Maw! We’re on the radio!
Rusty and I will make our second appearance on What Is Goin’ On tomorrow morning. (Our first was back in November.) Rusty blogged about it earlier today; here are the details:
If you’re in the Vidalia/Savannah/Lyons area, listen to 100.9 FM live at 8 a.m. tomorrow to hear Wilson Smith interview Amber and me on What Is Goin’ On?. The expected topics of discussion are a breakdown of the features of the new What Is Goin’ On? web site (which we designed), and general discussion of the intersection of media, technology and politics in Georgia. He’s threatened to cancel the country music show ahead of him and keep us onthe line for two or three hours. I hope he’s kidding about that.
If you can’t catch the show live, it will be available as a podcast later (assuming the studio isn’t struck by lightning like it was during Shelbinator’s interview).
Don’t worry, we won’t really be on the line for two or three hours, because we have to be at work after the interview!
In related news, Wilson has his first full-fledged blog post up, and it’s insightful, hilarious, and straight to the point.
I am scared to death of people of faith making political decisions. I don’t even want someone praying and getting an answer as to what I should do. Why would I want to trust them to get the “right” answer on something as important as the federal budget or health care. I can hear it now: “I vetoed universal health care because God told me he would take care of everyone.”
Listen tomorrow morning, if you can. We’ll see how much I inadvertently turn up the Southern in my voice.
What Is Goin’ On? – now with podPress power!
The new version of the What Is Goin’ On? web site launched today (or, late last night, to be more accurate). If you don’t know, What Is Goin’ On? is, without a doubt, the best damn radio show in the state. Brilliance comes from Lyons, Georgia.
The new site is the first official Georgia Podcast Network design and development project (other than our own site, of course) to see the light of day. Rusty did most of the work; I mainly spent a lot of time tagging all the archives, because that kind of thing appeals to my J-preference.
So check it out, and subscribe to the feed to get a steady fix of good, no-bullshit interviews.
Also, Rusty posted news about some other GAPN news. Have a look, see what’s up.
Weekend wrap-up
Well, it was a jam-packed weekend! Where to begin. Rusty and I had a blast at BlogSavannah. A lot of the sessions were centered around the intersection of blogging and business, or blogging and mainstream media. Those were interesting but also at times infuriating, especially when one person kept trying to dominate the conversation (clearly some people don’t understand the concept of an unconference!). The Women and Blogging session was good except some of the people kept trying to derail it, and I was just sitting there in awe wondering what the hell crawled up their ass and died. This one woman kept accusing Gennie (the session leader) of “not being honest” because she cusses on her blog but doesn’t cuss in front of her son IRL. She wouldn’t let it go… she said it like 5 times and then was like, “But, you don’t have to defend yourself.” WTF?? Oh, I’m just going to rake you over the coals; but no, it’s not like I’m asking you to defend your choices. I wanted to really go at it with her but I didn’t want to take the session even further off the rails. Also, a lot of the people were really big about “if you blog and you get fired it’s your own damn fault, employers can do whatever they want and you don’t get to complain or have an opinion!!” That floored me as well. Oh, and then, the best, was when this one woman said something like, “If you work nights as a stripper, of course you should get fired from your day job.” Oh lord, how I wanted to tear her a new asshole. But, again, didn’t want to derail. Instead I just looked daggers at her and said I didn’t see why that mattered. Also I called Drew out for not letting the women speak at the Women and Blogging session; with any luck you’ll hear that on the forthcoming podcast. Look, it’s nothing against him personally; I think he did an amazing job organizing this whole thing, and I will surely be sending him a bunch of emails picking his brain for nuggets of wisdom I can apply to PodCamp. But, if you’re a man in a session called Women and Blogging, and you start trying to dominate the conversation, well, I’m going to call you out on it, because that’s some shit and you need to recognize that you don’t get to dominate every single conversation.
Oops, I just realized that I’d been writing in one big long paragraph. Sorry… it kind of reflects my train of thought at the moment though, as I only have a brief window of time here at work to write this. So if this recap is somewhat jumbled, that’s why. Anyway, overall, BlogSavannah was awesome, we had a lot of fun, and met some really smart, interesting people. Oh, and thank goodness we were with Phil after dinner Saturday night, when we discovered our car had been locked in a parking garage. :P He tracked down the person with the keys for us! My BlogSavannah photos are on Flickr, along with about 250 more in the group pool. (I’ll post more photos soon.) Sherry has good coverage of a lot of the sessions.
Moving on… Saturday morning we drove to Vidalia to meet with Wilson Smith of What Is Goin’ On? It was great to finally meet him in person, and Vidalia appears to be a quintessential Southern small town. After our super-secret meeting of which I can reveal no more, Rusty and I were off to Andersonville for an investigation with the Henry County Ghost Hunters. Yep, we got full access to the prison site and cemetery, and spent about four hours wandering around with digiral recorders and flashlights. We got scared at one point by what we thought was a ghost, but it turned out just to be a possum. Anyway, soon there will be a podcast up from that night, and hopefully it’ll include some EVPs!
Also, podcasts from BlogSavannah will also be up in the next week or so… we’re going to start a GAPN network program called (Un)ConCasts where people can put recordings from any conferences they go to. In the foreseeable future we’ll be posting stuff from BlogSavannah, SoCon07, PodCamp Atlanta, and further down the line, Dragon*Con and ConvergeSouth 2007.
Okay, that’s all for now… gotta get back to work. Maybe later this week I’ll actually catch up on reading blogs. At the moment I’m avoiding eye contact with my BlogLines account.
Radio archive up
The archive of Thursday’s episode of What Is Goin’ On?, featuring yours truly and the GDBF, is now available for download! Scroll all the way to the bottom of this page to find the link. Rusty posted about it in more detail on his Georgia Podcast Network blog. Other than that… I’ll just let my jabbering speak for itself!
GAPN co-founders on What Is Goin’ On? radio show this Thursday
Tomorrow morning, Rusty and I are going to be interviewed for What Is Goin’ On?, a radio show out of Lyons, Georgia. The interview will be about 30 minutes long, and we’ll be discussing – you guessed it! – the Georgia Podcast Network. It’ll air Thursday, Nov. 29th at 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on WLYU in the Savannah/Lyons/Vidalia area. If you don’t live close enough to get the station, the show will also be available on the web by Friday.
So if you just can’t seem to get enough of our voices, be sure to tune in! Thanks to Wilson R. Smith and all the folks at What Is Goin’ On? for inviting us to the show.
(Cross-posted on my Georgia Podcast Network blog)