7/2/2010: CrazyTalk from 30 Hour Day Join doc normal after a full day of producing the 30 Hour Day live event from Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square, in the late night studio at Webtrends for a little CrazyTalk with special quests, quizmaster Polly Pospisil, social media photographer Aaron Hockley, EMT & life coach Gary Walter and DJ Mister Ballistic!

5/23/2010: Crazy Talk: "Lorelle on WordPress" After a post-Webvisions party, I was very pleased that Lorelle VanFossen @LorelleonWP agreed to chat with me Sunday night on Crazy Talk. We were both a bit exhausted from the week's activities, but had a far reaching conversation about social web communications, past, present, real-time, dead sea scrolls, & how to handle it all (from Lorelle's tweet after the show). I also appreciated her thoughts on the real-time web vs. the limited capacity we have to internalize, prioritize and find the meaning of all these streams of data for our lives. Don't forget: you get to put the oxygen mask on first! Lorelle VanFossen is considered one of the top bloggers, and women bloggers, in the world. She is the host of the Lorelle on WordPress, providing WordPress and blogging tips for bloggers of all levels. She is also the community manager and part of the Woopra team, and producer and official "disruptive thinker" of Bitwire Media.

5/9/2010: Crazy Talk "Re-redoing Media" It was my pleasure to have Betsy Richter @betsywhim join us this week via Skype, for a follow-on conversation after my appearance on her new podcast Redoing Media on pdx.fm. At the top of the show, we also touched on her digital journo bio and got an update on OurPDX. Since I'm a strong believer in not duplicating work, I'll post Betsy's own description of the conversation right here: "I sat down Sunday night to record an unexpected podcast via Skype as the featured guest on Dr Normal’s new Crazy Talk podcast & we ended up with this..." "From what I remember, both Doc and I were witty, opinionated and oh, so chatty (an hour and a half of chat, to be specific). But don’t take it from me – as one Twitter reviewer said afterwards: “If you care about journalism, listen to this podcast. Best discussion I’ve heard in months.”

5/2/2010: Crazy Talk “Shop Class as Soulcraft” the Value of Work What is the value of work- of the trades and crafts, and those with an intimate knowledge of their machines? Has higher education been relagated to churning out indebted, middle-class “knowledge workers” performing to ambiguous standards of excellence in their cubicles? And what does this mean for the Facebook generation? Is our future cast in a virtual world of self-indulgence, lacking any self-reliance? Join me on the next Crazy Talk with our esteemed guest panelists: Amber Case @caseorganic “Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and tech consultant researching prosthetic culture. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Case wrote her thesis on cell phones and their technosocial sites of engagement.” Andy Beach @andybeach “Andy Beach is a digital media professional who combines technology, creativity, and business strategy. He is also the author of Real World Video Compression, a book that seeks to explain the world of compression in plain English. Andy brings significant expertise and experience in the field of product strategy & marketing, video compression and rich media solutions.”

CrazyTalk for January 1 2010 CrazyTalk Ep13 - Tonight, we resume Crazy Talk for the New Year. Special Skype guest is David VanSunder of VanSunder.com. I'm also joined by Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist and Cami Kaos of Strange Love Live as we discuss predictions for the future of podcasting and video on the web.

Crazy Talk for November 25 2009 CrazyTalk Ep12 - Tonight, we are joined by Gregg Abbott of Whiffies. Get out your tin foil hats...

Crazy Talk for November 22 2009 CrazyTalk Ep11 - In the first 30 minutes of tonight's Crazy Talk we catch up with Will Radik, who's gearing up for another 7th Planet Picture show (link unavailable). We get some backgound on his media-making activities: live on-stage, blogging and podcasting. We discuss his summer stint as a journo-blogging intern at Blogtown, and it's here that we bring in Abraham Hyatt for a recap of Saturday's We Make The Media conference. We hash away at the controversy arising between journo's of the old and new persuasions. Should we write academic position papers to win a grant or should we adopt the tech start-up mentality, dive right in and do-it-our-own-damn-selves? When Will brings up the Free Geek model of providing equipment, training and support for those with technology needs, it got me thinking how this model would be applied to journalism and making media. Journos and media makers would have access to the technology but more important, participants would gain valuable interaction and training on the best practices of news gathering, reporting and storytelling. A win-win for journos and techies.