There seems to have been an increase in the number of articles about podcasting in print publications over the last two weeks. As I read the articles, I noticed something common — they have failed to do a complete job in the online editions of the report. They have done so in one of two [...]
Early registration for Podcasters Across Borders 2007 is CDN$75/person and closes today at 11:59pmET. The price increases to CDN$100/person at the stike of May 1.
I’ve uploaded photos from the Montreal podcast meetup and Ottawa podcast meetup to my Flickr account. Thanks to Arthur Masters for driving both ways for the Montreal meetup, and to Scarborough Dude for making the Ottawa meetup necessary.
I published my very first podcast on April 29, 2005. I can’t even listen to the damned thing any more – much as I expect I won’t be able to listen to the shows I produce this week in two years. To celebrate this event, I did something that I haven’t been doing on a [...]
Arthur Masters and I will be hitting the road shortly for the Montreal podcast meetup. Expect some photos and audio from the trip.
Shannon Proudfoot has written a great article on podcasting for Southam News. The article, which includes quotes from Brian Hogg (dotBoom) and Bob Goyetche (representing the Canadian Podcast Buffet), has been picked up by The Vancouver Sun. Let me know if you find it elsewhere.
Market research firm Hitwise has published a report that compares the popularity of Internet-based social networks to Internet porn. According to the report, sites such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook have helped to catapult social networking past the catalyst of commerce technologies such as caching, flash video and shopping cart technology… porn.
Some time ago, I started a dialog with some University of Ottawa Technology Law folks about social media and public policy. I’m curious why it is so hard for government departments and public servants to adopt social media to build bridges with the country, and for those who do, why they have so much trouble [...]
Scarborough Dude will be in Ottawa. Anyone who wants to chill with the Dude for a few pints and amazing conversation should be at this event! The meetup will take place at the Clock Tower Brew Pub (575 Bank Street) at 8:00pm on Saturday, April 28. Please RSVP.
Shortly after being contacted by John Harris Stevenson with details of the Copyright Board’s Tariff 22 hearings, I discovered that Michael Geist has blogged about SOCAN’s proposed $60 annual fee for podcasters whose music programming accounts for 20% or less of their podcast. If I understand that correctly, podcasters would pay an annual fee of [...]
I’m flattered that I was nominated by the Never Was blog for a Thinking Blogger Award. The idea appears to be to promote blogs that are interesting, informative, and provide value. What a compliment! I have decided to make my nominations based on people who are bloggers first and may (or may not) podcast as [...]
Something has come up and I won’t be able to attend the April Ottawa Podcast Group Meetup.
I was walking home the other day and saw a mirror mounted to a hydro pole with a caption that reads WHO WAS YOUR FIRST KISS? I was really struck by what the person who did this was trying to do. Notwithstanding the parallels to the online social media movement, the mounting of the mirror [...]
I will be in Toronto to cover the International Reading Association‘s (IRA) 52nd annual conference for the Just One More Book!! podcast. I hope to interview as many authors, illustrators, publishers, editors, publicists, literacy experts and others as I can possibly handle and I will release audio podcasts throughout the conference. I’m also hoping to [...]
Barring any unforseen changes (I suppose all changes are unforseen on some level), the PAB2007 program is compete. There are some exciting announcements coming up this week. Keep an eye on the Podcasters Across Borders and Canadian Podcast Buffet websites for details.
Thank you very much to the Association of Bright Children (ABC) Ottawa chapter for the opportunity to present this morning. I had a great time. Update: I had planned on releasing my presentation as a Podcast. Unfortunately, I forgot to record it.
I’m amazed at how often the question “how can I make money from podcasting?” comes up in podcasting circles – even when I introduce podcasting to people for the first time. If it’s not the first thought out of someone’s mouth, it’s one of the first. Among podcasters, the tendency is to want to make [...]
In a few weeks, I’ll be celebrating my second anniversary as a podcaster. Through most of that time, I have been evangelizing the power and reach of podcasting. While I have experienced and observed a lot of that power first hand through a number of podcasting projects, our children’s book podcast, Just One More Book!, [...]
The Ottawa Podcast Meetup Group will hold its April meetup on Thursday, at 7:00pmET on April 19th at the Clock Tower Brew Pub (575 Bank Street). The Podcast meetup is a great place to learn about Podcasting and network with others who publish Podcasts on a regular basis. Find out how this new medium can [...]
Some would say they survived. For me, being alone with my daughters for nearly two weeks has been an amazing experience — and I recommend it for ALL fathers. While there were handful of “moments”, Lucy and Bayla have been amazingly cooperative, fun and patient. They learned to count on me more, and I learned [...]
Here we go, again! I called Rogers Wireless support earlier today and hung up when the voice message warned me of wait times in excess of 25 minutes due to “higher than normal call volumes”. So, I tried again – a few minutes ago – and hung up on a 20-minutes-or-more warning. In the last [...]
Because of the format I have developed for Electric Sky, I am sometimes forced to make tough editing decisions. This particular outtake – from the episode Experiencing a Shuttle Launch – is a great example. What I love about this clip is that Yves did an amazing job trying to unite two worlds that cannot [...]
It’s not a new idea, it just took me a while to figure it out. I think I started thinking about it during Mitch Joel‘s presentation on personal branding. I am my brand. This changes my bio. I’ve removed the third-person bio from the About page on this site, and I’m working on a new [...]
A few months ago I had some server problems and had to forfeit a night’s sleep to build a new server environment and migrate every one of my sites. It was a couragous effort and my family Podcast, Growing Enthusiasm, was left behind. I finally restored the website, this evening. It only took about 15 [...]
If it didn’t crack me up enough that Chris Brogan wrote this, hearing his voice (in my head) deliver this line nearly had me rolling on the floor.
I will be speaking as part of the Parent Coffee Talk series of the Association for Bright Children (ABC) of Ontario, Ottawa Chapter, on April 14th. The talk will focus on the Just One More Book!! Podcast as both a resource and community, and promoting literacy using new media. The session is open to the [...]
I thought we were past insulting and trapping customers by using opt-out clauses. Apparently not. This image is brought to you by Microsoft‘s software licensing site, eOpen.
I’ve been thinking – a lot – about the proliferation of networking and community based tools, lately. For a while it was exciting that so many great tools were being developed even if some were very specific in the purpose they served. Now, it seems that each day, a new tool appears that does everything [...]
The last few weeks have been incredibly busy and I’ve fallen behind on emails and blogging (both reading and writing). I’m finally starting to catch up. Wait… maybe this post should have been a Twitter.
