Alexander H. Williams

Portland Code Trips: Episode 5

Live from Cube Space Studios, it’s Beer and Blog! Geeks on the guitar, the mic and @verso bangin’ those drums.

Portland Code Trips: Episode 4

A week of episodes and enough footage to get the show through Thanksgiving weekend. I need to make a few changes. In particular, the name of the show. Judy says it stinks. So does my daughter. That’s all I need to hear. Time for a name change.

Portland Code Trips: Episode 3

A short interview with Josh Bancroft, who I chatted with at WordCamp Portland.  Josh talks about the Intel Software Network blog and the advantages of a group blog on the Wordpress platform.

Josh also has a long running personal blog. I’d reccommend it. Josh takes the time to explain. For instance, in this most recent post he did about how to get more links and conversation about your blog. Good, solid advice.

Portland Code Trips: Episode 2

I interviewed Amber Case, following a lecture she gave at the Pacific Northwest College of the Arts. We discuss art and how it crosses with cyborg culture. Amber is one of the few to join us on both journeys of the magic bus. She talks about the trips, our visits to local galleries and how it relates to cyborg anthropology.

Amber is producing Cyborg Camp in Portland on Dec. 6. We’ll bring out the magic bus for the event. We’re looking for a sponsor to help pay for gas. Ping me if interested.

Thanks to Kris Krug, Chris Kalani and Dave Delaney for use of the photos they shot of the magic bus and its merry band of travelers.

Meet Sergei Goursky. He’s the CEO of Sub Atomic Studios, a video game development company here in Portland who I met during the Android meeting I attended last week at Portland’s Lucky Lab in Southeast Portland.  Goursky’s team are the game developers behind FieldRunners, the iPhone application that has received favorable reviews and has quickly become a top ten seller on the iPhone store. (Boston Red Sox legend Curt Schilling loves it, too, calling it a “helluva fun app.”)

I asked Goursky for his views about the future of Android. You may be surprised what he has to say.

Portland Code Trips

I am interviewing people in Portland who work in the Internet world. Nate DiNiro and I hung out at Backspace in Old Town today. He came up with “Portland Code Trips.”  That certainly fits. Blog to come soon. I am also looking for music from local bands to feature.

I travel around town by bike and bus, Flip camera in my bag. It’s a road trip of sorts. My own little, local one that takes me to all the places a free geek may travel here in Portland, which is usually a coffee shop or pub. :-)

The geek scene is thriving in Portland. It’s an energy you can feel. Who do you know that does not love this town? My home is St. Johns. I ride the Peninsula to the other four quadrants. :-)

I love that and I know this place and its acccessibility gives the intellectually curious that same sense of happening. It’s happening in Portland like no other place. Architecture, food, the arts are all riding in plane with the geek energy. It’s intoxicating, isn’t it?

My goal is to publish one video per day. We’ll see how I do. It’s an interview series with stories that I produce about the geeks who I discover here in Portland. I am not just talking about tech geeks. Portland has its share of food geeks, music geeks and all kinds of other folks who geek to their own beat. I hope I can bring that local geekery out just a little. In the meantime, expressing the zeitgeist of this time here in Portland, Oregon.