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A Fun energetic commentary on current news and events Primary Format : Talk Language : English Also Listed as: City : Sunny State/Province : FL Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of The Mike Thinks Podcast Podcasts Methings.com listings of The Mike Thinks Podcast Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

View the full archive of The Mike Thinks Podcast News on your Amazon Kindle being sucky, and your story telling narcissism The news this week is about how some schools seem to think that the Amazon Kindle is a bad tech device because its not able to be setup to read aloud to you if you are blind because that initial setup requires navigating through onscreen menues that do not initially read themselved to you. As oppossed to all those other tech devices they think are just fine, like all the computers (which do not come pre-set to be accessable to the blind) and of course the standard paper books, which have a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website News Story authors should not take readers for granted When reading a news story, it is very important to consider the source.  Many times in our busy online lives, we start to take a site for granted, and believe that the content put forth is done so in good faith and with the readers best interest and the truth all rolled up into one [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hold me closer Tiny Elvis, Blogworld Expo New Media Expo survivor I’m back from Vegas and the BWE/NME…with less MonEy…what are the odds!  Had a great time and really enjoyed the party put on by our friends over at Blubrry.  Theres just something about Vegas that makes you want to go back, plus, this year they didn’t have the show in August, but rather mid October.  [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Give it away give it away now…unless its Philidelphia Eagles tickets There are a few things I think of when I want think about a new cell phone.  The 1st is, when the heck is the iPhone coming to a real cell phone carrier in the US?  Many other countries have the darn thing on multiple carriers and we here in the US are still hosed [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The worst podcat listening device since the 8 Track…The Zune HD I know what your thinking…come on Mike, that headline is just a tad on the other side fo hyperboly isnt it…no, its not.  After 28 hours with the Zune HD, I can honestly say that it is the absolute worst device I have ever tried to use to listen to a podcast on.  Not that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website A confidential matter of most urgent importancy If your country becomes known throughout the world as the hub for scams, schemes, and all matter of money stealing, laundering, thievery….is it any wonder that you get portrayed in a bad light in the movies or that a commercial pokes fun at these activities?  No…its not . 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For [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Expressed verbal permission given to rebraodcast, redistributes and otherwise spead the news There comes a time when you just have to laugh at the complete lunacy of  some of the things we have to deal with on an every day basis.  Hot dogs come in 10’s but the buns come in 8’s,  Turn signals make it harder to change lanes, and of course, you cant talk about [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Rock and Roll all night, hose over your fans who voted, every day There is a definite disconect  between the music industry and many of its fans, and this is not big news.  What is news is the amazingly inept ways in which old bands and old media try to become hip and cool, come up with a pretty good idea…yet still manage to find the songle most [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website I for one welcome our new robot overlords So you can’t teach an old dog new tricks…at least not very easily, but according to a new report, you can teach new robots some darn scary tricks.  Now a few months ago, the news came out of a robot powered by organic waste.  You know, was like old vegetation…incapacitated people, those kinds of things.  [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Open Mouth, insert foot…but please, wash it 1st So there you are…it may be what feels like the most important moment in your life, at least for this week.  Your a little nervous, and rightly so…this is big.  You concentrate, you know you only have one chance to make that good first impression.  The last thing you want to do is blurt out [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Holy Plane If you havn’t heard yet, theres one good reason to keep those seat belts fassened on a comercial airliner.  This week we find out about a gaping hole that opened up 45 minutes into a domestic flight here in the United States, and while no one was hurt, rumours abound about a sudden and dramatic [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The best podcast ever envisioned in the knows universe* (your enjoyment may vary, void where prohibited) Advertising…we are surounded by it every day, and lets be very clear that there is nothing inhearently bad with advertising.  What happens when your promotional department gets a little over zealous?  When you go from being a great choice and a great product to the NEST choice and the ONLY way to go if your [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website iPod fall down, go BOOOOOOM It happens…not very often when you consider there are hundreds of millions of them out there, but it is a real fact that lithium batteries can go bad.  I don’t mean they start pushing over cows, robbing liquor stores and writing bad checks, but they can go bad, and especially if damages (lets say by [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Its not about the law, its about the citizens the law protects…or it should be Everyone has a run in with the law at some point.  Maybe its you being naughty, maybe its your neighbor being loud, or just possibly you need some help, and the person that comes to your aid, is a public servant who far too often gets associates with being the harbinger of doom…ok maybe not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pom-Poms and Danger…who knew! You see them at little league games, you see them at high school gymnasiums and football fields…even in college and your professional team sports they are there, cheer leaders.  But what you didn’t know is that behind the glory, just beyond the poof of the plastic strips of pom pom fluff, there was danger.  When [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website It’s not my McFault This week I take a look a a nice variety of stories, including one that asks the questions, if your cell phone is stolen by a McDonalds employee when you leave/lose it at the restaraunt (ok fast food market)…does the owner of the store or McDonalds have any culpability?  You may be surprised by my [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Come wth me if you want to live…but you look so creepy Its been a long time since the first Terminator movie came out, but the same creepy feeling you get when you look at a Terminator then comes right back at you now.  The reason is simple, the uncanny valley your brain creates when it sees something that looks almost human.  Sure you can try and [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website What a mess they’ve made of this We all have them…admit it, behind your desk or your television is a pile of wires and cables that could, in theory, trap a small tribe of early homonids.  There have been many attempts over the years to control the rats nest of wires we all hide behind our well dusted entertainment centers, but not [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The AT&T iPhone user goes whaaaaah, whaaaah Every once in a while, someone with true appreciation and understanding comes along.  A person who sees the reality of life, and the need for rules.  A human who has a keen awareness of the meaning of commitment and responsibility.  Unfortunately, this person is usually drowned out by the whines and complaints of the clamoring [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sequals suck….usually . There are many things I really get anoyed with, and one of those things is sequal reliance.  So many times it seems that a movie is made, not because there is a great story to tell, not because someone has a passiona and vision for a new project…nope..its made in an effort to find that [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website