year-old lens The Wall Street Journal article about the Flying Baseball Bat of Death (not exactly what they called it) Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 9/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #33 – Well That's Not a Very Good Lunch! | Blargh. Blaaaaaargh. Forget pirates. September 19th should be Talk Like Golizza Day. Blargh. This is Geek Dads Weekly Sunday, with Daniel and Drew. Daniel didn't have a very good day. The show begins with a story about a very, very rude woman at the coffee shop and how his day went from bad to worse - but it got better toward the end, and by the time the show got recorded, he was feeling better. There's a great Busch Gardens story, too. Speaking of amusement parks, Drew is heading to Disneyworld! He's doing it old school and low tech, bringing only his cameras and an iPad (a non-3G iPad, so internet access will not be a given). One cool part about this is that Kodak is sending him a M580 camera to test out while he's there. Sweeeet. Next, Daniel goes over some of his podcasting plans for the next few months, which include a couple of new shows and the resurrection of Daniel Destroys. Drew has been working with Seagate, and goes over his experiences with their GoFlex line of products. This is pretty awesome stuff, you don't want to miss it. The team discovers that microphone problems - what we call Cyloning - isn't a show stopper after all, especially when you're recording a double-ender. Daniel has a funny story about Winter's lunch that his wife... well... it wasn't a very good lunch. Winter, ever the drama princess (she's too young to be a queen) had an awesome reaction. Our comics segment this week was pretty thin. Neither host has been to his local shop to pick any up in a couple of weeks. There was a bit of talk about the iPad comics apps, but the big comics-related story was Daniel's trip to the downtown location of his local comics shop for a poker tournament Friday night. He did quite well. Drew has a bit of Transformers history to share, then wraps the show with some Blogworld news - prizes and giveaways galore, so if you're going to Blogworld, make sure you catch up with him there! This episode's links: Talk Like a Pirate Day Go, Go, Golizza! Kodak M580 Daniel Destroys Seagate GoFlex Drew's GoFlex setup video Blogworld Expo Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 9/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #32 – It’s the Joe Show! | Joe's back! Show co-founder and co-host Joe Magennis is back from his extended hiatus. He's settled into his new location and ready to start talking again. This week begins a new format for Geek Dads Weekly. The show is now being produced twice weekly - Daniel and Drew will do an hour-long episode on Sunday nights, and Daniel & Joe will be doing 30-minute shows on Thursday afternoons. Topics this time include: Updates from Joe - moving, how the girls are dealing with school The trials and tribulations of selling a house - Daniel's going through some drama with his, and Joe is still trying to sell his. If you're selling - or thinking about selling - a house, this segment of the show might be of particular interest to you. Shawn Collins' use of Google AdWords and Facebook Ads in selling his house was very impressive to the guys. Discussion of Facebook Ads and Shoemoney's Facebook Ads session from Affiliate Summit East 2010. Sports! Being a geek is not dependent upon having a passion for comic books (Shawn!). Whatever topic you're passionate about, that's what you geek out over. Joe is a baseball geek, and this week marks the beginning of his weekly baseball/sports segment (the name of which will be determined at a later time). MLB At Bat for iPad is Joe's favorite new baseball-related iPad app. It's awesome. Thanks for listening! This episode's links: Shawn and Lisa poke fun at Daniel on Affiliate Thing MLB At Bat for iPad Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 9/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #31 – It Looks a Little Bit Like Desperation | This week begins with an update for the Affiliate Marketers Give Back charity project we're doing with Jim Kukral's Attention! book. As of the time of this writing, the book is either with Chris Brogan or on its way back. Depending on how many more signatures we can secure, the auction may be happening in time for the holidays, which would be a great present for the organization. Drew gives us the rundown of the Modern Media Man conference that he's attending later this week, including details of his session, which leads into a broader discussion of industry conferences. Apple had their event recently, announcing the new iPod line-up, the Apple TV and iTunes 10. We cover a bit of photography with HDR on the iPhone 4 and the new Ping service. We talk about one of our favorite podcasts, Sarcastic Voyage. Hi, Aal. Hi, Matt. Go check them out, they're awesome. Next up, Affiliate Summit and the session that two of your Geek Dads are planning. We'll have more details about that as we get closer to the session submission deadline, but basically, it's an improv session that will take suggestions from the audience and build ideas around them. [Additional show notes forthcoming. Kids. What can you do?] | 9/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #30 – Dr. Pepper and the Mafia | It's August and that means it's back to school for a lot of kids all over the country. Winter wrapped up her first week rather successfully. We announced the creation of our newsletter and our call-in number! Call 281-826-2112 and leave us a message - if it's a good one, we may play it on the show! We discovered Cliff Ravenscraft, the Podcast Answer Man, this week. The iPad Camera Connection Kit has many more uses than simply connecting a camera to the iPad - almost anything with a USB connection can be jacked into the iPad. Keyboards, headsets, and more. Drew discovered that the iProRecord app was on sale for 80% off (might still be, check the link below) and immediately bought it. An iPad + iProRecord + USB microphone + Camera Connection Kit = mobile interviews made super easy. The title of the show comes from the discussion about the lack of Dr. Pepper in Las Vegas - the worst thing about attending Affiliate Summit West. Daniel figures the mafia is controlling all the soft drinks in Vegas. Next up, discussion of the changes Drew is making at his blog and the two-week experiment. We set the stage for sponsorships - more info about that in upcoming weeks & months. Adobe Audition is coming to the Mac! It's not exactly new news, but Daniel just found out and is excited about it. Comics! We cover the Marvel & DC iPad apps and Daniel informs Drew of the existence of the Image Comics app. Then it's on to Marvel Essentials, DC Archives and the value of each. We wrap with discussion of iTunes going social and a bit on social media - Drew's using Pixelpipe to manage his content at various locations. This week's links iPad Camera Connection Kit iProRecord iPad/iPhone app The Podcast Answer Man Adobe Audition iPad comics apps: Marvel, DC, Image and ComiXology Marvel Essentials and DC Archives (affiliate links) Pixelpipe and the show’s sponsors, Legacy Learning and MacSpeech Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm Follow-up: Drew reports that he was able to get his wireless headphones to work with his iPad by plugging the headphones' dongle into the iPad camera connection kit adapter. Also, Daniel got the DC-equivilent of the Marvel Essentials wrong. DC Archives is a hardcover, full color collection. The low-cost black & white collections are DC Showcase (affiliate link). | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #29 – They Call it Frostenberken! | With special guest Chris Brogan! | 8/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #28 – Live From Affiliate Summit East 2010 | It's finally here! We're all at Affiliate Summit East in New York City! This isn't a typical episode of Geek Dads Weekly. We recorded in the Blogger Lounge, and entertained a number of guests to talk with us about Summit, the industry, what they're doing, and all sorts of great geeky things. Our guests today were: Adam Cohen Heather Smith (The Blogger Lounge Mistress) Nadia Aly John Chow Debbie Carney (Loxly) Mike Buechele We had an awesome time - the conference is going great! | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #27 – May We Have Your Attention Please? | This week we're talking with Jim Kukral, author of Attention! This Book Will Make You Money. We get into Affiliate Summit experiences, iPads, comics, sailing, Kevin Smith movies, meeting famous people, waiting in lines for hours at a time and much more! Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 8/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #25 – A Podcast You Can Care About | This week we're talking about Drew's My Blog Spark dinner adventure, speaking at Blogworld, and the iPad (one of the hosts just caved in and got one). Discussion about iPad apps leads into some comics talk; San Diego Comic Con is going on right now. There's a story of terrible parenting at the Robert Plant concert in Houston, and Drew wraps up with a kayaking story in Providence. This week's links Azure Comic - Looks like it will be digital only at $0.99 an issue. - http://azurezuda.wordpress.com/ Roger Williams Paddle 2010 Video - http://www.benspark.com/wired-kayak-podcast-7.html Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 7/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #24 – We Are Dads, Hear Us Roar | This week we're talking with Kevin Metzger of The Dadvocate Project. It's all about being a modern dad, 3D movies, media, and publishing books. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 7/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #23 – TV is Good For You! | This week we start off with Twitter and fundamental shifts in communication. Drew gives his recap of his panel discussion from the EVO conference, and we talk about television - is it good for us? Bad? Neutral? There's discussion about leaving the kids overnight with relatives, and we close with harrowing tale of near death. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 7/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #22 – The One With Two Parts | In this episode we're talking about moving and the headaches associated with it, like dealing with phone companies and dumpster divers. Rush kicked off their tour Tuesday night, and we discuss the merits of Twitter and online communities for getting the play-by-play from the concerts as they're happening. And we've got a million dollar solution for bands - sell your own bootlegs at the venues! Drew is back from the EVO conference, and he's got the full report - and a couple of new iPads for his effort. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 7/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #21 – It's a Trap! | This week we're talking about concert tours and the expenses associated with attending a big show, and the end of the era of fantastic album artwork. Drew is attending the EVO conference, where he will be in the gender minority. We turn to the issue of image licensing and licensing images of our kids for various things. We wrap with a brief discussion of the just-released iOS4 and a certain Dad's about-face on the topic of getting an iPad. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 6/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #20 – We're Almost Legal! | This week we're talking about the countdown to Joe's cross-country move, the upcoming release of iPhone 4 and reevaluating the iPad. Cinematic Titanic has a new release, and T. Marie Hilton asked, on her blog, the question, "Are We Entitled to Free?" We do our best to answer that. We finish up with some discussion about what's been going on at Daniel M. Clark .com. This week's links Why Brands Ignore You Are We Entitled to Free? Screw Community Cinematic Titanic swapace.com - Swap Anything for Anything SocialSpark Ignore Everyone (HIGHLY recommended by Daniel) Daniel M. Clark .com - This is Not a "How to Make Money Online" Blog - On the Road: The Beginning Use Every Color in Your Box of Crayons The 'Every Color' Experiment Drew's Jawbone contest Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 6/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #19 – Amazon? Yeah, I've Heard of Them | This week we're talking about the new addition to Sam Harrelson's family, the functionality - or lack thereof - of Twitter, newsletters & personal branding, Drew's Shave New World promotion and the new versions of Safari and iPhone. Also, Daniel is just discovering the joys of buying things from Amazon.com. Seriously. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 6/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #18 – School's Out! | We should have looked into licensing that Alice Cooper song for the intro... This week, Drew tells us the story of taking Eva kayaking last weekend, we talk about digital cameras and archiving. School's out for a lot of the country, we talk about paying kids for getting good grades, and finish up with a discussion about sponsored tweets. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 6/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #17 – Hi, My Name is Peaches | It's a Daniel-less episode this week, as Joe and Drew handle the hosting duties while he's at a doctor appointment with Winter. The big news of the week is Joe's move to Boston that's coming up! He's also been added to the Podcasting 101 panel at Affiliate Summit East, coming up in August. There's discussion about ways to promote events using Facebook, traveling with the kids, and a lesson in how Drew connects with the partners that he promotes on his website. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 5/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #16 – The Geek Dads Cinema Bar & Grill | It's an experimental episode as Daniel and Drew sit down for episode 16. Drew is calling in from O'Hare Airport using Skype on his Droid phone, but aside from a few barely-noticeable glitches here and there, you wouldn't know it. Aw yeah, technology! This week begins with travel stories and souvenir habits, then the dads take on Facebook privacy issues. From there, Drew talks about his time using the Sync technology in the Ford Focus he rented. Daniel launched a new video site called Daniel Destroys over the weekend, which leads into a bit of talk about comics. That leads to some discussion about Iron Man 2 and movie theaters with built-in bar-and-grills. Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 5/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #15 – Happy Birthday Sierra! | It's Joe's daughter Sierra's birthday! She's four now, and about ready to move out and get a job. She's already driving and has a favorite liqueur, so it's only a matter of time. They grow up so fast... Drew is still having hacking issues on his websites, and the Dads discuss a few more ways those kinds of situations can be avoided - and fixed, if it happens to you. Also this week: Television, DVR and communities that spring up around shows. Affiliate Summit session voting and people buying votes Drew's conference appearance schedule - Summit, Blogworld and more Great show this week, check out the full show notes for useful links! Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 5/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #14 – But She's Only 16! | This week the Dads are talking about Lost and the impact of spoilers on people's viewing habits. Discussion of Disney movies and the ages of their characters resulted in the title of the show this week and the show wraps with music festivals and industry conferences. Two of the geek dads are up for sessions at Affiliate Summit East, and your vote can help those sessions come to be (more info on the show and in the full show notes). Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 5/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #13 – This Tweet Brought to You By… | In this episode, the Dads talk about Drew's website hacking drama, social media engagement and the ethics of sponsored tweets. Why do some people have such a problem with sponsored tweets but not automated RSS feeds piped into their streams? We're getting into festival season, concerts are coming up, and hey, is this letter I got a scam? You want to renew my domains for $35 each? Really? Daniel, Joe and Drew are all in the house for this week's episode - enjoy it and tell your friends! Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 4/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #12 – It's Like Driving a Kayak | It's GDW #12, in which our intrepid trio talk about Joe's car drama, the lost (stolen?) iPhone prototype, kids' television and Hulu, buying passes for Affiliate Summit, and more. Join Daniel M. Clark, Joe Magennis and Drew Bennett for 53 minutes and 34 seconds of Geek Dad-ery! Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 4/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Geek Dads Weekly #11 – And Then There Were Three… Again | It's an exciting new - er, sort of new - direction for Geek Dads Weekly! Last year, under the Geek Dads @ Home banner, additional Geek Dads co-hosted the show - it wasn't always a two-person gig. At one time, there were four regulars, then three. Today, the magic number is back up to three with the addition of Drew Bennett (BenSpark.com) to the line-up! Joe is out this week, and Daniel & Drew talk about digital comics and the iPad, old school cartoons, Rush, brewing beer, and much more. Daniel & Joe are thrilled to have a new partner, and hope you'll enjoy the new format! Full Show Notes Bandwidth provided by GeekCast.fm | 4/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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