Live Podcast: Preview of Startup PR Summit 2010

Join me this weekend at the Startup PR Summit 2010 this Saturday, October 16 in San Francisco at Atelier. I’ll be joining a stellar group of PR professionals to speak about the ins and outs of pitching to the media for your startup.   This is an exclusive opportunity to learn from accredited members of the national, local and technology press.

Learn more about the conference and what you can expect to learn by joining our preview podcast:

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Remember that this show is by you, not just for you! Your questions are an essential part of the program and included in this show! Remember you are always welcome to tweet, Facebook or email in your questions before or during my shows.

Live Podcast: Featured Guest Ryan Tate, Editor at Valleywag

Ryan Tate

Ryan Tate and I have been friends for quite some time. The kind of friends that many a journalist / writer shares… as we flit from job to job, we keep our friends – like sources – and keep in touch through our networks of friends in common that we work with at our current jobs.

All that to say I am a big Ryan Tate fan. Now that he’s at Valleywag, we just had to get together, if even publicly, on The A-List. Listen to us banter here:

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Live Podcast: Featured Guest Nick Douglas, Writer and Comedian

Nick Douglas, Source: Jillian Douglas

Nick Douglas has the career many writers can only dream of.

And I’m not sure he knows it…

Like so many reluctant overachiever, he’s followed his passion and it’s paid off with some high-profile gigs: editor of Gawker Media’s Valleywag and editor of the book Twitter Wit.

He’s a one cool cat, and we thank him for taking time to stop by The A-List to chat about these experiences and more. Listen below:

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Currently, Nick writes about technology and culture at Urlesque, Lalawag, and on his own blog, Too Much Nick.

Nick has also been published in Slate, Wired, Gawker, and the Huffington Post and is an aspiring screenwriter.

Live Podcast: Featured Guest Kara Swisher, AllThingsD

Kara Swisher

Funny coincidences happen all the time, and it just so happens that one of them reminded me that Kara Swisher needed to be on The A-List.

I was watching CNN or BBC World News from my hotel room in Paris after the first day of the LeWeb conference. Lo and behold, I heard for the first time that AOL and Time Warner had split – big news in the Internet world. It was the first I’d heard of it after a full day at an Internet conference, so I couldn’t wait to get the details.

They told the basic story, then went to the prominent expert on the topic of the merger and uncomfortable pairing, authoring two books on the topic.

That expert? Kara Swisher.

As you probably know, Kara Swisher is Co-Executive Editor of AllThingsD and has followed the space for the better part of her distinguished career. Listen to the archive:

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Live Podcast: Featured Guest Seth Godin, Writer, Speaker, Agent of Change and Author of the New Book Linchpin

Charlie Rose with Seth Godin at MIXX

Seth Godin is our very special guest this week. He’s on a web tour to discuss his new book, Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? We’ll talk about the book’s release on Tuesday, how Seth defines his role in society at large, what keeps him writing – and much more.

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That’s a Wrap!: LeWeb 2009

This week we’re wrapping up the LeWeb conference, held December 9th and 10th in Paris, France.

It might have been a bit dreary and wet, but when it’s Paris, who can complain?

You might be asking yourself, ‘why this big deal around LeWeb?’ Well, it’s a huge deal, actually. When you consider the Internet is something almost all of us have in common, I feel it’s important to reach as many key influencers outside the US as in it. To see what trends the market is responding to and the approach companies in Europe and elsewhere are taking to meet coming needs.

LeWeb is the largest conference of its kind – more than 2,000 people from across the globe came in to attend – and even one queen – Queen Raina of Jordan with her 1GOAL initative. But we’ll get to that in a bit.

Listen to the wrap program here:

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