Cliff podcasts his lunch with Chris

From the "Bring the greater intention into every act" department:

Cliff Ravenscraft is a professional podcaster, and he wants audio podcasting to not only be his living, but also a valuable part of being in community.

So when he had lunch with his new friend Chris Bergman yesterday, their lunch became a podcast.

He just recorded their lunch conversation as a show, and posted it to his site as his 2-12-08 episode of My Crazy Life - gspn.tv/category/mcl/.

I just met Cliff at last month's New Media Cincinnati Meet-up, where he presented podcasting by creating and uploading a 10 minute show as his way of sharing the technology with us and sharing us with his online audience at the same time. 

Cliff does a lot of podcasting. A lot. Check out the site above (just one of his sites), for a stunning list of podcasts, from HelpIGotaMac.com to PodcastAnswerman.com to The LOST weekly podcast and many more. I've been looking forward to working with him on some podcast training for our work and our customers.

I had a late afternoon meeting of my own today in College Hill with Chris Bergman, to get better acquainted. He is the founder and editor of PAUSE Magazine (www.pauseculture.com), a fairly new and cool magazine with a very different and impressive layout and photography. Chris told me the photography is done by fashion photographer. The the look is quite different from other music and arts magazines, as a result .

I'd just been introduced to Chris at THIS MONTH's New Media Cincinnati Meet-up (last Saturday - some fine new friends at each of the three we've attended), and wanted to get together with him to talk about his magazine, his community vision, and our vision for Cincy.com.

He'd told me at the meet-up that he was going to have lunch with Cliff this week and was looking forward to meeting him, so when we met for a beer at Bacall's today, I asked how that went.

He told me "He recorded our lunch as a podcast", and I said, "Great example of bringing your greater intention for your life into the way you live it every day".

The conversation Chris and I had this evening wasn't recorded. I had a fine time talking with him about his art, his wishes for Cincinnati, the cultivation of  community and the idea of the commons, among other things (like the need for not just a new cincy.com design, but also a new cincy.com logo, for which we plan to engage Chris).

I came home looking forward to checking out the podcast of his lunch with Cliff, and just now finished listening to it... two area people who care about creating community, with their own unique and creative approaches to it, having a lunch chat that ranges from new media to neighborhoods to their shared faith to the surprises of starting a business and the ways the money comes in each month (even when it feels it won't),  to loving or not loving reading (I really liked the CS Lewis comments, Chris) and other digressions...

Listen to it here

I enjoyed it and found myself wishing I could jump in with a thought or question several times, as if I were there with them.

I'd already run my mouth enough for one evening, at Bacall's, anyway...

Peace.