CrazyTalk Podcast drnormal

7/2/2010: CrazyTalk from 30 Hour Day Join doc normal after a full day of producing the 30 Hour Day live event from Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square, in the late night studio at Webtrends for a little CrazyTalk with special quests, quizmaster Polly Pospisil, social media photographer Aaron Hockley, EMT & life coach Gary Walter and DJ Mister Ballistic!

6/14/2010: Crazy Talk "Internet, Intellectual Property and the Law" Paula Holm Jensen @phjpdx is a Portland lawyer, practicing in the information technology and intellectual property fields. She’s worked with several of the best firms in Portland and Silicon Valley, but has been solo for 5 of the last 7 years. Her main focus is on technology transactions: development, licensing, sales, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, etc. Other interests include copyright, privacy and open source. Her clients range from individuals to Fortune 500 companies, but are mostly small private companies. She’s worked with semiconductors, medical devices, displays, telecom, consumer electronics, internet services and all kinds of consumer and enterprise software.

5/31/2010: Crazy Talk: "Sex and the Net" A conversation with Portland's own bon vivant of the pansexual, Theresa “Darklady” Reed @TheDarklady. My guest is a long-time blogger, writer and event coordinator, The Darklady!  The one-and-only provocateur, erotic event producer and free expression activist. Yes, I said “erotic”, as in sex, as in put the kiddies to bed and NSFW, unless you work at your neighborhood adult book store (do those even still exist?). We’ll discuss sex positive online resources and how social networks have impacted peoples use of  these sites. We’ll also discuss her upcoming (no pun intended) Masterbate-A-Thon event, now in it’s tenth year. From Her Bio: Theresa “Darklady” Reed is a long-time regular contributing writer for AVN, a blogger for HuffingtonPost.com, and president of Darklady Productions, Inc., based in Portland, Oregon. She is a current FSC board member, as well as FSC liaison to the newly formed Free Speech Alliance board and to the adult entertainment industry for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation. When not hosting wildly innovative, pansexual fundraising events, Reed’s work appears in various erotica and sexuality anthologies, including Stanford Press’ “Prostitution and Pornography: Philosophical Debate about the Sex Industry.” She is also an accomplished screenwriter, public speaker, and sex educator who has run for public office twice.

5/23/2010: Crazy Talk: "Lorelle on WordPress" After a post-Webvisions party, I was very pleased that Lorelle VanFossen @LorelleonWP agreed to chat with me Sunday night on Crazy Talk. We were both a bit exhausted from the week's activities, but had a far reaching conversation about social web communications, past, present, real-time, dead sea scrolls, & how to handle it all (from Lorelle's tweet after the show). I also appreciated her thoughts on the real-time web vs. the limited capacity we have to internalize, prioritize and find the meaning of all these streams of data for our lives. Don't forget: you get to put the oxygen mask on first! Lorelle VanFossen is considered one of the top bloggers, and women bloggers, in the world. She is the host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. She is also the community manager and part of the Woopra team, and producer and official "disruptive thinker" of Bitwire Media.

5/9/2010: Crazy Talk "Re-redoing Media" It was my pleasure to have Betsy Richter @betsywhim join us this week via Skype, for a follow-on conversation after my appearance on her new podcast Redoing Media on pdx.fm. At the top of the show, we also touched on her digital journo bio and got an update on OurPDX. Since I'm a strong believer in not duplicating work, I'll post Betsy's own description of the conversation right here: "I sat down Sunday night to record an unexpected podcast via Skype as the featured guest on Dr Normal’s new Crazy Talk podcast & we ended up with this..." "From what I remember, both Doc and I were witty, opinionated and oh, so chatty (an hour and a half of chat, to be specific). But don’t take it from me – as one Twitter reviewer said afterwards: “If you care about journalism, listen to this podcast. Best discussion I’ve heard in months.”

5/2/2010: Crazy Talk “Shop Class as Soulcraft” the Value of Work What is the value of work- of the trades and crafts, and those with an intimate knowledge of their machines? Has higher education been relagated to churning out indebted, middle-class “knowledge workers” performing to ambiguous standards of excellence in their cubicles? And what does this mean for the Facebook generation? Is our future cast in a virtual world of self-indulgence, lacking any self-reliance? Join me on the next Crazy Talk with our esteemed guest panelists: Amber Case @caseorganic “Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and tech consultant researching prosthetic culture. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Case wrote her thesis on cell phones and their technosocial sites of engagement.” Andy Beach @andybeach “Andy Beach is a digital media professional who combines technology, creativity, and business strategy. He is also the author of Real World Video Compression, a book that seeks to explain the world of compression in plain English. Andy brings significant expertise and experience in the field of product strategy & marketing, video compression and rich media solutions.”