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Here’s the first ever video post for my blog. I’m hoping to do more of these in the future. Some will be tips. Some will be tutorials. Some will be rants/commentary. If the videos go well, I may create a feed for subscribing to and downloading them.

This video is my review of the event after attending and speaking at the BlogWorld Expo. We need some more straight talk about these kinds of things so I give you the good, the bad and the ugly. In fact, there was more I didn’t like than I did. The details are in the video.

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A couple weeks ago I set up a new site and blog for the Association for the Downloadable Media. Since the launch several of the founding members of the ADM have been blogging on an almost daily basis. You should take a look since there’s some interesting content from a variety of interesting people involved in podcasting.

Here are three posts that I especially recommend.

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Buy Recordings of All 53 Sessions from the New Media Expo for $99

Get a wealth of information from some of the brightest minds in new media. You’ll easily find numerous ideas to take your new media goals to the next level.

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This post starts a new feature on my blog called New Media Digests. These will be regular posts (probably 3-4 times per month) that quickly summarize the most important links, headlines and resources related to the new media world to keep you up to date in a matter of a few minutes.

I’m constantly monitoring a number of blogs, news feeds and other internet chatter to keep up on our lightning fast industry. Many times a week I find myself thinking, “I should blog about that.” The problem is that I don’t have time to write a complete post about every little thing I discover nor do you have time to read all those posts. I could just do one of the del.icio.us bookmark auto-posts, but that doesn’t tell you why I thought it was important or why I wanted to share it with you.

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As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, Microsoft has released the next generation of Zune portable media players as well as a new version of the Zune Marketplace.

Both adopt podcasting and bring significant features for podcast publishers and listeners. This will bring a wave of new listeners into the space. If you want to take advantage of this, you need to be do a few things.

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The elections for the Association for Downloadable Media are now open. Voting will continue through November 23rd at 12:00 PM EST. If you’re a member, you should have received an email with your unique voting link. Please be sure to vote. If you’re not a member, please consider joining.

I’m running for a position on the eleven-member advisory board. I posted my platform last week. You can view all nominees here.

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The Association for Downloadable Media is getting close to having their official board elections

This Thursday and Friday is the first BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas (not to be confused with the New Media Expo that used to be Ontario, CA and is moving to Las Vegas next year). I’ll be attending and, it turns out, speaking.

I’ve been asked to accomplish the impossible task of filling the shoes of Leesa Barnes who is now unable to make it. I’ll be doing one panel and one solo session. (more…)

Egad! Did your FeedBurner subscriber stats for yesterday (November 3) dive like mine? Well, rest easy. It’s only temporary. Google Feedfetcher failed to report numbers meaning all your subscribers who use Google Reader and iGoogle were not counted. Things should be back to normal when today’s stats are reported tomorrow morning.

Here’s the blog post from FeedBurner about it.

Yesterday, Chris Penn posted an open letter to apple asking them to add podcasts to the iTunes WiFi Music Store. As of writing this, 77 people have signed the post in the comments and 802 people have Dugg it. It’s currently on the front page of Digg.

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