I’m going to be phoning in to BNN to be a guest judge:

I’m working on a new show, effective today. One of the segments I’m putting together for today is called Stars and Dogs. It’s a battle of wits, pitting our hosts Kim Parlee and Andrew Bell, against each other. They debate a publicly-traded stock (today it’s Google) and each present their most compelling argument. We need a guest judge to take part.

For you, this involves watching the show starting at around 4:40 pm Eastern or so. Kim and Andy will duke it out on-air and we’ll come to you by phone. You will give us your declaration as to who is the winner, and a short summary of why you chose them. This will all be done by phone, so there’s no need for you to go to a studio. The total time commitment is about 20 minutes, maximum. And it’s a lot of fun!

My take? Well, Google is taking steps to help innovate more directly. They aren’t waiting for Mozilla to succeed or not. They’re throwing their weight behind WebKit, also used in Apple’s Safari, Nokia’s mobile browser, and their own Android mobile platform.

Updates as I listen to the debate and keep reading my way around the web. I’m heading over to the NowPublic offices to borrow their TV.

Related links:

• Todd Sieling things Chrome is the Google OS
• Ostatic analyzes potential winners and losers from the Chrome launch — the only surprise is their “Microsoft, neutral, potential winner” stance
• Fred Wilson is “long on Google” as he talks about Chrome, Android, and the Cloud - “It is on this three legged stool (browser, mobile, cloud) that Google’s future will be built. And sitting here today, it seems like they are well organized and have a great strategy for doing just that.”

I once again got the call today from the good folks at BNN asking for me to appear with Howard Green at 6:45pm EST today (Wednesday, March 12th).

The topic is how technology makes it harder to cover your tracks (or does it?) — the Eliot Spitzer case and the SocGen trading scandal being two touchstones.

I actually have two recent direct experiences as well. One being a friend that posted a small image of something private, where text was still readable, and the second being a legal briefing where the advice basically was “don’t put anything in email, please delete all email after 60 days”. To someone that has email archives stretching back a decade….well, I don’t even know what context to put that in.

Facebook and status messages and the high SEO of certain public systems “owning” your digital identity are other things I might bring into the conversation.

There is usually Windows-compatible video up on the BNN site, I’ll try and update the post with more notes on the appearance and a link to video.