Our January 1st episode with Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist was just one such occasion.

We at Strange Love Live are honored to work with Rick on a regular basis and through the last year he’s become a friend, not just of the show, but of ours as well.  We planned to have him join us for a year end recap months ago.  Before we began recording memePDX with him and long before he and I conspired to create 30 Hour Day.

My point is, when we asked him to make a tradition of his year end recap with us, we were thinking that would be that.  He’d come do the show, share an overview of 2009, make a few predictions for 2010 and we would call it a night.  We didn’t think that the first 45 minutes of the show would, for us, take second stage to the announcements that we made in the last 15 minutes of this episode.

So watch or listen to this latest episode of strange love live full of recaps, predictions and announcements.  I hope it manages to bring some of the joy we took in recording it, to you.

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SLL Episode 154: 2009 Wrap-up and 2010 Predictions with Silicon Florist

Here’s wishing you and yours the very best that 2010 has to offer.  See you back here soon?

In the Tech Edition we talked with the guys about everything that’s gone into getting Simler up and running (and awesome) in such a short period of time.  To find out more check it out:

SLL Episode 152: Simler

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And then there was afterhours. We sat. We talked. We drank some wine and dropped a few profanities here and there. Dane showed us his ring, Nate stopped pretending to be me and I do believe a good time was had by all.  I just hope they’re allowed to come back and play again some time.

SLL Episode 153: Afterhours with Dane and Nate

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This coming Friday night Strange Love Live is going to be part of something big, huge, amazing.  We’ll be recording live on location from 30 Hour Day, a live-streaming telethon the likes of which the world has never seen.  Together with Rick Turoczy of the Silicon Florist we’re hosting a whole new kind of charity event.  Join us, won’t you?  You can watch us live on the 30 Hour Day site!  To find out more follow us on twitter or join the 30 Hour Day facbook page!

Join me with Ryan, Crystal Beasley and Nate DiNiro as we talk about the new and improved Foodgeeks!

SLL Episode 150: Foodgeeks.com

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In afterhours things quickly derail.  It’s one of those content light episodes of Afterhours, but word from the live chatroom is that it’s well worth watching.  I’m not sure what they liked about it.  Maybe the brief technical talk about our streaming situation, or the little bit of wine talk we had with Ryan.  Maybe it was all the discussion of the rapidly upcoming 30 Hour Day.  Could it have been that in order for us to all fit on camera I had to invite Crystal to join me in my chair?  Nope.  That wasn’t it.  Whatever it was I hope you enjoy this latest edition of Afterhours.

SLL Episode 151: Afterhours With the Foodgeeks

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This week we return to our roots with a very techy Tech Edition.  Friday night we’ll be joined live in studio by Dane Hesseldahl of Simler.  We’ll be streaming at 10 right here on strangelovelive.com

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Next week we go off the rails with SLL from 30 Hour Day.  Don’t miss a moment.

SLL Episode 148: Gadgets with Tech Guy Brian Westbrook

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In afterhours we continued with a little more tech talk, answered questions for some callers and chatted about 30 Hour Day, an upcoming telethon to raise money for some Oregon charities, brought to you by Silicon Florist and Strange Love Live.

SLL Episode 149: Afterhours with Brian Westbrook

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This week on Strange Love Live… what are you kidding?  We’re taking the week off.  It’s a holiday people!  Though I’m sure we’ll be streaming an encore episode of SLL for your viewing pleasure, coupled with this weeks episode of memePDX and maybe a little bit of Dr. Normal’s Crazy Talk for good measure.  Join us at 10 pm right here on the SLL site!

But  next week we’ll be joined by the gang from Foodgeeks, that’s a show you won’t want to miss!

Join us for the Tech Edition to find out more about PDX.FM and the shows that call it home.

SLL Episode 137: PDXSucks on PDX.FM

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And then there was afterhours.  We didn’t change locations but boy did we change modes.  With the business side of podcasting out of the way we got down to it.  There are some memorable moments in this afterhours and DrNormal has bookmarked one of his favorites for you:

And here’s the whole Afterhours enchilada:

SLL Episode 138: Afterhours with Robert Wagner

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This Friday I’ll be talking with Will Radik about his project 7th Planet Picture Show!  The last time I recorded with Will we had a great time so I’m really looking forward to hanging out with him again.  Join us live at 10 PM to find out more about his project and stay tuned for afterhours!

SLL Episode 128: Portland Creative Conference

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And now, onto the Afterhours.  We often try to steer afterhours in a more light hearted direction, but shows tend to take their own course and that happened in this time as we talked with Steve and Tad about different parts of the creative community, the challenges it’s facing, competition with other cities and their thoughts on some of the tech groups and communities here in Portland.

SLL Episode 129: Afterhours with Tad Lukasik & Steve Gehlen

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Join us this Friday night for the Tech Edition at 10 pm as we talk with Josh Bancroft and Jerry Makare about Intel Software Network TV.  Stick around for afterhours as we talk to these two lively guys about everything from Crocs to Timbers Army.

Digital Journalism Camp, organized by Abraham Hyatt, is a first time effort in Portland.  The about section of the camp’s site says:

This isn’t about bloggers vs. reporters, or old media vs. new media. We’re all on the same team. And this conference is about how we, as journalists, are innovating right now — what’s working, what’s not, and how we can get better at what we do.

We couldn’t resist the chance to talk to Abraham about the upcoming camp so we pulled him into the studio to find out more about what we can expect.  Listen to the Tech Edition to find out more about it, including some of the panels and talks scheduled.  In afterhours we talk more broadly about newspapers, news shows and news on the internet.

To register for Digital Journalism Camp you just have to RSVP on upcoming.  There’s no cost to attend and a wealth of knowledge to be gained.  See you there?

SLL Episode 117: Digital Journalism Camp

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SLL Episode 118: Afterhours with Abraham Hyatt

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Friday July 31st we’ll be joined by the oh so lovely KL Martini.  She’s away at BlogHer right now soaking up info like a sponge, we’ll see how much of that knowledge we can wring out of her when she arrives on our couch to give us her BlogHer recap.  Join us at 10pm!

**** 7/26/09 Edited to add:

Did I forget one very very important note?  Yes I sure did.  We pre-recorded this episode and without the wonderful @verso it wouldn’t have aired Friday night because Doc and I were out having a good time.  Kelly, that you SOOOOO very much for coming all the way over to roll our show and find bubbling kitchen messes!

SLL Episode 115: Mobile Web with Jason Grigsby

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SLL Episode 116: Afterhours with Jason Grigbsy

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This Friday we’ll be joined by Abraham Hyatt to talk about the upcoming Digital Journalism Camp.  Join us at 10 PM Friday July 24th to find out more about the one day conference and the state of digital journalism.

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On a sad note, in the words of Donnie Berkholz, assholes are killing our project.  Ever since our streaming service was taken over by the new streaming service we’ve had a serious problem with trolls in our chat room.  We don’t have the control we’d like over participants and we are painfully aware that half the fun of joining us live is being able to chat with the other people watching our show.  We’re on it.  Behind the scenes @drnormal @verso and I have been working hard on a solution.  We may need some input from you in the not so distant future to work out the best possible solution, but for the time being, just know we are working on it.

Photo by Aaron Hockley - hockleyphoto.com

Another Strange Love Live first was marked on Friday night as we were joined by a good portion of the OurPDX authors to celebrate the 1 year anniversary of a great Portland site. There were too many of us for our studio so we improvised by moving the festivities upstairs and out of the dark. It’s amazing what happens when you pack that many of us into a room. Instead of telling you anything else I’m just going to tell you check out our episodes with Betsy, Dieselboi, Wizard Boots, Radio Gretchen, Metroknow, MorganPDX, PDX Advice Guy, Aaron Hockley, PAgent, mediaChick, Cosmic Charlie, and DJTV.

SLL Episode 111: OurPDX Network

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SLL Episode 112: Afterhours with OurPDX

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The SLL crew is taking next Friday night off.  There will be no live show but I’m sure Doc Normal will be streaming something fun for those of you who still insist on sitting in front of your computer that night.

We’ll be back to normal with guest Tyler Sticka Friday July 10th at 10 PM.  I hope you’ll join us!

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If you want more info on that night check out Cosmic Charlie’s post!  And full disclosure, I also write for OurPDX.

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You may notice the Dr. Tiki bump at the beginning of our episodes, I’d like to thank Rick Turoczy,  Igal Koshevoy and  Aaron Hockley,  for use of their photos!

We’ll be streaming from 9 – 5 Wednesday and Thursday from room B117 of the Oregon Convention Center.

Friday night we’ll change gears a bit and set up in the Hacker Lounge where we’ll be streaming live from 8 – 10 PM.

If that’s not enough excitement for you I’m thrilled to add that Friday night I’ll be joined by special co-host Brian M Westbrook!