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People of Detroit! I Come to Meet you!

So for the last 4 episodes of connected tech (http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/connectedworld/connected-cities/vi-BBll29t) Luria Petrucci and I are headed to Detroit.

we have some free time Tuesday evening, August 18 at 7 PM. Can you make it downtown?

We're going to be meeting up in the lobby of the Crown Plaza Hotel

2 Washington Blvd, Detroit, MI 482...

Doing an AMA on the DTNS Subreddit

Hey folks. Wanna ask me a question. ANYTHING? Here's the link.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DailyTechNewsShow/comments/3g23qn/im_tom_merritt_host_of_daily_tech_news_show_ask/

Secret Plans for August

Jennie and I had our regular meeting yesterday and here’s some of the notes

SURVEY!

We’re going to do a mid-year survey to help us brainstorm how to keep improving the show. Expect that to show up by the end of this week. The last one is extremely helpful so big thanks to anyone who takes the time to fill it out. We know so much about pie preferences now.

QUARTERLY CALL!

Our very first official quarterly...

Nerdtacular 15, that 'other' project and visit to Detroit.

First of all to all the bosses I saw in Snowbird, UT this weekend at Nerdtacular 2015, THANK YOU. I was blown away by how many people came up and said they enjoyed the show. There were loads of DTNS t-shirts representing too!  It was amazing. You all are truly the best folks ever. We will keep endeavouring to deserve your praise.

CONNECTED TECH

So the web series I've been working with Luria Petrucci on can officially be called "Connected Tech" we've shot six episod...

Hi Boss. Thanks for another great month

You all are the best and we literally could not do the show without you.

As we steam into an amazing August here's the new links to the treasure chest.

For dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/76en5ghz8190ak6/AAAuhJsAIP5K4MS7FKAq2efta?dl=0

And for BitTorrent Sync: htt...

July 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Notes from our weekly meeting

Hey y'all.  Jennie and I just sat down over peach pie and talked about DTNS.

Literally. Peach pie. Amazing.

Here's what we talked about.

NEW PERK!

We're adding a new perk starting sometimes after August called the "Quarterly meeting" At least that's what it's called for now.

Everyone who is a patron will get access to watch the recorded version of me talking with myself, Jennie, and whoever of the contri...

Just want the headlines?

One of the advantages of the patron-supported creative commons licensed approach is folks can remix the show and all it does is get more people exposed to what we're doing.

TheatreMonkey has done just such a thing.

He's taking the headlines out of the audio version of the show and posting them separately in a feed for folks who don't have 30-40 minutes each day.

Check out the feed at: 2015-07-18 02:33:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Pssst. DTNS Weekend edition?

OK that headline is KIND OF Clickbaity. 

But starting tomorrow. If all goes well. We will have a blog post (NOT a podcast. You'll have to use your eyes to read it) recap of the week's tech news written by the inimitable MovieLeagueMike.

If you haven't been keeping up on the Night Attack/Cordkillers Movie Draft recaps from CrumDum:

A.) You've been missing out

B.) You really need to so here: 2015-07-17 22:25:53 +0000 UTC View Post

What's Next?

Hey bosses. Your continuing support blows us away and we are very excited to keep improving the show and increasing the value you see in it. 

Here's a little about what's coming up on the schedule and some of the ideas Jennie, myself and the contributors have been brainstorming.

Tom in Seattle-- again

So yes I was supposed to go to Detroit this month but things change. I was also hoping to be able to unveil the project I got hired for too, and that...

LEAP SECOND MADNESS

Ok I don't know if the leap second actually caused Patreon's issues but they ARE on to of the issue and fixing it as fast as they can.

If you're saying "what issue?" some people had their cards declined by accident during payment processing. My apologies for the confusion folks.

Here's the scoop straight from Taryn at Patreon:

"Creators,

Hi all, Taryn from the Community Happiness team here. I run Patreon’s Twitter & answer support emails...

Thanks Boss. Happy July!

So we made it to another month thanks to you.

All of us at DTNS are continually extremely grateful that all of you support us so consistently and generously.

Here are the updated treasure chest links for July!

Let us know what you think of the treasure chest and what kinds of other things you might like to see in it!

Dropbox

2015-07-01 15:30:10 +0000 UTC View Post

June 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Tom on TWiT Sunday?

Just got this message from Brandon Flynn:

"Hey Tom, I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing, and it assumes Lisa's tweet was accurate, but could have you given the patrons (or at least the Co-Execs) a heads up on the TWiT appearance? It's a bit of a firestorm from part of the audience, we maybe needed a better message on this one. Respect if you're just going it alone here, but it may be messy..."

Thanks for the nudge Brandon. 

There's no re...

Coming this Summer....

Hey all,

Jennie and I just sat down, had some tea and talked about some plans for DTNS.

As a reminder I'll be off in Detroit 7/20-23 so we'll have contributors hosting again. Folks did a great job earlier this month and Jennie and I talked about how to make sure it's just as good if not better in July.

DETROIT MEETUP!

That also means I'll be able to have a Detroit meetup. Don't know exactly what day or when yet. I have to wait for my tr...

I'm blown away by last week -- but what did you think?

Hey all,

Just settling back in after my 4 days away and can't say how pleased I am with how well things went.

HUGE thanks to Patrick, Iyaz, Allison, Todd, Scott, Brian, Jennie, Roger, Lamarr and Len for covering the shows. I thought each team each day brought a unique and valuable perspective to the shows and topics they covered.

Special thanks go to Jennie and Roger who made the show happen every day and then iced the cake by hosting on Friday and ...

HEY SEATTLE FOLKS: HERE'S THE RIGHT ADDRESS

Hey I got confused and put the wrong Westin address in my last post.

The Seattle meetup is still tomorrow June 11 at 6 PM (with Luria Petrucci, AKA Cali Lewis!)

The correct address is:

1900 5th Avenue, Seattle, WA.

Sorry abotu that.  

A little more about the digital series Tom's doing

So in case you missed it, I'll be off DTNS this Tuesday-Friday. We have a great crew filling in. 

Tuesday: Patrick Beja and Iyaz Akhtar

Wednesday: Scott Johnson and Brian Ibbott

Thursday: Allison Sheridan (and guest TBD)

Friday: Darren Kitchen with Jennie, Roger and Len

THANK YOU for making this possible to revolve the lineup and not miss a beat. You are the best audience in the world and you've helped build something here that is beyond my ex...

Hey Seattle Folks, What are you doing June 11?

So I'm headed up to Seattle next week to shoot some episodes in a digital series covering emerging tech. They haven't quite settled on the name but it's explaining things like Natural Language Processing, Smart Architecture, LIDAR, etc. I will apparently be in a kayak for part of it. 

Anyway, THAT means I'll be in Seattle and I have a little free time Thursday evening. If you're in the Seattle area want to meet up at the Westin Seattle say 6 PM? 

I'm picki...

May 2015 Patreon supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Updates on Video

So as we move onward and upward toward video (trust me, it may not look like it but we are) we're strating to clean up the sort of unorganized way in which we handled DTNS video up until now.

Here are some of the things we're changing.

1.) The downloadable video on Archive.org will now be JUST the show. That's what' feeds Shawn's unofficial video podcast as well. 

So negative there is you won't get the post-show in the video feed anymore. At th...

THANK YOU and new Treasure Chest Link

First of all, every single one of you rock. WE now have Veronica Belmont and Scott Johnson officially on as regular contributors. YOU made this possible. I can't even begin to express how grateful we are. THANK YOU Also: Some people were a little overwhelmed by the size of the previous BitTorrent sync link. So if you want a smaller folder with only the most recent items here's a link for that: https://link.getsync.com/#f=Tr...