Gary Chou launched Orbital Boot Camp to accelerate people’s product ideas into reality in a 12-week intensive session. He knows from startups from his work at Union Square Ventures and The Product Sessions, but his particular interest is making sure that people with traditionally fewer opportunities are included. Sponsors & patrons This podcast is made… Continue reading T Minus Zero with Gary Chou (Episode 79)
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I Never MetaFilter I Didn’t Like with Matt Haughey (Episode 78)
Matt Haughey founded MetaFilter, a well-moderated forum for discussions about interesting things that expanded to also answer questions. At just a few months over 15 years old, it’s a veterans of many Internet lifecycles. In the last couple of years, however, MetaFilter began to face an existential challenge, which we’ll talk about in this episode,… Continue reading I Never MetaFilter I Didn’t Like with Matt Haughey (Episode 78)
Wedding March to One’s Own Offbeat Drummer with Ariel Meadow Stallings (Episode 77)
Ariel Meadow Stallings is the proprietor of several “offbeat” sites about weddings, home and life, and families under the rubric Offbeat Empire. She started the wedding site in 2007 to promote a book on creative alternatives for brides, which built an audience hungry for much more of the same. She obliged and has been building… Continue reading Wedding March to One’s Own Offbeat Drummer with Ariel Meadow Stallings (Episode 77)
Freelance To Be You and Me with Katie Lane (Episode 76)
Katie Lane is an attorney who writes a blog called Work Made for Hire. She advises creative freelancers and artists on how to protect their rights and get paid fairly for their work. She recently took the plunge herself, going full-time as a self-employed person. We’ll talk about what led her into this specialized career… Continue reading Freelance To Be You and Me with Katie Lane (Episode 76)
Live in Portland: Book Reading and The Doubleclicks (Episode 75)
Listen in as The Doubleclicks, a geeky two-sister band, perform four songs, and four authors read parts of their reported features from The Magazine: The Book at our last live book event in Portland, Oregon. The event was held at Reading Frenzy, and features John Patrick Pullen, Alison Hallett, Chris Higgins, and Elly Blue. Sponsors… Continue reading Live in Portland: Book Reading and The Doubleclicks (Episode 75)
Threes A Magic Number with Greg Wohlwend (Episode 74)
Greg Wohlwend developed the popular game Threes with his colleague Asher Vollmer. Greg is a games illustrator and designer who was part of teams that made Hundreds, Gasketball, Solipskier, and Ridiculous Fishing. Threes is his breakout game — and has inspired lots of admiration, frustration, and imitation. He and I talk in this episode about the… Continue reading Threes A Magic Number with Greg Wohlwend (Episode 74)
Sailing in Brackish Waters with Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom (Episode 73)
Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom are the co-executive directors of CASH Music (Coalition of Artists and Stakeholders) a non-profit organization that brings an open-source approach to music distribution and production. CASH focuses on educating around those ideas through online resources, stakeholder events, and face-to-face workshops, as well as offering a software platform. Sponsors &… Continue reading Sailing in Brackish Waters with Maggie Vail and Jesse von Doom (Episode 73)
Community Supported Appliculture with Henry Smith (Episode 72)
Henry Smith is a games app developer, and the evil genius behind the addictive multi-player app Spaceteam. Spaceteam won oodles of awards, and it has the added benefit (or problem) of being free. Henry has an active Kickstarter to fund future development of free work over the next year. Sponsors & Patrons This podcast is… Continue reading Community Supported Appliculture with Henry Smith (Episode 72)
Wheels on Fire with Elly Blue (Episode 71)
Elly Blue is a bike activist, writer, and publisher, and has run more Kickstarter campaigns than nearly any other person or group. She is fiercely in favor of using bikes as a necessary mode of transportation — though it is not necessarily the ideal — and describes herself as a feminist bicycle activist. We talk… Continue reading Wheels on Fire with Elly Blue (Episode 71)
Puzzling Evidence with Chris Yates (Episode 70)
Chris Yates is a polymath. A sculptor, artist, woodworker, cartoonist, entrepreneur, dog-kennel assembler, musician, and more. He’s best known now for his handmade jigsaw puzzles. He’s on the show to talk about his zigzag path to making a niche for himself. Sponsors & Patrons This podcast is made possible through the support of sponsors and… Continue reading Puzzling Evidence with Chris Yates (Episode 70)