So this is how it happened and the efforts Vlad goes to in order to pull all this together for the Community.
It’s Sunday evening and I’m relaxing by listening to the SBS Show (the one with Dave Sobel) and funnily enough I get a email from Vlad asking if I’m busy and have I got Skype? We hook up on Messenger and he says he wants to do an interview on the SBSC PALs and I agree. I haven’t got Skype but I’ve got Asterisk, so Vlad goes away and sees if he can set up the Xten softphone for recording. It’s going to be tricky, so I install the Skype client and we start chatting. The feedback is terrible and it makes trying to say anything coherent almost impossible. Anyway, we resolve to try and work through it and we start the interview and my wireless internet connection goes! My draytek router drops the wireless connection and I have to plug my laptop directly into the router and reset the bloody router. Eventually, I get back online and feel like a right idiot and apologise profusely. Vlad is pretty cool like he’s seen that happen a million times before. The feedback is too bad and Vlad has to phone me directly but now there is feedback on his side! So, when he’s talking I mute my microphone and enable it when I’m speaking! We get through it and he thanks me and he’s off to do another interview and edit and put the whole thing online. By the time I wake up this morning, it’s all online and on his blog!
This guy is a legend and works in a totally different gear to any normal person 
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July 31st, 2007 at 1:36 am
How about that? Someone listened to my rant.
Dave
July 31st, 2007 at 3:38 am
Making my head fit through the doorway is going to be difficult tomorrow. But thanks for the kind words, I really appreciate it.
Truthfully, I think anyone else would have done the same. There was a little fire burning on smallbizit about who PALs were, what they did, ironically enough started by guys from Australia and comments from UK/Ireland too. It didn’t take a lot of effort to ask and record and put through, technical difficulties aside, its all about people and their willingness to talk (more importantly, their pride to talk) about what they do.
This has been my goal with VladCast, although I never figured I’d do interviews with it - to make it effortless enough to do. Unlike the SBS Show, which took me and Chris hours to schedule and organize, then hours to record with each guest, then hours to edit and arrange.. Vladfire and VladCast are very much spur of the moment, they don’t pretend to be anything more than they are (no editing) but give those in the community that haven’t had a chance to step out and meet people a chance to do so from the comfort of their own home. I think some of the greatest friendships and connections for me came from putting faces and voices with names and I’m just trying to pass that same value to the others.
Thanks for being a part of it all, and I think you’d find all of the above echoed by everyone who has taken their time to be a part of the SBS Show and Vladfire videos.
-Vlad