Created Podcast #2 today while hanging out at Pyramid Brewery — click on the link below to listen to it, or pick it up in your Podcast Reader (iPodder, etc) — let me know if you need some help with making it work!

Outline of Podcast #2:

* Where I’m broadcasting from (Pyramid Brewery, met Crapmonkey’s wife – amazing coincidence, Brouwer’s Café, Pyramid b/c of his walking tour, Pale Ale b/c of her sell job on what’s good beside Hefe)

* iPodded my BMW ($300, Awesome – ProClipUSA really sweet bracket, Magnolia HiFi nailed the installation, Getting too much bass… anyone know how I should set my Bass/Treb?)

* Today shot to hell, a bit (Starbucks Entertainment, Media Bars – no one’s using, Laptops – all using, terrible experience, Physical CD’s, how bad that sucks)

* Friends going into business (Roscoe’s Ranch, Denali Fitness)

* Why Seattle Rocks (Friend in town for a Microsoft Web Services conference, To Elysian Brewery on Pike for 2 yummy beers, To Nishino (best sushi in seattle), Ran into 3 friends, To Brouwer’s Café in Fremont, Ran into another friend)

* Favorite PodCasts (Northwest Noise, CrapMonkey, Daily Source Code)

We all heard loads about Meetup during the Howard Dean ascendency, right?

Well, I admit that I checked it out back then, and even signed up for a free Kerry and Democrat Meetups — however, I also admit that I never got up the moxie to actually attend the Meetup gatherings.

Well, tonight, I escaped my shell and not only attended a Meetup, but was the organizer! The first-ever Seattle Podcasting Meetup convened at Six Arms on Capitol Hill in Seattle, and despite meager attendance (was me and two other folks, who came as a couple), it was actually a lot of fun — got to learn a good deal about Seth and Denise, and their talking products website, and new podcast/blog site.

Meeting people from outside the normal peer group is really uplifting — makes these big cities feel a lot smaller!

Below is a link for my first experiment in podcasting… enjoy! If you don’t know what Podcasting is, just Google it.

I called it Early Retirement Dot Com guy, basically because I’m all over the board right now with what I’m going to do next. Figure that I’ll muse a bit about technology, new companies, the different things I’m considering, recent events, etc.

Topics Covered:
1) Introduction to me
2) Discussion of how Overstock.com Auctions is encouraging spam, and how the President/CEO of Overstock.com (Patrick Byrne) called me a ‘Sanctimonious Ass’ in an email exchange – amazing!
3) Plug for my favorite radio station, which is also available for online streaming, KEXP (90.3-Seattle, 91.7-Tacoma)

Basically, I’ll be competing quite strongly for the title “most boring podcaster”. Good news is that from the sound of things, I’ve got plenty of competition 🙂

Makes me wonder what I’m really a specialist in.

Dave Schappell quote of the day, “Entertaining people is hard.”