Reports from the Asylum

On July 12th and 13th, ‘Professor’ Goetsch attended Fortune’s iMeme: the Thinkers of Tech conference on behalf of For Immediate Release. While the text is still gestating two weeks later, you can listen to the audio recording of Sallie’s interviews with:

Sam Whitmore, Sam Whitmore Media
Eva Chen, Trend Micro
Paul Plushckell, Spigit
Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone
Esther Dyson, EDventure, Release 0.9
David Kirkpatrick, Fortune

Conference videos are available here.

After a week’s absence due to mixer problems, ‘Professor’ Hopkins reports from the verge of a nervous breakdown the Melcrum convention in Sydney. about travel traumas, the Internet as the ultimate out-of-context quote, and the annual Pig and Pussy Hunt in Australia’s Northern territory. (It’s possible that my neither esteemed colleague ‘Professor’ Hopkins nor the town hosting the event knows the slang meaning of the word ‘pig’ in Classical Greek, which by a happy(?) coincidence is exactly the same as the slang meaning of the word ‘pussy’ in American English.)

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‘Professor’ Hopkins provides us an update on the progress of his e-mail experiment (in which he assures us that he is not abandoning e-mail entirely), his interview with Bill Sweetman of The Marketing Martini podcast, and his continued adventures with Windows Live Writer and the helpful Microsoft team which is producing it.

Best quote: ‘I cannot begin to underestimate how powerful the blogosphere is.’

Included in For Immediate Release Episode 258.

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In his report for FIR 256, ‘Professor’ Hopkins discusses abandoning e-mail, cutting back social media activities, Windows Live Writer, and his thought of the day. See Lee’s blog for all the details.

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Professor Hopkins returns from preparing his monograph to talk about Podcasting Princess Heidi Miller and Social Media Stupor Syndrome, Netvibes, the advantage of blog reading over Twitter streams, and cutting back on his podcast listening, the second edition of the social media white paper he wrote with Trevor Cook, and e-mail bankruptcy.

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