Introducing The Magpie Talkshow
Posted on Nov 1 2015
I'm very fortunate in that I get to travel pretty extensively. Quite often, I'm heading overseas on a long trip (and from Australia, it's always a long trip) to head to some conference or other. As lucky as I am to have these oppurtunities, all this travel does have it's downsides. I'm away from home alot, and jetlag kills. With the amount of travel I'd done this year I had to really ask myself if I was really getting the most of the experiences when I went overseas.
I love speaking at conferences though, and meeting all the fellow speakers and attendees. I learnt so much from meeting new people, so started thinking about what I could do to capture those great chats I got to have with all these interesting people. Simply writing up my experiences didn't seem to make sense. Conferences are hectic experiences, and the idea that I can take notes and write them up later is a nice idea but one that doesn't really stack up in practice. Instead I thought I could try experimenting with a different sort of media - why not just record the conversations I was having?
So, the Magpie Talkshow. It's me, interviewing someone interesting for 20-30 minutes at a time. Recorded at the conference itself, often in fairly noisy circumstances. I have around ten interviews already lined up with more to come, and I plan to release them on a weekly basis.
My first interview is with cloud guru (and I think she deserves the term) Lynn Langit. I recorded the conversation with Lynn, along with three other interviews at NDC Oslo. Coming up in future weeks I'll be talking to Neal Ford about odd carrear paths, Venkat Subramaniam about functional programming, and Irina Guberman about Erlang and not being aloud to play with robots.
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