Podcast & Portable Media Expo showcases the present and future of portable content with demonstration exhibits and conference sessions devoted to creating, editing, delivering, viewing and profiting from unique audio and video media.
I don’t suppose I’ll make it over to California, but it looks like it might be fun if you are in the area. Exhibit hall is free, or $149 for the conference itself.
Read more at Podcast & Portable Media Expo
The Podcast Hotel, explains Corante’s Alex Williams, will turn a hotel in Portland, Oregon, into a podcast and videoblog studio. It’s a place where people come to learn and share how these content creation tools can be used in any way they want, be it for their personal use, their business or their community.
Surely these sort of events should be going on in community colleges and local universities, too. Several years ago I attended a short evening class about making video at my local college. I learned a huge amount. Sadly, they don’t seem to offer that sort of course any more.
Hmm … Maybe they’d pay me to teach such a course …
Read more at unmediated: The Podcast Hotel
There are plenty of bloggging applications out there. You can tell the actively developed ones because they are adding (and documenting) simple support for RSS enclosures (the core distribution technology behind podcasting). Here’s a blog entry with a video of how to attach an enclosure using the fairly popular “blojsom” blogging tool.
And guess what, the author even attached the video as an enclosure :)
In amongst a blog article full of meanderings on things such as airline peanuts and teaching English, I found this little nugget:
Which brings me to my next point. Since when did “So"become the official way to begin a response? I’m a big fan of the podcasts on itconversations.com which records interviews and conferences with geeks and lets you listen to what they have to say without smelling their breath. But these people can absolutely not answer a question without starting it with with “So …” or “So … it turns out that” And it’s not only geeks; graduate students are also infected. It’s such a sick disease. Don’t you people understand how belittling it sounds? You don’t have to tell me “So … it turns out, little man, that the world is actually round” - just tell me it’s a freaking sphere. I think this should be official podcast (and grad school) etiquette: no starting responses with “So".
So … we should all maybe think about how we reply. Has “so” become the new “err” or “umm” ?
Read more at El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado � Blog Archive � Half A Life
Jeff Jarvis at Buzzmachine writes about the possibilities of using closed-caption data associated with a video feed as a source of searchable information. In particular, the time-synchronized nature of the caption information would allow linking to specific sections of a media file, from a text search.
Chicago Captioning Corp. added closed captioning to the video.
They did that in an effort to serve the 10 percent of Americans who are hard of hearing. And that’s great.
But I see another important use that is of value to 100 percent of Internet users:
By attaching a script to the video, we get metadata associated with it. That makes the video searchable via Google et al. That means that the content of the video can be analyzed. That means we can link to specific content.
This sounds great, but closed captions are only available for video, right?
Well, no. MP3 audio files have had “lyrics” support for a long time, and a surprising number of players will play “karaoke” audio files. And “karaoke” is nothing but time-synchronized text associated with an audio file, exactly like closed-caption data in video.
While I’ll agree that supporting closed-caption metadata should be a priority for video-blogging software, it’s currently a reality that there are far fewer videoblogs being produced than audio-only podcasts. Supporting “lyrics” (a.k.a “show notes") and “karaoke” (a.k.a “transcript") metdata in podcast creation, distribution and player tools would be a much more significant step.
It seems to me that there is even an “organic” way to achieve this. If podcast creation tools routinely supported display of “teleprompt"-style notes while recording, it would encourage people to enter their notes that way rather than fumbling with paper or a wordprocessor. Once the text is in the creation application, and scrolling in time with the input, it’s a snap to output synchronized and unsynchronized metadata to the recorded file. No tedious manual synchronization or after-the-fact transcription needed.
It’s my most popular rant at the moment. Audio creation, distribution and player applications are really missing out on the richness of opportunities in metadata. So much that people using these systems don’t even realize that things could be so much better.
To quote jeff Jarvis again:
Metadata, man, metadata.
Read more at BuzzMachine… by Jeff Jarvis
I haven’t listened to any of this one yet, but I’ve really enjoyed the small number of podcast audio books I’ve heard so far. This one has now been added to my feed, and I’ll report back after I’ve played a few chapters.
“EarthCore is the world’s first podcast-only novel: you can’t find it in stores, you can’t download the full audio, and the only way to find out what happens is to subscribe to the podcast. This novel is a cross between episodic modern-action fare like “24″ and classic sci-fi movies like Predator and Starship Troopers.”
Read more and subscribe at PalmAddicts: EarthCore
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