The 2nd Orange County Podcast User Group dinner was held last night (Wednesday, January 12, 2005) in Newport Beach, CA.  It was hosted by Michael Geoghegan @ MWGBlog (Reel Reviews) at his house.  So, we got to see his "movie and podcasting room".  It is very impressive.  Thanks for hosting!

The other podcasters in crime there included: Tim Bourquin & Emile Bourquin (Podcast Brothers), Craig Patchett, J. Craig Williams, Leigh Older, and Brian Clark.

Leigh, Brian, and Jay Selmen (who wasn’t able to make it) are doing graperadio.com.

It was fun talking podcasting tradecraft, and podcasting future directions with folks who have similar interests.  I highly recommend if you are a podcaster, to find other podcasters near you and have a user group meeting on a monthly basis.

It seems semi-hypocritical of me to be complaining after being the primary suggester of the techpodcasts.org site idea, but how many "generic" podcast directories do we need? 

As a podcaster who wants to make sure people can know about my podcast it is a major pain.

Here is a sample that I collected:

• ipodder.org (accessible via OPML)
• audio.weblogs.com (need to ping for new podcasts)
• podcastingnews (PHP forms)
• podcastalley (allows for ranking)
• podcast.net
• penguinradio (form submission)
• podcastcentral
• podcastbunker
• podcasts724
• podfly

Tech Rag Tear Outs Podcast is a regular information technology (IT) professional focused podcast. 

During a normal week, I get print editions of magazines like InfoWorld, eWeek, Informatino Week, Network World, Forbes, PC World, Maximum PC, etc. I typically "rip" out the articles of interest and utilize them at work. 

But now I am taking these items and briefly summarizing them in a podcast, posting them to this blog, and making them available for automatic subscription download via a podcast client (I use Doppler on Windows and I have heard good things from Apple users about iPodderX).

I also post to the automatic subscription link some periodic seperate commentary and music content in podcast format that I find interesting. 

Comments, suggestions, feedback, etc. are always appreciated (see PodcastAlley for some).  You can send me direct feedback via email: {sholden [at] pobox.com} or call 206-337-1533 or SKYPE me at: steve.holden.

I just posted #2 of my podcast commentary supplement for Tech Rag Tear Outs: TRTO_commentary_supplement_002_20050109.mp3 (5127.2K).

Here is the OPML link and the pretty HTML show notes output from Frontier:

• (00:00-00:58): Introduction
• (00:59-05:35): Feed back ….
  • Eric Van Johnson
  • ChuckChat
  • Eric Rice
  • My wife Christy shows two good examples of 206-337-1533 number (k7.net):
    • Costco
    • Tech Support
• (05:36-11:10): My Podcast Info
  • Billy Watson has agreed to allow me to use his music in my podcasts.  Check out his site.  He plays regularly in San Diego County
  • James Prudente Tiny Science Radio Promo of MixCastLive
  • Example of Audio Compression via Jimmy Jett
• (11:11-13:37): Podcatching
  • I am playing around with upgrading from iPodder to Doppler. So far it has been a pretty good experience.
  • New Podcasts I am listening to:
    • Esc From The World
    • Linux Log
    • On The Media
    • IT Conversations
    • NASA
    • Vinyl Podcast
    • ThePoint (Video/Audio)
    • In The Trenches (ITT)
• (13:38-14:35): Conclusion

On The Media is using this icon:

for podcast download … kinda like the standard xml one.  But I am not so sure I like it.

Others seem to be using: