Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 5:09PM Start of the second day! Just come back from a 7am breakfast meeting and I'm back in the Ballroom for todays keynote! Todays keynote is Andrew Baron from Rocketboom. No live blogging today :-)
Technorati Tags: Podcast Expo 2006
Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 2:39PM 
One very important person left off the list of people I met yesterday was Paul Colligan Paul Colligan.
We've exchanged several emails on the topic of the ScreenCastsOnline Extra! membership approach I've taken with ScreenCastsOnline as Paul is actively helping other Podcasters looking at ways to monetise their podcasts. ScreenCastsOnline (and myself) got a mention in Pauls session during the Expo. Paul also published his new book at the Expo - The Business Podcasting Bible
Technorati Tags: podcasttools, Podcast Expo 2006, Business Podcasting Bible, podcasts
Saturday, September 30, 2006 at 6:07AM Interesting day! Following on from the keynotes I attended several sessions plus also took the opportunity to network. There's definitely scope for extending this event to three days which apparently is the plan for next year. Met up with lot's of interesting people including (and forgive me if I've left you out as it's late and I'm very tired)... Kosso of the Bluggcast and Podshow.com, John Wall of the M show, Victor from the Typical Mac User podcast, George Starcher and Kevin Devin or FIT (thanks for the badge), some of the Libsyn guys, Alex Lindsey of Pixel core, Scott Fletcher of Podcheck Weekly, plus many more. I even bumped into fellow podcasters that were fans of the show including Chris Christensen of the Amateur Traveler Video podcast and Tom Shad. Tom is a musician from New York who's a great fan of the show and has some pretty cool things going on in the musical performance space. The Rapidweaver episodes helped build his site! Leo Laporte did a live TWIT taping for which I sat in the audience (didn't get an invite to join them on stage :-) ) but they had horrendous issues getting the equipment sorted out - good fun when it started though. And that's all before doing the Expo show booths properly! Ah well, there's always tomorrow but there's also another full day of sessions.
Technorati Tags: Podcast Expo 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006 at 4:46PM 
Sitting in Ballroom C at the Ontario Convention Center - Great setup with Wifi and 5 rows of tables the full width of ballroom for laptop users.
Conference staring to fill up and Tikibar is playing on the large screen monitors.
20 minutes to go to Leo Laportes keynote.
Live Blogging!
Leo's Keynote has started following an intro from Tim Bourquin (expo founder)
Initial theme is on the Podcast name - Is podcasting the right name? Touting "NetCast"
Thanks to Apple for promoting podcasts but iTunes both the best and the worst thing to happen to Podcasting.
Some words around monetising podcasts and the potential pitfalls. The audience is king - hear hear :-)
Interesting comment about Twit advertising - Dell only pays for the US downloads as they have no model for global advertising - impacts podcasts because we are global.
Leo has finished and now the Battlestar Galactica guy - Ron Moore - a podcasting pioneer!
Humerous guy! Initially the BG podcast was suggested as a stunt by the PR dept. Showed his actual recorder and suggested that he'll donate it the the National Podcasting Museum!
Must subscribe to this guys podcast - he's a natural!
Just realised that Kosso from the Bluggcast had crept in late and sat next to me - small universe :-)
Excellent Keynote - wrapping up with a Q&A - you must download this when avalable.
Off to the next session
Technorati Tags: Podcast Expo 2006
Friday, September 29, 2006 at 6:23AM 
Well it's now 10pm US time and 6am UK time. I'm back in my hotel room with free Wifi High Speed Internet sorting out todays emails and doing a few other bits and bobs!
I've been up now for 26 hours straight and I don't feel too bad! I'll see if I can stay up another hour and give the family a call.
After a one hour flight from Manchester to Heathrow and then a ten hour flight to LA, the three hour shuttle bus ride from LAX to Ontario was not the best way to finish off the trip. The traffic in LA is unbelievable! The shuttle missing a drop off and doubling back didn't help much.
Gave Adam Christianson (The Maccast) a ring when I got in and he was just off for something to eat with John Chambers (The One Minute Tip) so I joined them! Made a nice change after all the Airline food. Had a great chat with the guys and Adam was kind enough to pick up the tab - my turn tomorrow!
I've uploaded some pictures to the Flickr stream - they're OK seeing as they are off the Razr!
Finished up at the very noisy bar at the Marriott where I had a swift nightcap and left them to it. I'll press the flesh tomorrow.
All that's left is to sort out what sessions I'm going to tomorrow and then hit the sack.
Will keep you updated.
Technorati Tags: Podcast Expo 2006