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Weeks Show August 18, 2001
KLAY 1180 AM (Tacoma/Seattle, WA)
Saturday, 11am PST or from http://www.webtalkguys.com
Listen To 8.18.01 Show:
Net Trends:
- Are You Wireless and Paranoid Yet?
- What is E-Tail Nirvana?
- Seattle's 78 Tech Jobs
- Plus Below Interviews & Site Reviews
- CarbonWave's SurfReport w/Pat Scanlon
54 min - Full Show
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Windows Media
 "City-Owned
Broadband vs. AT&T"
Guest: Dana Toulson, Click! Network, General
Manager
Duration: 16 min.
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The David vs. Goliath story is being re-told in Tacoma, Washington. The city's power
company has become a broadband fiber optic Internet and cable TV service provider, known
as "Click! Network". They have also become the target of criticism and
competitive spending by national broadband cable TV provider "AT&T". Click!
Network General Manager Dana Toulson says she isn’t paranoid - she believes
AT&T's goal is to keep Click! from replicating elsewhere, especially now that Click!
is showing a profit. Tacoma has the largest municipal telecommunications system in the
nation. Click! receives calls from cities throughout the nation that are interested in
entering the cable and high-speed Internet access business and that has AT&T worried.
Be looking for broadband Internet and digital cable TV service coming to a utility
power-grid near you soon.
"The Art of Ze"
Guest: ze, creator of zefrank.com
Duration: 18 min.
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It’s not easy describing ze or his website
zefrank.com. Zefrank is part art, part an homage to dumb and dumber, part frenetic genius
- and the ultimate way to spend unproductively fun time on the web. The zefrank site is
rife with technically amazing animations, unusual art and hilarious home-made movies like
"How To Act Convincingly for Film, TV and the Theater” and “How To Dance
Properly”. Another thing zefrank is is popular. The site gets nearly a million
visitors per day. And the site started as one of those free websites you get by using
Earthlink as an ISP. The WebTalkGuys will try to get some straight talk from ze, the
special-effects brain behind zefrank.com.
August 11, 2001
 "The Webification of TV"
Guest: Kevin Werbach, Editor of Release
1.0: Esther Dyson's Monthly Report
Duration: 32 min.
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The thing about media is its always updating itself and one-upping its competitors. We had
radio, but TV came along and took it further. Now we have the web. Not to be outdone, TV
is updating itself with the best aspects of the web. Today's Reality TV stuff is just the
Jenny Cam to the next degree. The webguys decided its time to slug this
“webification” ball around the field a bit with Kevin Werbach reflecting on his article on "The
Webification of TV".
 "The Dishonorable Layoff"
Guest: Nick
Doty, Editor at Techies.com
Duration: 29 min.
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Have any of you worked for a tech company where the CEO just sort of stopped showing up at
the office? Or HR started having mysterious meetings with coworkers that you never saw
again, punctuated by lots of security guards and Kleenex? Has your paycheck bounced? In
honor of the thousands of laid-off tech workers, the webguys will talk with techies.com
editor Nick Doty about his article
"The dishonorable layoff" and the techies.com survey of more than 700 former
tech workers who've suddenly found themselves with more time than money. It’s scary
times!
July 28, 2001
 "Channel Surf with NetRadio"
Guest: Stephen Holderman, Executive VP of NetRadio
Duration: 32 min.
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Computers and music go together like love and marriage. But, as in matrimony, sometimes
the relationship can dissolve in a legal separation. Although music lovers are like the
abandoned kids watching Napster walk away or talent fee arbitration put a stop to the
harmony of traditional broadcast radio streaming live, there will always be our favorite
uncle offering music while we surf: NetRadio.
Three million listeners tune in to NetRadio.com, the oldest and best online radio station.
NetRadio is a broadcaster of originally programmed audio entertainment over the Internet
24/7. NetRadio was the first online radio station and they’ve grown to offer 100
channels, which range from heavy metal to jazz to classical music. In February, NetRadio
topped the online charts, chalking up more than 3 million hours of streamed music. That's
the seventh consecutive month NetRadio has owned the No. 1 slot.
The WebGuys will find out the scoop on their new bricks and mortar service and what it's
like to almost be delisted on Nasdaq while still being a strong pure play Internet
company.
 "Take the British Underground Rock Tour"
Guest: Barry Ratcliffe, founder of BURBs.co.uk
Duration: 19 min.
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Lest America forgets, the British music scene has always been a driving force in what
we're listening to on the radio. The model still applies in the Internet age. Surf on over
to England for the next big sound and you'll find BURBs.co.uk ("British Underground
Rock Bands"), the front door to the bands of the UK. The five-year-old portal allows
the whole world access to over 1000 British bands, to discover and purchase music from.
BURBs bypasses the record companies and showcases the real music from the UK, straight
from the artists. ‘BURBs Radio’ show offers a nice mix of current favorite BURBs
tracks. The WebGuys go British with Barry of the BURBs.
 "DotComGuy:
Life Beyond the Web"
Guest: DotComGuy - www.thedcg.com
Duration: 16 min.
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DotComGuy captured the national media spotlight and made
Internet history when he launched the first 24/7/365 live streaming video webcast from 20
cameras of his life locked away in his Internet dependent lifestyle. What the heck is he
up to now?!
 "Stickiest
Site on the Web"
Guest: Erick Hachenburg, President and CEO of Pogo.com
Duration: 14 min.
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The WebGuys will talk the CEO of pogo.com, the leading
provider of free online games. Media Metrix announced that pogo.com was the stickiest site
on the Web for the calendar year 2000, beating first runner-up eBay by nearly 50 percent.
Defined as "average minutes spent per month per unique visitor," stickiness is
increasingly regarded as a leading indicator of a Web site's popularity and is a direct
reflection of a site's ability to retain Web surfers for significant periods of time.
pogo.com, which reached the 15 million registered member mark, continues to attract more
than 25,000 new registered members per day.
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Bummer...no more live webcast due to the
talent fees arbitration for network commercials. KLAY has pulled the plug on webcasting,
as have most broadcast radio stations.
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What: Get the inside
view of the Internet on this talk radio show from expert co-hosts who work everyday in the
industry. Each show features internet Industry CEO's and new media executive interviews,
website tips and listener call-in comments and questions.
Who: The WebTalkGuys show is hosted by Rob
Greenlee, WebGrrl Dana, President of LoudVox.com, Joey Cassie,
CEO, Web-X and Patrick Scanlon, CEO, Carbonwave.
Where & When: Tune in every Saturday from 11 am to Noon PST on 1180 AM KLAY in the Tacoma / Seattle market
area. We are also broadcasting the show on the Web through RealAudio G2 and Microsoft Media Streaming players.
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Past Interviews
"Sore Wrists? You're A
Computer Athlete, After All."
Saturday, June 16th Show (20 min.)
Guest: Emil Pascarelli, author of "Repetitive
Strain Injury: A Computer User's Guide" & Prof. of Medicine at Columbia
University.
Listen: Real Audio
Dr. Emil Pascarelli says we're all "computer
athletes". Like all athletes, playing our game can result in wear and tear and
strain. Work can hurt, if you don't take care. Approximately 2 million US workers suffer
from repetitive strain
injuries. In an industry that demands long hours of banging at a keyboard and clicking
a plastic mouse, victims of repetitive stress injuries bring more misery upon themselves
with every keystroke. And that pain brings a chilling fear that a career may be over.
The Lone Gunmen Speak
5.5.2001 (19 min.)
Guests: Dean
Haglund (Langly) and Bruce Harwood (Byers) TheLoneGunmen.com
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Net Topic Discussions:
Need
For Net Speed
The battle is between cable, DSL and wireless Internet access for your connection. Who is
going to win your business. Guests: Joey Caisse, CEO of Web-X.com
and David Bryant, National Accounts Manager, Global
Crossing
20 min.
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Flaunting Your Wireless
Devices
Wireless PDA's, Web-enabled cell phones, Pocket PC's are cool and the in thing right now.
Venture Capitalists are filling the wireless sector with cash, just like they did with
e-tailers. Is the industry doomed by early over hype. Who and what device is
destined for success, if any?.
Guests: Jeff Davis, Rob Greenlee
14 min.
Real Audio
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