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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 ways:

• They have failed to provide typewritten URLs to websites, blogs, podcasts and events that were mentioned in the article; and,

• They have failed to provide clickable links to websites, blogs, podcasts and events that were mentioned in the article, whether or not the URL was mentioned.

Hyperlinking is the foundation of The Web. Indeed, it’s part of the user experience and has become an expectation of everyone using the Internet. Any site that does not offer this core functionality is not just missing the point, it’s doing a disservice to the readers/visitors of that site — fee-based subscribers or the general public.

It’s time for newspapers and other media organizations to update their style guides and reporting policies to require clickable links to all sites mentioned in their articles.

Everyone who knows me knows that CBC radio’s Ottawa Morning and All In A Day have been my daily staples for several years. In fact, All In A Day served as inspiration for my own Electric Sky Podcast.

At the Montreal Podcast meetup this week, I publicly announced that 2006 was the year in which I abandoned my beloved radio shows. Both have undergone some radical changes in the last year, the most obvious are new hosts with styles that, even after many months, I have not been able to warm up to. This of course means that I have nearly wrapped up my love affair with terrestrial radio.

I remain a subscriber to several CBC Podcasts including The Digital Extra, Quirks and Quarks, Editor’s Choice, Ideas and Ontario This Week - a show that is hosted by the talented Michael Bhardwaj and features highlights of Ottawa Morning, Ontario Today and All In A Day.

Now, if CBC could Podcast Vinyl Cafe and O’Reilly and the Age of Persuasion…

The Ottawa City Journal published an article written by David May about me in today’s Urban Living section (page 13) — thanks, David! While he did a great job of receiving the flood of information that came at him (watch out when I’m excited about something), some of the information was confused in the final article.

Dave and I corresponded earlier this evening and he is aware of the errors. In the spirit of Web 2.0, I am publishing the corrections here.

• Podcasters Across Borders was the first large-scale Podcast conference in Canada, not the first-ever Podcast conference in North America. I haven’t done any research to determine if PAB was the first Podcast conference in Canada. (Given my recent series of posts on the topic, it’s ironic that I was misunderstood on the matter of ‘firsts’.)

• While I do organize Podcaster meetups in Ottawa, I haven’t done so on a monthly basis. (I know… slacker!)

• Andrea’s comment that there “wasn’t anything that I knew of that was an online community promoting children’s books” was specifically about Podcasting, not about the blogosphere or web in general.

A less-critical correction, and completely forgiveable confusion… the thirty-minute documentary that I produced from nine hours of audio (Making All In A Day) follows the production of a single edition of CBC’s All In A Day (Brent Bambury era). The Podcast of my appearance (and anxiety) as a guest of that same show was the subject of an earlier episode of Electric Sky (Soundseeing tour of my appearance on CBC radio). It was the latter that Tod Maffin promoted on his blog.

I believe that David has a plan to run regular features on Ottawa-area Podcasters. I’ll be sure to blog about it if I hear anything.

I’ll be a guest of Points North, the afternoon show on CBC Radio Sudbury, today at 4:20pmET. Dan Lessard will be interviewing me about Just One More Book, a podcast about children’s books that I produce and host with my wife, Andrea.

Algonquin College journalist student David May sat down with Arthur Masters (Ottawa Local Podcast) and me to talk Podcasting over a few pints the other day. The latest word is that the Ottawa City Journal will run a series of articles - by David - on local Podcasters beginning next week.

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).