In the inaugural episode of The Undisciplined Room, Scott and Sara introduce themselves, try to determine whether Scott is a nerd or a geek, discuss the activities of influential bloggers and Twitter users, explore sexism in Siri and Legos, and demand rich Corinthian leather.
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Show Notes
Introductions
- Underdog of Perfection (Scott’s blog)
- (Making / Being in / Staying in) TROUBLE (Sara’s blog)
- You brung it up.
- Adventure Time (Earl of Lemongrab)
- The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test
- Nerd Venn Diagram
Trusted Sources
- Underdog of Perfection: Reflections on (My Own) Uninformed Speculation…
- Heaven looks a lot like New Jersey.
Brain Pickings
- Brain Pickings (Maria Popova)
- The Atlantic Wire: Maria Popova: What I Read
- Jeff Jarvis: Cover what you do best. Link to the rest.
On Blogging and Podcasting
- Daring Fireball (John Gruber)
- 5by5 Internet Broadcasting
- parislemon (M.G. Siegler)
- parislemon: Seven
Girls and Legos
Scott’s 15 Minutes of Internet Fame (Anatomy of a Meme)
Link Bait and Bandwidth Suck
- Forbes (Gene Marks): If I Were a Poor Black Kid
- Forbes (Kashmir Hill): Trolling the Internet with ‘If I Were a Poor Black Kid’
- Trouble: Oh Bother! or, Don’t Bother? Mansplaining and Whitesplaining, the Gene Marks Edition
- Huffington and Colbert Repost Each Other’s Reposts
- Daring Fireball: Regarding TheNextWeb’s Shit-Ass Website
- Uh, excuse me, Professor Brainiac…
- Forbes: The Thinking Behind Our Contributor Payment Plan
- George Carlin’s Seven Dirty Words
- parislemon: ANNOYING: The Article as a Slideshow
- Betabeat: How the Engadgeteers Broke Free of Aol and Built the Site They’d Been Dreaming Of
In Which Scott Discusses the Rivalry Between His Blogging/Podcasting Idols
- The Verge (Joshua Topolsky): Horseshitparislemon: “Horseshit”
- The Brooks Review: The Failed Promise of ‘The Verge’
- On the Verge, Episode 002: John Gruber
- foofaraw