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Paula Holm Jensen is a Portland lawyer, practicing in the information technology and intellectual property fields. She’s worked with several of the best firms in Portland and Silicon Valley, but has been solo for 5 of the last 7 years. Her main focus is on technology transactions: development, licensing, sales, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, etc. Other interests include copyright, privacy and open source. Her clients range from individuals to Fortune 500 companies, but are mostly small private companies. She’s worked with semiconductors, medical devices, displays, telecom, consumer electronics, internet services and all kinds of consumer and enterprise software.

It was a big kick-off for the 2010 return of Crazy Talk! I've finally got the feeds and syndication established and hope to announce the availability of this show on iTunes shortly. Amber Case and Andy Beach joined me for our discussion Sunday night. Watch it right here. Enjoy! http://youtu.be/YyGNYl00j3A

Tonight at 9PM Pacific Time, live on ustream.tv or here for your iPad and iPhone, I'll be re-launching the Crazy Talk podcast with an amazing A-list guest panel, loosely discussing the underlying thesis behind the book Shop Class as Soulcraft. What is the value of work- of the trades and crafts, and those with an intimate knowledge of their machines? Has higher education been relagated to churning out indebted, middle-class "knowledge workers" performing to ambiguous standards of excellence in their cubicles? And what does this mean for the Facebook generation? Is our future cast in a virtual world of self-indulgence, lacking any self-reliance? Join me on the next Crazy Talk with our esteemed guest panelists: Amber Case "Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and tech consultant researching prosthetic culture. She studies the interaction between humans and computers and how our relationship with information is changing the way cultures think, act, and understand their worlds. Case wrote her thesis on cell phones and their technosocial sites of engagement." Andy Beach "Andy Beach is a digital media professional who combines technology, creativity, and business strategy. He is also the author of Real World Video Compression, a book that seeks to explain the world of compression in plain English. Andy brings significant expertise and experience in the field of product strategy & marketing, video compression and rich media solutions."

I'm happy to announce two exciting developments for me today. First, the launch of this blog! It's been a long time coming and I'm extremely grateful for the WordPress and design help that Cami Kaos is providing to get this thing up and going. There will continue to be layout changes here, so stay tuned. I intend the content to alternate between personal observations and my professional media work. We'll see how that all goes, because like I say: "it's an experiment." Second, is the re-launch tonight of my podcast "Crazy Talk". This too, has been a long time coming. I ended the weekly show in November and expected to revive it sometime in January. Well, with me as you know- better late than never! Both my personal and professional life created obstacles for me to continue this show at the start of 2010. As a little insight into the situation, I privately commented to a friend that I didn't want to see Crazy Talk turn into "Angry Talk". The positive things that I had left to say at the end of 2009 had already been well said over on PDX Sucks, and Betsy Richter launched Redoing Media as a response to the We Make the Media conference. So, Crazy Talk needed a new direction and re-boot, and that's what I've been reflecting on ever since, and I think I'm ready...! Hello 2010! (I'm only five months late...)