Blogging Roller

I'm a little late blogging this, but PodcasterCon 2006 was great (and I'm not even a podcaster). Brian Russell did a great job of putting together a totally uncommercial unconference and I thoroughly enjoyed the three sessions I attended on advanced podcasting, podcasting as a teaching/learning strategy and hacking RSS.

My favorite session was definitely podcasting as a teaching/learning strategy, where session leader David Warlick got the whole room involved in collaborating via wiki and podcast tools to build a detailed outline of the problem space.

Scott Johnson, formerly of Feedster, lead the hacking RSS session, which turned out to be only a dozen people and focused on feed advertising and metrics. Scott wouldn't say a thing about his new venture (Ookles?).

Later, I went to dinner at Carolina Brewery with a big crowd of mostly out-of-town folks from the conference. Here the list (lifted from Ryan's entry): Greg Cangialosi (The Trend Junkie), Josh Staiger (joshstaiger.org), Derrick Oien (Intercasting Corp, Rabble), Dave Chekan (Libsyn), The other Dave (Libsyn), Hoopes (Libsyn), Chris MacDonald (indiefeed), Rob Greenlee (Melodeo, Mobilcast) and Will Raymond (Concerned Citizen). And after dinner, at Fuse, I met Greg Gallant and Aaron Quint, the guys behind Venture Voice.

I've got a brain full of new knowledge and a folder full of new podcast subscriptions, so thanks again Brian.