CONSIDER ATTENDING!
I can't make these dates, but really WOULD like to do a Podcamp, based on what I've heard from people-who've-attended. I was tempted to burn some miles and do the one in San Francisco, but couldn't clear those dates either.
Note: This is NOT about radio.
It's about publishing online, in various media, often radio-like audio.
Translation: the do-it-yourself special-interest stuff that buffs are passing-around online.
The stuff that's chipping-away at same-old-same-old on-air fare.
Also highly recommended -- and I will be attending -- is Blogworld & New Media Expo 2009 (
http://www.blogworldexpo.com/), in Vegas in October. This conference is the merger of two previously-independent shows, one-of-which was the SUPERB New Media Expo that I attended the-first-three-of ("the podcasting convention"). At these events, you feel the mojo that USED TO engergize radio conventions.
With Las Vegas hotel rooms now DIRT-cheap, and those hilariously-low 21-day-advance-purchase SWA airfares (non-stop from PVD!), this might be more affordable than you think.
HC
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