The UpTake

Eskimo Witch 105: Coleman and Soucheray vs. technology; Adria Richards; Julio Ojeda-Zapata

Mar 21, 2009 Episode Archive
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Technology seemed to permeate the major stories in Minnesota this week. Nearly overshadowing the fact that the Senate contest wrapped up this week, ...
Technology seemed to permeate the major stories in Minnesota this week. Nearly overshadowing the fact that the Senate contest wrapped up this week, was the fracas over Coleman's unsecured donor database being leaked online. Local IT consultant-turned-media celeb Adria Richards was the first to discover Coleman's unsecure database file back in January. Naturally the question on everyone's mind: Is she part of the Russian mafia?? We had to ask her, especially after Coleman lawyer Fritz Knaack offhandedly suggested that the two reasons their donor credit cards were possibly compromised would be (1) Malicious partisan web hackers, or (2) Russian mafia. They might be forgetting (3) Campaign data security lapse. Jou Soucheray made waves - maybe on purpose - with his anti-Twitter rant this week. He even scared away our man Julio Ojeda-Zapata/ Julio is a tech columnist and Twitter expert who says Twitter has changed his life and that he's more connected to humanity. See - we can all get along. So long as we stay off Joe's lawn. Finally, dear friends, we take inspiration from MinnPost's microsponsor experiment and ask you to keep Eskimo Witch, and MN Stories, afloat. This is the 5th episode of Eskimo Witch, and right now we don't have any company sponsors on MN Stories. To pay the bills and keep these funny, timely and irrelevant &emdash; err, I mean irreverent videos coming at you every week, plus the sincere verité documentary interviews with local arts and media luminaries, I'm asking you to throw some cash our way. Watch for some fun buttons and more goodies in the future, but here's the skinny. $10 makes you a Junior Eskimo Witch. Brag to your friends and get a mention in the text of the next Eskimo Witch episode. $25 entitles you to call yourself Captain Eskimo Pants. We'll give you a shoutout in the next video, and a web site if you want to plug one. For $100 or more, we'll show up and film you (and/or your business) for next week's Eskimo Witch. I'm not sure what to call that... Super Captain Eskimo Pants seems the best choice. So CLICK AWAY and THANKS for watching! Less
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