IT in the D

Duran Duran.  The NeverEnding Story.  Transformers. 1984 was a good year, and so it’s of little surprise that episode 84 of our weekly live broadcast was a blast. With our guests from Falling Down Beer Company , RhinoCoders and Startup Weekend Pontiac  in-studio with us, we had a wide variety of topics to handle…to the point where it even took us into a fifth segment to get through it...

Our flashback to 1983 with episode 83 of our live, weekly broadcast has come and gone, and it was definitely a lot of fun. We were joined in-studio by a couple of recurring guests on our show, Steve Gaura from Arrow Strategies and Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media Detroit .  We talked about our Pink Slip Party this Thursday night, what Arrow’s seeing in the jobs market, why companies build...

Episode 82 of our weekly live broadcast is in the history books, and we had a lot of fun with our guests. We were joined by Corey from  Midwest Media Expo  and Terry from 313Dlove to talk about their respective events coming up in the next month, as well as two of our group’s members, Ian and Darshan, to get their take on those events, our own upcoming events and more… In case you were...

Episode 81 of our weekly broadcast is in the rear view mirror, and it was definitely a good one. We were joined in-studio by two of the ladies behind ComiqueCon  to discuss their November event, the owner of  The Detroit Bus Company to talk about their recent dust-up with a production house as well as their efforts to keep Detroit’s youth safe and able to access programs, and the writer behi...

A fun episode, even if we were riddled with technical issues, which sort of explains why this episode is a little bit late getting out.  Sorry about that. We were joined in-studio by one of our sponsors, W3R , as well as our friends over at Daily Detroit , for a whole bunch of conversations and chats about the state of things here in Detroit, the latest news and info floating around worth noting,...

Another week, another really fun episode with some great guests. Thanks to our guests Major General Amy Courter of Youngsoft , Hans Erickson of New Mind , and Katrina and Mark from our newest sponsor , W3R , for joining us in-studio tonight. We talked about the state of the industry here in the metro Detroit area, a little about our upcoming events , some cool new software out on the market and mo...

What a fun, fun night. Thanks to our guests Scott and Nuri from Penguicon , Kelly O’Hara of Bebop Art and Kasey from Kosmic Kasey for joining us for just a great night of conversations, laughs, and we even managed to be a little informative…not to mention running a giveaway that you can still be a part of. We talked conventions, comics, art, women at cons, and all sorts of really great...

Episode 77.  We had a few Detroit-themed guests on the show tonight, as you can tell. Thanks to our guests Courtney and Ian from Detroit Beer Press , Monica Wheat of Pipeline Fellowship Detroit , and repeat offender  Daily Detroit for joining us for a night of laughs and fun conversations… Of course we talked a little Super Bowl…well, we talked about the commercials. Especially the Nat...

Episode 76, and yet another episode that’s full of a lot of laughter and great conversations. Thanks to our in-studio guests Anthony Tocco, Kyle Nelson, Andrew Mortemore, and Wade Kean, all from one of our sponsors – Quantum – for joining us… From the Skymall bankruptcy to the measles outbreak at Disney, our first segment was all about the stories that caught our eye this p...

Our 75th episode, and this one’s full of rants, raves, laughter and great conversations. Lots of rants.  Lots…and lots…of rants… Thanks to our guests local entrepreneur Bradley Hoos, as well as Jimi Plouffe and Nick Daniels from Momentum for hanging out, hopping in on the rants, hanging for the laughs, and providing a lot of great information in between the outbursts, and w...

Episode 74, and wow was this a packed one. Lots of great topics, tons of good conversation, a whole slew of new drops to be isolated for our opening… …but I digress.  Thanks to our guests Kinsay Mantay and Nicole Johnson for coming out to talk about a cool program that gets you paid while earning your Associate’s Degree as well as getting you a job once you’re done, a $10,0...

IT in the D , Episode 73 Holy wow, what a great way to kick off the year. Huge thanks to our guests Tom Nardone and Ian Sterrett who joined us tonight to talk about everything from the continually evolving Sony hack to bulletproof hats to geeks and conventions around the area. Yes, it was that random…and it was that much fun… In our opening segment, we talked about the college football...

IT in the D , Episode 72 We closed out 2014 with a great episode.  A lot of rambling…as you’d probably expect given that it’s the last show of the year…but still a great episode. Thanks to Eric and Jeremiah for joining us as we wandered and rambled through a number of topics, and thankfully kept ourselves from getting too terribly weird as we closed things out for the year&...

IT in the D , Episode 71 Our next to last show of the year, and we had a lot of fun with our guests tonight talking about the latest things that caught our eye and what they’ve got going on around the area.  Thanks to our guests Marjorie Knepp, Christina York, Sean Yalda, Seth Archambault and Billy Strawter for joining us… As always, our opening segment was a little bit of everything t...

IT in the D , Episode 70 Well, this was certainly an interesting night, both on the mic and off of it. Let’s stick to the on the mic fun though – we had some great guests join us in-studio tonight, and we even made a new friend from down the hall from the studio thanks to doing a little wandering and being friendly with the locals.  We got into some controversial topics, we got updates...

IT in the D , Episode 69 It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, it was the epoch of our serious charity fundraising, it was the epoch of foolish mocking, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us&#8230...

IT in the D , Episode 68 You know what the best part of doing this show is? I mean, sure, there’s the beer, the music, and the general laughter and fun that happens every week, but what’s really cool about it all is being able to help get the word out about really cool stuff going on in the area, and that’s exactly what tonight’s show was all about… Guests: Hemingwrit...

IT in the D , Episode 67. As the dust begins to settle from last week’s fun and excitement, we had another great live broadcast. Three outstanding guests to help close out the Home and Home series with the Internet Advisor show, some good tunes, a lot of laughs, and just a fun time overall. Oh, and we even managed to sneak in some discussions about security, auditing, and the balance of thos...

IT in the D , Episode 66. This episode was pretty much exactly what it needed to be. We were joined by two great guests talking about things they’re doing around the area, ranging from an upcoming comic convention to zombie themed energy drinks and sodas to a new group getting off the ground helping people learn how to code and how to transition into a career in information technology…...

IT in the D , Episode 65. We managed to clean things up to the point where it’s a pretty solid episode with a lot of great information in it, so give it a listen as we’re joined by Billy Strawter of Social Coop Media and Kevin Krason of Biznet . And look, let’s be right up front about what the live listeners already know – we had some serious technical difficulties througho...

The IT in the D guys with the day off from work. Their kids with the day off of school. Naturally, this means they all went downtown for coney dogs at Lafayette and then took the kids into the studio to let the kids talk about things from their points of view – technology, games, and even their dads… …and a good time was had by all. Not really one of our “normal” show...

IT in the D , Episode 64. Also known as “Dave completely nerds out beyond all ability to recover”. Why? Because we had Jack Olson in-studio with us, that’s why.  And if you don’t know why that triggered a major nerding out, then you might as well just completely avoid segments two and thre of this one because it’s all nerd, all the time.  We also ran long, with a full...

IT in the D , Episode 63. We’ve been looking forward to this episode for a while now. We were joined in-studio by Mike from Motor City Drone Co …yes, a company right here in the area that makes drones, one of our favorite topics.  Also joining us were Matt and Jon from RhinoCoders , a great program focused on getting children more involved and engaged with technology in the best way po...

IT in the D , Episode 62, also known as “have you tried putting a pickle in that?” Listen, that’ll make sense, honest. We’re joined by Mark Larson from Falling Down Beer Company , along with Courtney Ochab and Ian Burk from Detroit Beer Press . Great conversations…sure, mostly about beer, but also about a whole variety of topics as well… In our first segment we...

IT in the D , Episode 61…in which we discover more about connected cars and mobility standards with a repeat guest, and catch up with an old friend who’s a first timer. Great talks, good times, and even a fifth segment. Because we wanted to, that’s why. So let’s find out what Elaina Farnsworth of Mobile Comply and Terry Bean had to say… As always, our first segment wa...