Michael Taylor is the editor of the San Francisco Chronicle’s car section. He is also the son of screenwriter Samuel Taylor, who wrote plays and movies (including Sabrina and Vertigo, which was made in San Francisco fifty years ago).

This is an interview with San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle and his wife, the playwright Amy Freed. She has written six plays that have been produced, which in itself is astounding, but one of them has also been a Pulitzer finalist. She also teaches at Stanford University.

Vloggiesshow.com’s Irina Slutsky chats with Dan Fost, columnnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, about his favorite thing at SXSW. Dan’s pick is Twitter. This social networking space operates on your mobile phone. It answers one simple question: “what are you doing?” So you can keep tabs ...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 29, 2006 (PodTech News) — Robert Scoble was invited by Senator John Edwards’s campaign team to join the Senator, his staff, other “social media” representatives and the more traditional press corps for the first few days of his presidential campaign. It’s been a marathon few days, chronicled ...

In Part 2 of this two-part podcast, John F. Ince and San Francisco Chronicle Editor Jim Finefrock discuss the upcoming release of “The Lost Google Tapes,” featuring exclusive interviews conducted with Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Listen to Part 1 here.

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In Part 1 of this two-part podcast, John F. Ince and San Francisco Chronicle Editor Jim Finefrock discuss the upcoming release of “The Lost Google Tapes,” featuring exclusive interviews conducted with Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Listen to Part 2 here.

Video montage of the Vloggies party in San Francisco. Includes intro by PodTech CEO, John Furrier and interviews with Jerry Zucker - Director/Producer, Airplane!, Naked Gun, Ghost; Kevin Rose - founder, Digg.com, Revision3; Tom Foremski - founder, Silicon Valley Watcher; Dina Kaplan - winner,

San Francisco Chronicle radio columnist, Rolling Stone writer, and author Ben Fong-Torres says community and local emphasis is the key to the survival of terrestrial radio, as the market penetration of satellite radio increases. PodTech’s Michael Johnson talked to him at the Bandwidth music & technology conference in San Francisco.

Next week there is a cutting edge conference at Stanford that is free for journalism and innovation professionals to attend. Registration: http://scil.stanford.edu/InJo-2006/signup.fft. Vint Cerf, PodTech, Google, CNet, Tony Perkins, Ross Mayfield, Dan Gillmor, USVP’s Paul Mateucci, and other great folks like Harry McCracken, Michael Kanellos.

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