Northern Voice 2007 happened a little over a week ago, and we were happy to be there podcasting the sessions. When all was said and done we had posted 36 episodes, including two interviews with Darren Barefoot from the organizing team. We learned a lot from the experience, including:

• Getting video from the camera to the web is still relatively difficult (especially with just a laptop), despite tools like Windows Movie Maker.
• Material to supplement the audio (such as a slide deck) would have been nice in a lot of cases.
• Always have a schedule worked out in advance.
• You can always improve the quality of your recordings!

Despite these and other lessons, it seems most people were pretty pleased with the podcast. We've received a bunch of comments from attendees and others, thanking us for making the recordings available. It was our pleasure!

Finally, I'll leave you with some stats about the podcast:

• We posted 36 episodes
• Combined, the episodes take up 7.83 GB of storage space (including all the conversions)
• If you were to listen to every episode, it would take 26 hours, 7 minutes, and 13 seconds
• The average episode length is 43 minutes, 32 seconds

We're going to be podcasting Northern Voice on Friday and Saturday here in Vancouver, B.C. This is definitely one of our favorite conferences, so this year we volunteered to record and host the sessions. You can follow along at:

http://northernvoice.podcastspot.com

We're just waiting on Megan to arrive and then we'll get our first "welcome" episode up. Tomorrow we'll be recording parts of Moosecamp, and all of Saturday's sessions will be recorded (if all goes according to plan).

And if you are thinking about becoming a podcaster, now is a great time to do so! Sign up at Podcast Spot using discount code NV2007 and we'll give you 100 MB of upload quota free. You can see more details here.

We're back in Edmonton now after a great weekend at the 2006 Portable Media Expo. Thanks to everyone who stopped by the booth to say hi - it was really great to meet you! Thanks also to everyone who has checked out Podcast Spot.

Back to work!

We're in Ontario, California now and we're ready for the 2006 edition of the Portable Media Expo! If you are going to be in town, stop by and see us in booth #408. We'll post a few updates here, but you should check out my blog and Dickson's blog for more information. You can also check out some pictures from the event here.

Oh, and be sure to check out Podcast Spot ;)

We're leaving tomorrow afternoon for Toronto for the first ever Mesh Conference, taking place Monday and Tuesday. We'll be in Toronto until the 18th, so if you wanna meet up (or if you need to get a hold of us for any other reason), email us or give us a call!

Mack: 780.619.3864
Dickson: 780.910.0941

We've registered for Canada's first ever Web 2.0 conference called Mesh, taking place in Toronto on May 15th and 16th. Looks like it will be a great conference with some interesting topics and an amazing line up of thought leaders already on board.

Want to join us? There's still time to register!

We're off for Northern Voice in Vancouver tonight! Tomorrow is Moose Camp, and Saturday is the actual conference. If you're going to be there, make sure you find us! We'd love to tell you all about the stuff we've been working on.

We'll be back in Edmonton on Sunday evening.

Dickson and I registered for Northern Voice 2006 tonight. We figured it was about time, since the conference is less than a month away (February 10th and 11th). We'll be in Vancouver from the 9th until the 12th, hopefully learning a lot and sharing the stuff we've been working on! We'll post an update when we've decided what exactly we'll have ready for the conference.

There's still time to register if you want to join us. See you there!

First of all, a big thanks to Tim and everyone at TNC New Media for putting on a great show this past weekend in Ontario, California. Plans are underway for next year too:

The next Expo will be September 29-30, 2006 back in Ontario, California at the Ontario Convention Center with larger rooms for the conference sessions and improvements suggested by all of you.

My main suggestion is wireless Internet! Aside from that, the expo was great both for Paramagnus and for podcasting in general, and we'd be happy to participate again next year. Thanks to everyone who came by the booth and spoke to us, and everyone who attended the presentation Saturday morning. We look forward to helping all of you with podcasting! If you weren't able to attend the Expo, don't worry! We're going to be making some new stuff available very soon.

We have discovered a couple of issues with Podcast Spot, but we're working on them. Currently we're planning to roll out a couple new features this week too. I'll post an update on that later.

Wow, what a very busy last couple of weeks! We've been working really hard to get beta versions of some of our applications and services ready for the Podcast & Portable Media Expo this weekend, and we're almost there. We should be launching the beta versions of Podcast Spot and Podcast Tags sometime tomorrow, with beta versions of Podcast Wizard and Podcast Basket coming probably in December 2005.

We have also launched our Podcasting Beta site, at http://www.paramagnus.com/podcasting/beta. There you'll be able to find information on all of our products and services. We're also bringing some information materials to the Expo, so feel free to drop by our booth - we'd be delighted to talk to you! Our booth is #312, which you can find on the floor plan.

Have you heard about the Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference? We've been registered as an exhibitor for quite some time now, so I figured it would be a good idea to officially announce it! Here's what the event is all about:

Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference is the only industry event that brings together influential podcasters, media, content creators and device makers to cover the complete range of business, marketing and legal issues for portable audio & video.

The ability to take media with you and listen or watch when you want - on whatever device you want - is the focus of this event. It's also about the new trend of individuals as media companies.

Dickson and I are really excited to be attending and we're looking forward to meeting everyone. And we do mean everyone - if you're at all interested in podcasting, this is a must-attend event! We're also really looking forward to finally being able to show off some of the applications we've been hard at work on.

We'll have more details on our stuff as the date (November 11th and 12th, 2005) draws near, so watch for updates. I'll also be adding content to my personal page for the event, so you can keep an eye out there too if you want.

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