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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 1 2020 - Lit Up by Novelty
In this episode, I play a song from the Comfort Stand compilation Two Zombies Later by Jack Fetterman and the Hi-Fi Music Direction; I discuss a new project I am thinking about; I introspect about why new projects are so much more exciting to me than existing projects; why I stopped using all todo...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 31 2019 - Laboring Through Days
In this episode, I play a song by Five Eight; I discuss how bands really need to get their metadata right; I reminisce about the CREATE South conference; I am catching up on my podcast backlog; not going to Dragon*Con makes me less sad than you might think; the Axis of Evo never happened; Ken...
read articleNostalgia
There are a small set of people who remember the significance of this container. I am celebrating it with this photo and then tossing it in the trash. Many items are getting this treatment this...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 4 2015 - DDOP 32
In this episode, I answer questions from fellow Dog Days podcasters: Nutty Nutchtchas asks why I close the show with I love you? and Derek Coward asks what happened to the Uplifter events and CREATE South? Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 4...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 9, 2014 - Exclusions
In this episode, I talk about interest groups that feel the need to exclude others in order to maintain themselves; I talk about "mansplaining" and why I think focus on it alienates potential allies; I discuss my personal strategy on dealing with flame wars; I use Penn Jillette as a model...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 17, 2014 - DDOP Day 18: Hackerspaces
In this episode, I talk about hackerspaces, bootstrapping communities, and how few people it actually takes to get a scene going. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 17, 2014 You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 10, 2013 - "Forgetting History"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 10, 2013. This episode is again one recorded in my car. I talk about crashing my laptop, failing to organize a conference, my poor sleeping habits, recording podcasts I never publish. In a now resolved controversy, I...
read articleGrand Strand Tech Awards
I am delighted to be nominated for the first running of the Grand Strand Tech Awards as one of the founders of CREATE South. I think there is zero chance of me winning as I'm up against several of my co-organizers in the same category. I'll take the warm fuzzies from the nomination process. I'm just...
read articleCREATE South 2011 is Tomorrow
I've been not really involved in the planning for this year and not really blogging since the little 7 pound bomb was detonated into our lives. However, let me note here that the 2011 running of CREATE South happens tomorrow. It is a 100% grassroots, community organized effort to boost the...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 30, 2010 - "Prose and Cons, 2010"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 30, 2010. I play (most of) a song by Phil Rossi; I do a recap of my time as an impromptu guitar tech; I recap CREATE South 2010; I play a song by Mudhoney; I talk about my experiences so far with Baltion 2010; I play a song by Jonathan...
read articleSocial Media Vacation Wrapping Up
Theoretically, if I hold to my original setup today would be the last day of my social media vacation. This is the 28th day since I queued up a bunch of "send later" tweets and Facebook status and then shut all that crap down. I did violate the embargo last week to announce the news about...
read articleSocial Media Vacation, Week 3
I'm well into my social media vacation. I'm so far in I'm starting to approach the far end of it. My original "30 days away" plan would put me at 9 more days. I'll be honest with you, people. I'm not sure I'm ever coming back. At least, I am never returning to the level of use of Twitter I...
read articleSocial Media Vacation, Week 2
Not only am I not finding it hard to stay away from social media, I'm thinking about staying away nearly permanently. In my previous fit of pique where I dynamited my entire Twitter network I only used Twitter when I was at science fiction conventions. That was predominantly to find out which room...
read articleIf Creativity is an Avalanche, Twitter is Regular Cannon Fire
Ski resorts sometimes use cannon fire to prevent large scale avalanches. They do this by triggering very small avalanches at regular intervals, firing howitzers or air cannons into the higher snow banks to shake loose the chunks that are shake-loosable. The more I think about it, I think regular use...
read articleKick Start My Heart
At CREATE South last week, we had an informal pitch session at which I primed the pump by going public with some of my skunkworks projects, one of which is an independent documentary idea that I've been kicking around for years. In it, I mentioned that I thought I could bring the project in for...
read articleReading List for my Social Media Vacation
I have purchased a few books on my Kindle recently that I'm going to read during my "social media vacation." Like almost every Kindle purchase I've ever made both of these were impulse buys. I still need to write up my big post about how big publishers are completely missing the impulse...
read articleMy Social Media Vacation Begins Today
Last night when I went to bed, I shut down Twitter (HootSuite, really) and Facebook and FriendFeed. I'm not going to look at or log in to any of those things for the next 30 days. There might be slight exceptions if I get a Facebook invite to something timely I want to accept but even if I have to...
read articleCREATE South 2010
This blog has been mostly quiet as I've been neck deep in preparation for this year's CREATE South. It will be tomorrow, at the Horry-Georgetown Technical College's conference center (the campus by the beach, NOT the one on Highway 501 in Conway.) There is so much good stuff happening in the...
read articleKeep Blogs Alive
My struggles with the online world continue. I am blogging ever less, podcasting ever less. However I remember the introduction to Ted Sturgeon's short story collection Sturgeon Is Alive and Well . . .. In it he posited that there is no such thing as "writer's block" only changes in...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 21, 2010 - "New Media Gut Check"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 21, 2010. I play a song by Chris Yale; I discuss the uproar in the podcast world following JC Hutchins' recent post and my own shifting feelings about new media; I play a song by Paul Westerberg and pull the rip cord. You can subscribe...
read articleCREATE South 2010 is Coming
On April 17th, 2010 we will have the third annual CREATE South conference in beautiful Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Our keynote speakers will be Tee Morris and Mur Lafferty, and the day will be filled with talk of new media, social media, technology, art, creativity and how to take your ideas and...
read articleGrand Strand Tech Expo
Tomorrow I will be at the inaugural year of the Grand Strand Tech Expo. I will be manning the table for {day job} as well as talking up CREATE South. It should be a fun time and we hope a useful time. If you are around the Myrtle Beach area and will be at the expo, come by and say hi. As a bonus,...
read articleBarCampCHS Rocked
This is not the full post about BarCampCHS last Saturday in Charleston. That will be coming shortly. This is just a note to say that I had a great time, really appreciated the opportunity to see friends and make new ones, and to help geek up the South Carolina coast. This was a fine event to happen...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 22, 2009 - "CREATE South and Balticon, 2009 Style"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 22, 2009. This is my first ever episode recorded in a car. I give a wrapup to our 2009 CREATE South conference; I play my goto song for this kind of topic by Alana Davis; I then talk about Balticon and why from here on out I will be...
read articleMy CREATE South Recap
I have posted my wrapup of Saturday over at the official CREATE South blog. It took an amazing long time to put that together, basically all evening yesterday. I think it was pretty thorough and covers a lot of it, but there is always more you can put in. It was impressive how many really good...
read articleIt's Like a Dream
I'm in that dreamlike state, following the success of CREATE South. I'm still kind of tired in that way you don't get in a single day or two, but that long term existential tired of having thought about and stressed about an even for months, and then the event is past. On top of that, I'm still...
read articleCREATE South is Done
The day of CREATE South went off generally pretty well. There were some hitches but all in all, people seemed to get value out of the day. I was inspired and edified by how everyone took to it. My partner Andre Pope cooked for two days to feed everyone, the students of Horry-Georgetown Technical...
read articleCREATE South happening about ... um ... now
We're in the middle of CREATE South right now. The sad truth about organizing a blogging/podcasting conference is that it makes you stop doing it. I'm getting that good "Come to Jesus" moment from the whole thing. I'm looking forward to taking this new found second wind of enthusiasm and...
read articleCREATE South in 48 Hours
The 2009 edition of CREATE South will be happening on Saturday, just over 48 hours from now. We've crossed that freeing point where a lot of the plans for things that would nice but not crucial have been jettisoned. All the good ideas that just didn't come together, those are out the window. Now it...
read articleSay Hi to Tony (Kahn) for Me
I'm lucky enough to have made the acquaintance of Mr. Tony Kahn in the podcast era. I first met him as far back as Bloggercon 3 in Palo Alto, way back in the wild days of 2004 when many of us had only been podcasting a few months. Tony did a lot for podcasting in the early days with his Morning...
read articleA Little CREATE South and AmigoFish Love
I was just listening to the first episode of 2 People Talking from the Comic Book Noise podcast network. It's the relaunch of what used to be called "Indie Comic Book Noise." At the end of the show, not only does Derek throw out a little promo for CREATE South but also talks about...
read articleWhat to do about amazonfail
I have a post I will author soon with my take on the whole "amazonfail" brouhaha. Very short take - I don't think I've seen anyone involved on any side of the question with whom I much agree. However this post will take time to write, and with CREATE South planning and extra day job...
read articleCREATE South, April 25th in Myrtle Beach
View CREATE South 2009 in a larger map One of the things consuming a lot of my evenings lately is planning for CREATE South 2009. It will be held Saturday April 25th, and will be in Myrtle Beach at the Grand Strand campus of Horry-Georgetown Technical College. This is a few blocks from Market...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 6, 2009 - "Starting is Easy, Finishing is Hard"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 6, 2009. I play a song from Glass Eye; I talk about CREATE South and Balticon and Dragon*Con, about organizing a conference and what we are trying to do with CREATE South in Myrtle Beach; I play a solo song by Kathy McCarty, talk about...
read articleCREATE South Donation Day
One of the things keeping me busy lately is helping to organize the CREATE South conference. It will be held April 25 2009 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The mission statement of the conference is to educate and excite people about the intersection of new media and creativity. If there are aspects...
read articleDragon*Con Wrapup Coming
I really need to do a big wrapup of my Dragon*Con experience really soon, or else I'll start forgetting details. I had much fun this year, my first since 2002, and would like to capture some of that in a permanent form on here. I plan on making a big linky, photo-riddled post but that takes time. I...
read articleChris Penn Challenges Podcamp Philly
Chris Penn has a post challenging the attendees of Podcamp Philly to not just geek out but build something of practical use to the citizens of Philadelphia. I really like that idea. When we put on CREATE South our primary motivation was to provide a framework so that people could walk out with a...
read articleEGC Clambake for April 29, 2008 - "CREATE South Wrapup"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 9, 2008. I play a song from Alana Davis; I talk about our CREATE South conference and how it went, and our goals for the next year; I play a song by Chris Yale and then dance me to the end of love. You can subscribe to this podcast feed...
read articleEd Cone on Conway
After his trip to CREATE South, Ed Cone and his wife came back the very next weekend. What's interesting about that post is the place they had lunch is in downtown Conway, walking distance from my house. This little joint is across the parking lot from the hardware store I shop, around the block is...
read articleCREATE South Wrap Up
I have posted over on the CREATE South blog a big wrap up with lots of links to other posts and resources about the day. Check it out and relive or see what you...
read articleCREATE South is In the Can
The CREATE South conference is now behind us. Big swatches of the day went not like I hoped they would but like I dreamed they would. The day wasn't perfect by any stretch but the flaws were forgivable and survivable and the strengths powerful and heart-warming. I'd write more, but now I'm driving...
read articleCreate South - T minus 9 hours
Tonight a group of us met at the Liberty Steakhouse for dinner and drinks as a pre-conference shindig. I met a few people that I knew online but had never met in person. This includes Heather who has been helping organize and calling in to the conference calls but who I didn't previously know. I'm...
read articleDo What You Imagine
Dan Conover writes about shooting his short film over the last few weeks. Dan talks about the power of cheap technology when it intersects the desire to be creative. That's the spirit that drives our Create South conference this weekend. Not coincidentally, Dan and his wife Janet will be presenting...
read articleI Need an EVDO Card in the Grand Strand Area
We're in the contingency planning for the CREATE South conference. Is there someone out there in the Grand Strand who has a currently live EVDO card that would be willing to let us borrow it for a day? Pretty please? Drop me an email if you do. Thanks. Cross-posted to the Grand Strand...
read articleConvergeSouth 2008 Is Online
The site for the 2008 ConvergeSouth conference is online. This is a great conference and shindig they throw up there in Greensboro NC. I've been to two of the first three and it is in most ways the spiritual sibling of our CREATE South conference, down to both having Ed Cone. I really dig what they...
read articleFirebug Works with Firefox 3!
For those of you like me who have upgraded to the Firefox 3 betas but were taking a big hit because of the loss of Firebug functionality, there is hope! Although it appears that Firebug 1.0.5 doesn't automatically upgrade to 1.1, but 1.1 does in fact work with Firefox 3. I found this out by accident...
read articleCREATE South Conference Rolls On
I'm freaked out by how fast the CREATE South conference weekend is coming upon us. April 19th approaches at a startling rate. Over on the CREATE South blog I announce that Ed Cone is our keynote speaker! I'm delighted by this because in several ways Ed was an inspiration for us to have this...
read articleEGC Clambake for March 30, 2008
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for March 30, 2008. I play an audio promo for our Create South conference, and a song by Chris Yale. I talk about the new MacBook that I'm doing the show on, apologize that things aren't quite the same when I reach for them and about how I feel...
read articleCreate South Audio Promo
Here is a downloadable audio promo for the Create South conference. It is Creative Commons licensed Attribution, which is more or less impossible to use without attributing it since the promo is its own attribution. For those of you friendly to our project, if you'd throw this in your own podcasts...
read articleCreateSouth, New Media Conference in Myrtle Beach April 19th
OK kids, registration for the CreateSouth conference is open for business! The conference is April 19th from 9 to 5 PM in downtown Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. All attendees are invited, whether you live and breath new media or are interested but slightly frightened by it. If you are a professional...
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