Yesterday Steve Gillmor gave me the perfect answer for when people ask me what IT Conversations is. It goes like this:

You: What's IT Conversations?

Me: Are you familiar with NPR?

You: Yes...

Me: It's nothing like NPR.

Does that help?

Bonus link: Doc Searls offers up Irrational Public Radio. From their homepage:

Where other news sources leave off, Irrational Public Radio starts, and proceeds almost mercilessly. For the discerning listener, IPR is a stalwart of integrity, a bastion of integrity, and just a huge heaping platter of integrity. We commend you for your taste and your fetching personal scent.