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I’ve had podcast monetization buzzing around in my head this week and I’ve come to a conclusion. If you want to start making real money, then stop being a podcaster.

Is there deliberate shock value in that statement? Sure. But it’s incredibly important to understand what I mean if you’re podcasting and have financial aspirations.

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FeedBurner just announced a new feature that I’ve been wanting for quite awhile. Now you can transfer a feed from one account/login to another. If you’ve been using separate logins for different feeds, you know that it can be a pain to deal with. (Or maybe you were smarting than me and just used one account to begin with.) The process, however, is not as straight forward as outlined on their site.

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Does your WordPress theme keep changing back to the boring default theme?

Over on my Podcasting Underground I’m dealing with this ongoing frustration and I just learned other bloggers are faced with it as well. I go back into my WordPress admin and change back to my chosen theme, but then sometimes a soon as one day later it reverts to the default.

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Recently Fred Castaneda interviewed me on his podcast for entrepreneurs and grilled me about how I went from being a software engineer, to an internet marketer to a podcaster to a resident of Argentina.

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Coming Soon: A Free Open Source Social Network with the Power and Flexibility of WordPress

I’ve been watching with much anticipation the whisperings about a project called BuddyPress that “will transform a vanilla installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform.” This would be extremely cool. Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, has now taken BuddyPress into their fold to see its development through. I can’t wait to see this thing release.

This would allow you to create your own branded social network with the flexibility of WordPress. In addition, it would be compatible with thousands of free plugins that are sure to pop up–very cool indeed.

Free Video Quickly Shows Your Audience What a Podcast Is and How to Subscribe

Apple has produced a short video that explains what a podcast is and how to subscribe (in iTunes of course). They invite you to link to it from your web site as a resource. It would be much cooler if I could post it to my own site, but of course they want the inbound links. I wouldn’t mind something like this from the Zune team as well ;).

WordPress.com Becomes a Viable Free Starter Podcasting Solution

It’s no secret that I’m a huge WordPress fan. While I’m a proponent of installing it on your own web site, WordPress.com (their free hosted service) has now become an excellent choice for a hobbyist or “dabbler” to have a blog, feed and now at least modest media hosting.

They’ve upgraded their free service to provide 3 GB of storage. Files are hosted on Amazon S3 and bandwidth is not metered meaning you won’t be penalized for the amount of traffic you get. I’ll be revamping my podcast tutorial to use WordPress.com as a free starter solution.

Libsyn Updating Stats for More Accuracy and Better Interface

Libsyn recently announced that they have revamped the user interface for their podcast statistics. They are also going back through and reprocessing the old logs to improve accuracy. As soon as reprocessing is done, the new stats and interface will be released.

A New Essential Video Podcasting Guide Coming to Bookstores Near You

Rich Harrington, who I have the pleasure of presenting with at various events, is the co-author of a new book

I’m pleased to announce that my proposal to present The Magic Triad at New Media Expo 2008 has been accepted. I am one of 52 speakers chosen. I’m excited to see who else will be presenting. They always have a stellar line-up.

Apparently this year there were 700 proposals sent in, more than any previous year. In addition, it was even harder for them to choose since all panels have been removed and only presentations by a single person are being scheduled–providing fewer available slots.

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This year I’m doing much less speaking for a number of reasons that I won’t go into in this post. The most obvious is that I am living outside of the country for most of the year.

The only time I plan to present in-person this year is at New Media Expo 2008 in Las Vegas (if my proposal is accepted). I’ll save my reasons for cutting down on speaking until another time, but here are the reasons why I DO want to speak at this event.

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