The Maryland Regional Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention

Balticon 39: May 27 - 30, 2005

Tee Morris and Paul Fischer

Balticon 39 Podcasting Panel Show Notes

From May 27, 2005

Touting the iRiver

Trashing the iTalk

Tee has a cool tatoo for his iPod

Tee's Books:

GalaxyCon and Gigi Edgley from Farscape

Michael and Evo at The Dragon Page

Podiobooks.com available books:

  • Earthcore ( Podcast / Book )

  • The Pocket and the Pendant ( Podcast / Book )

  • Morevi ( Podcast / Book )

  • Story of Tom Corvan ( Podcast / Book unavailable )

  • Welcome to the Beehive: A beginners guide to conquering the world of business ( Podcast / Book unavailable )

The audience of two. Yeah! We finally have an audience.

Selling Morevi, the book, through the podcast.

If you missed the podcast chapters go to http://teemorris.com/podcast

Lots of hard work goes into making a podcast.

Paul's Uber mixer, the Numark DM1685

Maccast.com and shop.maccast.com

The mixer Paul should have bought, the Behringer Eurorack UB802 Mixer

The mixer Paul bought is too much mixer for him. Its story.

Never do a panel at a Con at 6pm on a Friday. Pretty much no one has arrived for the Con. And you only get stuck doing 6pm panels if you're buddies with the head of programming and that person doesn't know what a phenomenon Podcasting is. :(

The first ever Podcasting panel at Balticon.

Paul's first Podcast went up just before Balticon. You can find it at ADDcast.net

Paul's "Product Review Without Pity" done for the Maccast.

Tee talks about his novel Morevi as a serial Podcast

Working with Michael and Evo at The Dragon Page Podcast

Writing Podcasting for Dummies with Evo Tera

The audience makes it to three! Yeah!

Paul explains Podcasting

Rev Up Review Podcast 'Speculative Fiction'

Slacker Astronomy Podcast, Science made cool

Podiobooks.com always starts you at the beginning of the book when you subscribe to the feed

Geek Fu Action Grip Podcast by Mer Lafferty, she is amazingly funny

ConCarolinas – Tee's next destination for a Podcasting panel

TiVo (available at Amazon) for you iPod / MP3 player

Podcasts Tee listens to

Checking to see if Garageband will whore the recording of this Podcast. It didn't.

Paul's Listening List

  • The Daily Source Code – Adam Curry, The Pod Father – The smoothest laid back voice in the world

    • Paul's imitation of Adam Curry on fire. No offense intended.

  • Coverville – Brian Ibbet – Plays covers of songs. Exposure to music we'd never heard before. Brian continures to rock the world with tunes we would never have known about and now seek out.

    • Common People, by William Shatner and Joe Jackson. Off the "Has Been" CD. You can also buy the single at the Apple iTunes Music Store.

  • The Evil Genius Chronicles

  • The Dawn and Drew Show – The Shocker! – NOT CHILD SAFE – Too funny, too cool

    • They have the coolest fans in the world and we're two of them

  • The Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd – Like an old time radio play, only better.

  • Leo Laporte – Formerly of "The Screen Savers" on the now defunct TechTV

    • The Laporte Report – with real behind the scenes stuff

    • TWIT – This Week in Tech – a.k.a. The Revenge of The Screensavers!

    • Asking for $20/year to fund it. Paul paid his.

    • TechTV ruled! We miss it.

  • On The Wing – Bird Watching Podcast

Tee rails against the Sci Fi Channel and NASA

  • Ronald Moore – Does a Podcast as Executive Producer of the Battlestar Galactica TV show. It is excellent audio commentary of each episode.

    • It's like listening to audio commentary on a DVD – It helps to have a TiVo

    • This they got right

  • Sci Fi Wire - Sci Fi Channel Podcast – SUCKS ASS

    • Bad audio processing makes a Podcast suck bad

    • Ranting on the iTalk continues

    • Farscape Peacekeeper Wars wins an award and all we hear about is the new X3 movie

    • Paul thinks it's marketing payola

    • Tee thinks it's a clueless fanboy intern

    • You are not a Production Assistant! You are nothing!

  • NASA Podcast – Sucks Too!

    • NASA TV – So boring they make space flight as exciting as watching paint dry.

    • "Was Einstein a Space Alien?" – The first Podcast Tee heard

    • Paul loves the lisp

    • "Is Dust on the Moon a Problem?"

  • Slacker Astronomy kicks their ass! Black Holes are sexy.

NPR and other radio stations are re-broadcasting content like WGBH Morning Stories

Microsoft is Podcasting to their developers like this one about MS Mobiles

Canned radio content does not necessarily equal Podcasting

People are turning off the radio. All the content is computer generated in most of the major markets.

Audience finally reaches size of 12. One can only wonder what would have happened if we started at 7pm.

Questions & Comments:

Broadcast Industry of America – Database shows stations with rising market penetration and revenue are typically those who retained radio personalities.

Podcasting offers an alternative to radio.

Radio is the incumbent technology. Entry cost is about $1 for a dollar store FM radio. Podcasting requires a computer and an Internet connection, even if the content is free.

Paul's rant on junkmail. Who's Who is a gateway for junkmail.

Q: How did Tee record Morevi?

Q: What would we recommend for someone starting out in Podcasting?

Booz Allen Hamilton is putting their "Technology Petting Zoo" out as a Podcast internally.

Northrop, SAIC, and Boeing. The family business.

Q: What microphone to use?

Q: Places for good audio gear?

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