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Submitted by DaveO on Thu, 09/13/2007 - 3:49pm.

As per previous communique, while in Olympia I had a stirring 23 minute chat with docent Emmett plus Zhonka's Jay, Nat with a cameo by Old Timey Dave. Not just tech talk, plenty of banter about Olympia's unique character, you Olybloggers, free speech and fascism.

Get your mitts on the goods at:Managing a Hyper-local Community with Drupal - Raincity Radio podcast

... and here's the 'offical' blurb and snaps for posterity:

Managing an active, hyper-local community blog site using Drupal is the topic as Dave O sits down with Emmett, a docent at Olyblog.net and Drupal-ists Jacob and Nat from Zhonka Broadband at an Olympia, Washington coffee shop.

Raincity Radio at Cherry St. Cafe
photo by OldTimey Dave on Flickr

Bonus:

Podcast Photos from Olympia Coffee Cherry Street

Podcast Photos from Olympia Coffee Cherry Street


 

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if it sounded dumb

just be warned I was really jazzed on coffee. Really jazzed. Look at all that coffee in front of me. I can't be held responsible.
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It sounded great.

Good job, man.


When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. -C.P. Snow
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Great job

Emmett, you sound great. Makes me proud to be an OlyBlogger.
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makes me ponder...

...a great deal of community building from just s few pieces of tech gear (and all of us!) ...makes me ponder about what "we could do" with a community server, community open source apps, community-based file sharing... Oly as one big LAN (so tech posse, at what point does a LAN turn into a WAN? and at what point does a WAN turn into an part of the Internet? is it all just about DNS & name servers?). from BBS to 'blogs, >what a long-strange trip (et al)<
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