Welcome to episode #10 of Media Hacks. Julien Smith is back from Japan. We recorded early on Friday morning and it was a great conversation about everything from Daddy Bloggers and publishing to Digital Nation and how great the adult sites are at Digital Marketing.  Yes, this one is all over the place. Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast: Media Hacks Episode #10 - Host: Mitch Joel.

• Running time: 50:21.
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• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
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• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009.
• New location for BookCamp: University of Toronto – iSchool.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks episode #10:
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven.
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Not present:
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Talking about Daddy Bloggers – Digital Dads and Dad-o-matic.
• Publishing is (still) a miracle.
• Digital Nation – a new PBS Frontline documentary.
• Everything is digital.
• Better understanding of online marketing by following the adult and gaming industries online.
• TechCrunch article on how the Web is always on with constant stream.
• WolframAlpha.
• Is the traditional search engine beginning to fail us?
• To get out of the clutter should we move back to physical things?
• Marketing of the books (both Six Pixels of Separation and Trust Agents).
• Old school world vs. new media.
• We admit it, we’re not kids.
• Check out Hugh, Julien and Chris at the upcoming Book Expo America conference.
• A new audio conversation for Marketing Magazine with Seth Godin, Charlene Li, Shelly Palmer and David Weinberger (it will be made available here mid-June).
• Let Me Google That For You.
• BookCamp and the challenge with traditional industry being confused by the unconference movement.
• Scribd and book piracy.
• DRM protection and why human beings are a virus (well, mostly Julien).

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Welcome to episode #9 of Media Hacks. Somehow we managed to get the whole gang together for a brand new episode of Media Hacks. There was tons of rambling, debate and back and forth on why ideas spread, what really worries us about the coming year, and the power of education (and why it’s in need of immediate repair). Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Media Hacks Episode #9 - Host: Mitch Joel.

• Running time: 49:09.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
• Subscribe over at iTunes.
• Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation.
• Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
• or you can connect on LinkedIn.
• …or on twitter.
• Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009.
• New location for BookCamp: University of Toronto – iSchool.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks episode #9 featuring:
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Todd Defren from PR Squared and Shift Communications asks: what’s got us worried?
• Rants on education.
• TED Talk – Sir Ken Robinson – Do Schools Kill Creativity?
• We need better filters.
• Ideas are everywhere.
• What spreads? What doesn’t?
• Obligations from the bigger companies.
• The spread of Twitter.
• It’s all just linkbait.

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Welcome to episode #8 of Media Hacks. This episode includes some very new news topics discussed in-depth. Lots of Google, publishing and advertising chat. Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Media Hacks Episode #8 - Host: Mitch Joel.

• Running time: 44:08.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
• Subscribe over at iTunes.
• Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation.
• Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
• or you can connect on LinkedIn.
• …or on twitter.
• Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009 – MaRS Discovery District.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks #8 featuring:
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven.
• Not present:
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Google Profile.
• Steve Rubel – Micro Persuasion - Google’s New “What’s Popular” Feature Aims to Clone Digg.
• Techmeme.
• No more Wikia search.
• MySpace goes through changes.
• Is banner advertising going to be the future of online advertising?
• How much money is Facebook making?
• YouTube is losing money every day.
• Shout-out to Barbara Nixon and her class.
• Music:
• David Usher – ‘Kill The Lights’.

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Welcome to episode #7 of Media Hacks, featuring C.C. Chapman and Hugh McGuire. Lots of great chatting about the new media, the old media and everything in between. It includes lots of discussion about marketing, advertising, publishing and some ideas about the future of media. Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Episode #7 of Media Hacks.

• Running time: 47:57.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
• Subscribe over at iTunes.
• Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation.
• Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
• or you can connect on LinkedIn.
• …or on twitter.
• Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009 – MaRS Discovery District.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks – episode #7 featuring:
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven.
• Not present:
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Arianna Huffington on Charlie Rose: A conversation about print journalism in the digital age.
• Google and Universal Music launch Vevo: UMG, Google Team for Exclusive Music Site VEVO: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer April 10, 2009.
• Can anyone really outgoogle Google?
• The power of good Journalism.
• Chris Brogan having to put a disclaimer on his GM Blog posts.
• The fishbowl is just yelling at one another.
• Transparency and authenticity when none of us trust any of us (sadly).
• CBSSports.com streamed more than 8.6 million hours of college basketball during March Madness.
• Why can’t media companies make money in online advertising?
• Is this trading analog dollars for digital pennies?
• The tools, platforms and media are still evolving.
• Where does Citizen Journalism and Hyper-Local news fit in?
• American Journalism Review – The Morton Plan (courtesy of Jay Rosen via Twitter).
• The Borderless Media.
• Talk about innovation and transformation.
• Music:
• David Usher – ‘Kill The Lights’.

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Welcome to episode #6 of Media Hacks. Tons of great discussion around how people are not scalable, the power of the data in Twitter and some of the cool new and fun ways business can better benefit from Facebook. Julien drops a few f-bombs and Hugh claims to not know that Demi Moore is married to Ashton Kutcher. Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Episode #6 of Media Hacks.

• Running time: 52:33.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
• Subscribe over at iTunes.
• Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation.
• Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
• or you can connect on LinkedIn.
• …or on twitter.
• Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009 – MaRS Discovery District.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks #6 featuring:
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven. (joins in shortly after the beginning).
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Not present (tsk, tsk):
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• New intro music courtesy of Jay Moonah.
• Are individuals scalable?
• Guy Kawasaki and ghost blogging (and tweeting).
• Guy’s new book is great, Reality Check.
• Is Twitter making it even harder to be scalable because it is “always on”?
• Here’s the Twitpic that Hugh claimed he didn’t see: Ashton Tweets Demi.
• Don’t forget Twitter is one of the best focus groups you could ever have.
• Google is Making Ads More Interesting.
• C.C’s Facebook Marketing PDF: About Face – A Free Whitepaper on Facebook Pages.
• Music (in honour of Earth Hour):
• David Usher - ‘Kill The Lights’.

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Welcome to episode #5 of Media Hacks. Another juicy episode, and the conversation is heating up! Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Episode #5 of Media Hacks.

• Running time: 50:12.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
• Subscribe over at iTunes.
• Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation.
• Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
• or you can connect on LinkedIn.
• …or on twitter.
• Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009 – MaRS Discovery District.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks #5 featuring:
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven. (joins in shortly after the beginning).
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Not present:
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Google, Branding and Search Engine Optimization.
• Twitter and the value of it – including links.
• Twitter and Facebook becoming a good referrer of web traffic.
• Twitter Follow Friday.
• The changing face of the conference business… or are we just kidding ourselves?
• Are conference moving to unconference models?
• My world is not your world.
• Podsafe Music Network:
• Munk – ‘I Am (Molly’s Theme)’.

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Welcome to episode #4 of Media Hacks. In another heated conversation, this is also episode #4 of Media Hacks. We’re all on the call (with the exception of Julien Smith) and it’s lively, snarky and (hopefully) insightful too. If you enjoy the topics of media, publishing, advertising and the newer media, please take a listen. Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Media Hacks- Episode #4 - Host: Mitch Joel.

• Running time: 38:01.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful Montreal.
• Subscribe over at iTunes.
• Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation.
• Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook.
• or you can connect on LinkedIn.
• …or on twitter.
• Facebook Group - Six Pixels of Separation Podcast Society.
• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009 – MaRS Discovery District.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks #4.
• Chris Brogan – New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven. (joins in shortly after the beginning).
• Not present:
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• It’s the economy stupid.
• O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference.
• From Industrialization to Digitization.
• Christian Science Monitor to print only.
• New York Times subscribers if we give them all Amazon’s Kindle.
• The value of publishing.
• What do consumers really want? And how do they want it?
• Most publishers are just inventory to advertisers.
• Google gets out of the radio business.
• Is Google getting into Podcast monetization?
• Sirius XM and satellite radio.
• Microsoft goes retail.
• How do the formats work and how do we make them easier to get?
• Podsafe Music Network:
• Kevin Reeves – ‘Throw Me A Line.

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Welcome to episode #3 of Media Hacks. It was recorded live over some of the biggest sandwiches I have ever seen at the Carnegie Deli in New York City. You’ll get to hear from Chris Brogan, Hugh McGuire, Julien Smith and more. We’re ranting, raving and panting all over media, publishing and books. Note: some of the language is not work safe. Enjoy the conversation…

Download the podcast here: Media Hacks Episode #3 - Host: Mitch Joel.

• Running time: 45:11.
• Audio comment line - please send in a comment and add your voice to the audio community: +1 206-666-6056.
• Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com.
• Hello from Beautiful New York City.
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• In a perfect world, connect with me, directly, through Facebook.
• The Road to Six Pixels of Separation – The Book – coming soon.
• Media Hacks Podcast #3.
• Live from the Carnegie Deli in New York City.
• What makes World of Warcraft Not A Book?
• Chris Brogan – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Hugh McGuire – LibriVox – The Book Oven.
• Julien Smith – In Over Your Head – Co-author of Trust Agents.
• Not killing themselves with pastrami this week:
• C.C. Chapman – Managing The Gray – Advance Guard.
• Christopher S. Penn – The Financial Aid Podcast – Marketing Over Coffee.
• O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference.
• Social Media Week NYC.
• Jeff Pulver – SocComm.
• Jeff Jarvis – Buzzmachine – What Would Google Do?
• The Digitalist – Sara Lloyd.
• Amazon Kindle 2.
• Everything Bad Is Good For You - Steven Berlin Johnson.
• Radian6 - Amber Naslund - @ambercadabra - Director of Community.
• BookCamp Toronto – June 6th, 2009 – MaRS Discovery District.
• Podsafe Music Network:
• New Leaf – ‘Magic Carpet’.

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