Digital City Podcast 54: Taxi cellphone ban; Nintendo's holiday gamble; and the Ballad of Balloon Boy
Episode 54 of the Digital City, where we discuss NYC's plan to stop taxi drivers from using cell phones and Washington's suddenly high-tech subway system.
Scott talks about his meeting with Shigeru Miyamoto, and Nintendo's big holiday gamble on New Super Mario Bros., while special guest Jeff Bakalar expresses his frustration with Jack Black's Brutal Legend.
And, in a nod to the hottest story of last week, we show off the very best Balloon Boy Web games (ok, the only Balloon Boy Web games we could find), and host the world podcast premiere of the parody song "The Ballad of Balloon Boy."
Related links:
>>Nintendo does Hard-core/casual with new Mario game
>>Will Brutal Legend rock your world?
>>Balloon Boy Takes Flight (For Real) in Two New Games
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New York native Dan Ackerman, a former radio DJ turned journalist, has written about technology and music for publications including Spin, Blender, The Hollywood Reporter, and USA Today. He hosts the weekly Digital City podcast and the New York edition of Editors' Office Hours. Dan's new album, Tales Out of Night School, is available now. E-mail Dan.
Former radio DJ turned
journalist Dan Ackerman grew up in the Bronx and now lives in
Manhattan. He’s covered music, technology, and video games for
more than 10 years. His latest album, Tales Out of Night School
is available now. 
Joseph Kaminski,
when not juggling the dual demands of parenthood and HD gaming, is a
life-long Manhattanite and can be found testing the latest tech in
CNET’s Lab. 
Julie Rivera grew up
and currently resides in Brooklyn. When she's not deejaying,
bartending, or fixing gadgets for friends on the outside, you'll find
her testing, troubleshooting and developing benchmarks for laptops in
the "fish bowl" known as CNET Labs. 
Scott Stein, CNET's
newest laptops editor, was born in Queens and grew up a Long Islander -
and is now raising a kid in NYC. In addition to covering games and
tech, writing screenplays, and performing improv in seedy downtown
establishments, he's also a die-hard, season-ticket-holding Jets fan.
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by brianburdan
October 22, 2009 11:17 AM PDT
- I know there is potential for me to get flamed here, but I think they should look into replacing Joseph on the podcast. Most of the time he is doing his own thing not showing interest in contributing, forcing Dan to heckle him to get him to contribute. I'm really glad Jeff showed up, because I think he did a great job discussing things with Dan and Scott.
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by dsfatue
October 25, 2009 10:31 AM PDT
- I agree that was very disrespectful, in previous shows you could always get the feeling that he didn't want to be there and the same thing but in a smaller scale from Julie, but to almost say that he can't be on next week because he has better things to do by hanging out with his friend that's just rude. I'm sure theres a lot of people that would like to take his place.
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(5 Comments)Also, Scott, keep up the good work. You do a great job at bringing topics and discussing them on the show.
If you don't want to be there why show up at all, and putting Dan in a very uncomfortable position where he has to reprimand you.