Photo by Brian Adams Marian Call is an Alaskan chanteuse who found an audience after winning a Firefly-relatedsong contest in 2007. She has run her music career as an independentgrassroots effort ever since. She connects with her fans constantly anddirectly, both through social media and crowdfunding, and sleeping ontheir floors during tours… Continue reading Call of the Wild with Marian Call (Episode 47)
Category: Podcasts
Live Readings from the Magazine
The Magazine was part of Lit Crawl 2013 in Seattle, andwriters Nancy Gohring and Matthew Amster-Burton, along with yours truly, read some of their work aloud to a live audience. Nancy read “Laid Out,” I intoned “The Sound of Silence,” and Matthew performed from his book, “Pretty Good Number One.”
99% Indivisible with Roman Mars (Episode 46)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 41 MB, 86 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Roman Mars is a public-radio producer. But the definition of what public radio is has become malleable, especially with his show, 99% Invisible,which has enormously… Continue reading 99% Indivisible with Roman Mars (Episode 46)
I Want to Teach the World Wide Web to Sing with Jon Mitchell (Episode 45)
Photo by Tina McConnell. Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 29 MB, 60 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Jon Mitchell was a mild-mannered reporter at a major metro-webbian publication, Read Write. He left to pursue new ideas about… Continue reading I Want to Teach the World Wide Web to Sing with Jon Mitchell (Episode 45)
They’re Coming to Make Him a Film Ha Ha! with Devin Lucas (Episode 44)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 23 MB, 47 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. This interview with the Dr. Demento directorShould be a marvelous hitBut if anything goes wrong with the SkypingI’ll wind up in a big pile of —Shaving cream!… Continue reading They’re Coming to Make Him a Film Ha Ha! with Devin Lucas (Episode 44)
Lights, Notes, and Brews from XOXO (Episode 43)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 2 MB, 48 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. XOXO is a truly remarkable festival and conference that you’ve heard me talk about quite a lot. I interviewed Andy Baio and Andy McMillanjust before… Continue reading Lights, Notes, and Brews from XOXO (Episode 43)
And the Crowdfund Goes Wild with Yancey Strickler (Episode 42)
Photo by Ian Linkletter. Used under Creative Commons license. Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 32 MB, 65 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Yancey Strickler, one of theco-founders of Kickstarter, began his working life in journalism in2000, and… Continue reading And the Crowdfund Goes Wild with Yancey Strickler (Episode 42)
He Likes Big Bots with Sir Mix-A-Lot a.k.a. Anthony Ray (Episode 41)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 24 MB, 50 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Sir Mix-A-Lot, a.k.a. Anthony Ray, may have become best known for “Baby Got Back“over 20 years ago, but his career spans nearly 30 years, and he’s neverstopped… Continue reading He Likes Big Bots with Sir Mix-A-Lot a.k.a. Anthony Ray (Episode 41)
His Bright Materials with James Flynn (Episode 40)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 24 MB, 50 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. James Flynn is a New Zealander who relocated to San Francisco where he runs Extrasensory Devices. He’s an engineer who started by developing modems, and then released… Continue reading His Bright Materials with James Flynn (Episode 40)
Pompla Up the Volume with Jack Conte (Episode 39)
Click above to listen in your browser or download the podcast directly (MP3, 25 MB, 51 minutes). Subscribe to the show’s podcast feed to get every episode automatically. Jack Conte is a musician and entrepreneur, and one-half of the group Pomplamoosewith Nataly Dawn. He and his partner have had millions of people watchtheir videos on… Continue reading Pompla Up the Volume with Jack Conte (Episode 39)