I’m a producer, creative director and writer with experience in a variety of media. I’m the managing partner at Boots Road Group LLC, I blog at the Huffington Post, O’Reilly Digital Media and elsewhere, and sometimes I still write music.
My bio from bootsroad.com:
Clients and projects have included Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign; Congressman Sam Farr; California Assembly Speaker John Pérez; the Emmy-winning PBS documentary “Blink”; web content for David Bowie, Moby, Britney Spears, Beatnik, Yahoo! and others; the Silicon Graphics-Time Warner-ATT interactive TV system; music for Warner-Chappell Music; and the multiple award-winning Choosing Success CDROM for CCC/Viacom, described by Wired magazine as “the most inspired piece of educational software ever created.”
As a journalist, Spencer reported stories for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio and others, winning awards for investigative reporting from the Public Radio News Directors and the Associated Press. For CBC Radio, he was a correspondent and guest host for the national entertainment and popular culture show Prime Time, the host of the syndicated Canada Rocks record review, and a contributor to The Entertainers and other programs. He currently blogs for the Huffington Post, O’Reilly Digital Media and Business Insider.
Spencer has been a guest speaker at Stanford University; New York University; Art Center College of Design; the SXSW, Hot Springs and Bermuda Film Festivals; MacWorld; Intel Developer World; Jupiter Media conferences; the California Public Information Officers Association and the American Constitution Society, among others. He has been interviewed or quoted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, MSNBC.com, Reader’s Digest and Mix Magazine and others.
*With the excellent Marco D’Ambrosio.
