Fresh Lime Soda

Finally, after a long wait due to our joint inefficiency in getting this podcast ready for public consumption, we are proud to present episode 5 of our favourite podcast, Fresh Lime Soda, in which (this time) everything is related. (Recorded on April 25th, 2007, but don’t say it too loud — we don’t want people to know just quite how slow we are.)

Show notes:

• Dragon NaturallySpeaking: dictation speed and recognition issues
• correcting mistakes in Dragon (impromptu tutorial) — ends around 10:20
• multitasking: can dictation help you focus? (Web Worker Daily: Your Eyes Want to Multitask. Resist!)
• tinnitus is in the brain; multitasking is like visual tinnitus
• WriteRoom, choosing your interruptions
• how Think works
• multitasking and guilt – the expectation of instant availability
• how to change – think about the process not the end result
• managing interruptions: closing e-mail windows, Google notifier, e-mail notification in Adium, Twitterrific
• back to the flow state through dictating (and maybe going to the gym?)
• guilt and making time for blogging
• reclaiming your blog, and the first-draft syndrome (really shitty first draft: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott)

You may download the MP3 of Fresh Lime Soda, Episode 5 or listen to it using the player below. (12Mb, 35min)

We’re very happy to tell you that for this third episode, we’ve found ourselves a name: Fresh Lime Soda. Cool and fizzy with a dash of lime. Episode 3 was recorded on March 14, 2007. Your hosts are, as always, Suw Charman and Stephanie Booth.

Show notes:

• Why “Fresh Lime Soda”?
• Twitter, killed by SXSW? We don’t agree.
• Twitter is developing around emergent behaviours. You can’t control users.
• Why Twitter is important: ambient intimacy.
• information-revolution.org: masquerading as an anti-Google grassroots effort, actually a marketing ploy, run by Profero with Yahoo! and Ask behind it.
• iDont.com anti-iPod campaign, actually a SanDisk ad. Feeling cheated.
• Anti-piracy campaigns. Downloading vs. theft.
• Business model for music needs to change. Merchandising, physical objects. Flattening-out the curve of success.
• L’Age du Peer. No digital equivalent of physical presence (Kathy Sierry SXSW MP3).
• Suw needs a Pensieve.

You may download the MP3 of Fresh Lime Soda, Episode 3 or listen to it using the player below. (14Mb, 40min)

Episode 2 of Fresh Lime Soda was recorded on February 15th, and was initially published on our blogs:

• The podcast that still doesn’t have a name, part 2 (Suw)
• The Podcast With No Name (Steph+Suw), Episode 2 (Steph)

Show notes:

• conferences: LIFT’07 and Freedom of Expression
• not everybody has the internet
• “technology overload” at LIFT’07 turned into “internet addiction”
• note-taking: computer vs. handwritten (Steph’s workshop notes)
• scanning vs. photographing written material, document management and shredding
• GTD status update (inbox zero)
• FOWA coming up and other fun London stuff
• Wedding 2.0
• technology as a way to stretch our Dunbar number
• the Wedding Industrial Complex and affordable venues
• physical words for “virtual” places
• gap between us heavy users and more casual users
• curiosity and new tools
• winning over new users
• Steph loves Facebook
• LinkedIn for business
• profile multiplication, tools need to talk to each other (holes in buckets)

Here’s the podcast, 14Mb, 34:49min: Fresh Lime Soda, episode 2.

Before this podcast had a name and a place of its own online, we – that’s Suw and Stephanie – published it on our respective blogs. Here are the original posts for episode #1, recorded January 19th, 2007:

• The podcast with no name, part 1 (Suw)
• Steph+Suw Podcast: First! (Steph)

Show notes:

• San Francisco, web geek paradise
• City sizes (see this London-SF superimposition map)
• Segways
• The cat/geek Venn diagram (Twitter error message)
• I really want a Wii
• IRC screen names
• The difficulties of pronouncing S-u-w
• When geeks name children: A unique identifier or anonymity?
• Stalkers and geo-information
• Perceptions of security
• Giving out your phone number and address, and personal boundaries
• Airport security (background…)
• Risk and expectations of risk
• Death, religion, and the medical industry
• Naming our podcast… something about blondes, apparently
• Clueless marketeering from the Fabric nightclub in London
• The repercussions of having a blog that people think is influential (even if you don’t think it is)

And here be the audio file for Fresh Lime Soda, episode 1 (39:58m).