PodcasterCon 2006 is Here

PodcasterCon has begun. Brian Russell has sort’a set the stage. He asked for a raise of hands for the number of people (out of 300 attendee) who had produced at least one podcast. Easily more than half of the hands went up. Then he asked for those who are here from outside of North Carolina to raise their hand. Again, more than half. Amazing.

I’m starting out in the podcasting for beginners session. It’s good to learn how other people explain this stuff. They are beginning by passing an iRiver around and asking each person to introduce themselves, and the name of their podcast or blog, if we have one. This is a great way to generate an audio file to demonstrate the technical functions on.

They’re talking about the name podcasting. An interesting point is that at least audio blogging has a word. Video blogging is still struggling for a single term that defines the medium.

Unfortunately, the wireless Internet is not working. This is a huge disappointment to me, but most of the people in this session are just listening. They want to learn the basics.

Podcasting would not be where it is if Adam Curry had not promoted it the way that he did, if the iPod had not been as popular as it is, and if Dave Winer had not contributed the technical aspects of RSS.

It’s not about Apple, Curry, and Winer, but they’ve all made enormous contributions.
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It’s about an hour later and Jean Claude Bradley, of Drexel, and I have moved to the advanced podcasting sessions. This is where I should have been to start with. They are talking about using SKYPE for podcasting conversations. This is what I need to learn. Plus, WIFI is working here, and I can start posting again.

They don’t have a projector going in here, but do have an advance podcasting production center set up. I’ll go down at the end and take a picture.
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It’s about 30 minutes later in the advanced session, and maybe I’m not in the right place. I’m happy with my iPod and iTalk. This is personal. A lot of folks want the fidelity, especially if they are featuring music. But I don’t want to get bogged down with the tech stuff. So get use to the hiss and my iPod’s drive motor whine.

Steve Dembo is down on the second row. I’ve been commenting on the blog that he’s writing in the session. This is kind’a cool, since I don’t understand what people are talking about right now. There’s a guy with spikie hair who’s very funny. I need to start paying attention.

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