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