It was a grey drizzly day in December, and the schedulers were maximizing throughput, totally. The New Stack founder Alex Williams, his forehead nuzzled into his trademark fedora in an effort to escape the harsh florescent lights, slipped quickly through the glass doors of the Hilton, though not quickly enough to prevent a swirl of staticky dust from the light-rail-inlaid streets of Portland, Oregon entering along with him.

Along a mossy path beside a still-affordable southeast craftsman home of deceptive square footage, a neighborhood cat sashays past a streaming HD camera toward a bowl of artisan chow. A macabre grin passed across Williams’ face. “Portnodia,” he thought, to himself at first; later he would do so out loud. But now, in a silent and ceremonious sort of way, he unveiled a comically oversized podcasting microphone and presented it to the group, meeting each in turn with his piercing journalistic stare. With a brush of his mouse finger he powered-up some solid-state storage and hit the “record” button, so as to capture this episode of The New Stack Analysts.

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