Amber Case spent a wonderful morning at Maryellen Hockensmith’s Organic Farm. Before going out to check out the garden, Maryellen gave wonderful tips on sustainability, growing your own organic garden, the usefulness of worms, high-yielding plants, and crop rotation. Maryellen is also an active member of Twitter @yogacowgirls, blogs at YogaCowgirls.com, and makes wonderful music.

Features Mario Landau-Holdsworth, an economics major and entrepreneur from Lewis & Clark College, originally from San Francisco. He helped his cousin Valerie Landau with her binary glove project, bringing him into contact with Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. Topics include what makes an application addictive, designing tactile devices, using typewriters in Starbucks, Animorphs, Arduino-powered character recognition, and the Russian Space program.

Features Troy Harlan, discussing information gathering, filtering and consuming, human factors, trilobites, reading at 2,000 words per minute, INTPs, striving for objectivity, The Black Swan, hunches, and why it’s better to have no map at all than have the wrong map. Recorded on the road from St. Johns to downtown Portland.

Features Reid Beels and Chris Pitzer, discussing abandonware, search engines with unique algorithms, a Cyber Surfari-adorned T-shirt, getting free meals for reading books, and a potential CyborgCamp session composed of scientifically extrapolating claims in science fiction stories of the past to predict the future. Find them on Twitter at @reidab and @chrispitzer.

Features Steve Gehlen, Founder & Producer of Portland’s Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. Steve had many great things to say about the future of Portland, the creative and tech community, and how he first got into technology. He mentioned MIT, convergence culture, and the importance of community. As a surprise, he took out a banjo and played a song. Recorded at SOUK, a coworking space for Portland freelancers.

Features Sarah Lacy, columnist for BusinessWeek. During the podcast, Lacy talks about her book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, how she organizes a billion things a day, her decade of experience with tech reporting, and how Silicon Valley compares to the Portland tech scene. Recorded at the Green Dragon. Lacy arrived in Portland very late the previous evening after riding with us on the Gnomedex Iterasi bus from Seattle.

Recorded the evening after Beer and Blog, this episode features Steven Walling, Wikipedia Extraordinaire who works with Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham at Portland’s AboutUs.org. Topics include using Wiki as an academic source, Recent Changes Camp 2009, the Wikipedia Manual of Style, breakfast, lunch and dinner, sleeping under the stars, guinea pigs, User Bots, and trees, snakes, owls and grapevines.

Features Megan Nuttall and Allison McKeever, two members of the COLABORATORY program from the team Lattice. Topics include James Rice, websites that scroll horizontally, a lost dog poster that may or may not masquerade as an invitation to an underground rave party, Triscuits, best Portland agencies to work with, laptops with 17-inch screens, the relative durability of the MacBook keyboard, Urban Grind, and SEO bombing.

Features Craig Schwartz from Toonlet, discussing how the web bubble burst helped form FooCamp, why San Franciscans are dastardly good at spotting werewolves, the history and future of the button, BlackBerry camp, rib breakage due to excessive laughter, an online comic that shares the same spirit with SPORE, and text adventures built on HyperCard.

Recorded right after Cre8Camp, features Christine Vo and Kim Karalekas, two extremely talented, dedicated individuals from the COLABORATORY internship program. Topics include COLABORATORY’s application process, the acquisition of over 100 business cards over two weeks, an intercom at eRoi’s new entrance, @dtboyd, @jamesrice, and the possibility of a Google-run US government.

Features Sarah O’Brien (@moneteva), discussing a diagram of information and technology dispersal through society (online or off), how music and entertainment adopted a reverse-model, and Lolcats. Included with this podcast is a digital version of the technology adoption diagram Amber Case drew during the recording.

Features Nate Angell (@xolotl), discussing Drupal for large organizations and the relative livability of various European cities, all accompanied by extremely loud (but pleasant) French songs, one of which may or may not be a rendition of Cole Porter’s Night and Day. There’s development talk as he demonstrates his shiny new iPhone app called iToony. Derrek Wayne kindly contributed a fifteen-second introduction piece.

The first episode discusses the concepts of Supermodernism, Non-Space, and Cyborg Anthropology. With Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo.