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

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