New Media Cincinnati at The Pub

This past Saturday I spent some time with the folks from New Media Cincinnati to discuss the latest trends on the Internet, debate Twitter, talk photography and, of course, drink some beers.  This was my first time visiting with this group & it was a good time... I'll be back for future events.

I won't rehash all of the topics here but you can check out some of the Twitter activity to get a sense of it via #newmediacincy.  I will drop some link love to a few of the folks I met who left me with their cards; here goes:

First up, Daniel Johnson, Jr. (@danieljohnsonjr) - coordinator of the meet-up.  Daniel is involved with a variety of things including the Ohio Podcamp and can be found on the various SM (that's Social Media, note the lack of an ampersand!) sites linked off of his Virtual Business Card.

Next is Kyle Louis (@kydlo).  Kyle is in the Industrial Design program over at UC.  He's got a lot of really interesting ideas about product design and was very interesting to talk to.  Check out his site at kylelouis.com.  He also has a product design podcast.

Also a design student over at UC, Amy Johannigman (@amydoesdesign) is an SM queen (again, note the lack of ampersand!).  She has a lot of very interesting, informed opinions on the whole social media scene and it will be cool to follow her thoughts on the topic via Twitter.

Two photographers I talked with at New Media Cincinnati were Christiaan Todd and Chris Bergman (@chrisbergman).  A lot of what we discussed had to do with how photography has been changing, business, and rights grab issues.

I met a variety of other folks as well, but beyond following them on Twitter I don't have other links for them to post here.

Oh, last but not least is Dylan Combs.  Dylan has a 24/7 video stream of his life running at Dylan.Combs.tv.  He is pretty well known for this on the net and has a significant following - I just stopped by and there are 30 or so folks watching the live feed.

Also, I believe Dylan was the one who left the Hak5 stickers lying around - a great tech podcast!