Well for some unknown reason in the middle of my live recording tonight my Tricaster died. Will be calling tech support in the morning to find out what the procedure is.

I can only shudder to think if this had happened during the 24hr Podcast or the Podcast Awards. I am not a happy camper at the moment.

Update RMA Issued by Newtek and the box is Fedex Overnight to San Antonio. The folks there have been nice enough to do a rush repair. Hopefully it is back in my hands next week.

Andy McCaskey one of the team members going to CES 2009 representing Tech Podcast has put up a informational page on how companies can work with us to get great exposure during the 2009 event.

As we get closer to the event we will be populating the page with data on what our planned schedule is and introduce the additional team members.

Our Team Coverage begins on January 6^th 2009 Live from Las Vegas www.tpnces.com

The 24hr Podcast has been postponed. This afternoon my grandfather of 99 years passed away. I will be traveling to Michigan to attend the funeral. While I understand the disappointment of not being able to do the event this Saturday and Sunday I am sure you all understand.

My plan is to do the event the weekend of December 20 and 21st which will match the exact weekend we did the event last year.

Todd Cochrane

I have been working on the agenda for the 24hr Podcast for Saturday Nov 22nd and Nov 23rd.  The following is a rough draft and I have a great deal more to massage. There will be some guest doubled up in time-slots. I have to do the mix and matching yet and fill the rest of the slots.

I will come out with a final agenda late that shows the schedule hour by hour

Hawaii is GMT -10 / thus 6am HST = 8am PST = 11am EST

• 6:00  am  HST Kickoff
• 6:15  am  Elisabeth Lewin PodcastingNews.com
• 7:00  am  Mignon Fogarty Grammar Girl
• 7:30  am  TBA
• 8:00  am  Open Discussion about New Media with Audience
• 8:30  am  Jeff Hinz Podcast Advertising and Marketing
• 9:15  am  Brian Yuhnke - Podcast Branding and Marketing your Podcast
• 10:00 am Robert Allen Wedding Podcast Network
• 10:45 am Tech Podcast Network Round Table
• 12:00 pm Andy McCaskey SDR News (CES 2009 Discussion)
  
• 12:30 pm Douglas phpBB Weekly / Rick Savoia The Force Field
• 1:00   pm Jeffery Powers Geekazine Podcast
• 1:30   pm Jermiah Pena - 13 yr Old Podcaster
• 2:00   pm Angelo Mandato - Podcast Statistics and Trends
• 3:00   pm GNC Ohana Hour Talk Story With Todd
• 4:00   pm Carey Crossman - Computer America Show
• 5:00   pm Jaime Davis - Medical Podcast and Announcement
• 5:30   pm Michael Auzenne - Manager Tools Podcast
• 6:00   pm TBA
• 6:30   pm Lets Talk Twitter and Social Media
• 7:00   pm Not Child Safe Comedy Hour
• 8:00   pm Neenz Social Media / Podcasting in Hawaii
• 8:30   pm TBA
• 9:00   pm Special Recording of Geek News Central Podcast
• 10:30 pm TBA
• 11:00 pm TBA
• 12:00 am Derek Richardson - Live Across the Isle of Man
• 12:30 am Anna Farmery UK - Podcast Use Internally and How she Built a Podcast Business
• 1:30   am TBA
• 2:00   am TBA
• 3:00   am TBA
• 4:00   am Cherie Cochrane Special Recording of Cherie Cast
• 5:00   am Roxanne Darline Beach Walks with Rox
• 5:30   am Closing Comments and prize give away
• 6:00   am See you Next Year!

Again this is a very rough schedule. I will be posting the final schedule on Wednesday. If you do not see your name here and you have applied please be patient as I have more request than time slots and I will create some open times for people to come in and talk about their shows.

For the second year in a row, I will be hosting the 24hr Podcast which is a non stop event that will cover podcasting, technology, new media, podcast advertising and a host of other topics.

This years event kicks off on Saturday Dec 20^th at 11am EST and finishes up 24hrs later! This years event is to raise money for disabled veterans. We have a goal to raise $3000.00 this year. Last years event was highly successful

During the 24hr Podcast, I have a number of slots open for podcasters to come in share their stories and talk about their podcasts. Last year nearly 30 segments were recorded that have been downloaded and listened to over 600,000 times.

If you would like to be considered for a segment on the 24hr Podcast where you will join Todd for the event drop him a email at geeknews@gmail.com with the subject 24Hr Podcast and tell him about yourself and your show.

Members of Blubrry, Tech Podcasts and Podcaster News always get priority placement. Be aware spots are filling up fast.

Just about 30 minutes ago the UPS driver dropped me a Flip Mino HD. I pulled it out of its case turned it towards me and recorded this video. I then plugged the camera into my USB port and used the FlipShare application that resides on the camera and added a couple of titles to the video and pushed it to YouTube.

Total time to when it arrived to when the video was uploaded to YouTube was just about 15 minutes. More after the video!

Please note that the Video that on my hard drive before YouTube encoding is really nice. Amazing quality for such a small camera. The encoding from YouTube really did not do the video or the audio any justice

The next video is the same exact clip but what I did this time was load the original file up in a video conversion program reduced the size from 450 megs to 32 megs and uploaded that file to Blip.TV who then encoded it in Flash. I think the Blip video looks a lot better.

The new camera is going to retail at $229.00 it can shoot in 720p which is 1280x720 in 16:9 cinematic wide screen. The new Flipshare application seems to do a much better job and even has some basic titling capability.

There is 4gb of onboard memory (wish there was more) and it will record about 60 minutes of Video. Overall Flip continues to hit home runs with these products. While the price point for the HD version has went up. I cannot even imagine this type of quality 4 years ago from a camera that is smaller then my cell phone.

For the second year in a row, I am planning to do a 24hr Podcast. Last years event www.24hrpodcast.com was a huge success. We raised a significant amount of money and was able to contribute 5 OLPC laptops to needy children around the world.

This year I will be raising money for disabled veterans with the goal of raising $3000.00. Pledging is starting today! You can pledge now, and pay later by sending a email to geeknews@gmail.com and pledge the amount you feel you can afford we will send payment info later.

I had hoped to do this event in December but my schedule is such that I am going to shoot for doing the event the weekend of November 22nd & 23rd. I have to get the schedule together quickly within the next 10 days.

If you have a compelling story and it surrounds the new media space, technology or science.  I would love to get you on the schedule for the event. Being I have a continuous 24hrs to schedule you into the program there is room for a lot of people to participate. If you want to be considered for a slot drop me a not and tell me what you want to talk about. geeknews@gmail.com

The 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards Winner announcement happens today at 4pm Pacific / 7 PM Eastern / 1AM GMT. Watch here or join chat at live event at www.podcastawards.com 

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Check out this Video interview I did with the team at the DV Show. I talk about the Tech Podcast Network along with some of the cool things we are doing at RawVoice. The DV Show

Thanks to the Team over there for the opportunity to talk about the network.

Gary had a great response to some things Howard Stern has to say about social media. For those of you that have been holding back from jumping into new media you should listen to this.

On a side note you all know that I have said since 2004 that the new media evolution will continue to force those in the traditional media space to change or become irrelevant.

Check out Gary's site today.