We’re going to have to skip this week’s show since Phil Wilson is out-of-pocket as is Graeme Thickins (he’s at the Coldwater Surf Fest in Duluth) and I’m heading out now to pick up my bride at the airport (no…she’s not a new, mail order one…we’ve been married for almost 22 years) and Tim Elliott would’ve been quite lonely doing a podcast all by himself!

Look for us next Saturday with an all new show (by the way, I just noticed that those are a man’s hands holding the binoculars up to that young woman and seems sort of creepy!).

Big week for announcements at the All Things D conference along with that from GoogleIO, and the Gang discusses the various announcements and probes to get at the meaning behind these moves by Microsoft, Google and Palm. We also briefly discuss some interesting local use of social media at the beginning of this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off today).

The Podcast

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Discussed During the Show Notes:

• Tim mentions Serious Eats and the mention of local vendor ChefShack (Twitter @chefshack1 and website), “A Minneapolis-based truck operated by two chefs with 20 years of experience in notable fine dining kitchens.“

All Things D releases:

1. Steve Ballmer interview and announcement of Bing (not-yet-live site; Virtual Press Kit for Bing)
2. Roger McNamee and Jon Rubenstein (Palm investors) interview and Palm Pre discussion as well as a new demo

• Google Wave introduction which Techcrunch’s Mike Arrington positioned as something that stole the thunder from Microsoft’s Bing announcement (read “What Just Happened? Thursday was Supposed to be Bing Day.“)

• J Wynia and Garrick Van Buren‘s interview from 2006 with J)




The Gang was goofing around in our pre-show emails signing off with “Breaker Breaker 19 Good Buddy” using 1970’s CB (citizen’s band) Radio talk.

Poking around ahead of the show led us to reading this article about the CB radio ‘bubble’ we experienced and the reason this form of communication exploded on to the scene: “Following the 1973 oil crisis, the U.S. government imposed a nationwide 55 mph speed limit, and fuel shortages and rationing were widespread. CB radio was often used to locate service stations with a supply of gasoline, to notify other drivers of speed traps, and to organize blockades and convoys in a 1974 strike protesting the new speed limit and other trucking regulations.”

The Burt Reynolds movie Smokey and the Bandit was one (and what some term unfortunate) result of the huge CB radio boom in the 1970’s and really shows how it permeated our culture at the time in many ways like Twitter is today with CNN and Oprah jumping in and using it as Twitter grows like crazy…even though quitting Twitter is perhaps the new trend.

It got us to thinking about how much human communication and connection has changed since then and even how Twitter might be construed as ‘the CB radio of the internet age’. No question we have many ways to connect with one another and we talk about some of those in this show, how to achieve higher quality communications, consider what happens if we need to virtualize our communications even more today since most people are not preparing their families, companies or work processes in the event of a crisis (e.g., swine flu, terrorist attack, etc.). As always, we wander off on tangents that seem logical at the time!

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins (our buddy Phil Wilson is off today).

The Podcast

Podcast: Download (Duration: 39:46 — 23.1MB)

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“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

+ NetBriefings, OnePlace, Yugma, Minnedemo
+ GLUE Conference (and contacting Graeme (email) about the two free passes he has)
+ Leo Laporte using a new Friendfeed groups feature to have chat accompany the TwitLive netcasts
+ Biz Borsch, 20 year old daughter of Steve, in community management with Social Media Eyes (launching soon)
+ Graeme uses TweetGrid for monitoring specific Twitter mentions of a keyword
+ Innovation Accelerator, Kim Garretson, and a new offering he’s ‘accelerating’, Involver
+ A good story that encapsulates the 1970’s CB Radio boom in an entertaining way.

People in Minnesota are quickly shifting their focus toward innovations on the internet and web. This is reflected by the array of events that showcase Minnesota startups, help leaders identify trends and figure out how to capitalize upon them, and the Gang discusses some that happened in April as well as a few coming up.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.

“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

• MinneWebCon; MHTA Spring Conference; Wired for 2020; Cloud Camp; Ignite Mpls (and a mention of Bill Gurstelle and Jen Kane (and her Social Media 101 seminar); Under the Radar
• Mobile Twin Cities User Group
• What’s coming next….(Minnedemo) (SMBMSP)
• Other mentions: ExpanDrive for the Mac; Mobile Orchard; ComicTwit

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This week’s show is a discussion primarily about the future of newspapers…and the Minneapolis StarTribune in specific.

B: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off celebrating his birthday today).

The Podcast

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“Discussed During the Show” Notes:

• Redeye VC article on disruption in the encyclopedia space. Read this first and then this one (thanks to @jujubacon for the heads-up in this tweet)
• DimDim and Minnesota’s Yugma, web conferencing providers
• Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) Spring Conference and a panel Steve Borsch is leading (Your Network is 857,300+: But What Does That Mean for Your Business?) and one Graeme Thickins is leading (Moving into the Cloud — Drivers, Benefits and Reality)
• MinneWebCon happening Monday, April 6th.

This week’s show is a brief discussion about South by Southwest (SXSW), the freemium model discussion with Guy Kawasaki interviewing Wired’s Chris Anderson held the last day of the event, and a live show Steve Borsch ran yesterday on Mogulus for client TEL.A.VISION.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott & Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week).

The Podcast

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• Gage Marketing & VP, New Media, Mark Kurtz
• Jen Kane & her company
• Zeus Jones
• Sierra Bravo
• Best Buy Remix
• Outro music by Ann-Marita “Face in the Crowd” from the Podsafe Music Network.