Guest Appearances

Was luck enough to be invited on KALW’s “Your Call” show yesterday to talk Cell Phones with host Sandip Roy, Bill Nusbaum of the Utilities Reform Network (TURN) and Tom Klein from phonedog.com.

We got off on regulatory policy, the 700 MHz spectrum, and of course cell phone contracts. I love KALW. You can catch the show on their blog at this link.

Chris the podcaster gave the opportunity to chat about Barcelona on his excellent Amateur Traveler podcast. We had a wide-ranging dicussion about architecture, getting around in Spanish and more. Take a listen and subscribe if you like travel!

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Had a good time as part of the Loop on Attack of the Show this afternoon. Had a great discussion with Kevin, one of the hosts of Attack of the Show and Catherine Holahan from Business Week.

I’ve had the honor of being on a few episodes of This Week in Tech, but the latest episode was the most fun I’ve had. We got into CES of course, but also the High-def wars, and the Gizmodo prank. Great stuff.

Link to episode.

A few quotes of mine appeared in a recent Christian Science Monitor article on printer ink.

“What I’ve found over the past few years is that ink itself is a very good commodity to be in,” says Tom Merritt, executive editor of CNET, a technology news and reviews website based in San Francisco.

“I tried one of the home kits,” says Mr. Merritt. “But it just turned into a sloppy mess. I’ll probably not use them again.”

“I’ve found that if you just pop them out and put the cartridge back in as if it were new, you can usually trick the printer into using the same one,” says CNET’s Merritt. “Or, if you really do a lot of printing, consider a laser printer.”

Link to story “Why Printer Ink Is So Expensive“

Molly Wood and I got the honor of being cast in the final episode of the long-running hit Internet show “Snowmen Hunters” which I am very sad to see go. It was a blast, and I really want to thank Chris for letting us participate. Plus I don’t think it’s too surprising that after having us in it, they’ve decided never to make another episode again.

Watch the episode entitled “You’re ice cubes BITCH!!!“

I was really excited and flattered to hear the folks at NPR’s Talk of the Nation wanted me to appear on their Science Friday show. I was on today talking with Ira about my Top 5 2008 tech predictions.

Here’s a link to the writeup on their website. The audio is there too.

Just got back form a fun segment about cheap tech stocking0-stuffers on ABC-7′s View from the Bay in San Francisco. We talked about the Shuffle, V-Moda Vibe headphones, and a few others.

They’ll have the video up soon at their site, here.

I was very pleased to once again be invited on Jon Gordon’s fabulous “Future Tense” which runs on American Public Media, and can be heard in the US on the CBC program “As It Happens.” We talked about what Verizon’s move to open their cell network means.

Listen to the show here.

A very fun conversation on the latest This Week in Tech show. Just an intimate chat with Leo and John C. Dvorak. About ham. And Toynbee. Oh and some tech news.

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