phyllostachys twenty-five: Joan Dickerson

This interview is the seventh in a series of short interviews by Alex Landefeld of fellow attendee's and presenters at PCPGH2. Joan Dickerson is a local Pittsburgh digital artist, a nascent podcaster and a recent member of the Pixel Corps.

PodCamp Pittsburgh 2 (PCPGH2) is was a FREE BarCamp-style community UnConference for people who create, enjoy or are interested in learning more about blogs, vlogs, audio podcasts, web video, content networks and new media monetization.

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phyllostachys twenty-four: David Tessitor

David Tessitor, of pghfree.net, is an Allegheny County Council-at-large candidate. David has a long history of organizational and political involvement in the Pittsburgh region and is partaking in his second Podcamp Pittsburgh event, the first having been the PGH Bootcamp in April, 2007:

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phyllostachys twenty-three: Melissa & Michael

Melissa Robison, of MyDesignSelfStudy, and Michael Domingo, of Nante Koto: Online Dating Misadventures Podcast, gracefully consented to an interview at Podcamp Pittsburgh 2 on Sunday, August 19th:

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phyllostachys twenty two: Tommy Vallier

Tommy describes himself thusly on Twitter: "Bio: Web developer, podcaster in training, general web geek. I live online when I can... I mean really, why not?".

Now, take a green frog, tie-dye rainbows, dv-camera-toting podcasters, free coffee and breakfast treats, sessions teaching all from branding to recording, and copious after-dinner drinks, and you have a great recipe for a podcasting conference with a little bit of Tommy Vallier mixed in.

The interview with Tommy represents the fourth in a series of eleven Podcamp Pittsburgh 2 interviews to be posted to Alex Landefeld's logos [dot] Blip [dot] tv videoblog site. Check out the previous three, presenting from first to third: Mark Rauterkus, Steve Brady and Richard Horn.

Noticing a severe misrepresentation in his interviewing for such a broad-based event as Podcamp Pittsburgh 2, Alex resolved to interview more women on his second day of shooting...and that's what he did, as we shall see from the next round of interviews to be posted.

Tommy Vallier's interview:

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phyllostachys twentyone: Happy Birthday, Norm!

Everyone at Podcamp Pittsburgh 2 wishes Norm Happy Birthday. Without his invaluable enthusiasm and assistance, we'd be podcamping in Point State Park! ;-)

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phyllostachys twenty: pcpgh2

PCPGH2

Why Podcamp?

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phyllostachys nineteen: Podcamp Pittsburgh 2!

My weeks are defined in part by my long driving commute...and my driving commute is made more endurable by the podcasts I listen to. Listening to the twit.tv, pixelcorps.tv, maccast and venturecast podcasts have been most entertaining and educational...and have encouraged me in part to join the pixelcorps.com community. Searching on iTunes this past week for "investing" turned up a few new ones of interest. I listen on an iPod Shuffle, 2nd Gen - I like simplicity in my technology. :-)

Here's this weeks listing, with parenthetical notes on frequency:

The Index Investing Show (new)
this WEEK in TECH - AAC Edition - TWiT 109 (weekly)
this WEEK in MEDIA 65 - Hello Doctor Quest... (weekly)
PodcasterNews: The Engaging Brand - Show 102 - Engaging Communities (periodically)
MacBreak Tech: Living with the Finder (new)
Marketing over Coffee Marketing Podcast (weekly)
The Index Investing Show (new)
NYT: David Pogue - 8/2/07 - (periodically)
Options Insider Radio: Ep. 7 (new)
Options Insider Radio: Ep. 6 (new)
Options Insider Radio: Ep. 5 (new)

Review Notes:
- the Index Investing Show is interesting - very focused on diversification, which is always good.
- the MacBreak Tech show is a very good overview of Finder, with Jon Foster and Ben Durbin of PXC.
- Options Insider Radio is very good, especially for an options newbie like me. Very good intro to the industry. New podcast (8 episodes).
- Anna Farmery's Engaging Brand is always a Must Listen...and this one tops the list! Great interview.
- David is a long time friend, so it's cool to see how well he review's tech. Cool overview of IP telephony.

See you at Podcamp Pittsburgh 2, today! :-)

..Alex.

phyllostachys eighteen: phone vs. phone

Googlephone vs. the iPhone? Are you kidding?

I've seen some interesting comparisons in my time...but this is like comparing a skateboard to a Toyota Camry - they both travel the same highway...but one provides access to markets the other doesn't.

If people are still looking at the iPhone as, well, a "phone", they're way missing the bigger picture: iTunes, YouTube, oodles of customers walking through iMac and Macbook-laden Apple Stores, non-Apple users getting used to Apple's flawless product development strategies. The iPhone is so not just a phone - it's an introduction to a whole product cycle - it's so more of a "halo" product than Saturn's Sky or Pontaic's Solstice...or even Microsoft's Halo 1st, 2nd and third generation games, which were designed to win folks over to the Xbox.

Still think Googlephone is an Apple competitor? :-)

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phyllostachys seventeen: Podcamp Pittsburgh 2

So, inevitably, with PodcampPittsburgh2 weeks away, I feel a podcast comin' on!

I've been somewhat focused on the fascination of "podfade"...and I've allowed time and the summer...and procrastination...to cause my own podfade with MinuteLit and MinuteLit Tech. Well, no more!

First some blogging/linking, though:

I check google news daily for Apple, and found this interesting story about the new Scion xB.

Podcamp Pittsburgh2 is coming soon to an Art Intstitute near you! (As long as you live in Western Pennsylvania! ;-)

I've been doing a one-up-style vid-cast called Logos, at Logos.blip.tv. This is a vid cast about Words...and the most recent Word was Vacation. We went south from Pittsburgh to the Shenandoah valley region of Virginia, visited a vineyard or two and spent some time reading, filming and surfing - water this time, not the net!

I've been lisening to lots of podcasts in the past week or so, after finishing JK Rowlings latest wrap-up masterpiece. MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Media, This Week in Tech, MacCast, CBC Radio's Quirks and Quarks, Marketing over Coffee, The M-Show, VentureCast, VentureVoice...and much, much more! Whew. Those guys (and gals). Leo LaPorte, Alex Lindsey, Kenji Kato (sp?), Craig Syverson, David Hornick, John Dvorak, etc. All current tech news, all very good tech know-how. All this banter actually go me interested in Pixelcorps, whose online training/community I joined for the summer...and hopefully beyond. Digital tech is, well, enthralling. Thank you, Killashandra Ree! :-)

Saw on slashdot Friday this thought provoking article: New Theory Explains Periodic Mass Extinctions. Very interesting. For those of you who follow science theory/fact, this makes me speculate that those finding extra-solar planets will begin in earnest searching out those planets which perhaps don't have the same galaxy-style wobble that the Sol system has, in the hope of identifying a longer-live species environment. Do you agree? Disagree?

That's it for now. The next thing I was going to talk about was Options...for background on that, check out my logos.blip.tv videos!

ttyl,

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