It occurs to me upon listening to a number of podcasts (I subscribe to around 100 podcasts) that many podcasters dabble with failure but never really fully embrace it. It seems like even the worst podcast has something that someone somewhere would value. But what, I wondered, if we combined the worst part of the ...

It seems over the last few years main stream media has increasingly taken the position that main stream media is “professional” and that bloggers and podcasters are “amateurs”. When did “amateur” become a dirty word? I am an amateur, after all I have a podcast that proudly proclaims myself the “Amateur Traveler“. But what’s so ...

A nice surprise with watching the live broadcast from GeekBrief tonight was seeing Cali wear a t-shirt design that I created. By the way if you have not heard of GeekBrief and you are a fan of gadgets, gizmos, and web wonderfulness, then you owe it to yourself to check out this brief semi-weekly video ...

I got back last Sunday from the PNME conference in Ontario, Californa. This is the biggest conference of the year for podcasters and it is a wonderful combination of smoozing, presentations, hobnobbing, and networking with other people who are also obsessed with podcasting. Tim and Emile Bourquin (The Podcast Brothers) did another wonderful job on ...

For those of you who missed it. My Amateur Traveler podcast was nominated for a Podcast Award. Vote early, vote often (every day through August 11).

I was looking at stats for one of my recent episodes of the Amateur Traveler podcast. I think it a good episode and it has had between 29,000 and 30,000 downloads so far. It occurred to me that I had spent a few hours editing the audio for that show. The guest had very interesting ...

I just got an hour of my week back as I won’t be doing a version of the show (exactly 24 minutes, not a second more or less) for Sirius Satellite radio any more. I was doing this version through PodShow that has stopped this relationship with Sirius. I suspect that they stopped it because ...

If you have time on your hand check out my apartment which promotes my podcast (Amateur Traveler podcast) on Podcast Island in SecondLife.

Tourism Ireland and Aer Lingus are having a contest that can win you a trip to Ireland called “Your Very Own Ireland Podcast Contest” (and bring along your new favorite travel podcaster who told you about it) read more | digg story

Here is good news for podcasting from Google Trends. It shows how the number of people searching for podcast has grown over the last few years. It looks like it has tripled since I started my podcast 42 weekly episodes ago.