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I was mentioned briefly in a San Francisco Chronicle article today, which was on the topic of podcasting :

Scott Chacon, 25, a Democrat from Dublin who plans to run for Congress in 2006, hopes to use the new medium to reach far-flung voters in California’s 11th Congressional District, which includes parts of Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara and San Joaquin counties.

Just to clarify, you don’t need to be far-flung to listen.

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It’s not much, but it’s a start. I spoke for a while with the writer, Benny, and I mentioned it briefly in one of my podcasts. He had mentioned that the Chronicle was considering doing a podcast of it’s own, and I think the reference to the Ventura County Star comes from information I told him as well.

On another note, I did a lot of work on the website this weekend. It is still on my laptop, but it will be live here in the next few days. I can’t wait to hear feedback on it.

Scott

It’s Thursday, so you know what that means. Today’s show goes over teachers demonstrating everywhere, San Ramon online forum, real redistricting reform, class action lawsuits and Camp Wellstone. Let me know what you think.

Phone line: 206-20-CHACON

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Here it is, we’ve reached the 10th podcast, finally in the double digits. Many podcasters never make it this far, so I’m glad we’ve gotten here. My wife and I went to the Dawn and Drew party in SF this weekend to meet several other podcasters, including Dawn and Drew, Devan and Kris, Steve Gillmor, Michael Geoghegan, Michael Butler, Adam Curry, Sam Levin, and Curtis the Podcat.

I’ve changed my voicemail line so that it’s easier to remember, I have a custom outgoing message and the audio quality is hopefully a little better. My new number is 206-20-CHACON. Be sure to leave me a message, so I can play it on the air.

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Happy Thursday, everyone. The week is almost done, and here’s my last podcast of this week. I talk about Pombo and DeLay, Journalists in Iraq, Dean as DNC chair, and US citizenship. If you want a free gmail account, just leave a message on my comment line, and I’ll be happy to give you one.

Hopefully, we’ll have some more good website updates in the next week, so keep an eye out.

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Here’s our first interview! Jerry Hildebrand from Katalysis chats with my wife and I about microcredit. (By the way, the “pretty face” comment at the end was in reference to Jessica, my wife, who was there with me – just wanted to clear that up.)

Some of the URLs :

• katalysis.org
• microcreditsummit.org
• yearofmicrocredit.org
• usaid.gov

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Happy Valentines day, everybody!

Jessie and I had a great weekend, we met with Jerry Hildebrand of Katalysis for an interview on Saturday, and stole almost 4 hours of the mans time. We talked about politics, my race, his organization, you name it. He was in the second Peace Corps deployment, helped fight poverty in Appalachia, and worked for Robert Kennedy, among other things. Jerry is a kind and fascinating man, and I hope that comes out in the interview. I recorded almost an hour and a half of material, which I’ll edit down to about 30 minutes for use in the podcast, but I’ll put the unedited version on this website as well. Jerry is one of the many people I’m sure I will meet during this process who is smarter, kinder and more experienced than I, but who would rather spend their talents getting things done, than the maddening pursuit of selfish politics. Just a great person and an inspiring organization, I hope you enjoy the interview – I’ll hopefully have it all ready by tomorrow’s podcast.

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The interview was actually problematic to record, since I was using my laptop and some cheap computer mic. Then the software I was using to capture the sound and do the on the fly dynamics compression died because it was a trial version that I had purchased but didn’t put the key in correctly or something. So, then I had to fiddle for several minutes and figure out how to record straight to disk. So, the recording you will hear will have been heavily post-processed, via SoundSoap and other fun tools. However, for future interviews, I just bought one of these, so hopefully future interviews will be a little smoother. I’ll let you know who’s up next and how the new setup works.

Until tomorrow!

Scott

Happy Friday, I hope you all enjoy your upcoming weekend. I have an interview to conduct this weekend, so I’ll let you know how that goes on Monday. Enjoy the show, and don’t forget to call in.

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For those of you who want to know why I think we need to pass redistricting reform.

My district:

Sorry that everything has just been podcasts lately, I’m just trying to get in the groove here. It’s a little more difficult than you might think to produce these. I will try to start blogging a little more.

I hope you enjoy this show, I cover the Fed, Jogging for Congress, and an AIDS vaccine. Enjoy your Tuesday!

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Seems as though the sound is a little better. Social security, booing the president, Food for Oil and Rumsfeld quits, all on todays podcast.

Be sure to call in with comments and questions:
1-915-808-2925

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