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Talknowledgy Marks 100th Episode!
Ottawa, September 29, 2012. Talknowledgy, Ottawa’s cutting edge technology and social media podcast, released its one hundredth episode this morning on Talknowledgy.ca.
Talknowledgy debuted on September 20, 2010 on the airwaves of CKDJ 107.9 in Ottawa. Since then, the show has been heard by thousands in Ottawa and around the world. The name Talknowledgy is derived from the words “talk”, “knowledge”, and “technology”. It is the name that has been used by the show during its time on CKDJ 107.9, on 580 CFRA, on 93.1 CKCU, and as an online podcast. It is currently hosted by Phil Gaudreau and David Hall of DavidHallSocialMedia.com.
“The show has gone through many changes in the past two years, all with the listener in mind,” says show co-founder Phil Gaudreau. “We have a lot of fun doing the show, and not only is that important from our perspective but I think you can hear it when you’re listening to the show.”
David Hall first joined the show in the summer of 2011 through the “Social Media Tip of the Week Segment”. “When I was first asked to be a weekly contributor to the show, I jumped at the chance,” says Dave“I thought that the show was unique and had great growth potential. More importantly, I could tell that the hosts really loved what they were doing and having a great time. Undoubtedly, that has played a big role in the show’s longevity.”
Talknowledgy typically features intelligence and insight from Phil Gaudreau and David Hall on topics like social media, smartphone technology, viral videos, content creation, and more. Episode 100 touches on the recent iPhone 5 “Scuffgate”, along with the MySpace relaunch, and the social media impact of the NFL replacement referees. Both Phil and Dave blog regularly on many of these topics.
“If you haven’t listened to us yet, episode 100 is a great time to start,” adds Phil. “If you’re still new to technology and social media, don’t worry. We speak in a way that’s friendly, relatable, and easy to understand, and we’re always willing to answer questions via Twitter or email. I want to thank all those who have been listening since the beginning, and I hope you’re looking forward to the next 100 as much as I am!”
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For more information, contact:
Phil Gaudreau
Co-founder, Talknowledgy
Talknowledgy Episode #100: Scuffgate, mySpace, Phil gets an iPhone, and more!
Dave and I start the show in the world of smartphones – Scuffgate, plus some good news for Google, and some less bad news for RIM (still bad, just less bad).
In Seg 2, we discuss an internet dinosaur that’s trying to rebuild itself but hasn’t done enough to distance itself from its old brand. Is Myspace #CreepyOrAwesome?
Our “YouTube Hero” this week is courtesy of AwesomenessTV as they crush the hopes and dreams of Macheads everywhere.
Also don’t forget to check out our #Fail of the week – a really well done parody of Flo Rida’s “Whistle” which skewers the NFL and its replacement refs.
If you liked the show, feel free to subscribe to this blog or our RSS feed to make sure you’re always up-to-date with Talknowledgy.
ANNOUNCEMENT: Changes Coming to Talknowledgy
Hello friends, supporters, readers, contributors, and listeners:
Yesterday’s episode of Talknowledgy will be our last one on 580 CFRA for at least a few weeks. We are on a hiatus while an independent consultant reviews their on-air programming lineup. The show will go on…Talknowledgy will be posted here exclusively for the next few weeks (meaning a return of our awesome chiptunes!). If we are allowed back into the lineup there may be some changes…if we are not, then the show will continue as a podcast.
Furthermore, Ted Raymond is pursuing his options with the CFRA News team and will no longer be a regular contributor to the show. I want to wish him all the best as he pursues a career in radio news.
Without my other half you may be wondering “How will the show go on?”. It’s my great pleasure to announce both Catherine Benesch and David Hall have graciously agreed to step in to keep the show on course, and I want to thank them very much both for the help they’ve provided so far and for their ongoing commitment to the show.
Talknowledgy just marked its 91st show yesterday, and in the past two years we have become one of the leading tech and social media focused media here in Ottawa through hard work and perseverance. It has been (and continues to be) a labour of love for myself, along with all of our regularly featured guests including Dave, Catherine, and Fiaaz Walji. Some generous event organizers have given Ted and I press passes to certain events (and some of those events had free food and swag) but the most I have received (that was not tied to covering an event, like Ottawa Game Conference – those guys were great!) for co-hosting, producing, promoting, and editing down this show each week for the past 22 months is a post-it note pad from a PR agency (and our web host wouldn’t accept that as payment). That’s not me trying to complain, as I do love doing the show and I enjoy remaining independent! But the message I hope to send to you is that this show is a joy for me and I do it for free because I enjoy it, and I hope you enjoy it as well.
If you would like to keep hearing Talknowledgy on CFRA, I would strongly encourage you to email CFRA Program Director Steve Winogron (steve@cfra.com) and ask him to bring us back following their programming review.
Let operation #BringBackTKNonCFRA begin!
Comments, as always, are appreciated.
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Stop the Internet! I Want to Get Off!
Can’t we just go back to this?
They were ALWAYS under construction!
Remember when the Internet was just a place to wait for poor-resolution pictures to load? Where you could go to find out about every glitch ever in the original Pokémon games, and even some that never worked, but how would you know?
I never found anything under that truck.
Maybe it’s because I was a kid then, and I didn’t know where to find the hate speech or the misogyny or the trolls…
I’m so tired of all of it.
Last month, we reported on a story of an American feminist video blogger named Anita Sarkeesian launching a Kickstarter project to fund a video series that examines the roles of women in video games.
Not a second of video with respect to this project was even recorded, not counting the support video on her Kickstarter, and she was subject to hate speech and death threats. Violent language for daring to be a woman talking about wanting to talk about something.
The latest in the Sarkeesian Saga is the posting and subsequent removal of a “game” called “Beat Up Anita Sarkeesian.”
I’m not linking to it, nor am I linking to news stories about it. They carry the pictures and the pictures are terrible. The 25-year-old boy who made it is from Sault Ste. Marie. A Toronto based blogger found him out and told the Internet.
And who’s the bad one here? Is it the manchild who thinks a flash-game based entirely on inflicting grievous physical harm upon an image of a real person is okay?
No, it’s the woman who told people about it.
And that appears to be the popular opinion. This isn’t just a few people!
Sarkeesian linked a number of media appearances of hers and her story on her website. I looked at how Canada handled this story, she has links to both Macleans and The Globe and Mail.
Everyone in those comments sections should be ashamed of themselves.
This is just one story. There are an untold number more.
How many people have been silenced? How many have left the web entirely because of these spiteful trolls?
The world may never know. You don’t exist if you’re not online.
Stop the Internet. I want to get off. Let’s hit the reset button and go back. Back to a simpler time of animated flaming skull gifs and horrible background MIDI files you can’t turn off.
Here’s some puppies.
(that last one is my favourite)
-Ted.
