In this second video episode of Random Tuesdays, Summer Rose (who likes to speak in 3rd person) brings up the very important issue of killer whale.. arms.

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Who knows? Maybe I’ll have another episode for ya.

Jennifer Leggio is the director of strategic communications for Fortinet, as well as a regular blogger on ZDNet and co-host of the Quick-n-Dirty show on blogtalkradio. Having spent more than 15 years in the communications industry, she has a good grasp on technology, network security, and digital media.

Jennifer also played an accidental role in the naming of this web site (a typo she wrote basically helped inspire the name “Social Nerdia“). Please follow Jennifer aka Mediaphyter on Twitter and make sure to pay attention to any thought-provoking typos.

1. How do you balance your life while working at Fortinet, blogging for ZDNet, and contributing to other projects?

It’s tough. I sacrifice a lot of my personal life. While Fortinet is flexible and understanding of my “double life,” my job there is my first and foremost priority, and it has both its demands and rewards. I need to write at least two to three times per week for ZDNet and I have pretty high standards for what I post on the blog. I don’t like to do little blurbs that just riff on other people’s research. I like to do my own research. It’s challenging but worth it. I just need to find a way to work a little more “me” time into the equation and I’ll be satisfied.

2. You write about “social business”. Do you think there’s a place for every company (products/services, B2C/B2B, etc.) in the social web?

Every company? That might be a stretch. (more…)

From great advertising and branding to incredible art, design, music, films, and anything worth a second look or  second thought, this is Diegoliath’s weekly source of creative inspiration. I’ll use this space on the web to showcase some of the things that brighten my day and re-ignite my creative thinking.

If you have some inspirational sources of your own, please leave a comment and a link.

1. Rock Band: Beatles Cinematic Intro
http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/cinematic.php

Please take a moment to soak in this beautiful dreamy animation by Passion Pictures for the upcoming Rock Band: Beatles game.  Each colorful scene is directly inspired by song lyrics from the Beatles. From an art direction standpoint, this game is a great example of how a unique visual style can really spark interest in people and even bring out emotions. It really made me happy when I saw it.  My love for music games has been slowly growing cold with the extensive amount of releases this year, but this animation definitely got me back in the game.  It seems like I won’t have to wait for DJ Hero to experience something new.  Enjoy.

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The Social Nerdia Show! Episode #2 is now available for streaming on blogtalkradio (and at the bottom of this post) as well as a podcast on iTunes.

In this episode, @jestebanc and @somerlea talk about the latest Social Nerdia blog posts, recent Tech News (Facebook dethroning MySpace, Bing making gains, online video stats, and email marketing forecasts), and Not-So Tech / Pop Culture News (Letterman’s Palin comments, Kate Gosselin spanks her kids, CK inappropriateness, and an angry and perhaps lost in space Michael Jackson).

The show also delves into the awesomness of free cell phones, nasty female commercials, tweeting stalkers, turtles in the middle of the highway, @common_squirrel, “Captain Obvious” of the media, Hammer Time, grandmas on Facebook, upcoming movie releases, and the Randomized Topic of the Day (which was.. who would’ve guessed? Twitter!), sponsored by: “Spreadsheet“.

Thanks for tuning in!

Podcasts have made long drives a little more bearable, working out a bit more enlightening, and some of your favorite TV and radio shows mobile-ready.

Here is a diverse list of 10 audio podcasts you should listen to. If you have any other good suggestions, please leave us a comment.

• Buzz Out Loud: With 1000 shows, BOL is CNET’s daily podcast of indeterminate length and your gateway to the best in tech. If I had to live with only one podcast, it would be this one.
  – Sample Episode: “994 Smilish Out Loud” released on 6/10/2009
• BusinessWeek Cover Stores: John A. Byrne and some of the finest BusinessWeek writers talk about each week’s upcoming cover story. BW is not the same without this podcast.
  – Sample Episode: “What’s a Friend Worth” released on 5/21/2009
• Diggnation: Digg’s Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht go over some of the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories. Usually hilarious.
  – Sample Episode: “Affairs to Remember” released on 6/3/2009
• NPR Live Concerts from All Songs Considered: From live recordings of Radiohead, Of Montreal, and Jose Gonzalez, SXSW live shows, this might just be the best music-related podcast out there. NPR’s rise to music relevancy is astounding.
  – Sample Episode: “Iron and Wine live in concert” released on 11/04/2007
• The McKinsey Quarterley: Intelligent thoughts from one of the world’s finest management consulting firms.
  – Sample Episode: “Hal Varian on how the Web challenges managers” released on 2/23/2009
• The Adam Corolla Show: Guests range from the very random to the very famous. Often offensive, always thought provoking and funny.
  – Sample Episode: “Adam, Teresa, and Bald Bryan” released on 06/11/2009 (more…)

Conor Knighton produces and hosts infoMania, a TV show about all things media, pop culture, world news, and even politics. The show, which airs every Thursday on Current TV, was developed with Madeleine Smithberg (co-creator of The Daily Show) and is not the typical infotainment / clip show by any means.

Oh no, infoMania is brilliant, and it should be in a category of its own. Often funny and surprisingly intelligent, with several awesome segments like Sarah Haskins’ “Target: Women” and Brett Elrich’s “Viral Video Film School“, as well as rants about people like Susan Boyle, well-compiled exposures of the media’s affair with Twitter, and the occasional association of completely unrelated people like Gene Simmons and Sonia Sotomayor (who I agree, must have been separated at birth), infoMania is a show you can actually watch right now.. online.

So please do. And also make sure to check out Conor’s blog and twitter feed.

1.You were the first person to appear on Current TV back in 2005 and you are now the host and executive producer of infoMania, which has been compared to “The Daily Show” and “The Soup“. How did you get started and what was the road to infoMania like?

Initially, Current hired me to produce and host a show about the internet’s top rising searches.  We called it ‘Google Current’ because, uh, it was about Google and it aired… on Current.  We weren’t very creative back then.

I did that show for a while, and then a similar one with Yahoo – they were both short, 3 minute updates at the top of every hour.  At the time, Current was all about short form content. 

However, it was a lot of running up and down to the studio all day, and we eventually convinced the network that a half-hour, once a week show would not only be a better outlet for us creatively, but would give our viewers something to tune into (or record) on a regular basis. 

We played with a few formats, but eventually landed on what has become infoMania – a comedic and critical look at the chaotic world of the media.

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In this first episode of Random Tuesdays, Summer Rose (who likes to speak in 3rd person) brings up a very deep philosophical question about one of the world’s most popular pastries.

Don’t forget to check in again next Tuesday. Who knows? Maybe I’ll have another episode for ya. And if there are any topics you think I should cover, let yourself be known by leaving a comment.

Anyways.. here it is: