Sun 30 Nov 2008
twitterhood podcast with Dylan Tweney ’91
Posted by cgondek under Podcasting at 10:35 am
During the stellar 2008 edition of the annual Lord Jeff beatdown, err, Williams/Amherst game, Dick Swart asked me why I don’t post to Ephblog more often. It goes back to my natural hesitation to promote a show I do on Ephblog if the only connection to Williams is, you know, me. Well, not this time, as I do not only my first interview with an Eph that is not reunion related, but with a guy who literally lived across the hall from me on the third floor of Williams C in 1986-7, and that is Dylan Tweney of Wired.com.
Now, about this new show, twitterhood. I’ve been playing around with Twitter for only a couple of months, though, thanks to posts from Dylan and Stephen O’Grady ’97, I’ve known about it for a lot longer. I came up with the idea for the show in the men’s locker room of my gym, stunned that nobody had ever thought to talk to the people who use Twitter. Chronologically, Dylan was the first twitterhood interview I conducted, though he is the third to be posted, the previous two being with Cyan Banister and Guy Kawasaki. Future shows will be with Peter Shankman of Help A Reporter Out/Geek Factory and Jesse Thorn of The Sound of Young America. It’s a weekly show, so if you use Twitter and have a good story, drop me a line.
And for those wondering, I haven’t dropped the Biography show, it just got moved to a Jan 2009 start, and yes, I am very happy that The Invisible Hand has been on the front page of iTunes podcasts since last Tuesday. BTW, if you know of a media buyer who’d be willing to hear a test run of a pitch in return for a decent bottle of Oregon red, let me know ;)


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sophmom says:
Nice to
seehear you, Mr. Gondek. I enjoyed the interviews. Short, sweet and a diverse trio…seems like you are on to something.Just saw this bit on Twitter in today’s NY Times. Perhaps future fodder for your ‘seven soul searching questions’?
November 30th, 2008 at 4:11 pmGondo says:
Thanks, SM.
As far as the NYT article goes…
1) Shaq’s tweets are pretty funny.
November 30th, 2008 at 6:21 pm2) John Cleese’s tweets are OK, but Stephen Fry’s are fantastic. His tweets are a highlight of my day.
3) Maybe they don’t want to give other journalists any free pub, but if there is any one group of Twitter users who are brilliantly funny and cynical, it is the political correspondents, of whom there are many on Twitter. John Dickinson of Salon may be the best tweeter among them, but there are plenty of others in the competition.
4) For the best off beat and funny tweets, you’ve got to follow Apelad. I really hope he will be able to be on the show.