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Grace Buford is a metro Atlanta musician and music teacher who plays folk music in venues around the city, as well as in Second Life under her alter ego Cylindrian.

I interviewed her last Saturday, June 7, 2008 at Java Monkey in Decatur.

This interview is broken into in two parts, with a musical interlude featuring a pair of Grace's songs.

In the first half of the interview, which lasts about 14 minutes, we discuss her music career and the differences between playing in real venues vs. virtual venues.

In the second half, which lasts about 16 minutes, we continue that discussion, and also talk about legal issues in the music industry, marketing on Twitter and MySpace, and teaching music.

The songs featured in the interlude are An Open Door from Grace's album River, and This Dream from her album Virtually Live.

Also, I play excerpts of Mattie's Runaway Train from River in the background of some of the bumpers.

We recorded this talkie on the road while staying at the Brady Inn in Madison, Georgia. Topics discussed include, but are not limited to:

• Places we stopped on the first day of our road trip: Social Circle, Greensboro, Eatonton, Madison
• Question from Nobilis via Twitter: will pole dancing become an accepted art form by the year 2040?
• Ruminating on the permanence of our records: will there be any trace of us in a couple of hundred years?
• Should I buy an iPod Touch or an iPhone? We received several responses on Twitter. (postmortem: I almost bought an iPod Touch before I found out I could get an iPhone without messing with our cell phone plan, so I ordered an iPhone)

Length: 27:37 minutes
File size: 19 MB

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Rusty and I recorded this first-day-of-summer talkie on the roof of our apartment building, overlooking the city. Topics include:

• We might have to stop doing improvs in the Mostly ITP introductions, because they're getting too hard to think of. Unless, of course, our listeners want to help us think of new ones.
• Almost a year after taking up pole dancing, I'm getting my own stripper pole! It will be installed in our apartment very soon.
• Masonry tips from Rusty. He's been quite the handyman lately and shares some things he's learned.
• In July, we'll be going to Chicago for BlogHer and general vacationing.
• I need a new computer. I'm trying to resist the inevitable, but it is, indeed, inevitable.
• Twitter question from Laura
• We're going to a sex club tonight (June 22). We mention it, and promise a follow-up podcast.

Length: 17:59 minutes
File size: 16.5 MB

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Many topics were discussed in this talkie, which was recorded at the Starbucks on Moreland Ave. while we took a break from walking around the Inman Park Festival. Among them:

• The aforementioned Inman Park Festival. Our friends Sas and Pauline from TrueGritz along with the Shelbinator were featured in the parade. Here's the link we promised about Baton Bob.
• Amber's new phone and her aversion toward new-fangled gadgets
• Voicemails (edited in after the fact) from a caller who didn't care for John Haven's remarks mentioned in our last talkie, and a heartfelt apology over voicemail from the man himself (note: about 6 minutes long).
• My gall stones, and the possibility that if I have surgery I might Twitter the shit out of it.
• Questions taken over Twiiter from Joeventures and Patrick
• Expanding on Amber's idea for a conference
• Thoughts on the first-ever Atlanta Net² meeting and the pending podcast to be hosted on GAPN.
• Mention of Southern Fried Tech, Jeff Haynie's new project

Length: 31:11 minutes
File size: 28.6 MB

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In this talkie, Amber and I talk about lots of things that have been going on in our lives the past few weeks and take live questions via Twitter. It went sort of like this:

• Twitter sucks us in, and now we can't escape. Questions from Grayson and Michael Bailey taken over Twitter are answered as we record.
• We moved, which explains the even lower than usual sound quality of this episode. Here are the photos of our apartment we mentioned.
• Experiences from PodCamp NYC. Amber has a question for John Havens, one of the organizers.
• Amber is kicking around ideas for a new conference and would like to hear your suggestions.
• We're heading to Chicago for BlogHer July 27 and 28.
• Discussion of Atlanta's Web 2.0 community. We even said "Web 2.0" without a hint of irony.
• Amber's blog is turning five! Party at Manuel's next Friday.

Length: 32:12 minutes
File size: 29.49 MB

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