Hope to see you at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo. I'm looking forward to some face time with the likes of Victor, Tom, Todd, Kevin and others. With some luck, I may get some quality sound-bites as well.

I'm approaching this conference/trade show in two ways; I'm going to treat it as one part Star Trek Convention and one part Franchise Show. As a non-aligned, amateur with some experience in the broadcast space, it's going to be really fun watching the podcast groupies follow their designated swamis around. There may be some real business done both on the floor and in the suites so I'll try and sniff out some of the deals.

I will not be following the standard blogger template for conferences:
1) You gotta go!
2) Coolest un-conference ever!
3) Promise to blog every word
4) Blame the wifi for not blogging a single word
5) Following up with a post days later that rapturizes the attendees, the presenters and JUST How Important! everything was.

It's a podcasting conference folks. How important could it be? The one big question to be answered is this... If podcasting is disco, then is it 1976 or 1979?