Local restaurants abound in our lovely Chicago neighborhood. One of them, Dolce Casa Cafe, is a favorite of your hosts. Walk past the cafe at almost any time, and you'll see residents relaxing, enjoying unique fare, and sipping on coffee. Like ours, most communities will embrace a new eatery, and yet a large percentage of them fail. In this episode, Nicholas and Joshua are joined by Ross Outten to discuss the real-world implications of running a successful restaurant.

It's easy to relax into your creative flow, and create without hesitation. But it's also relatively simple to fall into the pool of mediocrity, and avoid anything that makes you uncomfortable. Comfort, as we know, is the enemy of progress, and raw creativity. Today on the program, Joshua and Nicholas discuss the upcoming week, and several things that will force us to step outside our safe space. Is the risk worth it? Listen to find out.

Most podcasts fade after several years. It's no wonder: behind the scenes of every broadcast, be it on terrestrial radio, satellite, or online, artists work long hours to deliver your favorite media fix. Some burn out, and discontinue their shows, while a far lesser number continue on. Today, we bring you a member of the latter category: Dave Warner. By day, he's mild mannered technical writer. At night, he's an influential online presenter, and host of "Dave's Lounge."

Everyone needs money, and if you're in business, getting paid is especially important. Today, we chat about a few strategies for managing your accounts receivable, members of congress editing Wikipedia anonymously, and much more.

While Nicholas often brings artists into the studio for Inside the Machine, our guest, Billie Howard, visits them in their space. Her project, By Measure, is dedicated to documenting the spaces where and how creators do their work.

Life in the city can be chaotic and complex, unless you have the right tools. Today on Dispatch, Sam Vermette, CEO of Transit App, joins Joshua and Nicholas to discuss how public transportation (through buses, trains, and bike sharing systems) is redefining personal mobility.

It's just a day in the life for Kickstarter. After removing restrictions on which projects appear on the site, jokesters have flooded the once interesting list of projects with pointless fundraisers. Are they funny, or do these adolescent pranks degrade Kickstarter's proud and creative atmosphere? We discuss.

For the past year, we've had many opportunities to share the stories of creatives, lessons from their businesses, and how they overcame frustrating (sometimes) debilitating needs in both their private and artistic lives. In this episode, we look back at our first year on the air, and offer a "listener's guide" to the last 51 hours of Dispatch.

Copyright is a tricky subject, even for artists who stand to benefit from it's protections. The subject is equally confusing for brands and companies who seek to use protected work. Today, Joshua and Nicholas chat with Stephen Wolfson, a copyright attorney and law librarian, who helps us dispel the confusion and understand this legal statute afresh.

In the past, protecting your work meant limiting it's exposure. Licenses stood in the way, between what users could, or could not do. But in the internet age, if a creator wants to retain strict control, do these principals still hold true? Today on Dispatch, photographer Rich Myers joins Joshua and Nicholas for a lively conversation, where he describes a new approach to content licensing.