Link: http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?S=9382362

Tennessee Innovation Conference brings top scientists to Nashville
Apparently, one organization was resourceful enough to lure over 30 intelligent scientists to Nashville for a conference to discuss innovation with venture capitalists and other deep pocket investors. The news report is labeled as a business story, making it near impossible to go into detail about any of the projects themselves. Why would any publication neglect to cover such mighty homegrown science news? Our guess is because science is for nerds until you call it Research and Development -- Cheers for improving plant X-rays. Check out the article from The Tennessean for more info about the conference and the organization that made it happen.

Link: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20081122/BUSINESS01/811220315/1003/RSS...

Nashville Tech Company GZAM asks: Are you textually active?
GZAM provides a text-to-video service for customers of its clients, and utilizes their cell phone numbers to market customized, timely messages to them. We think the company will succeed by virtue of omitting a guitar icon from their Web site. While any business can benifit from GZAM's serviced, southern church communities really like the idea. [Clarion Ledger]

Links:
http://gzamtext.com/
http://www.clarionledger.com/article/20081122/FEAT04/811220315/1023/FEAT05

Additional Show Links:
PureSafety Five-Year Growth Earns Ranking on Deloitte's 2008 Technology Fast 500
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/PureSafety-Five-Year-Growth-Earns/...
http://www.puresafety.com/

Computer Science Degree Holders are not Computer Technicians
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/10/10/computer-science-de...

Link: http://natene.ws/post/59430361/click-homeless-update-hopefully-the-last

Palin e-Mail hacker's trial delayed until May 2009
Tennessee's very own 4chan superstar David Kernell , son of State Rep. Mike Kernell, has had his trial pushed back until May of 2009. He's being charged with tripping the password on Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account and gaining access. We really hesitate to call that hacking but Palin's legal team seems to think its worthy of a felony charge.

Link: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/tennessee-stude.html

State Awards Three-year Contract to Firm to Oversee Hiring of IT Employees
Just like the headline says, our state government signed a three-year deal with Zycron Inc. to oversee all future Information Technology requirements the state should have. They did this because no one in government has a clue what the hell the IT department does in that basement of theirs. We're not complainng too much though since something is better than nothing.

Link: http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/c0a360a0a10f3358aa3f...

Bredesen Signs Anti-P2P Legislation For All State Colleges and Universities
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen knows they would have nick named his hometown Nashville Music Industry City but it's just not as catchy so they left out the Industry part. But don't worry, everyone but us is all lovey-dovy this week. It's a good thing the state has the RIAA's best interests at heart by mandating all state colleges and universities to hand over filtering information from anyone who may have downloaded music illegally. Ars Technica has a way better story up than anything done by our own local media. (Different from link stated in the Podcast).

Link: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081118-tennessee-anti-p2p-law-to-...

Candidate Sues State Rep. for Libelous Comment on his Blog
Link: http://www.wsmv.com/politics/17974618/detail.html?rss=nash&psp=news#-

NashMash Is Not Just Another Dumb List of Nashville Area Twitter Users
NashMash, which has been collecting information about Twitter users specific to the Nashville area, has big things coming around the corner, according to Co-Founder Chris Ennis who we met at the Nashville Twitter Meet-up this past weekend. NashMash is also responsible for the Nashville auto follow program, in case you didn't know. Fishwreck has a great post up about it on his blog. Keep your eyes open for these guys, they may be on to something big.

Links: http://nashmash.com/ and http://fishwreck.blogspot.com/2008/10/nashmash-adds-opt-out-options.html

For the Rest of the links we mention in the show, visit our Del.icio.us page: http://delicious.com/nashtechnica

Links discussed during the show can be found by visiting http://delicious.com/NashTechnica

Comcast to Raise Rates | Nashvillepost.com
http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2008/10/2/comcast_to_increase_cable_ra...

Nashville.gov - Mayor's Office - Green Ribbon Committee on Environmental Sustainability
http://www.nashville.gov/mayor/green%5Fribbon/

iPhone - Nashville Startup Weekend | Jackson Miller
http://jaxn.org/article/2008/10/11/nashville-startup-weekend-day-2/

Nashville Tech Council: How To Secure Funding | Jackson Miller
http://jaxn.org/article/2008/11/06/ntc-how-to-secure-funding/

Current.tv - Al Gore Asked About ManBearPig | Current.tv
http://current.com/items/89504417_current_presents_digg_dialogg_al_gore_...

Gary Vee Talking On Community:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/garyvaynerchuk/videos/27/

Show Mentions:
http://Nashvillest.com
http://anneinreallife.com/
http://nashvillecitypaper.com
http://www.rexblog.com/
http://davemadethat.com