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Adam Carolla invites blogger, founder of Mahalo.com, and web entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis to his podcast.

Some highlights to mention:

• Adam and Jason discuss the dualism of Web 2.0, or one direction is increasing access to each other,  but another direction is making people more isolated (8:00 minute mark)
• Jason points out that the internet is making it harder to hate people because of common shared interest (9:00 minute mark)
• Jason explains his childhood and his dad as hustler, how he learned how to bribe/tip service workers (35:00 minute mark)
• Jason’s insightful points on how to make money on the internet as a blogger, podcaster, or business person (44:00  minute mark)

Two things that Jason Calacanis talks about that are terribly important in becoming successful is keeping overhead cost down, and being authentic and organic  in making content.

Go to his podcast!

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I am trying something new here. Skypecast is a podcast, but you use Audio Hijack Pro to record the conversation. Use Audacity to edit the audio, and finally Apple’s Garageband to do some more editing. The audio is choppy at times, but listenable.

Colin Reed as guest. We chew the fat about twitter, facebook, SxSW, building a website as a non-computer programmer, what is the expectation to our generation in relation to job skills and Web 2.0.

2009.03.24 Colin Reed and Chico mp3

Share as you go along, thats digital karma

Do you remember Leo Laporte, the Tech Guy? He was on Tech TV before it became G4.

Before I get to Leo, a comment first: boy, does that channel blow (G4). The show I really enjoyed, X-Play. But it transformed and devolved. It was show dedicated to videogames by simply reviewing and recommending them. The new format is five things wrapped up into an half hour. So the games you want to see get 1 minute of airtime. G4 dumb down the show. It placed bells and whistles before substance.

It was like when MTV stopped showing music videos. MTV stands for Music Television. But when is the last time you watched a music video on it? Now its junk, filler, puff, and nonsense. It dumb down everything.

Back to Leo Laporte. I missed this guy. He had awesome tricks and tips on everything tech. I learned a ton of stuff watching his stuff. I recently learned the basics to building professional websites through his podcast with Adam Carolla.

He said something wise about putting content out there. He explained that there is a scarcity of good, interesting, and insightful stuff on the market. People are flocking to the internet to find it. Podcasts, Internet Radio, Hulu, Boxee, and yes, even blogs are the wave of the future.

Does anyone have thoughts on the dumbing down of our media? Be it radio, tv, magazines, or our culture, what’s your thoughts?B