Archive for November, 2006



Self-publishing guru Dan Poynter, author of Writing Nonfiction and The Self-Publishing Manual, makes his YouTube debut in a ten-minute video taken at one of his seminars. The video is not as enlightening as his books, but it does serve to introduce Dan as a person. I’ve never attended a live seminar, but I’ve heard […]

I’ve now posted the slides and speaker notes from my “What the Heck Is Podcasting? (And Why Should We Care?)” presentation over on my main website. You’ll also find links to my other podcasting presentations there.
I also found out who took the photo in the preceding post: Steve Rhodes of TigerBeat. Thanks, Steve!

I’m not finished with the presentation page yet, but meanwhile here’s the recording of my part of the “Up and Running with Podcasting” panel on 11/18/06. I recorded it on my little iriver IFP 795 and haven’t done any editing except to isolate my segment. Apologies for the rustling papers–that mic is sensitive!
So far PodCamp […]

 
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In spite of the fact that I totalled my car on the drive down to Ontario, the Podcast and Portable Media Expo at the end of September was the most fun I’ve had all year. (Well, okay, the most fun at a business event.) I put a lot of effort into preparing, including hand-pressing […]

I just learned about Podcamp West a week ago. Naturally I volunteered to speak. I’ll be giving a 30-minute presentation on “What the heck is podcasting and why should we care about it?” I’m not sure yet what time I’ll be speaking; the nature of podcamps and the “bar camps” from which they descend is […]