Luria Petrucci

Luria Petrucci (aka Cali Lewis) (born January 25, 1981) is an American podcaster and Internet personality best known for her video podcast, Geek Brief, and her guest host role on Call for Help. She is also the International Director of the fictional Geek Intelligence Agency (the G.I.A).

Podcasts

GeekBrief

Along with husband Neal Campbell, Petrucci produces and hosts Geek Brief. The video podcast usually releases 4 episodes a week, with occasional special episodes. The show is part of the PodShow network. In 2007, she was featured in a TV commercial, which aired during the SUPER Bowl, for GoDaddy.com, a sponsor of various PodShow programmes. Petrucci also produced The Crappy Christian Show. 35 episodes were made, the final episode was posted on November 10, 2005, just 13 days before Geek Brief was launched. The show was an audio podcast available on iTunes, but it has since been removed. The shows can still be downloaded through direct links from the podcast's original website.

DearCali

In April 2007, Petrucci launched a tech advice blog called Dear Cali. On the site, she answers tech questions in the style and tone of a newspaper advice column. Geek Brief periodically broadcasts entire "Dear Cali" episodes as well.

Ustream

Petrucci has also appeared on Ustream. She records the show while sometimes broadcasting a live show on Ustream, so people can interact using the chat room. She also sometimes answers questions this way. On June 10, 2007, at 17:00GMT she appeared on Ustream to provide live coverage of the Worldwide Developers Conference 2007(WWDC).

iCali

On June 29, 2007 Petrucci waited in line for the long awaited iPhone from Apple. Once using it, she and her husband Neal decided to launch another podcast series dedicated to the cell phone, and iCali launched on July 14, 2007. After The Release of the Amazon Kindle, Luria decided to hijack the iCali feed, and use it as her blog for all tech-related news.

Guest Appearances

On November 14, 2007, she was a Contestant on a game show at NewTeeVee Live featuring other internet celebrities such as Veronica Belmont, Casey McKinnon, Kevin Rose, Justin Kan, Robert Scoble, and others.

Personal Life

Rubella

In September 2007, Petrucci was diagnosed with Rubella, commonly known as German measles.