Okay, so I have your attention? Good. That’s exactly why I used such a click-bait headline in the first place (sorry about that). I’m not giving up all UStream shows forever, but I am going to stop the weekly schedule.

I’ve been doing the UStream thing since 2007, long before anyone knew you could actually do live streaming from your home computer. Back then it was a shiny new toy- a lot like podcasting in 2005. The fact that I was doing a show at all was newsworthy enough, regardless of how much fun we’ve had over the past three years. Now, with increasingly annoying popup ads and a lot more “shows” vying for attention (even if it’s just someone putting a webcam on their parakeet cage, I kid you not this thing gets 1,000 viewers), my shows need to be more than a weekly live rehearsal session.

Honestly, I feel like I’m not bringing anything new to the table on a weekly basis. Every show is… a lot like the last show. That’s not good enough, at least not by my standards. I want to make every show an event, not part of the weekly grind. You deserve better.

So from now on if you want to know when new shows are coming, join my mailing list or follow me on Twitter. I’ll announce the next show date during tomorrow’s broadcast, so tune in at 6pm Eastern at www.matthewebel.com/ustream

So the economy is bottoming out. We’ve finally discovered as a nation (I hope) that an economic plan consisting of

• Buying cheap plastic junk from China
• Driving the most inefficient vehicles ever designed by man
• Taking out loans for things we know we can’t afford
• Fueling our entire transportation system with a substance whose price is controlled by a tiny group of people who don’t like us very much
• Letting our government spend money without telling us what it’s buying (Halliburton, anyone?)

is not exactly a plan for success. Excellent. Now we can start rebuilding from the ground up, right? I have a simple plan, and there are two sides to it:
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