Episode #172 of Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. It’s also episode #17 of Media Hacks.

Finally, back with a new episode of Media Hacks where we dissect everything from video games and iPhone apps to why Christopher S. Penn loves shooting people online. This episode features C.C. Chapman (Managing The Gray), Hugh McGuire (The Book Oven, Huffington Post), Penn (The Financial Aid Podcast,Marketing Over Coffee), and myself (both Chris Brogan and Julien Smith could not make the call). Should video games be more than just shameless fun? Should companies allow their employees to use Social Media? Some are using it wisely, while some might just be trying to kill some time. From there, we get into a very semantic conversation about what is a “book” and the future of the Internet. Enjoy the conversation…

You can grab the latest episode of Six Pixels of Separation and Media Hacks here (or feel free to subscribe via iTunes): Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast #172 - Media Hacks #17.

As usual, there is some language, so please keep in mind that this Podcast is not work safe. Many major happenings in both the technology, communications and Social Media space. We discuss everything from the unconference movement to Bloggers who take themselves (and their community) maybe a little too seriously. We also chat about Twitter (of course) where Hugh explains why it is more like talking than a media channel (or something) and some Googley stuff. Enjoy the conversation…

• Running time: 55:37.
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• Media Hacks #15 featuring:
• 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 (a little late, but present).
• Not present:
• Chris Brogan - New Marketing Labs - Co-author of Trust Agents.
• PodCamp Boston #4.
• People and the unconference movement.
• Mass media still gets all excited, doesn’t it?
• It’s not about the schedule - it’s about the conversation.
• You can’t hide when you’re on Twitter.
• Google Caffeine is not important to Christopher S. Penn (it is to me).
• … And it’s not because of Microsoft’s Bing.
• Google Wave is going to be a bigger deal.
• Google’s new “options” in search (Blogged about here: Google Offers Up New Ways To Search (And Why You Should Care)).
• The power of wonder wheel.
• FriendFeed gets bought by Facebook (none of us seem to have too much to say about it).
• Is FriendFeed really more about real-time search?
• Facebook’s new search functionality.
• Remember, the monetization is in the data (not the advertising).
• Twitter begins to formalize the retweet process.
• How big and deep can people go with content?
• Julien is taking driving lessons - let’s all pray together.
• How will Chris Penn take advantage of technology?
• C.C. now repeats about Facebook Search because for some reason, I wasn’t paying attention (strange and awkward moment).
• Aardvark - a new tool or platform or search tool platform?
• Blogging, sarcasm and taking ourselves too seriously.
• Be careful what you say and where you say it (we think).

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