A huge thanks to everyone who helped us feel included this weekend. I'm looking forward to seeing everybody again really soon

I love his wish list: “So, Here’s What I’d Like From You, If You Don’t Mind Me Asking…”

Thanks for highlighting his post. I feel a little less crazy.

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In this way, Apple appeals to the early adopters and then has something extremely appealing to drive a new pitch in the curve.

The camera/webcam and Adobe Flash features are also very important. However, I'm reminded of Apple's delay in putting “expected” functionality like copy/cut/paste on the iPhone and iPod Touch and I think that Apple probably isn't in any big rush to put the staples on the iPad ahead of new features and establishing solid vehicles for recurring revenue.

I saw that announcement on David's Facebook page the day you posted it and made an announcement about it (http://www.markblevis.com/a-celebration-of-davi...). Call me if you need any help preparing for and during the service.

See you on Monday.

It really does seem that foster parents programs are the best hope for the Haitian people right now. The children need to be removed from the danger of unstable buildings and the potential for disease. The relief and reconstruction effort has the potential of making New Orleans seem insignificant by comparison.

I'd thought about donating to Kiva, for Haiti relief, but will now get back in contact with Plan, which used to be Foster Parents Plan. About 20 years ago for 5-6 years, through them, I sponsored an 8 year old, and I've often wondered how he's getting on, or if he's getting on. Now isn't the time to think about that. The sad thing is the country is so poor, the people so poorly governed and generally undernourished, and the Governments so historically pathetic, inept and (yes) corrupt, that there really isn't a great deal that people can look forward to. Emergency relief will probably be clearing rubble, trying to stop disease, and trying to (for a short time) feed and clothe as many people as possible. Best wishes to you and the family Mark.

1. You need the academic background BS, MS, or PhD
2. You need to have spent time in the field and hours training as aforementioned.
3. You need to be able to show application of your expertise (doctor, lawyer, trainer, construction worker, military officer, etc…

In December 2008, I spent $75,00 to offer free shipping codes for Winelibrary.com via three marketing/advertising channels—a perfectly placed billboard on the New Jersey Turnpike, direct mail, and radio. The billboard brought in a hundred and seventy orders. The radio campaign did about two hundred and forty orders. Through direct mail we got a little over three hundred. I Twittered out—for free—a free shipping code and got seventeen hundred orders in forty-eight hours.

Online and on the written page you get swept away in Gary's passion and energy. He's an infectious character that pulls you into his world of thinking. His personality plays a huge part in the equation and affects D – delivery.

Nico does it again!

Where ducking becomes particularly irritating (and unnatural) is when someone takes a slightly-longer-than-a-breath pause. This is where the level will jump up and down in a short period of time.

Ultimately, you want to remember to create a pleasing experience for the listener. If they enjoy what you have to say and the way it's presented, they'll be glad to give you more time.

I wanted to thank you for the most fitting tribute to my brother that you have posted here. David thought very highly of you, and he would be touched to see how you will remember him.

I hope that you and Andrea are able to stay strong together in the face of your own battle, and I want you to know that whatever you need and whenever you need it, you can count on myself and the rest of the O'Farrell clan to be there for you and your family.

“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
- Bill Cosby

But, as Bono said during “Rattle and Hum”, all I need is 3 chords and the truth.

Someday I'll make it up above the 49th parallel again.

Those found casting stones (usually on behalf of their God) are called hypocrites, and are self-serving roaches that live only to eat away at the fabric of other peoples joy.

It was good to meet you a few weeks ago. Thank you for taking the time to post some of your observations.

One minor correction that I wanted to mention is that last year I was unavailable to present the show for the client due to another booking.I was able to recommended Eric Leclerc as a suitable alternative. This year the client called earlier and I was able to accommodate them.

I hope you've been keeping well and I look forward to the next time we meet.

Cheers,
Chris

Thank you for sharing some insight into your process. I have learned a lot from your thoughts. I am sorry to have missed your session at Podcamp, but look forward to checking out the video once it is posted.

Cheers,
Connie

Where is Ed Broadbent when you need him?

No news in this case is bad news….

Enjoy your holiday break if you get one, and hope the road trip was fantastic.

If I was motivated I'd plug the mic in and send an mp3, but hey, the kettle's boiling and I need a cup of tea.

Morrie.

I don't know if this is the same thing, but we know that having a support group is a large part of therapy when it comes to achieving goals in life. Whether we're talking anger management, weight loss, alcoholism, or what-have-you.

I've found in several cases that blogs and podcasts fill this need at least to some extent. My first podcast, Answers for Freelancers! pulls in roughly 700 other listeners, many of whom are just glad to know that other people face the same problems they do.

My blog, 9 Months to Tri, helped me personally while I was in training in 2007-08 to run my first triathlon last year. While I often was the only one actually running, swimming, lifting or biking much of the time, turning around and chronicling what was happening felt a lot like I was doing it with a group of people, and that helped to keep me motivated and moving forward.

Hope that helps!

I don't believe I said that the word “niche” reflected badly on podcasting — if that's what came across, then I argued the point badly. I said that niche is a handy label that, like many labels, can be very limiting and constricting depending on how it's used.

And that's how it was used in mainstream media, especially when justifying what *not* to put on the air. As you've point out Mark, the beauty of podcasting is that it is capable of ignoring that, of permitting stuff considered to be “marginal” by the mainstream to find it's audience.

It doesn't always *do* it, though, and that's what I'm thinking about. Note, too, that I'm coming at this pretty much from the point of view of a podcast *listener* – I havne't produced much content myself in months.

As a listener, I'm wondering — do I ignore podcasts which have been defined as “niche”, because I assume there's nothing there for me? I think I do, sadly, and when I meet someone in person, it often makes a huge difference and I find myself suddenly subscribing and grabbing the back catalogue of podcasts just to catch up.

And then I wonder — why did I buy into that label? Why did I make certain assumptions? And are others doing this, too, and can we change that? Should we change that?

After 20 years there was a much better sense of who we were becoming, rather than who we used to be, and so the discussion was more interesting. My wife's 20th reunion the same year (which I didn't attend) was a huge blowout of a party, and they hadn't even had a 10th reunion at all.

Maybe Facebook makes the facts easier to find, but I don't think it alters the inevitable dissonance of meeting the people you don't see regularly face-to-face, and matching up who they are with who they were more than half our lifetimes ago.

So yeah, I think 20th reunions are still worth it.

It's easy to get put off by one approach and be accepting of another simply by the message sent by the directory's owner. While I should probably be excited about the models put together by Hugh and William, I find them to be far more palatable and I can forgive their approach. It's a total double standard, I know. It just feels like CastRoller and Collectik promote podcasts and podcast.com promotes advertisers.

And Third Coast is great about putting up the conference audio up on their site. So you can listen to the rest of that Jonathan Goldstein session. He's a very funny guy!

Airlines don't try to bump passengers – this was not handled correctly – stick to it and escalate as needed to get your refunds.

Sorry about your experience – not pleasant. But try to remember the skills in the first landing – pretty impressive!

It must be noted that you're not only great tech support (thanks!), but you, sir, are a kick-ass presenter. Thanks for coming in at the last minute (and sorry Andrea couldn't come), and I look forward to the next time….

Once the shouting begins, the tenor of the debate is pretty much the same, even if print editors have some moderating influence.

But the difference between traditional media and the blogosphere is that, for the most part, blogs *begin* with opinion, much of it unsubstantiated. A newspaper or a reputable online news site at least tries to deliver cornerstone content that is reasonably balanced, accurate, and fair. (We can comfortably exclude FOX News and most talk radio from that observation.) The majority of blogs have no such reference point.

It may seem like a stretch to think of conferences as the place to find a base of knowledge or evidence to give greater substance to the “op ed” content in blogs. But there's an interesting connection to be made here: Just as many blogs are crying out for a bit more substance, the world of meetings and events is looking to the interactive Web as a place to extend the discussion far beyond the closing plenary of a live event.

In sharp contrast to mass media, a point in common between blogs and conferences is that they both lend themselves to narrowcasting: you'll find conference sessions on the most arcane topics, and they're often the most interesting and transformative, even if there are only a couple of dozen people in the room.

On balance, I think there's more good than harm in the unwritten rule (that you've now written down, now that I think of it…) that site owners don't tamper with bloggers' opinions. But there's value to expert knowledge, too, and the online world loses out when we fail to include it, or forget how distinguish between well-researched fact and well-articulated opinion. Conference content may well be one of the ways to fill that gap.

Fortunately, we live in a neighbourhood with excellent public schools that for the most part, are able to attract wonderful teachers who make learning fun, interesting and often intellectually stimulating.

I agree kids today are stressed and already overburdened with homework so I haven't made a point of hiring tutors to further develop their strengths or fill in any gaps. However, if one of them was having a tough time in school and they needed additional support, I wouldn't hesitate.

In our home there is no particular time for reading although we do read at least four books to our four-year-old before bedtime. We also have book shelves and book baskets in different places around the house. During the day we read books mostly when our son wonders about various things or when he finds connections between something he is doing/playing and a book that is in sync with whatever it is he is doing.

I haven't run into any specific problems with the amount of energy from the ATM41HE to my Edirol R1.

Remember that dynamic mics generally aren't powered, However, there are some models of microphones that use plug-in power (e.g. my in-ear binaural mics) and even phantom power (e.g. condensers). Note that some portable recorders offer either or both types of power (even if it is a drain on your batteries).

My best advice to you is to take your H4 to a music store and ask to try a few dynamics at the counter. Record and listen back to determine which mic works best with the H4 AND your voice.

Mark

Two years ago, one of our very respected club members passed away suddenly. It was a tremendous shock and a painful loss. I still think about him, but in time the grief passes.

You mentioned that you had hoped for more discussion on methods for collecting metrics, etc. Maybe we can continue the discussion here, if you like. Can you elaborate a bit more on this?

Marcel

I still don't see how a fee should be seen as changing the spirit of PodCamp 'being by' to 'being for' the community. Indeed, one could argue that a fee should make people feel more invested in participating. Again, we could be dealing with perception here.

I have a lot of faith that the organizing team has the necessary experience in building and including the community to preserve that feel even with a fee – maybe moreso because of it.

No matter, I wish the naysayers would see the positive, or at least organize their own event in their own way.

Isabelle has called this phenomenon being 'Garfunkelled'.

When T6 started getting media exposure It cast a shadow over Broca's Area. I say to this day the Broca's is the only one I always love to do, (well now that Ken and I do Tangential Convergence that is fun too).

Without Isa I would have never started podcasting. Oh and like Andrea she does all of the research from Broca's.

Would you give this feedback directly to the podcaster in question?

Personally, I still believe in the spirit and practice of the first Podcamp in Boston, and I think we have kept some of that alive at the Toronto Podcamps. Once again this year, some of very favorite moments happened not in scheduled sessions but in spontaneous hallway conversations, circles and evening events. I understand the interest in verticals, but I see a PodCampEDU, for example, as being different than a Podcamp. One of the best things about Podcamp is the mixture of people of all levels of experience with a huge range of interests being thrown together, and my fear would be parsing things out into verticals would destroy that wonderful chaos, which for me has been the root of so much inspiration.

One common complaint about Podcamp Toronto was the physical distance between the Z2P room and the rest of the sessions. This was 100% my decision and my fault, but what I take most from the comment is that people LIKE the mixture of new & old, expert & newbie, rockstar and rockstars-that-may-not-know-they-are-rockstars-yet (i.e. everyone at Podcamp!)

I suppose we can chalk it up to something sad in human nature, but it was nice to think for a while that maybe we podcasters were different.

I hope Andrea's right — I've been chanelling as much positive energy as I can for this, and I'll continue to do so.

“Of the options presented below, which best describes your sources of information and entertainment.”

Mary… the iTunes problem should be fixed now. Please try again and let me know if it works.

I do agree with Ross. I still listen to some people who are in their basement but I have picked up more “pro” shows like CBC's vast offerings. Podcasting is and I think always will be a great place for “geeks” and amateurs to hang out in the fishbowl and talk about their interests. But I expect more now then I did 2 years ago, both from the shows I listen to and from my own show.

What I think is the “next explosive development cycle” for podcasting is to put the portable back into it. Its great that a person can subscribe on their computer and then it syncs to you music player but I want the computer out of the equation. We are close with the iphone/touch having itunes and wifi but no podcast support. We are close with the Zune having wifi sync capabilities but it needs a computer to live. Give me a computer free way to subscribe, download and update podcasts and I will give you my mother as a listener.

If you don´t know, check this app http://www.reaper.fm

has lots of routing options

and I was able to use the monitor mix input with no problems with this new driver

and it´s much more cute to the eyes lol