About this episode

Wesley O'Driscoll interviews Chas Truslow about social media, anonymity, and various cultural topics related to snowboarding.

A Conversation with Chas Truslow, Head of Social at Burton Snowboards. Chas is the Head of Social at Burton Snowboards, he owned and operated a very pivotal Blog called “The Catfish Chronicles”, he also invented the Killa Bart illustration, among many other things. In this episode we discuss: anonymity, late Web 2.0, www.blogspot.com, Trollhaugen, shareholder value, music rights, Snowperception, the 96’ Chicago Bulls, surveillance state, Matt Roberge, Dipset, outbound engagement, Jake Burton, and going viral on Tumblr. www.nowherefaststudio.com

People in this episode

Host: Wesley O'Driscoll

Guest: Chas Truslow

Topics covered

• social media
• anonymity
• Web 2.0
• snowboarding culture
• going viral
• music rights

Keywords

• Chas Truslow
• Burton Snowboards
• The Catfish Chronicles
• anonymity
• Web 2.0
• going viral
• music rights
• Trollhaugen
• surveillance state

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Burton Snowboards

Books & works: The Catfish Chronicles

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