First, I want to start really pushing my podcast hosting network, the Geek Podcasting Network.  I want to try to build out a high quality network of shows rather than just host my own shows and be open to other people that happen to come along.  I am getting everything ready to make for a big push although I am not sure how big of a push I will give it for the next month or so because I am looking at changing web hosts and I don’t want to make matters any more difficult than they have to be.

Speaking of more podcasts, I am kicking around some more podcasting ideas for myself.  I am thinking about bringing back the Geek News Daily podcast as soon as tech news picks up again so there is something worth reporting on.  I am also kicking around an idea for a piracy podcast.  It would cover all of the big from the week in regards to piracy, P2P, copyright law and stuff like that.  After seeing how much stuff there is on that topic to cover in the Global Geek News Podcast, I think it would be a good idea to spin it off as its own podcast.  Right now, I have pretty much decided that I am going to do this, I am just kicking around some ideas for names, format of the show and a few other things but hopefully I will have it up and running in the next couple of weeks.  I will post more details as I have them.  In the meantime, if you have any ideas for names or what you would like to see in the show, let me know!

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I just thought I would give everybody a quick heads up on what is going on with all of my hobby projects from my podcasts and blogs to my Android apps, so here it goes!

First, lets talk podcasts.  The Global Geek News is doing great and although we basically were forced to miss two weeks last month we are finally back in our groove and putting out some amazing shows.  Unless something comes up, we record every Monday night and I post the show on Tuesday morning.  If you haven’t given it a listen yet, I highly recommend heading to GlobalGeekNews.com and giving the show a try.  I am always open to constructive feedback so if you have any comments or suggestions, let me hear them!  Speaking of podcasts, I was hoping to have brought back the Geek News Daily podcast but unfortunately my life is too busy at this time but I hope to bring it back in the future.  For those who are wondering what is going on with the Unofficial Mahalo Podcast, I turned ownership of that over my former Global Geek News Co-host, Larry who is doing some great stuff related to Mahalo and should be able to make great use of it.

Now, lets talk Android apps!  As many of you know, a few weeks ago I released my first Android app onto the Market called Master Memo.  It is a great app for taking notes and even taking audio notes when necessary.  I have released several bug fixes to fix some things that didn’t show up until after I released the app and as far as I know, all should be working now although there is a possibility of one crash bug lingering out there which I can’t seem to replicate.  The app is now kind of on the back burner but I am well underway on the next version which will allow you to tag your notes for better organization.  I am also investigating doing video and even picture notes with it but I think those are a little ways off.

I have started a second app today which I don’t yet have a name for but it will be a conversion tool.  What kind of conversion tool?  It will allow you to convert Microsoft and Nintendo points to money and money to points so that you have a better idea of how much you are spending on that song, movie, game or whatever.  I also intend for it to allow you to purchase more points from an online retailer, most likely Amazon since I already have an affiliate account set up with them.  It shouldn’t take me too long to make this so I am expecting it to be in testing within the next week and released shortly there after.  I am always looking for app ideas, so if you have any apps for Android that you would like to see, let me know!

Finally, lets talk blogging!  I am now starting to blog here regularly again which is great.  I hope to post all kinds of random things from videos and pictures to what is going on with me in the future to hopefully get some kind of reader base.  I am also trying to blog as much as I can over at Global Geek News Blog which is where I really put thought into what I write about anything and everything technology related.  If you don’t subscribe to it already, I highly recommend you do so if you are looking for some great opinions and advice on technology!  I also report on technology over at TechVi which you should certainly check out although I fear that if my life doesn’t calm down a bit, that I might not be writing for them for much longer but I hope that isn’t the case.

Anyway, this update is running longer than expected so I will end it here and do another one in the near future!

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3 blog posts so far today!  I am on a roll!

Anyway, I wanted to give a quick podcast and blog update.  Lets start with Global Geek News.  I have two shows in the can that I need to get uploaded today and tomorrow.  Sorry they haven’t gotten up sooner.  The show is going great though and we are looking for guests if anybody is interested.  Feel free to post in the comments or email me at pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com if you are interested in beinga guest on the show.

Geek News Daily on the other hand has no episodes recorded.  I haven’t recorded any lately unfortunately but I will get some shows up this week.  I would have done some last week but I felt it was far too slow of a news week to do any shows.  This week is a bit hectic with a birthday, funeral and missing dog, but I will get some shows up.  I have noticed that suddenly the traffic has increased on the site for some reason and I want to take advantage of the traffic and hopefully turn it into new listeners.

As you have likely seen, I have started blogging often on here, or at least today and on Friday’s when I do my Battlestar Galactica Live Blog.  If you haven’t joined us for the live blog, you should!  I am live blogging all of the remaining episodes every Friday night at 10PM EST right here!  I am also looking for more shows or sports events to live blog, so if you have any suggestions, please post them in the comments.

Oh, and before I end, I do want to say that new posts will be coming to the Global Geek News Blog again starting today.  I also plan on starting a daily video on there in the very near future, likely next week if not sooner.  I know I have been saying this for a while, but its time I get off my lazy butt and just start doing it.  I also plan on doing some video blog posts here as well.

That is what is going on as of now.  If you have any questions or comments, leave them below.

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-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray

First, sorry I haven’t been blogging lately.  My New Years Resolution has clearly gone out the window but I will try to do better.  I finally have the desire to blog again so expect much more in the future.

Now that my apologies are out of the way,  lets get down to business.  Before I talk about my podcasts, I want to pitch an idea to my readers to see what they think.  What is the idea you ask?  The idea that I had this afternoon is to either do a daily or weekly newsletter or blog post about all of the cool links that I come across.  From the latest huge LEGO creation to how to hack your favorite devices, I would do a round up of my favorite links that I come accross.  What I want to know is whether you would prefer this to be a blog post or newsletter and if you would like it to be daily or weekly.  If you could answer the poll below and put any other feedback in the comments, I would really appreciate it.

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Now with the podcast news.   Global Geek News is doing great.  The listener base is growing and podcasts are coming out weekly if not more often than that!  We recently had Walt Ribeiro as a guest and the chemistry between myself and Wesley is amazing.

Geek News Daily on the other hand is a bit rocky.  I do shows when I can but its not quite the daily show I had dreamed of.  I don’t think I have gotten a show up all week but I did have I believe 4 shows last week.   Hopefully I can find a good recording time in the future to make it daily.  Despite the irregular podcasts, the quality has increased considerably and I have plans to make it even better in the future.

For those who are long time readers and podcast listeners, you know I have wanted to do video for some time.  This is still in the cards but I don’t know when it will happen.  I am hoping it will happen in the near future.  I would like to start doing video entries here.

My Battlestar Galactica Live Blog has been huge!  Last week there were a ton of wonderful readers.  If you haven’t joined in on my BSG live blog experience, be here on Friday nights at 10pm EST between now and March 20 when the series ends.   I am considering live blogging other shows in the future, so if you have suggestions, leave them in the comments.

I do have other things on my mind that I would like to blog about but I will save them for future posts.

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Ever since I saw this video about Charity Water and the Twestivals that are going on to raise money for it, I have been promoting the cause wherever I can and donating some of my own money to the cause since I am unable to attend a Twestival.

Today I had some inspiration on how I can raise money for the charity and help get more listeners to my podcast at the same time.   Starting today and ending Saturday, February 21, 2009 at 11:59pm, for every new podcast subscriber I get to the Global Geek News Podcast and the Geek News Daily Podcast, I will donate $.10 to Charity Water up to $1000.  If I get 10,000 subscriptions between the two podcasts, then I will donate $1,000 to Charity Water.

I honestly don’t know what to expect  in terms of how many people will do this, but I will call 10,000 my very lofty goal and I hope we can hit it!  For your convenience, I have posted the direct link to the feeds for both podcasts below whereas the websites are linked to above.

Global Geek News

Geek News Daily

If you would like to make a donation to Charity Water, you can do so here.  I will be posting updates on Twitter, so make sure to follow me if you want up updates on this effort and much more!

Thanks to everybody that helps support the cause and a huge thanks to everybody who subscribes to the podcasts at the same time!

-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray

I haven’t posted here lately but I will be posting at least daily here as part of my New Years resolution.  To start off, I figured I would give an update on what is going on with my podcasts and blogs to be followed by a post that will announce something big for this blog.

Lets start with podcasts.  Geek News Daily was going to start back this week but thanks to the post CES lack of news, there hasn’t really been enough to do a show, so that will start back on Monday unless I have the time to do one today or tomorrow.  The more I do this podcast, the more I enjoy it, but I don’t get the opportunity to record like I would like, but I will be making more time for it starting next week.

Now for the big podcast news!  For those that haven’t noticed, Global Geek News returned a couple of weeks ago!  So far, we have done two episodes.  For those wondering who I am talking about when I say ‘we’, I have a new co-host, Wesley Faulkner.  We seem to have great chemistry and I think the show has become dramatically better with the change.  Unfortunately, we didn’t get a show out last week as he was at CES representing AMD and I was supposed to fly to Salt Lake City but got sick.  We will have a new show this weekend.  We are recording a new show on Saturday morning with special guest Walt Ribeiro.  Unless conditions force us to do otherwise, we expect to record on Saturday mornings and then I will have the show up on either Saturday or Sunday.  If you have been waiting for its return, it is back so make sure to check it out!  Also, if you weren’t a huge fan of the show before, give it a listen again as it has changed a lot and I believe for the better!

Now for some blog news.  Like I said, posting will resume on this blog with this post and will be daily if not more than once a day.  I have decided to make this blog about anything cool that I come across online or anything that is running through my mind that doesn’t fit on the Global Geek News Blog.

Speaking of the Global Geek News Blog, it has been doing well despite the fact that I didn’t really post the last half of December.  Since the start of the year, I have been posting on it daily.  The Global Geek News Blog is where I put my heart and soul into posts about various technology issues.   Sometimes, posts are even longer than any paper I ever wrote in school, so you know you are getting all of my thoughts about an issue when you read a blog post.  About half of my traffic dropped off after I stopped posting in December, so I am trying to get those numbers back up.  This is the blog I enjoy writing most because it is often about things I am most passionate about.  Also, I will begin doing video there!

Speaking of video, I have said I am going to do it for a long time but it has never happened.  Starting Monday, I will be doing the occasional video posts here and will likely do short, daily videos on Global Geek News as well.  I plan on contacting Animoto to do some sort of partnership as they were interested in doing something when I spoke to them back in August.  I would be using what I can get from them to do the intro and outro of the videos.

Also, I would like to say that I am looking for sponsors for all of my blogs and podcasts.  If you or your company would like to sponsor Global Geek News, the Global Geek News Blog, Geek News Daily, or Pcnerd37.com,  I would love for you to contact me at pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com

That is about all I can think of for updates right now, but I will post updates here when I have them as I want this site to become more of a hub for everything me.  Speaking of which, I am going to be working on a page or something that lists the RSS feeds and new items of all of my blogs and podcasts so you can easily subscribe to the feeds and find out what I am up to.  Until then, you can easily follow almost everything me on my FriendFeed.

Don’t forget to follow me on Twitter too!

-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray

Until last night, it had been a long time since I blogged on here.  I figured I would give everybody an update as to what is going on with me.

The Geek News Daily podcast is going strong, and is daily right now.  Once in a while I end up missing like a week or something, but it is going strong with episode #43 being released later today.  I should have some intro’s and outro’s recorded this week to start putting in the show.  I am also looking into the idea of doing a video version of the show although I seem to be having issues since I live stream the recording of the show at GeekNewsDailyLive.com.  I am also still working on trying to get a stable recording time so that people can know when to expect the stream, but since I record at work, I don’t know if that will be possible as I never know when that opportunity will come.

As far as Global Geek News goes, I hope to start the podcast back in the next week or so.  When I start it back, I will likely go solo for the first episode or two and then start bringing guests on after that.  I hope for that to be a Friday release but I am not sure yet.  I am also looking to do a short, daily video on Global Geek News with content similar to the Global Geek News Blog.  I have a little bit of work to do before I get the video up and running I think, but I hope to have that going before Christmas.  Speaking of the Global Geek News Blog, that is going very strong!  I am getting more average daily reads now than ever before and it continues to grow like crazy.  I took about a week break from blogging on there last week but I put up two posts last night and will try to do that many or more today.  From now on, it is my goal to do at least one post a day on there.  Make sure to check it out when you have a chance as it is something I am very proud of.

I am also looking to devote some time to doing some programming for Android applications, so I am trying to find a good balance between podcasting, blogging and programming.  If something begins to suffer, I will try to adjust as I think I can do all three but it won’t be easy as I already work 45 hours a week.

Anyway, that is just an update about what is going on and some things to come.  I will be blogging here more today, so stay tuned!

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Sorry I haven’t blogged on here in a while, I have mainly been focusing on blogging over at the Global Geek News Blog.  Other than those posts, it has been a rather lazy week.

Podcasts have been on hold and a few plans got put on hold as well.  Things will start back up to normal as early as tomorrow.  A new Geek News Daily will be coming tomorrow including a new feature that you can read about at the website.  Assuming the opportunity presents itself, I will be bringing back the Global Geek News podcast this week as well.

Part of the reason I have been falling behind is that I am trying to catch up on podcasts that I missed from last week as well as this week, and even some that I am behind nearly a month on.  I am within a day or two of being fully caught up which will happen by the end of the week.

I am thinking that since I already stream the recording of my podcasts, I will start releasing both a video and audio version of my various podcasts.  I will have more details about that in the next week or so as I am looking to team up with a really cool video product for making the podcasts.

Anyway, that is all I have to update you on as life has been rather quiet lately.  If I feel like it later today, I will post my thoughts on the movie Righteous Kill that I went to see on Tuesday night with my dad.

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I figured I would give everybody a heads up that I will be blogging my entire trip next week to San Francisco.  From my adventures in the airports to the Nightwish concert on Friday night, I will be blogging everything!  All of the technology related stuff that I will blog about in relation to the TechCrunch50 will be posted on the Global Geek News Blog.  I will likely be doing some other posts here as well but the main technology posts will take place there.

Also, I am planning on still doing the Geek News Daily podcast every day while I am there or at least as much as possible.  If you haven’t been listening to the show since I restarted it, I highly recommend it.  This of course will depend on internet access more than anything, but I will do my best to have a show every day although I don’t know what time the shows will be up by.

I will also try to resurrect the Global Geek News podcast while on my trip, so keep an eye out for that.

I will be Twittering when new blog posts are up as well as just about everything else that happens, so if you aren’t following me on Twitter, this would be a great time to start!

If you have anything in particular that you want to know about that is presented at the conference or have questions you want me to ask some of those in attendance, you can email me at pcnerd37@globalgeeknews.com or just post your questions in the comments.

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For those of you that are wondering, things didn’t go as planned with last nights Global Geek News podcast.  Talkshoe didn’t want to cooperate.  It worked OK for the most part and I love the new features that have come about since I last used it, but for some reason the audio was going in and out according to those in the call.  I did a local test and it wasn’t on my end so there wasn’t much I could do about it.  I canceled the recording and decided that I will just be going solo and doing it locally for this weeks show.  I’m thinking about going back to a Facebook conference call app for next time that I have used in the past.  Speaking of Global Geek News, I will be starting to post regularly on the blog again tomorrow.  I just needed a bit of a break.

I also took the day off from Geek News Daily.  I had the stories lined up, I just had a case of lazy.  After seeing how few people are actually listening to the podcast, that is a tad discouraging as well.  If I got some feedback, felt more appreciated and had better download numbers, I wouldn’t have lazy days like this.  I may still record and release later today but its not likely.  I may double up tomorrow since I already have the stories and stuff ready.  I have been going without a script so I am curious to know what people think compared to how it used to be when I wrote a script every day.

I am also looking at starting to do some video stuff tomorrow, so I will keep you updated on that.  Don’t forget, I also stream my podcasts live at pcnerd37live.com!

More tomorrow!

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