Session 2: Podcasting–Legal Issues

“Avoiding Unmitigated Disaster and Achieving Unlitigated Success”
Moderator: Denise Howell, of Bag & Baggage
Speakers: Jeff Henninger, Reed Smith LLP; Colette Vogele, Stanford Center for Internet & Society & co-author, Podcasting Legal Guide
Starting a podcast? Form a limited liability corporation. Register your podcast name as a trademark with the USPTO. Think about insurance against [...]

Session 1: Dave Slusher, Evil Genius Chronicles

“Amateur Means You Do It for Love”
Speaker: Dave Slusher, Evil Genius Chronicles and AmigoFish
This is the early days of a new medium. Surest sign of a charlatan: anyone who says “this is the right way to do it.”
“We need a business model.” That’s one of the LAST things you need: you really need [...]

PPME Keynote 2: Ron Moore, Battlestar Galactica

The second keynote speaker is Ron Moore, Executive Producer of Battlestar Galactica.  They do a podcast to help promote the show.
The first email about the podcast: Sci-Fi.com is planning a “podcasting stunt” to promote the show.  Audio commentary for the episodes.  They chose to do 5 episodes.  Ron records them on minidisc and they are [...]

PPME Plenary: Leo Laporte

The first keynote address is being given by Leo Laporte, of This Week in Tech.
We’re all in this together.  It’s not about promoting one podcast or another; it’s about promoting podcasting as a whole.
Podcasting is not radio, and it’s not tv.  If you think it is, stop!
Monetizing: there are ways to monetize your podcasts, but [...]

Liveblogging PPME 2006

I arrived in Ontario, California yesterday around 7:00pm. I’m here for the Podcast and Portable Media Expo 2006. I missed last year’s Expo–actually, I had not started podcasting yet in September 2005–so I didn’t quite know what to expect. One thing I did expect–and was not disappointed–was to find lots of podcasters [...]

Jet Li Rawks!

This afternoon I saw the best film I’ve seen in a long time - and yes, that includes the Toronto International Film Festival: Jet Li’s Fearless.
I’ve been a Jet Li fan since I first (belatedly) saw him in 1998 or so in Once Upon a Time in China and America at the Cleveland Cinematheque.  I [...]

So, How Was Your Week?

Mine had its ups and downs. His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited my library for the first ever conference on Law, Buddhism, and Social Change and delivered an address on compassion to 30,000 people. On the other hand, Congress and the President seem determined to legislatively erase the Geneva Conventions, abolish international law [...]

Library Juice » Laura Bush appropriates title of IMLS grant for librarians

Says Rory Litwin at Library Juice:
Laura Bush appropriates title of IMLS grant for librarians
For years the IMLS has been offering grants for LIS research and the education of librarians not appreciably different the one announced today on the IMLS website, except that this year’s grant program (and last year’s?) is called the “Laura Bush [...]

Networking, the old-fashioned way

With all the talk about social networking technologies like MySpace, Facebook, and most recently LinkedIn.com, sometimes the old-fashioned methods are the best: White-Collar Prison Is A Great Networking Opportunity (courtesy of The Onion).
UPDATE: On the other hand, see Dogster and Catster.

Meetup Cancelled

Due to the lack of interest, the Buffalo Niagara Podcasters Meetup previously scheduled for September 22 has been cancelled.
If anyone is interested in pursuing a meetup at another time, please let me know.