Episode #4: The Rise of Feffer

Episode four began well enough with a discussion of local 2.0 blog news start-up The Social Times. Aaron and Geoff lauded the effort, and offered some pointers.

Then the show had an interesting surprise.  Nationally syndicated astrologer and Geoff’s maternal unit Jacqueline Bigar called and revealed his baby name: Feffer.  Chat and twitter hazing ensued.

Meanwhile the two hosts discussed federal social media, in particular, Robert Carey, CIO of the Navy’s intent to start a blog.  Presto Vivace’s Alice Marshall and Communicators Anon Lauren Vargas joined the chat.

Finally, the two had their usual Silly Valley rant.  This time the focus of angst was DEMO, the launching pad of 2.0 start-ups. But first Geoff shameless pimped his client StackSafe, who is appearing at DEMO.  Aaron dubbed DEMO a circle jerk.

Listen in for more, and be sure to join the District of Corruption next week!

Update: Robert Scoble will not be on the show next week due to travel conflicts. We will let you know when we reschedule him.

Episode 4 - MP3

Episode #3: Cloverfield Sucked

• Banning obnoxious people from the show
• Feb 5 1 hour show with Scoble (unconfirmed yet)
• Cloverfield
  • Aaron: The movie had no plot
  • Aaron: J.J. Abrams offered no solution to the “shallow social media-ite” underlying message
  • Geoff: The movie was a poor bait and switch vis a vis social media, viral marketing, etc
  • Aaron: Social media was taken advantage of
  • Aaron: Cloverfield mad $40M the first weekend, I don’t think it will make more than $10M in the second weeekend
• BlogPotomac
  • Aaron: Seems like most DC social media events (big ones) are angled at communications professionals. Would love to see average user stuff.
  • Geoff: Great speakers such as Frank Gruber, Kami Huyse, Maggie Fox, Jeremy Pepper, etc
  • Geoff: We’re banning Powerpoint
  • Kami (Caller): What does the average person need to know about ethics and social media
  • Aaron: Ethics surround “Pay Per Post” type money making schemes, plagiarism, etc
  • Friday, June 13, 2008, State Theatre, Falls Church, VA
• Silly Valley: Steve Rubel
• Aaron: Points out Macworld Keynote leak gaffe as well as the Superbowl “NYG against NE is a better ratings matchup than Favre and Tom Brady” gaffe
• Geoff: He said everybody is blogging about the same things as they wrote in 2005. This from a guy who doesn’t read any PR bloggers.
• Aaron: Steve has not been the same since the Edelman/Wal Mart scandal
• Geoff: You’re only as good as your last post
• DC Networking and Community. How mature is it? How effective is it for social media?

Episode 3 - MP3

Episode #2: Astroturfing in the District

• The internet has been down(ish)
• Last week’s show has been fantastic. 77 live listeners; 72 archive listeners; 11 callers
• Astroturfing in the District of Columbia
  • Social media being something that doesn’t need to be deceptive
• DC Twits Twitter Group
• Cloverfield Tweetup Friday, January 18. 3pm meet for happy hour at Clydes. 5pm showing at Gallery Place.
• Twitter is the facilitator of “things”
• Caller: Keith
  • “You guys are sounding more polished this week”
  • Why Go Solo update.
• Silly Valley: Should Gizmodo have gotten booted from CES for their TV-B-Gone prank?
  • Aaron: “I thought the stunt was hilarious”
  • Geoff: disagrees
  • Caller: Annie “Companies may have lost so much money fron the stunt”

• Macworld wrapup

Episode 2 - MP3

Episode #1: Kickoff

Welcome to our first episode of District of Corruption, a live Blog Talk Radio show centered in and around the world of social media in Washington, D.C. The show is aired live on the internet at 4pm EST every Tuesday and can be heard at Blog Talk Radio. We keep archives here.

We are your hosts, Aaron Brazell from Technosailor.com and Geoff Livingston from the Buzz Bin. We’ll introduce ourselves more late.

In the future, we will also provide show notes of each show for those who wish to scan the notes. But for now, have a listen to our first episode, complete with an awkward, yet funny, false start as we get used to our new digs.

Episode 1 - MP3

Geoff Livingston

Geoff is a marketing strategist in the Washington, DC region where he creates marketing strategy, media relations, branding and Internet marketing campaigns for public and private organizations such as AT&T, the Washington Nationals and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Brazell

Aaron is the founder and lead editor of Technosailor.com, a significant technology media brand in the DC area. Aaron has most recently served as the Director of Technology for b5media, a blog network. He is an early adopter and advocate for web technologies.