WHOIS?: Amber MacArthur (and Inside the Net)

Inside the Net is through (at least in its current iteration).

I’ve linked to quite a few Inside the Net interviews on here. Turns out, Amber MacArthur has gotten too good for our own good. She’s been hired full time by City News International in Canada, so her time to conduct interviews for ITN has been severly slashed. It’s a bummer, but it’s geat for her. I first heard of Amber when Adam Christiansen of the MacCast interviewed her for his first interview ever. Since then, I’ve become a very dedicated listener to Inside the Net and watcher of commandN.

Amber is a Leo Laporte proteg√©, as she has worked with him on many TechTV and TWIT.tv projects (including Inside the Net). From what I gather, Inside the Net is far from her most popular venture, but it is my favorite because of the quality of her guests. It seems to always consistently be all the people I want to hear from. Inside the Net isn’t going away completely, but it will be different. Specifically, it’ll be less interview and more live commentary with Leo about new things she found on the web (presumably while researching for City News). I still enjoy Amber’s commentary—commandN is great and I’ve been checking out her early work at City News and it is fantastic.

The last traditional interview episode of ITN (Amberless, just Leo) was with David Sawyer MacFarland, author of the new CSS Missing Manual book. I took a half-day CSS session with David at WebVisions, so it was pretty neat hearing from him again. I hope to check the book out when a bit of time frees up.

Some other great interviews that stick out:

In Googling for this post, I noticed Amber’s now a big enough start to have a fan site! Right… I almost forgot to mention that Amber is… what’s the technical word I’m looking for here… adorable?

So, good luck to Amber. Inside the Net completely rocked.

*** Just a note on this one. A few minutes in, it was nice to hear that this was THE Jeff Robbins of Orbit. I absolutely loved Orbit when Jeff was fronting them. In fact, in my former “I want to be a rock star” life, I actually used to chat about Orbit’s label, Lunch Records, with drummer Paul Buckley.

4 Comments

  1. On October 27th, 2006 at 6:42 pm Amber Mac said:

    Thank you so much for the kind words! The good news is that I will start doing ITN again week in just over a week, but it will be live as N@N – and then distributed as a podcast for those people who couldn’t listen live during the show (Sunday nights – 9pm EST).
    We will also have guests – and live calls. Should be good fun :) .
    -Amber

  2. On October 27th, 2006 at 10:54 pm Adam Darowski said:

    Amber… I very much look forward to it. I’ll be calling in. :)

    So, there goes the streak of 56 straight comments on Traces of Inspiration by males! It’s an honor to have you visit. :)

  3. On December 2nd, 2006 at 8:06 pm Geoff Phillips said:

    Hi Amber:

    The Newsvine story was amazing …. and I would like to get the “Super invitor token” invitation from you asap.

    Thanks for a great program!

    Very sincerely,
    Geoff Phillips

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  4. On December 2nd, 2006 at 9:43 pm Adam Darowski said:

    Well, Geoff… this isn’t Amber’s site, so it’s probably not the best way to pass that information on to her.

    But for those wondering, Amber’s new show is, of course, great. :)