Last Thursday Lisa Williams organized a podcasting discussion at the Thursday Berkman blog meeting. Lisa did a great four minute tutorial on podcasting using home ground video editing equipment. She provides a full report of the meeting at her blog, Learning the Lessons of Nixon. Go there of a lot of good stuff on podacsting. She also posted her video on podcasting.
Brendan Greeley talked about Public Radio Exchange, a site that gives independent radio producers a way to distribute their stories. PRX has a podcast feed of the members’ shows – stuff you may not be able to hear anywhere else in your local area. Andy Carvin discussed his Gates at New York project where he is inviting podcast and photos on Christo’s art project in New York’s Central Park. Andy Carvin also posted his comments on the meeting.
Lisa also managed to invite podcaster Greg Narain of Corante. Greg is currently on a Beercasting tour of America. He goes to public places, often a bar, and records conversations of people he finds there, a type of reality show radio that he turns into podcasts. Greg then produces really nice time stamped "indexes" of the subject matter of these podcasts. You can sort by person, topic or location and subscribe to future podacts based on any of these attributes so you follow you favorite people or topics.
After the Berkman meeting we went over to the Cambridge Common, a local bar and did several beercasts. You can find the one that Andy Carvin, Amanda Watlington and I did at the beercasting site under Boston. There was another conversation on how you went your spouse or partner that others participated in. Because you know you are being recorded for a new audience, people tend to provide their best stories, even if their closest friends have heard them many times. This gives you bar conversation as step above the normal, without having to go out and drink.
Greg is generating a lot of interest around the country with his tour and lining up sponsors. There is a good business model, like the TV reality shows. I can see karaoke is next, tapping on juiced up candidates for the podcasting version of American Idol.
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