It’s 10:10 am, and the Triple Door Theater is filling up slowly. The venjue rocks. I’m going to do my best to liveblog. As long as my battery and the wifi holds out, I’ll bring you up to date on what’s happening.
10:20: Alex Williams makes some opening remarks and creates paper napkin art before our very eyes.
10:26: Alex introduces Eric Rice.
10:30: Eric begins his presentation. Podcasting is not radio, and thank goodness! Eric’s podcast has reached fans in Australia. Later, those fans moved to Singapore and connected with him again as if they had just moved across town.
10:48: SecondLife virtual worlds are colliding with real worlds. Music videos and music and video mashups are going viral.
10:56: Get out there and mentor and teach. Teach everything.
10:59: Creative Commons and participatory culture are starting to create some breakout artists (think Brother Love, Lascivious Biddies, and so on.) Opportunities are being created.
11:06: There are no right answers.
11:16: For bands: Do the things you’re not doing yet, think about what more you can be doing online.
11:20: Next session: Podcasting 101 and The Rise of Grass Roots Media, with Matt May, Jake Ludington, John Anthony Hartman.
11:26: Matt demos how he creates an episode of Staccato with Garage Band 3.
11:40: Matt: Adding in album art and audio bookmarks is really cool functionality, but it comes at a price: the file that results is not an MP3 file, and MP3 is the lingua franca of the podcast world. On the whole, GarageBand is good, but still “9 months away from being fully-baked.” (In response to questions: Cast Blaster and Propaganda for the PC are close to GB; iWeb is okay, but probably not preferable to WordPress or MovableType for podcasting;)
11:44 John notes that podcast networks are starting to form, and this looks to be a good way to build your Google Juice and get noticed. Jake says that putting up your audio without any text is going to make finding your podcast more difficult, because text-based search is so powerful. John agrees: tag the hell out of what you’re doing.
11:50: John got into this to start expressing himself. Now he’s starting to become intrigued by the real business potential behind podcasting. Jake talks about getting interviews for the Chris Pirillo Show. Get this: they just ask! The Chris Pirillo Show uses a spendy phone system to do interviews, but Matt notes that there are options like Gizmo Project, which has recording and conferencing built it. He’s used Gizmo to record the Corante podcast. Matt: don’t wait until you have several thousand dollars worth of equipment to say what you have to say. Use the cheap stuff and get it out there. Jake agrees: you don’t need the big guns.
11:55 Being in a quiet room helps, but sometimes the little things in life that happen (like a child bouncing a ball, or a cat meowing, or a refrigerator knocking) can add a charming real-life element into your show. Plug from the audience for Andrea microphones.
Stuart, I don’t know if I have met you but I just want to let you know that you are awesome for posting this. (Because I am sitting outside at the front desk and unable to hear what’s going on in there.)
say hi to me when you bump into me
Oy! I just worked right through lunchtime. I’ll find you, Cathy.