The Professor’s Notes

Recorded at Podcamp Pittsburgh 2 in August of 2007, this interview covers why he decided to help start a Podcamp in Pittsburgh (”the need to instigate.”) We take a few minutes to talk about how friendly Pittsburgh happens to be, and how Pittsburgh really is the high-tech city of the Eastern US. It’s good [...]

 

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In this podcast, I interview Chris Brogan, one of the original creators of the first PodCamp in Boston. We talked about how podcasting works, and what our favorite podcasts are. In fact, we both have enjoyed Teaching for the Future with Dave LaMorte. Chris mentions the “Something to be Desired” online TV show [...]

 

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I mentioned that I enjoyed the presentation by Alex. After his presentation, he asked if he could interview me about my experiences at PodCamp as part of his documenting the weekend. I, of course, agreed!
Go watch it at Alex’s Site!
Enjoy, and be sure to visit his site for other interviews from the weekend.

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Yes! Old media coverage of the New Media! (Well, they covered it in print–and used their own new media to post it on their websites!)
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (This one includes a cool photo of Chris Brogan, and Andrew)
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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After lunch (Pizza… and good pizza at that) the local PixelCorps representative Alex Landefeld led a discussion…
What is Pixel Corps?
pixel Corps is a community of video and audio producers, helping each other, and working together to collaborate in not only training and education but also the practical aspects of production and even with jobs!
Generally, the [...]

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Tommy Vallier from Talkshoe is giving a presentation on how to get started with TalkShoe.
What is TalkShoe? Enables anyone to create, join or listen to LIVE, Interactive, podcasts… (and is a local Pittsburgh PA Company!) For those that listen to the most popular podcaster today (Leo Laporte) he uses this for many [...]

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Great discussion about hosting, backing up data, and who is and is not a good service provider.
Points of Interest:

WordPress is great
PodPress is a great add in for WordPress (we use both of those here.)
I mentioned 1and1.com as our provider, but some people have had customer service issues

More later

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The first session was with Chris Brogan, the original creator of the first PodCamp in Boston. He talked about tips for presenting.
My favorite points?

Big Pictures, few Words
The presentation is about You, and the Audience
It’s NOT the slides/deck
PowerPoint is NOT MS WORD

Oh, and one more thing–while he is from Boston, he is a big PENN [...]

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It’s started, and we are here! (and it’s going LIVE today!) My Son and I arrived last evening to the optional “mixer” and got a chance to meet many of the podcasters here in Pittsburgh, but in addition, we met photoshop experts, other media creators, bloggers, vloggers, and the general digital community from Pittsburgh.
My [...]

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For those interested in PodCasting in its various forms, there are events (or, unevents) called PodCamps.  These are “un-conferences” where people gather in a rather unstructured way, to share, learn, and perhaps just make friends, based on the “barcamp” concept.  There are many scheduled around the US, and my son and I are considering attending [...]

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