Geeks and Politics Join

January 4th, 2007 | Robert Scoble

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Alfred Thompson and Don Dodge, who blog for Microsoft, meet up with me at the John Edwards’ campaign stop in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and we talk a little bit about social media and how that’ll intersect with politics. New Hampshire is one of the four most important states on the campaign trail. We did two interviews, actually — one before Edwards spoke, and another afterward.

Meeting the bloggers in New Hampshire One of the things I was studying is how the Edwards campaign would use bloggers. Here, John Edwards meets a variety of bloggers and videobloggers in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. You’ll see Steve Garfield and Chuck Olsen, videobloggers, in the background...
Geeking out in Germany Maryam and I head to Freiburg, Germany. Not exactly a place you’d think you’d find geeks, or bloggers, but we did! In between beers (it’s Germany) we got some fun geeks and bloggers onto camera. ...
Exclusive With Sen. John Edwards, Audio Only While I was recording John Edwards in one of his many, many “exclusive” interviews last week, following his announcement that he’s running for President, I ran into some technical difficulties with the camera (battery life!). Luckily, I did have an...
Conversation with Memetracker developer Kevin Burton Kevin Burton is a talented developer who has worked on a variety of startups already including Rojo, and now TailRank which he started to be able to see what bloggers were talking about. Here I sit down with him for...
Politics and Bloggers meet in Iowa Meet some of the Iowan bloggers, sit in on a meeting they had with John Edwards. Toward the end I left in a bunch of “b-roll” video of stuff behind the scenes, waiting for him to get off of the...
Cooking with Geeks We got a group of geeks together, had a great chef come in and teach us how to cook, handed out some wine, and kicked off an interesting conversation. Come on along for a San Francisco geek dinner. Geeks involved...
Breakfast with Sam Sethi and the London geeks Sam Sethi is one of the most connected geeks in London (he used to run TechCrunch UK) and we sat down with him and a few of his friends for a fun breakfast. We talk about the five things geeks...
Second Part of “Cooking with Geeks” We got a group of geeks together, had a great chef come in and teach us how to cook, handed out some wine, and kicked off an interesting conversation. Come on along for the second installment in this podcast of...
Girl Geeks: Dori Smith, JavaScript Guru Dori Smith — credited with getting Robert to blog and the author of the definitive book on JavaScript — speaks with Maryam and Robert Scoble about JavaScript issues past, present and future as she finds herself at the center of...
Talking restaurant-communication tech with Applebees’ geeks We meet Bambi George, communications technology manager, and Justin Goldsborough, communications specialist at Applebees International. I met up with them at BEA’s Connect event in Atlanta and have a nice chat with them about how the intranet they are building...