PodCampAZ: Panel Discussion

November 2, 2008

podcampaz panel, originally uploaded by nooccar.

For some reason my connection keeps dropping, hence the reason I am not Covering It Live. Sorry. Looks like this is gonna be a panel session with iJustine, Iboughtamac (Brent), Clintus & Chris Pirillo.

They just opened up questions. A 13 yr old is here, and he’s asking questions. Everyone’s humoring him. Now the questions are getting silly. “What’s your favorite treat?” iJustine said her favorite treat is junior mints. Chris said something I can’t post here. Brent said chocolate and Clintus like ice cream.

The panels tells us to not jump onto every bandwagon. Pick and chose your social networks. They said they hate plurk.com, and I’ve been there. Yuck. Clintus said he uses it for a comedic purposes. The colors for each verb is funny to him. He said to use the one that you’re into most or where your friends are. He said atleast sign up so people can’t squat on your username. This does happen more and more now.

Chris Pirillo streams daily, and it looks like he doesn’t have any reason to do so. http://live.pirillo.com. If he weren’t online he doesn’t have any idea what he’d do. He has a degree in English Ed, but he thinks that would make him unhappy to teach. Too bad. He’s funny. Clintus would be a house father if it weren’t for the Internet. iJustine said if it weren’t for the internet then she’d still be doing what she does. Brent is the only guy at the table who has no degree. Didn’t go to college at all, and he’d be in a world of hurt without the internet.

How do you get started in internet obsession (?). Chris says to find some focus. If you’re a strong writer, start there. If you talk too much, then video blog. Brent threw some dude an “iboughtamac” shirt. Damn, I wish I had one! Yes, Brent, want free advertising. How ’bout an XXL or XL?

There’re probably 50 people here in the theatre listening to these four, and there’s a balance of what they’re saying. Chris and Brent have been bantering about truth and perception online and off. Chris said he toots his own horn, and Brent is always the same. Justine talks about different experiences and asks her audience to respond to her. This begins a dialogue and it gets bigger and bigger.

Brent brought up the idea of monetizing. Justine said sometimes people will send her products to give away and pays her to do it, but this is rare. People always swear they work for different companies, but they don’t. Clintus said the Internet is his playground and he’s all over the place. His RL friends think he’s a big dork because they just don’t understand. This is like last night at 12:30AM when my own wife demanded to know who was tweeting me on my phone. No one was. I was just checking in at home through BrightKite.

Clintus doesn’t watch tv anymore. He doesn’t go out really. Most of his “Spare time” now goes to the Internet. Someone’s computer just started beeping and all our panelists just stopped and stared at it. Someone made a joke about them all being ADD (kinda like this post!).

iJustine said she’s always wanted to be an astronaut. Virgin Galactic then called her to cover their work in the desert and she’s gotten cool opportunities from that. Chris also has some experiences with being utterly weightless, too.

How do you see the Web in 10 years? someone asked. Brent wants it in his head. Chris said it will be more persuasive. iJustine would love to have the ‘Net in her head. Chris said the iPhone has redefined the web, so he’s sure that will as well.

Someone just dropped a MacBook on the floor. You could hear the entire room gasp collectively. Bummer.

iJustine just talked more about watching posting sensitive information, like ATM pins and Brent talked about how he once posted his entire password. Haha.

Now they’re talking iPhone apps. We’re almost done here. Wrapping up. Sorry this is so disjointed.

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