Well, most of you will probably be doing Christmas dinner or things like that with your families, but for those of you in need of something to do tonight, you can catch me live as one of the guests on System Showdown, one of the shows on the Tech Podcast Network. Their show description describes me as an Apple Enthusiast, so they may be surprised that I’m a little bit more of a curmudgeon when it comes to Apple. Either way, I’ll be talking about PreviewCast and phpBB Weekly and some other tech stuff as well. They stream live via Ustream, which you can watch via the link I provided.

The show begins tonight (December 25th) at 8:00-9:30 PM EST (5:00-6:30 PM PST). My guest appearance will be during the second half hour. A link to the podcasted edition will be provided as soon as they make it available.

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The 1990s saw the rise of a new phenomenon on the radio: call-in talk shows. As most of you know, the idea behind this is a host who leads the show and often offers his/her opinions on something, and then answers calls from listeners who can then contribute their comments. Then, the 2000s saw the rise of another new radio phenomenon: podcasting. Radio shows can now be recorded and distributed online so that listeners can listen at their convenience, and podcasting also opens the door for smaller podcast-only productions (as in shows that don’t go on the actual radio). It would only be a matter of time until talk shows and podcasting came together, and the result of that mix is a fairly new website called TalkShoe.
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