Episode 12: When “Community” is offensive. And Odeo.

Jimmy Gardner fills in for Geoff who is off traveling for a client.

Jimmy explains some of his thoughts on community and some of the pushback that he’s gotten as he’s focused on the DC Tech community. Community is a perception of what is around us.

Maybe we need to stop using the term “DC Tech Community” and less loosely define it as “tech”?

Did I just call Geoff my “normal” cohost? Is he really all that normal? ;-)

We get Greg Gershman on the horn to tell us about Odeo’s acquisition of Blogdigger. He then goes on to tell us about the new Odeo. I ask him to stop beating around the bush and tell us how the new Odeo will change our lives.

Is Odeo building out the DC digs and do they need staffing?

Chicks love blogs.

Then we get into Social Times and this post about Twitter being too full of junk. Debates the difference between Social Times in DC and other similar type blogs elsewhere.

Then Geoff calls in from his super secret mission to somewhere. Busts our balls.

We’re so fragmented. Politics, small business, our own community. How can we be better stewards of what we have.

Episode 12 - MP3

Lucky Number 11 Was a Gas

This week’s District of Corruption was pretty outrageous!  First we had banter on bracketology. Commenters didn’t want to talk about sports.

Then we had the Rock Star discussion. Aaron was offended by me, about not being a rock star, then he told me “F U.” Then Aaron was offended again by not being included by true rock star Chris Brogan’s rock star list. Later Queen of Spain called him a Diva.

We talked about Frank not knowing about the Bebo acquisition.  Then Jared Goralnick and Aaaron argued on comments and radio about whether it was Mebo or Bebo.

Aaron offers his soul patch to cover my bald head.

We had a crazy evangelical caller from Toronto who got the big ole….

Then Queen of Spain took us to task for dissing Second Life in favor of World of Warcraft. Blogher case study referenced.

For Silly Valley, we briefly talked about Yahoo Buzz! killing Digg. We don’t think so.

Episode 11 - MP3

Episode 10: Live from Austin

Forgive the late entry here. We did the show live from SXSW last week. Mainly, we talked about the show, and the value that is there. Every company in the startup stage should be there. There is no excuse. The opportunities missed by not being there were huge.

Episode 10 - MP3

Episodes 9a and 9b: DC Psychological Complex

Due to a glitch we had a two-parter.  We talked extensively in part one about this particular issue: Are DC Start-Ups Developing a Complex. The hub bub surrounded a Washington Post article featuring LaunchBox Digital. LaunchBox Digital was supposed to support DC firms, but funded a Silicon Valley firm first.  We chalked it up to a PR gaffe after much debate and talking with East Coast Blogging’s Jimmy Gardner.

Part II (Episode 9b): More of the above.  How Bobbie Kilberg and the Northern Virginia Technology Council misrepresents the tech community to the larger nation. Also we talked about how DC has a big tech community but its unsexy government stuff.

Also mentioned - Rick Segal’s Just Say No (Nicely). (Full Disclosure: JLA is an investor in Aaron’s employer b5media)

We discussed what East Coast Blogging is up to. We’ll be doing a live show from SXSW next week.

Episode 9 - MP3