New podcasting ideas and changes

Oct 06

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Greetings everybody!  It has been a while since I have talked much about my podcasting so I figured now that I have some fresh ideas, it is time to share them!

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!

-pcnerd37

I hate being sick

Mar 09

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Hey readers!

Sorry I didn’t post like expected last week, especially my favorite links like I wanted to get started.  Unforunately I have had the stomach flu and have probably spent more time in the bathroom over the past week than I have with my computer.

It all kind of started on Monday.  My stomach felt uneasy most of Monday but I figured it was due to tight jeans and thought nothing of it.  By Monday night I could tell I was catching something and went to bed around 9:30pm (I normally never go to bed before 11pm).  I woke up around 11:30pm with some wicked heartburn.  It seemed to be from my typical Monday night pizza which is not uncommon when they put a ton of sauce on the pizza, but they didn’t do that this time.  There was actually very little sauce so I found it a bit odd.  Like usual, I popped some tums and hoped they would work.  When they didn’t work, I tried some more which still didn’t work, so I tried some acid medication I have which still had no effect and even took a swig of the pink stuff with still no effect.  I ended up awake all night and miserable with some of the worst heartburn ever.  Over the next 24 hours it would go away, but when I “woke up” Tuesday morning, I found myself with a major case of the craps.  Those in turn were about every 15-20 minutes or so for a couple of days until they finally slowed to once an hour and then only in the mornings and as of Sunday, to nothing.  Unfortunately it didn’t end there.

On Since Thursday, something strange has been going on with my esophagus.  Everytime I swallow anything, whether its water or food, it feels like I am being stabbed in the chest.  It makes it near impossible to eat or drink anything without the thought of jumping off a bridge first.  On Friday, I went to the doctor with this being my primary complaint.  I can live with the occasional case of the craps, but not with this.  The doctor seemed to think it was maybe an irritation caused by some vomiting that I did on Wednesday (I forgot to mention that).  He gave me a prescription for some stuff that is supposed to coat my esophagus so I can eat and drink without a problem.  Sounded like a great idea, except the stuff doesnt seem to work at all.  Now my stomach feels unconfortable when I swallow something, on top of the pain I am experiencing with my esophagus.  So now I am headed back into the doctor at 1:45pm today to either get some other medicine or try to find out what is actually wrong with me.  I’m praying its nothing serious.

At this point, I just want to be well again.  Although I am there today, I missed work last week for everybody but Monday when this all slowly started.  Feeling like this and not being able to make money is not a fun thing.  Hopefully this will end soon as I want to get back into the swing of things.  With the exception  my Battlestar Galactica Live Blog, I have done almost nothing else online over the past week other than the occasional tweet.  No podcasts or anything.  I haven’t even listened to but one or two podcasts so I am very far behind on them.  I am working on getting the podcasts up that we have already recorded but I never got around to putting up.  I just put one up and am about to begin editing on the second.  You can find those at GlobalGeekNews.com

Anyway, that is all from me for now.  I will likely post more soon as I feel like it.

-Jeremy “pcnerd37″ Bray

Podcast and blog updates

Mar 02

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Hey Readers!

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

Podcast Subscriptions for Charity Water

Feb 11

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Hey Readers!

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

Podcast and Blog and Video Updates!

Jan 15

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Hey readers!

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

A lazy week

Sep 18

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Hey readers!

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.

-pcnerd37

Podcast problems

Aug 26

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Hey readers!

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!

-pcnerd37

Slow day at work and Podcast News

Aug 25

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Greetings!

Today has been a VERY slow day at work.  To an extent it is nice because I got to record today’s Geek News Daily podcast early and without having to worry much about customers or other workers.  Other than that, it has been a total snooze.

Speaking of podcasts, now that Geek News Daily is back up and running, I have Global Geek News scheduled to come back starting tonight.  I should probably clarify that, it is not going up tonight but I will be recording it live on Talkshoe for anybody who wants to call in and listen or talk on the show.  I will also be giving away some free iTunes music!  If you have a chance, drop by tonight at 10pm EST and join in!  If my bandwidth is ok, I will also be streaming video of the show at Global Geek News Live.

That is what is going on with me.  What is going on with you?  Leave me a comment!

-pcnerd37

Geek News Daily Returns Today!

Aug 20

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Hello Readers!

After a very long absence, I have picked up Geek News Daily today.  I have prepped myself on all the stories and have readied the show notes.  I am still waiting for the opportunity to record the podcast, but it should be up later today.  When I get the opportunity to record, I will be streaming it live at www.pcnerd37live.com.  I will write another post when the podcast is up.  I will also be unveiling the new Geek News Daily logo as well.

If you want to know when I am streaming the recording of the Geek News Daily podcast so you can watch, make sure to follow my updates on Twitter!  My twitter post will likely show up on here as well in my friendfeed widget to the right.

Speaking of streaming, I will be embedding the stream on my own page in the near future rather than send people to stickam.  Stay tuned!

-pcnerd37

What is going on with me

Apr 01

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Greetings readers!

I know I haven’t blogged on here or podcasted lately, but life has been very busy.  Combined with having issues from installing a new hard drive in my laptop, my productivity has come to a virtual standstill.

I have been posting pretty regularly on my Global Geek News blog, so check that out.  I will try to start posting here more often.

As far as podcasts go, once I get my laptop up and running again which will hopefully be sometime today, I will start doing podcasts again.  I have found a new co-host for my Global Geek News podcast which I assume will start on the next show.  More on that Later.

I also am throwing around an idea of another weekly podcast that I will talk about soon.

Till tomorrow,

pcnerd37

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