Andy and Mu are joined this week by Carolyn ‘cshel’ Shelby, host of the SEO 101 Podcast. This week, news of the sale of the Pirate Bay turns into a discussion on the future of ad-supported business models, A 13 year-old youth gives up his iPod for a Walkman cassette player, Firefox reaches 35 Million downloads in one day, Tesla gets $465M from the government to develop the electric car, and the Obama-tron becomes active!

Show Notes

The Pirate Bay Sold To Software Company, Goes Legal
The Pirate Bay Will Close Its Tracker and Remove Torrents
5 Alternatives to The Pirate Bay
Giving up my iPod for a Walkman
Guy gets fired from Denny’s for posting to Twitter
Digg: Dupe Detection Updates Are Here
Scientists Make Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light

Tesla Motors to Receive $465 Million Loan from the Government

The King of Pop is gone forever, and The Drill Down crew reminisce about him and discuss the impact his death had on the web. Also we discuss the shot heard ’round the world, the shooting death of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan, Steve Jobs returns to work after successful liver transplant, and Richard Marx (?!) defends convicted downloader Jammie Thomas-Rassett.

Show Links

Web slows after Jackson’s death

Iranian Girl Shot: Neda Becomes Symbol Of Rebellion In Iran
Jobs Had Liver Transplant
Apple Chief Steve Jobs Spotted at Work
Richard Marx (!) attacks RIAA after $1.92M Thomas verdict
American IT grads unprepared and unemployable: Indian CEO Vineet Nayar
Windows 7 Pricing: Good News, Mostly
MySpace To Terminate 2/3 Of International Staff

The Drill Down crew stand witness to a social media revolution as Twitter is the communication tool of choice for disenfranchised supporters of Iran Presidential reform candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who lost in a highly contested election to incumbent hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Later, they discuss the federal jury ruling against Jammie Thomas-Rasset that has fined her $80,000 a song for for illegally downloading tracks and violating copyright laws. Plus, why you should never Twitter in the bath.

Show links
Iran’s Protests: Why Twitter is the Medium of the Movement
Social Networks Spread Iranian Defiance Online
TED Blog: Q&A with Clay Shirky on Twitter and Iran
Web Users in Iran Reach Overseas for Proxies
Twitter Postpones Maintenance as Iran Furor Builds
Opera “Reinvents the Web” with Unite, Makes Every Computer a Server
Woman fined to tune of $1.9 million for illegal downloads
China’s Crackdown on Internet Porn Sows Anger, Confusion
China starts meddling with Google results because of porn
Wikipedia Gets Ready for a Video Upgrade
Twitter bath death

The non-Gilmor Gang talk about Apple’s 2009 WorldWide Developer’s Conference and the announcement of the 3GS iPhone, the Pirate Party’s inclusion in the European Parliament, Facebook vanity URLs, Left4Dead2 protests, Leo Laporte blows up, annnnndd….Keyboard Cat!

Show links

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2009

The iPhone 3G S is announced, although the actual costs seem a little different from AT&T POV. PC magazine explains the numbers.

You can watch the keynote in full here.

Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament via Torrent Freak

You Have Three Days To Pick Your Facebook Vanity URL. Choose Wisely, Or You’re Screwed via TechCrunch

MPAA Says Making Even “One Copy” of a DVD is Illegal via ZeroPaid

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook Announced via ReadWriteWeb

18,500 Join Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Group via Edge

Leo Laporte Blows up at Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang YouTube

Conan’s New Set Sure looks familiar via Gizmodo

DEADLINE Post-it stop motion YouTube

Play ‘im off, Keyboard Cat!

The stories we’ll be talking about tonight – in the order that we hope to cover them.  If you can think of anything we haven’t included in this lineup – please let us know in the comments.

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference 2009

The iPhone 3G S is announced, although the actual costs seem a little different from AT&T POV.  PC magazine explains the numbers.

You can watch the keynote in full here.

Pirate Party Wins and Enters The European Parliament via Torrent Freak

You Have Three Days To Pick Your Facebook Vanity URL. Choose Wisely, Or You’re Screwed via TechCrunch

MPAA Says Making Even “One Copy” of a DVD is Illegal via ZeroPaid

Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook Announced via ReadWriteWeb

18,500 Join Left 4 Dead 2 Boycott Group via Edge

Leo Laporte Blows up at Mike Arrington on the Gillmor Gang YouTube

Conan’s New Set Sure looks familiar via Gizmodo

DEADLINE Post-it stop motion YouTube

This week we bring the spectacle and glory of the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo home with two guest commentators, Nelson Abalos, Jr. of PixelatedGeek.com and gamer/web content producer Krystyn Chong. Lidija, Mu and Andy also cover a potential pay model for Hulu, a stem cell cure for blindness, the upcoming Apple WWDC, Digg Ads and the passing of a legend, David Carradine (good night, sweet prince!).

Show Links

Kung Fu star Carradine found dead
SF Mayor Newsom Announces citizens can Access City Services with a ‘Tweet’
Want Your Service Integrated With TweetDeck? It’ll Cost You A Cool $50,000
Stem Cell Contact Lenses Cure Blindness in Less Than a Month
WWDC 2009: 3rd generation iPhone graphical rumor round-up
Ads You Can Digg…or Bury
Microsoft announces “Project Natal” motion controller for Xbox 360!
You can believe in Microsoft’s Project Natal
PSP Go first hands-on!
E3 2009: Left 4 Dead 2 Announced! 4 New Survivors, 5 New Campaigns
E3 2009: The Best and Worst of E3
E3 2009: “If anybody wants to see, there’s a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up.”*

Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up – a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

In the 48th edition of The Round Up, Andy explores a future warning for humanity in the movie adaptation of the graphic novel Surrogates directed by Jonathan Mostow. Following this Greg pays tribute to his brothers in the band Against 72, playing their song, Bitter Endings.

Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www​.thedrilld​own.com/​; – and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www​.mixxingbo​wl.com/​;

Show Links:

Surrogates – Official Trailer

Against 72 – Official MySpace Page

The Drill Down at E3 2009

Steve Wiebe attempting a Donkey Kong world record at E3 2009.

Nothing stirs my geeky heart more than drama involving an underdog who refuses to quit, and good old fashioned retro nostalgia. Those elements combined Tuesday at E3 2009 when Steve Wiebe,  championship Donkey Kong player, and subject of the 2007 documentary, “King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” attempted to break the world record of 1,050,200, currently held by “Kong” co-star and alleged douchebag extraordinaire Billy Mitchell.

Here are the last few moments of his final attempt that day, where his game is ended by the infamous 22nd level “kill screen“, which stops the player dead in his tracks, regardless of score or lives remaining. This was his fourth attempt that day, with the third attempt being cut short due to a FREAKING POWER FAILURE. His final score before kill screen was 989,400. Keep in mind, this is a higher score than champion Billy Mitchell has ever had before live witnesses. You are watching the very definition of championship, irregardless of title.

After the event, I briefly spoke with Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies, the worldwide videogame score adjudicating organization, about exactly what types of videogames they rule over and what his favorite games are.

BING! The Drill Down gang drill down into Microsoft’s new search/reccomendation engine, Mozilla’s development engine and Google’s upcoming threaded collaboration software. We discuss 4Chan’s griefing of YouTube, CBS handing last.fm data to the RIAA and Digg ditching shouts forever. Later we play an exclusive premiere of singer Carina K’s new ode to Twitter.

Show Notes
YouTube Yanks Thousands of Porn Videos
Hulu Comes to the Desktop
Mona Lisa in a 140 Character tweet
Deny This, Last.fm: CBS hands user data to RIAA
Wikipedia bans Church of Scientology
Attention Ladies and Gentlemen: shouts have left the building
Will Digg Be a Better Place Without Shouts?
Zune HD is official, heading your way this Fall
Mozilla’s Jetpack Builds on Firefox’s Top Strength
Google Wave Drips With Ambition. A New Communication Platform For A New Web
Hands On With Microsoft’s New Search Engine: Bing, But No Boom
The official webpage for Carina K
Twitter Rock Stars (The Twitter Song)

Andy Sorcini aka Mr. Baby Man from The Drill Down and Greg Davies aka cGt2099 from Social Blend join forces for The Round Up – a short mini podcast focusing on some entertainment news, with a preview of what’s coming up in Social Blend and The Drill Down.

In the 47th edition of The Round Up, Greg previews the trailer of Patrick Read Johnson’s ‘77 - an autobiographical film that has been in development for a decade. If you think Fanboys took a long time to come out, you should check out this one! Also, Andy plays us Twitter Rock Stars by Carina K, who is a special guest on the upcoming Drill Down show.

Be sure to check out The Drill Down at http://www.thedrilldown.com/; – and you can listen to Social Blend at http://www.mixxingbowl.com/;

Show Links:

‘77 – Official Trailer

‘77 – Official Website

Twitter Rock Stars – Carina K

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