Category: Podcasting

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Podcasting Productivity Booster

I don’t mean to brag, I don’t mean to boast…

but I like hot butter on my breakfast toast. A $5 Starbucks card to anybody that can place that lyric.

The latest Marketing Over Coffee podcast is up, and I am psyched about our first rave review from Mitch Joel. Mitch’s Six Pixels of Separation podcast is one of my favorites because it gives you tactical advice as opposed to just strategic ramble. If a guy on the management team of an agency says it’s worthwhile then I know we are doing something right.

Looks like drinks will be on me at PodCamp Boston 2!

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Geek Stuff Podcasting

Podcamp Reflects its Venue

There’s always a lot of discussion about what the events will be like and how they will compare to other Podcamps, and other conferences. After attending Podcamp NYC this weekend I had a realization: Of the camps that I have gone to, their character is a reflection of the city that they are were held at.

Podcamp Boston was historical – the first podcamp. It also had an academic feel, a reflection of the many colleges and universities in the area. And, just like Boston, it was hard to get around even for the locals.

Alex LindsayPittsburgh is famed for being a hard-working (and drinking) city. As the transition from steel town to digital gulch continues there was a lot of work being done. Alex Lindsay stepped up with some great sessions on video, Rob Walch delivered the 411 on podcasting, and I got to see some of the world of Justin Kownacki, the James Brown of New media – “The Hardest Working Man in Vidcasting”.

I consider Pittsburgh to be the best conference I have ever attended, and not just because I’ve paid thousands to go to events that weren’t half as good – when will I ever get a chance again to get advice on video effects from a guy who worked on Star Wars and then go out drinking that night with Johnny Johnny, Dr. Tiki, and LaLa from Tiki Bar? (Both Podcamp Pittsburgh photos from the Unstoppable m0xie)
Wisdom of Dr. Tiki

Toronto fit the image that Canada has always had for me: the cities are just a bit cleaner, better run. The people are a little more friendly and worldly, the restaurants are better. The facility was insanely good (I’ve never streamed 4 Quick Time video windows while checking email in a room with 400 other tech geeks, most venues would scream uncle at just trying to maintain connectivity). It’s always a little colder up there too…

I was a bit concerned about the New York agenda, many of the sessions were a variation on “How to Monetize your Podcast”. I’m a follower of Julien Smith’s message of “Stop trying to monetize your f-ing podcast and start making some good content.” But the interesting thing is that the audience wanted to hear those sessions, and many of them were popular. It’s hard to argue that New York is not all about the money when you get a danish and OJ for a $25 breakfast. So maybe all the sessions weren’t my first choice, but when you back it up with the best restaurants and clubs in a city second only to LA in media and a city that never sleeps, it’s impossible not to have a great time.

So I already know what to expect from PodCruise, that won’t be about the sessions either.

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Podcasting The Marketeer

Marketing Over Coffee is Live!

There’s a brand new Podcast in town! If you are into Marketing check out Marketing Over Coffee. Podcamp founder Christopher Penn and I sit down for a chat about what’s going on in marketing. You’ll hear tactics, strategies and opinions, and all around the 15 minute timeframe to fit into your busy day. Please stop by for some coffee!

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Daily Life Podcasting

Podcamp NYC, The M Show and CheeseCorn

The weekend covered 4 big events – Podcamp NYC had over 1,300 registrants, most of them crazy hustlers, and a lot of fun.

The M Show comes to you mobile for the first time in almost a year!

And most importantly you can now get Garrett’s Cheese Popcorn somewhere other than Chicago – namely Madison Square Garden, home of the greatest battles of the 20th Century! I hope your weekend was as good…

Item #4 deserves it’s own post!

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Daily Life Geek Stuff Podcasting

On Digital Media and Wireless

Rolling early this morning at Podcamp NYC. Over 1,300 registered for the show, so it should be quite the scene. Chia-Lin Simmons is presenting on podcasting in the wireless space. Some astonishing stats on ringtones – zero to $7 Billion in less than 5 years.

Some vendors to check out on the mobile front: Voiceindigo, tmobilcast (which I couldn’t find in google?), pod2mob, munduradio

Yesterday’s presentation at NTC was a great time. Hopefully my evangelist show will help a few more people get up and creating their own content.

I had a fantastic meal last night at P. Diddy’s restaurant “Justin’s” but the Martini has made business a little tough this morning…

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Daily Life Podcasting

Is privacy overrated?

I’m starting to think that it is. I’m starting to drown in usernames and passwords. About half of my frequent flyer accounts aren’t working right and I have no idea how to fix them. When RFID for adults comes around I’m going to be first in line. Imagine going to the airport and just walking through the security arch. I saw a 6 year old girl get her chocolate milk taken away from her at security this morning. I don’t feel any safer.

On our last flight security saw all my podcasting crap in my bag and the proceeded to grab my wife’s bag by mistake and search it. Obviously I’m the grumpy traveler, but enjoying DC and looking forward to both talking about podcasting at the NTEN conference tomorrow and Podcamp NYC with it’s insane list of over 1,100 attendees.

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Podcasting

Most Podcasts are Trash

Actually, rubbish was the term used (do check it out), but I like trash better because after all – one man’s trash is another’s treasure. Michael O’Connor Clarke is right on the mark as far as producers being overwhelmed by the coolness factor. However I would challenge him to podcast for 2 months and try to resist the temptation to not get completely wrapped up in microphones and other obscure audio topics.

This is not big media, some podcasts are only meant for a small circle of friends and will never get the commercial success of such culturally enriching products such as American Idol, or Pop Radio.

So the big question is finding the treasure among the trash – of course everyone’s welcome to check out The M Show, and better yet, go there and subscribe to the Gigadial channels so you can get a sampling of quality casts like TedTalks, Deloitte, and audio engineering (but it is open to the public so I’ll admit there’s some trash there). Better yet, set up your own channel so you can help spread the good stuff.

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Daily Life Podcasting

Day off

I’m taking tonight off, we put in an offer on a house yesterday and there were 3 other offers that came in. Ours was not selected.

On the positive side, my new project with Christopher Penn will launch this Thursday. If you are into anagrams, here’s the new name:

Tick fever of mean ogre

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Geek Stuff Podcasting Productivity Buster The Marketeer

M Show Receives A-List Nomination Paperwork

I got a package in the mail from Jason Calacanis asking me to fill out the application for the A-List. It’s pretty straightforward, you send them $1,095 and that gets things rolling. If you blog daily for 3 years at the end of your probation they flip a switch and you get your choice of a job at Edelman, Crayon or Sequoia plus a guaranteed 250k visitors per month.

Plus once you’re in the circle you get stuff like cars, houses, laptops, etc. for free (as long as you blog about them of course).

They have a special meeting annually where they talk about and laugh at the D-Listers who wreck blogger meetups just by showing up and they also review the B-List to see who’s eligible to get off the farm team. I think Chris Pirillo (dude, THIS is funny) has something to do with it because it’s codenamed Smurfdex. Obviously I’m ecstatic about the chance at the big show, don’t worry, I won’t forget all the little people. I’d promise to blog all about it if/when I make it, but of course the first rule of A-List is “Never talk about A-List”.

Ok, that’s the best I’ve got for you for April Fools. There’s some other funny stuff (better than my lame attempt) such as Seth Godin’s Captain Danger Stunt Monkey Baby Chute (I need to do a radio spot for that), Google hits twice with Toilet based WiFi, and GMail Paper services. Please feel free to add links to any other good pranks in your comments.

And it’s Sunday, that means a new episode of the Best Business Podcast, The M Show, including an interview with the Author of The Strategy Paradox. This week’s show is out early because we may be putting an offer in on a home today. More to follow…

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Brain Buster Podcasting

M Show and Terminators are Coming

It’s sunday, so that means The M Show will be rolling out later today. Some other interesting stuff:

I just finished reading a paper talking about applying the Long Tail to branding, rather interesting. Any blog that considers the Second Law of Thermodynamics relevant to Marketing is worth my time.

Project code name “Coffee” is scheduled to launch on Thursday if the current pace continues.

Bum Rush the Charts did crack the top 100, congrats to Christopher Penn and everyone else involved with the program. Looking forward to hearing the final numbers.

Chris Pirillo pointed me to this via twitter and then it hit me as a brain buster – until now computers could only hear, this guy has made them able to LISTEN.