Owner of an organic farm outside Portland. Maryellen shared tips on sustainability, crop rotation, worms, and high-yielding plants before Case went out to see the garden. She blogs at YogaCowgirls.com and makes music.
@yogacowgirlsAn economics major and entrepreneur originally from San Francisco. He helped his cousin Valerie Landau with her binary glove project, connecting him with Doug Engelbart, the inventor of the mouse. Discussed addictive apps, tactile interfaces, Arduino-powered character recognition, and the Russian Space program.
@thelinguiniDescribed by the hosts as “the Infovore.” Discussed information gathering, filtering and consuming, human factors, trilobites, reading at 2,000 words per minute, INTPs, The Black Swan, 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.
Participated in a dinner conversation covering abandonware, search engines with unique algorithms, a Cyber Surfari-adorned T-shirt, and getting free meals for reading books.
@reidabJoined Reid Beels for a dinner conversation covering abandonware, unique search algorithms, and a potential CyborgCamp session on scientifically extrapolating claims from past science fiction stories to predict the future.
@chrispitzerFounder and Producer of Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference, and President and Founder of Portland’s Internet Strategy Forum. Discussed the future of Portland, convergence culture, community, and MIT. Recorded at SOUK coworking space. Played a banjo mid-interview, making it the first musical Hazelnut Tech Talk since Episode 2.
Discussed her book Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0, her decade of experience with tech reporting, and how Silicon Valley compares to the Portland tech scene. Arrived in Portland after riding the Gnomedex Iterasi bus from Seattle. Recorded at the Green Dragon.
Works with Wiki inventor Ward Cunningham at Portland’s AboutUs.org. Discussed using Wiki as an academic source and getting an A for it, Recent Changes Camp 2009, the Wikipedia Manual of Style, User Bots, and a range of Portland-area topics. Recorded the evening after Beer and Blog.
A member of the COLABORATORY internship program on team Lattice. Topics included websites that scroll horizontally, best Portland agencies to work with, the relative durability of the MacBook keyboard, and SEO bombing.
Joined Megan Nuttall for a conversation about the COLABORATORY program, Portland’s advertising and design agencies, and the particular culture of creative internships during 2008.
From Toonlet, an online comic platform. Discussed how the web bubble helped form FooCamp, the history and future of the button, BlackBerry camp, an online comic sharing the spirit of SPORE, and text adventures built on HyperCard.
Recorded right after Cre8Camp. Discussed COLABORATORY’s application process, the acquisition of over 100 business cards in two weeks, eRoi’s office, and the possibility of a Google-run US government.
Joined Christine Vo for a post-Cre8Camp conversation about what it takes to participate in a demanding Portland creative internship program in 2008.
Discussed a diagram of information and technology dispersal through society (online or off), how music and entertainment adopted a reverse model, and Lolcats. Amber Case drew a technology adoption diagram during the recording, which was included as a digital artifact with the episode.
@monetevaDiscussed Drupal for large organizations, the relative livability of various European cities, and demonstrated his iPhone app iToony. The episode was accompanied by loud French music, possibly a rendition of Cole Porter’s Night and Day.
@xolotlContributed a fifteen-second musical introduction piece to Episode 2. His brief interlude was later referenced in Episode 9 when Steve Gehlen’s banjo performance became the show’s second musical moment.