First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

I talk about the best TSA airport check point experience ever, review Keyspan’s cordless USB Skype phone, and say good bye to my grandma.

Listen to Again [14 min]

The first crack at the new, fully-automated publication process.

Listen to Busting the 12-Step Cycle [2 min]

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As I promised, here’s the second half of my conversation with J Wynia on geeky stuff. (The first half is at GlassTooBig.com)

Here, we talk about making money, keeping overhead low, income diversification, and making sure an idea needs a business model.

Inspiring our Conversation
• Gillmor Gang
• Hugh MacLeod
• Jonathan Coulton’s Thing a Week
• 37Signals’ Getting Real eBook

Listen to the Trouble with Business Models [39 min]

J Wynia and I recorded a conversation last week. I’ve been sitting on the raw audio of the conversation (and a couple more) cause life (i.e. clients & moving prep) took priority to this podcast.

So, J went and posted the first half of our conversation - on Convergence and technology over at GlassTooBig.com.

Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about:

• Using email clients for reading and managing RSS feeds
• J’s Windows Attention Recorder and Edison Thomaz’ OnLife and the AttentionTrust Recorder
• Comparing technology adoption to the ebb and flow of tides
• The ethics and benefits of attention recording
• Some thoughts on adaptive pinging and caching

Listen to Paying Attention with J Wynia [33 min]

Timoth Tulloch, CEO and Roastmaster at Minnesota-based European Roasterie (EuroRoast.com), and I talk coffee technology, from brewing to packaging, and why he’s aggressively moving into the single-serve coffee pod program (declaring the Black & Decker Home Cafe the best pod brewer). We wrap up with the culture of specialty coffee and how independent coffee shops can win against Starbucks.

I’ve been really enjoying their Mulawi and the new theme song is by Jeremy Piller.

Listen to Coffee Technology with Timothy Tulloch of EuroRoast.com [27 min]

If you’ve been tracking the ‘Most Popular Episodes by Downloads/Day’ way down on the far left column of the website, you’ve probably noticed it hasn’t been updated in a while.

I know I have.

The great guys at TextDrive moved servers and as such needed to revise their licensing on the Urchin - the server log analysis tool Google bought a while back.

Prior to the server move, I’d grab the mp3 download numbers via Urchin and update the ‘Most Popular’ list.
After the move. Nothing. The people at Urchin won’t return TextDrive’s phone calls.

TextDrive hosts 5000 domains, 1 of them is this site. None of them have any idea how their sites are performing because Urchin is “re-evaluating” their pricing model. In the mean time, all their existing customers are left in the dark. Not cool Google. not cool.

For more, check out the Where’s Urchin? thread on the TextDrive Forum

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Push the Future 2005 was held this week at the newly renovated Walker Art Center. This episodes of the First Crack podcast are bits of my conversations with Loretta Hidalgo, Push Singha, Ethan Zuckerman, Leif Utne, Tom Mandel, and Push the Future founder Cecily Sommers.

Listen to Documenting Push the Future 2005 [17 min]

Let’s Be Honest, also in the PodcastMN aggregator, covered Push the Future in their 5th episode.

My coverage of Jim Cuene’s Web 2.0 presentation at the May 2005 Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association salon. One on one comments with attendees and Jim’s full presentation. Lots of insight into the current local interactive marketing scene vibe. Once again, I slide the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle into conversation.

Listen to Web 2.0 in Minneapolis [1 hr 12 min]