Episode 43 will be published Wednesday, July 16th. Episode 43 was recorded and would normally have been published today but issues with my Internet service provider yesterday kept me from completing the editing/uploading. Hopefully the technician that is scheduled to come out today will resolve the service interruption issues. Look for episode 43 tomorrow!

We’re excited to announce that the entire AlternaGeek production staff (otherwise know as Linuxchic and TechMonkey) will be at the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, August 4th-7th in San Francisco.  We will be providing LinuxWorld coverage throughout each day and also plan on recording nightly “mini” podcasts just to cover the highlights of the day. We’re hoping to possibly do some audio interviews and may even provide a little video coverage of some of the events.If you’re attending LinuxWorld we would like to hear from you. We have already heard from a couple of listeners who will be attending the conference and they have suggested getting together some time during that week. We thought a little meet and greet with some of the listeners would be fun! Let us know if you’re going!

The social networking site BrightKite has quietly added more features for “comments”. Now, when you click on the comment icon for a post/photo, an inline widget appears that shows all current comments and includes an input window to add your own comment. Additionally there is a “Track this thread” checkbox. When you submit your own comment for a post/photo, you can now choose to track all comments added for the post/photo. From that point on, any comments added to that particular post/photo will show up on your “comments” page. This is a great way to continually follow a threaded conversation for a post/photo.

These new features really add a lot of functionality to BrightKite that users have been waiting for. Kudos to the BrightKite team for an excellent implementation into the site. According to the BrightKite Blog, they are currently working on comment notifications and other new features to come out soon. If you don’t currently have a BrightKite account, let us know and we’ll do our best to get an invite for you!