| The Tuesday, November 8th meeting of the Rocky
Mountain Internet Users Group (RMIUG) will discuss "Podcasting: The Future of Broadcasting?"
Podcasting, the method of publishing audio and video
programs via a feed on the Internet, is exploding.
Not convinced? Well, consider the following:
- Researchers at Forrester predicted that the US
podcast audience will climb to 12.3 million households
by 2010.
- The popular Apple iTunes store recently added 3,000
podcasts to its directory allowing the iTunes' user
base to subscribe to them as easily as purchasing a
song.
- What started out as a request from, among others,
former MTV VJ Adam Curry (http://live.curry.com/), to
Dave Winer, RSS (Really Simple Syndication)
evangelist, for a way to deliver video and audio in
their RSS feeds in 2003, has spurred major media
companies including ABC, NBC, NPR, ESPN to begin
offering their own podcast programming in recent
months.
- Even the venture capitalists are starting to get
involved: rumor has it that Kleiner Perkins Sequoia (a
large firm base in Silicon Valley) has funded Adam
Curry's Podshow to the tune (no pun intended) of $8.5
million.
Convinced now?
To explore this topic, RMIUG will bring in several
speakers:
Gil Asakawa (GKAsakawa@DenverPost.com) is the
Executive Producer for the DenverPost.com, the website
of The Denver Post, one of Colorado's largest
newspapers. Gil is a writer, editor, and online
content consultant with over 20 years of experience
working for new media companies such as Digital City
Denver (a new media subsidiary of America Online),
Trip.com, and ServiceMagic. In 2003, he became the
Executive Producer for the DenverPost.com which
started providing daily podcasts this past May. Gil
will talk about his experience launching the Denver
Post's podcasts, the reception by its audience, and
its affect on a traditional print company.
Neal McBurnett (http://mcburnett.org/neal/) chairs the
Information Technology team at KGNU (independent
noncommerecial community radio for Boulder, Denver and
beyond). Neal has been involved with virtual
communities since he got hooked on Usenet at Berkeley
in 1979. He was a Distinguished Member of Technical
Staff at Bell Labs until 2001, and currently consults
with Internet2. He co-founded the Boulder Community
Network in 1993. Neal will talk about KGNU's effort
to expand its podcasting. He will also address
podcasting standards and support in free Content
Management Systems, and share some dreams and
questions about collaborative markup of audio content.
Joe Pezzillo (jpezzillo@qwest.net) Joe has been
working at the vanguard of media convergence for
nearly twenty years. He started doing radio at KGNU-fm
in Boulder, Colorado in 1987 and worked in broadcast
television and digital publishing for several years
prior to serving as creative director on the team at
Apple Computer's Electronic Media Lab in the mid 90s.
Joe founded one of the first internet-only radio
stations (GoGaGa.com) in 1996, grew the station's
audience to national prominence, patented the
company's pioneering streaming management and
personalization technology, and then passed the reins
to leading radio and internet investors three years
later. Joe will talk about his most recent work
producing a bi-weekly segment on citizen journalism
and remix culture for KGNU and being a podcast
personality.
Links:
Wikipedia on Podcasting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting
Denver Post Podcasts: http://www.DenverPost.com
KGNU Podcasts: http://www.kgnu.org/ht/listencomp.html
Joe Pezzillo "On the Internets" podcast:
http://www.kgnu.org/front
The meeting is Tuesday, November 8th from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
(with optional 6:30 pm start for refreshments and
informal networking). The meeting will be held at The
National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) at
1850 Table Mesa Drive in Boulder. To get to NCAR from
the Boulder Turnpike (US 36) or Broadway (US 93), take
Table Mesa Drive west towards the mountains for
approximately 2.5 miles into the foothills. NCAR is at
the top of the hill. For door-to-door driving
directions, go to MapQuest (http://www.mapquest.com/),
click on Driving Directions, enter your starting
address, NCAR's address, and voila! Park in the NCAR
lot, go in the main door, and ask the guard to point
you to meeting, which is held in the main auditorium,
right off the lobby. The meeting is free and open to
the public, but we may pass the hat to help defray
expenses.
Our
meeting location seats about 120 people.
That is usually enough room to accommodate all attendees,
but it's impossible for us to predict how many
people will show up for any given meeting. Seating is
always on a first-come, first serve basis, and in the
event of more attendees than seats, we won't be able
to admit additional people into the auditorium after
all seats are filled.
Thanks
to our three sponsors who help make RMIUG
meetings happen:
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MicroStaff (www.microstaff.com)
which provides Creative and Technical Talent
for Web, Interactive Media, Marketing Communications
and Software
Development projects, is the sponsor of
food and beverages for RMIUG
meetings.
ONEWARE
(http://www.ONEWARE.com)
-- a Colorado-based software company that
provides semi-custom web-based applications,
sponsors the RMIUG meeting
minutes.
Copy
Diva (http://www.copydiva.com)
which provides
marketing project management, marketing
communications
consulting, and web content development
is the AV
sponsor for RMIUG.
Consultants
and companies are invited to bring Internet-related
Product
information, brochures, and business cards
which will be displayed on an
information table.
There are email mailing lists set up for
this group. To subscribe or
unsubscribe, see http://www.rmiug.org/maillist.html
You can also reach the
RMIUG "Executive" Committee at
rmiug-comm@rmiug.org. Our web site is at
http://www.rmiug.org/
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Please note that RMIUG is hosted at NCAR
and we are their guests. NCAR has security
regulations in effect
that we must follow in order to use the
facility. If any RMIUG attendee is unwilling
to follow these simple
regulations, I would ask that he or she
not attend and instead read the minutes
after the meeting.
Here
are the NCAR security policies that must
be followed:
1.
No weapons.
2. Must sign in at front desk and provide
name.
3. Cooperate with security folks including
providing ID if requested.
4. We are guests of NCAR so cooperation
and courtesy are expected when dealing with
NCAR staff.
If
there are any questions or concerns with
this policy, please contact me directly.
Thanks, Josh Zapin
(josh@r...).
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