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Leo Laporte Documentary

// January 6th, 2010 // View Comments // Internet, Social Media, Video

This documentary was featured on the Inside TWIT blog but I had to share it with my friends and readers as well. If you don’t know who Leo Laporte is, you can’t call yourself a Technology geek. No biggie, thats what wikipedia is for. Leo runs a very successful podcasting network known as TWIT (This week in Tech) but he prefers to call them netcasts. Leo says,

“I’ve never liked the word podcast. It causes confusion…people have told me that they can’t listen to my shows because they ‘don’t own an iPod’.”

Speaking of netcasts, that is his tagline on the bumpers to his shows “Netcasts you love, from people you trust.”

The documentary below is done by Michael Sean Wright and Marc Ostrick where they traveled to the “TWIT cottage” in Petuluma, CA. This is part of The Spark Series for eGuiders. They are exploring what makes Leo stand out in this new frontier of media. Leo Laporte has a huge following on the internet and he is doing this with a small staff and a modest budget compared to his TechTV days where it used to cost millions to do what he’s doing today. Leo also give his take on technology in general, Net Neutrality, and explains the joys of doing his show now versus what he did with traditional media. You will also get a small look behind the scenes of TWIT is run. I have always been a huge fan of Leo and the ex-TechTV personalities. A great little film about a tech culture icon.

2009: The Movies in 4 Minutes

// January 4th, 2010 // View Comments // Movies

I saw this compilation on the Redbox Blog and had to share. It’s a montage of clips from 2009 set to Radiohead’s appropriately titled “Exit Music (For A Film).”

If you liked that video, check out Matthew Shapiro’s past Cinescapes:

2006 THE YEAR IN MOVIES

2007: A YEAR FOR DRAMA

2007: A YEAR FOR ACTION

2008: THE CINESCAPE

Free Instant Christmas Movies

// December 23rd, 2009 // View Comments // Movies

Well the movies are free if you have a Netflix account. I was perusing InstantWatcher.com and found these Christmas movies available free during the holiday season:

Christmas Story	Black Christmas	P2
AOL ranked the film their #1 Christmas movie of all time in 2007. An instant classic that is staple on TBS during Christmas Day but now you watch it commercial-free through your XBOX,PS3,PC,Roku Box, etc.	Another movie from Bob Clark comes a different Christmas classic that’s a staple in our household. Before there was Halloween this was one of the scariest movies around.	Can you tell I like horror movies? This is a lesser known movie that has Christmas as backdrop but it is sure to entertain if you’re a horror film buff.

More Christmas Netflix Instant movies/TV Shows from instantwatcher.com

Christmas Light Cruisin 2009

// December 19th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog

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Redbox has the Service!

// December 18th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Movies

Redbox has the competition beat when it comes to DVD rental prices but another aspect I love about them is their customer service.  I had a craving for a movie tonight and this time around is what Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I go to redbox’s site to reserve a copy. I hop in the car to my nearest Redbox.

I get there and notice a line is formed three people deep. It seems that there’s a problem with machine and its not letting anyone rent a DVD. Dohh! This sucks for me double time! Whenever you reserve a movie from online, your credit card is automatically debited one night’s rental. Driving to another redbox and renting the same movie will not remove the reservation charge on that machine.  I automatically give their customer service a call and explain what happened. The operator says no problem and apologizes for the machine issue. He lets me know the one dollar fee to my credit card can’t be reversed but he does give me two promo codes for the trouble! WOW you can’t beat customer service like this.

This is the second time I’m experienced this. The first time I was just calling to let them know their machine had a DVD stuck in the slot. They thanked me for letting me know there was a problem and gave me a promo code for my troubles. This is great customer service on their part but it baffles me that they can afford to give away free promo codes on such a low-margin business. I’m guessing they need to save all the customers they can to keep people coming back. All I can say is kudos redbox and now can you fix all the slow asses who take forever making a movie choice.

Daily LifeStream Digest for October 26th

// October 26th, 2009 // View Comments // Blog, Lifestream

	Published Daily LifeStream Digest for October 25th.
	Posted 2 items.
	Shared Sunday night Dinner.
	Shared 2 links. Paul Thurrott’s SuperSite for Windows: Clean Install Windows 7 with Upgrade Media Kongregate: Play free games online
	Published U2 and YouTube Live.