Geek Force Utterz #001 - Managing Expecations (Cut Off)

by E. Christopher Clark | Wednesday, September 10, 2008

I’m going to making (hopefully) daily calls to Utterz to discuss things that I’m geeking out about. The first of these calls, about geeks managing expectations, is embedded above.

Not familiar with Utterz? No problem. The gist of it is that it’s a phone call recording service. You call in, it records what you say, and then it spits it out onto the Internet.

Why have I decided to do this? Well, it’s fun, first of all. Second of all, it’s easy. And third of all, it’s something I have time for. I drive fifteen minutes from my house to the bus station every morning and, seeing as I’m usually not up for the radio that early (at around 5:30 a.m.), I might as well do something productive with my time. Fourth, and lastly, it doesn’t cost me anything. Because my drive takes place before “nighttime” is technically over (at least according to my cell phone plan), the call is free.

This first call was my reaction to the Internet reaction to yesterday’s Apple “Let’s Rock” event. Still with me? Good! Basically, I wanted to take a few minutes to talk about managing expectations if you’re a geek, and why that’s so important in this over-hyped, media-saturated culture we live in. The call gets cut off (I guess I should manage my expectations of AT&T’s calling area, huh?) but it’s worth a listen.

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