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For Episode 187 of Social Blend, we’re joined by special guest Rick Kelvington, responsible for some excellent Doctor Who and Star Wars mashups on YouTube, as well as mashups of other popular movies. Also joining us are Social Blend regulars geek journalist Tom Cheredar aka Tched from Venture Beat, and musician Terr Ciavarra aka Media Nox.
Kicking off the show, we follow-up on the controversy that was SOPA – as the protests died down, the news came out that the Feds had siezed and shut down popular website Megaupload, in strangely coincidintal timing with both the protests and Megaupload’s plans for a new watershed application. And as SOPA and PIPA were shelved, the War on the Internet continued, with eyes turning to the global ACTA agreement and Lamar Smith‘s insidious PCIP Act. Social Blend deconstructs them and gives you a brief overview on these new threats of censorship.
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It’s the 186th edition of Social Blend, and for this show we’re joined by the legendary Lee Garnett aka nComment and the Bacon Queen herself, Amy Vernon. After a long wait, Lee’s epic nComment comic WAR, which focused on the war between Digg and Reddit, has finally reached its conclusion with its third chapter. We discuss the release of the comic, the development, and what’s next for Lee and his comic series.
It’s time to catch up with the West Memphis Three again this week, with the release of Paradise Lost 3 on HBO, and Peter Jackson releasing the trailer for his WM3 documentary, West Of Memphis. Meanwhile, dominating the web this week was the Blackout Protest across the internet against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA) – we take a look at the protests from sites such as Wikipedia and Reddit, and discuss latest developments in the War of the Internet!
http://social-blend.com/2012/01/19/sopa-blend-186-war-on-the-internet/
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Celebration on Wall Street upon the news of Germany’s surrender in World War I, by W.L. Drummond
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For the 185th episode of Social Blend, CRANIUMELODY returns – a special of our podcast that underrated or obscure tunes for you to listen to, by some awesome artists that you really should check out!
And this time around, we’re travelling back in time to the year of 1987 – 25 years ago! A year that was especially good for the music scene, most notably the genres revolving around rock and metal
For our special Craniumelody, we play some music from Frehley’s Comet, The Cult, Choirboys, Celtic Frost, Rick Astley, Midnight Oil, Grateful Dead, Sonic Youth, Bruce Willis, and KISS.
http://social-blend.com/2012/01/13/craniumelody-1987-social-blend-185/
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The Round Up podcast returns, and now in its new home at Geeks of Doom! For those who are new to this mini-podcast, we take a look at some movies, music, and podcast previews from around the web.
For our new episode 1 (reboot, if you will) of The Geeks Of Doom Round Up, Andy takes a look at the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises, directed by Christopher Nolan, and starring Christian Bale. For our music selection this week, Greg takes a listen to Stepdad, and their trippy but unique song, “My Leather, My Fur, My Nails” — they are an independent band with their music available at bandcamp.com.
