2005 February 25 ~ Chris Pirillo

I Believe in UFOs

9 Comments (Add) | Friday, February 25th, 2005 at 9:06pm

Did any of you catch “UFOs: Seeing is Believing” with Peter Jennings last night? I'm surprised it hasn't shown up on any Torrent sites yet. For the most part, it was everything we've seen before – inflated with a lot more production. I've never had an alien encounter, but I do believe we're not alone in the universe. Guy Malone, someone we met at a “UFO conference” last year, had this to say in an email blast to his friends this morning (with a 'Please forward freely' attribution):

Don’t Get Paris’ed

No Comments Yet (Add) | Friday, February 25th, 2005 at 7:34pm

Lots of upset celebrities were forced to change their mobile phone numbers this week when hotel heiress Paris Hilton’s T-Mobile sidekick II was hacked. An attacker was some how able to login to T-Mobile’s Web-based portal and download all of her camera phone pictures, notes and her address book. And then, they were published to the Web. This humorous snafu has spurred the production of a new t-shirt which reads, “Paris made me change my number.” � Available from Glarkware.com.

Geoffrey Kleinman Talks DVDs

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Geoffrey Kleinman founded DVDTalk six years ago as a place for movie geeks to gather and discuss their passion. Thousands of movie reviews later, DVDTalk is one of the most popular places to find DVD information. We caught up with Geoffrey to talk about his favorite DVDs, where to find great foreign films on DVD, the merits of Gone With the Wind, and the debut of DVDTalk Radio.

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Sean Alexander is Addicted to Digital Media

No Comments Yet (Add) | Friday, February 25th, 2005 at 2:53am

By day, Sean Alexander is a Group Product Manager at Microsoft. At night, Sean is a digital media junkie, geeking out in front of his HDTV as he watches shows he scheduled remotely using MSN Remote Record for Windows Media Center. Chris talks to Sean about life at Microsoft, Flickr and MCE, and other digital media diversions.

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Steve Gillmor on Attention.xml

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Steve Gillmor is a human inforouter. Tracking the flow of conversation is his vision put into being as attention.xml. Steve explains the complexities of attention as it relates to the blogosphere and podosphere as Chris catches up with him via the newly added VoIP lines.

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Talking With Tom Pohl of iSpot

2 Comments (Add) | Friday, February 25th, 2005 at 2:41am

Tom Pohl runs a wireless ISP based in Iowa along with several other ventures. Tom is instrumental in getting the phone system running for The Chris Pirillo Show. In his spare time, he posts his comments to Tom’s World. This week, we talk with Tom about wireless, the open source Asterisk PBX and life as a geek in Iowa.

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Xbox Replacement Cord

12 Comments (Add) | Friday, February 25th, 2005 at 12:21am

I submitted my serial number a few days ago, to get the Xbox Replacement Cord. Why is a new Xbox power cord needed? According to Xbox, “the replacement power cords are designed to protect consumers and their Xbox consoles from rare electrical component failures that can pose a fire hazard.” Has anybody really been burned yet?