Inspired by PodCamp Boston, Leesa Barnes and Jay Moonah are leading the charge on PodCamp Toronto. There is no specific date or location, yet, other than February 2007 in Toronto. I’m looking forward to being a part of another great community event.
This morning, a friend of mine who recently starting producing a Podcast for his church, announced that he woke up at 5:00am today to clean up a Podcast for publication. Congratulations! You are now a Podcaster.
With the publication of the controversial cease and decist letter from Apple to Infostructure Solutions earlier this week on wired.com, we are now able to take a more rational look at the reasons behind the letter. One sentence in particular caught my eye. …Apple is concerned that certain uses of PODCAST READY and MYPODDER by [...]
It was becoming increasingly difficult for me to keep straight which content went to which blog. So, I migrated all of the content from PodcastLounge.ca (including comments) to my own site, MarkBlevis.com. I guess you can think of this site as being Mark Blevis’ Podcast Lounge. A theme for this site is under development and [...]
In his PodCamp presentation entitled Gear Talk, David Berlind mentions that he uses his eyes over his ears when mixing audio signals to a consistent level. That is, he watches the level indicators to ensure that the audio signals are averaging in the same range and as close to 0db as possible. There is a [...]
Tony Valle has a great post called Top 5 Corporate Podcast Mistakes to Avoid Like the Plague. His list is great and the comment activity is very insightful. I kicked in a comment as well since I felt that his original list had a major ommission. 9. Make an infomercial. Many companies don’t know how [...]
There is a great blog entry at Clique Communications about the history of Podcasting that seems to get the facts straight and delivers them in a sensible way. If you’re going to PPME, this should be mandatory reading. Source: Paul Colligan
Somebody in the space program understands social media. Anousheh Ansari is on the International Space Station and is blogging about her experiences, and posting pictures on her Flickr page.
Last night, I did something I haven’t done in a long time. I stayed up super late to edit a Podcast; Red Fridays. Remember to wear some red each friday to show your support for Canadian troops and their families. It’s NOT about politics; it’s about people.
By issuing cease and desist orders for the use of the word Pod (note Pod, not iPod), Apple is earning its reputation as a tyrant. What a shame, particularly since it had done such great work plugging itself into the social media community. For your consideration, here are just some of the brands with Pod [...]
Are you a Podcaster, Podcast listener, Podcast curious, or just looking for an excuse to meet people and have a pint? Come to The Arrow and Loon Pub (99 Fifth Avenue at Bank) in Ottawa at 7:00pmET on Sunday, October 1. Please RSVP.
I ran into CBC’s Alan Neal the other day. Naturally, we spoke about Podcasting. It turns out that Alan featured the world premiere of Uncle Seth‘s newest single, To Be An Angel, on his radio program Bandwidth last Saturday (September 16).
A friend of mine sent me the link to NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day for September 21. It’s a photograph taken – with expensive and powerful camera equipment and filters – of the silhouettes of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and International Space station against the sun. I’ve attached a cropped version of the photo [...]
I listened to a number of Podcasts today. Two of them kicked off with something to the effect of “we have a great show for you, today.” There is a serious danger in doing something like this – and it has nothing to do with what radio does or doesn’t tell you. If you distinguish [...]
For some reason, I decided to figure out how many Podcasts I have produced and co-produced since I jumped into this community in April 2005. The number I arrived at – which includes all regular episodes, special editions, promos and third-party Podcasts – is… 180! Noting that it’s been less than a year-and-a-half since I [...]
When I started my career in 1995, I reported directly to a CFO who wasn’t particularly tuned-in to the demands of IT support. The company eventually hired a National MIS Manager who told me, on our first meeting, to get myself a Blueline A796.1 hardcover notebook with numbered pages. “Write it down”, he said. “If [...]
If I’ve learned anything in the last few weeks, it’s to get on the social media networking bandwagon. So, I’m working on building my knowledge of Technorati, Digg, del.icio.us and LinkedIn. As proof, I’m using this post to claim my Technorati Profile.
I have learned that the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is working on a FAQ about the proposed WIPO broadcast treaty. I will post a link when the FAQ is made public.
I was a bit disappointed in Cory Doctorow’s September 9th post, URGENT: Podcasters act now to stop anti-podcasting UN treaty! While he provided a quick explanation of the problem and links to some of the efforts to stop the treaty, there was a noticeable absence of links to the source material. This is one example [...]
Robert Safuto of Awakened Voice is creating Awakened Voice Tutorials in Quicktime format. Each installment demonstrates a way to use a particular tool in the Social Media space. To date, the series includes instructional videos entitled Subscribing to Podcasts with iTunes, Enhance RSS with FeedBurner, and Uploading to Google Video.
When Bob Goyetche, Julien Smith and I piled into a car for the seven hour drive to Boston last Friday, I had no idea that the trip would seem so short. The conversation was engaging, particularly Julien’s one hour run down of how Podcasters are building their audience the wrong way (listen here) – a [...]
Michael Bell sent me an email to let me know about a BoingBoing entry by Cory Doctorow. The post suggests an urgent need to protest an impending UN anti-podcasting treaty. Other than having read the post, I don’t know anything about it. If I find out anything, I’ll post about it.
From my sleeping bag on the floor of Room 813 at the Holiday Inn Express, Cambridge, MA. PodCamp is amazingly well organized. The organizers have to be proud of themselves. Sessions that were among the standouts based on an informal poll with Bob and Julien include C. C. Chapman and Mitch Joel‘s presentation You and [...]
I have posted my photos from PodCamp on my Flickr page. I’ll try to post photos regularly.
It’s been an amazingly long day. I was up at 5:15amET to get some laundry done and finalize my prep for my road trip, and caught the 7am bus to Montreal. Julien met me at the bus station and Bob showed up a few minutes later. The drive was fun and safe. We recorded some [...]
