what my friends have been up to

• Voice actor, producer, and David Duchovny stunt double Jeremy Redleaf's Oddjob Nation webseries has gotten a ton of attention - most recently this article in Newsweek.
• I finally got around to listening to the high-brow video gaming podcast A Life Well Wasted, and was really impressed with it - my friend Willis Lambert built the Website for it.
• Chikodi Chima finished his master's project for Columbia Journalism School: "My Life After Bear", the story of three ex-Bear Stearns executives and what they did after their jobs disappeared.
• Jon Bellinger wrote a great piece on his blog Internet Mixtape about what you should look for when you're hiring digital PR and marketing people.
• Last but not least, 00shoe Troupe (a band consisting of my friends Harith Abdullah, Wendy Cullings, and Jon Schubin) released their new album Tamizdat, which they had recorded as their entrant in this year's RPM Challenge. You can download Tamizdat for free here, or listen to some tracks on thesixtyone.com.