The on-the-spotters and rapid reporters have already told you how great the Podcast and Portable Media Expo was this past weekend (Sept 29 & 30, 2006). Best general re-cap is available from Leesa Barnes -- who I'm making my "most important podcaster I did not meet". (Expect an email soon Leesa...)
I went with a sense of irreverence -- don't worry I still have it -- but also picked up some great vibes around podcast commercialization, specialization and pure podcast passion.
So; is podcasting disco? I was glad to see that a group at the show had picked up on a thought I had some time ago to create "podcasting sucks" t-shirts -- everybody got a laugh out of it and we need to be laughing. It was Trucker Tom Wiles though who has really articulated what we all hope is the best metaphor for podcasting. Tom says that podcasting is more like email than disco.
That's the difference between history and trivia. Listen to his chat with the inimitable Michael Zwerling on Tom's episode 382 and you'll get the whole American philosopher buzz around Tom. (Update: Tom sent me a link to the show)
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Finding Podshow Media Links...
Brad, I agree that Podshow still has a few kinks to work out of their interface, which is admittedly far from perfect.
You should be able to find the direct media link to any Podshow MP3 file in their pop-up media player. Simply right-click on the small, not-so-obvious "Download Media" graphic present in the Podshow player window and then click on "Copy Shortcut" to copy the direct link to the file.
An alternative method is to copy the shortcut to the media file in the "Juice" podcatcher program.
I would personally prefer that a direct link to the media file show up directly with each episode. Podshow does have interface revisions in the works so hopefully future changes will be made to make things easier.
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