Listener comments!

🤖 ♥ 5:52pm
: Mark! Techtstricated! ♥ 5:57pm
Mark Hurst: Hi ultra, hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:01pm
Handy Haversack: Mark and the Techyons!

Scott's eating your minute!

♥ 6:02pm
Count d'Al Dente: Ready to be scared. 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Deano de los Muertos: Good evening, Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Sara Clemens: Hellooooo Mark and the Techtonics 🤖 ♥ 6:03pm
Bas NL: Hi Mark! Hi all! 🤖 ♥ 6:04pm
DjLorraine: Time to be excellent! ♥ 6:06pm
Mark Hurst: Hi all! ♥ 6:06pm
PaulRobeson1925: Ok.   6:09pm
Marie in Chicago: Hi Mark, hi All! ♥ 6:16pm
Mark Hurst: ultra, Handy, Count, Deano, Sara, Bas, DjL, PaulR, Marie - thanks for joining! ♥ 6:16pm
Mark T: Alright, another great guest and program ♥ 6:17pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Mark T @6:16

Thanks, Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:17pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Good evening Mark, Tim, and all!!! ♥ 6:17pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:17

Hi WtSG! 🤖 ♥ 6:18pm
Handy Haversack: C: DOS
C: DOS RUN
RUN DOS RUN 🤖 ♥ 6:20pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:18

10 PRINT "HA HA"
20 GOTO 10 ♥ 6:21pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:20

That's a little... basic 🤖 ♥ 6:21pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:18

I still use bat files when I encode MP3s with LAME. ♥ 6:21pm
Count d'Al Dente: The earliest years of the Web were kind of cool, but almost immediately I knew that corporations were going to figure out how to control it. ♥ 6:23pm
Count d'Al Dente: At least now we have the open source community, although the majority of people are hooked on corporate software. ♥ 6:24pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:23

true   6:24pm
noah: grokapedia... that ones got legs   6:27pm
noah: a nation of wealthy small business owners would still be built on the bones of the world at large tho... 🤖 ♥ 6:28pm
herb.nyc: Hey all. The idealism of the early tech years. I mentioned that to friends last night, name dropping mark and Douglas Rushkoff. We hafta fight the powers. (Clay Shirkey was mentioned, and I heard a small class room talk he gave at nyu, maybe early 2000s. He was great) 🤖 ♥ 6:34pm
Deano de los Muertos: pay to play. Same thing ruined online gaming with micro transactions.

Paying for the top search. result, whether it’s the best or not

🤖 ♥ 6:36pm
joe mulligan: The Top PPC (pay per click) Platforms For Paid Advertising in 2025:
1)Google Ads (previously Google AdWords)
2)Microsoft Ads (Bing)
3)Amazon Ads
Amazon actually makes the third biggest ad revenue of all PPC platforms, behind Google and Meta. 🤖 ♥ 6:37pm
joe mulligan: many people aren't even aware that Amazon Ads is the 3rd largest advertising platform in the world. 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Will thee SG OCNY: I has an angelfire, a geocities, and a tripod website back in the day. Mainly just skulls and rotating fires. 🤖 ♥ 6:39pm
Handy Haversack: I just finished reading a physical, large-format book about NYC record stores. I feel like I might soon be burned as an apostate.   6:40pm
Marie in Chicago: He's so right in that description! I hate that. Great guest! 🤖 ♥ 6:40pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Will thee SG OCNY @6:39

What would I type into AskJeeves to find them? 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
joe mulligan:

↳ herb.nyc @6:28

"Here Comes Everybody" by Clay Shirky from 2008 was a nice read, so much has changed since then 🤖 ♥ 6:41pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:40

I wish I could remember, if I find it I'll let you know 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
ultradamno: I watched a zombie movie last night called Queens Of The Dead in which one character called a zombiefied friend, that automatically went for the phone..."zombie apocalypse, there's an app for that" 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
joe mulligan:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:39

did they mention Chris Vanderloo at Other Music? 🤖 ♥ 6:42pm
Bas NL:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:39

Don't worry.. your book will self-destruct first, once your provider decides your license to the book has expired. ♥ 6:44pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ ultradamno @6:42

Heh - maybe the phone itself was the cause of all the zombies 🤖 ♥ 6:44pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Bas NL @6:42

Finally, a transaction that works for ME! 🤖 ♥ 6:45pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ joe mulligan @6:42

No, it's profiles of current record shops. Academy is in it -- and Deep Cuts! A coffee-table-style thing. Lots of pictures. An only semiuseable map. ♥ 6:45pm
Count d'Al Dente:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:39

What's the name of that book? I worked for a bit at the Times Square Disc-O-Mat, shopped at Jimmy's because they always had a good selection of $1 cut-outs. 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
chresti: Hi Mark and markers! Listening while doing work $tuff 🤖 ♥ 6:47pm
Handy Haversack:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:45

www.newyorksaid.com...

Vinyl NYC: 33 1/3 of the Best Record Stores Across All Five Boroughs

♥ 6:48pm
PC77: X needs to be declared a public utility, which would at least put a dent into the outrageous censorship of some & boosting of others 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
ultradamno: Grok's reason to exist www.msn.com... 🤖 ♥ 6:50pm
chresti: Current administration seems rigged ♥ 6:50pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ chresti @6:47

Hi chresti, thanks for joining 🤖 ♥ 6:51pm
Will thee SG OCNY:

↳ Ken From Hyde Park @6:40

Apparently someone has been working on it oldavista.com   6:51pm
noah: its funny how musk just completely misunderstands what made twitter compelling to begin with 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ chresti @6:50

Tax cuts for billionaires. Let someone else figure out how to pay for it. 🤖 ♥ 6:54pm
Handy Haversack: The platforms are useless.

Thanks, Mark, Tim, and all!

Happy New Year. Let 2026 be the year the e-looms get e-smashed!

  6:55pm
Yippie: I thought this was going to be the age of extra action ♥ 6:55pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:54

Hear hear! 🤖 ♥ 6:56pm
chresti: Thank Mark and Tim! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
ultradamno: There's an episode of Man On The Inside in which the billonaire guy's trophy wife who has an art show of her selfies including a selfie of herself in front of a selfie of herself "It's very meta" the interviewer says to her "no, I used instagram to post this" ♥ 6:57pm
Count d'Al Dente: People accept new technologies too quickly. In the photography world, it's good to see young people choosing film over digital, in growing numbers. 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
disco_nap_: Thank you, Mark!! ♥ 6:57pm
PC77: Excellent interview, Mark- thanks Tim. Have a Happy (non big tech) New Year! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Ken From Hyde Park:

↳ Handy Haversack @6:54

In 2026, artificial intelligence will outweigh actual intelligence, or maybe that's already happened.
Thanks, Mark 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Deano de los Muertos: Thanks, Mark! 🤖 ♥ 6:57pm
Bas NL: Thanks Mark! Thanks Tim! Interesting points in the interview. ♥ 6:58pm
bleubombersune: Thanks Mark All stray safe and be well Best of health for 2026 ♥ 6:58pm
Count d'Al Dente: Next week... ♥ 6:58pm
Mark Hurst: Thanks, everyone! ♥ 6:58pm
listener 126464: Thanks much, Mark & guest! ♥ 6:59pm
Count d'Al Dente: I wonder if Jerry Mander would be worth interviewing? 🤖 ♥ 6:59pm
chresti:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:57

The trick is finding places that develop film ♥ 6:59pm
Mark Hurst:

↳ Count d'Al Dente @6:59

Would love to speak with him - but how to get in touch.. 🤖 ♥ 7:01pm
Will thee SG OCNY: Thank you Mark and Tim!!! 🤖 ♥ 7:02pm
Sara Clemens: Thanks Mark and Tim, see ya in the new year!