Podcasts

Welcome to the New Year!  We gained a couple new guests and spent most of the show getting to know them.  I wouldn't want to discourage anybody from listening to an episode of Confab (especially the first one of the year) but Confab #69 is not your typical show.  What we spend our time on is a discussion about academic careers and whether we would choose a different academic path given what we know now.  There's some interesting narrative throughout.

This show was recorded during the January 20, 2010 Confab.

Our guests:

• Drew Balazs
• Rachele Cawaring
• Rob Creekmore
• Richard Huff
• Schelley Olhava
• Ted Schmitt

You can listen to the show here. (76.2 MB MP3, 1:38:04 minutes)

Seven months have passed since we recorded and published a Confab show.  How time flies!  It's what planning and having a wedding will do to your normal schedule.  The good news is that we're back.   Two new guests join us for a rambling conversation about loosely related business/economic topics.  Richard finds himself on the wrong side of history in a line of inquiry about "creative destruction".  Final score: Creative Destruction = 1; Richard = 0 (at least in the eyes of the other guests).

This show was recorded during the November 19, 2009 Confab.

Our guests:

• Aron Anderson
• Richard Huff
• Joan Studley
• Gavin Shearer

You can listen to the show here. (25.2 MB MP3, 36:03 minutes)

Local podcasters and bloggers join the conversation to talk about some of the history of this new media and where it fits in the pantheon of old media.  Blogging may have gone "main stream", but podcasting is a different beast entirely.  Still, there is a surprisingly large number of people self-publishing audio content on the Internet. We wrap up this show with some stories from the Seattle Podcasting Network about who podcasts and why.

This show was recorded during the March 26, 2009 Confab.

Our guests:

• Andrew Balazs
• John Costello
• Richard Huff
• Sarah Lingafelter
• Stuart Maxwell
• Travis Petershagen
• Gavin Shearer

You can listen to the show here. (19.7 MB MP3, 29:13 minutes)