Comments on: PodMtl meet-up this thursday

By: Serge Lemire

Serge Lemire — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:00:02 +0000

Salut Hugh,

Bien content de lire ce que tu racontes…en effet, le contenu est le plus important et manque cruellement dans tout ce que l’on voit en podcasting. Ã€ force d’en parler nous pourrons peut-Ãªtre influer le cours des choses et Ã©veiller les gens Ã “crÃ©er” du contenu. Nous n’avons pas besoin du dernier cri en gagdets Ã©lectroniques…

Et tu rÃ©veilles en moi encore une fois ce dÃ©sir de faire connaÃ®tre les accents de la Louisiane, des Acadiens de partout au Canada.

DerniÃ¨rement j’ai fait la connaissance d’une Acadienne de l’Ile du Prince Edouard… Angie Arsenault…Elle sera au CafÃ© Campus lundi le 14 janvier 2008. HÃ©las elle ne chante qu’en anglais, j’ai rÃ©ussi Ã obtenir de son gÃ©rant une toune en franÃ§ais…tu adorerais!

On se rejase un de ces 4.

Hugh c’est toujours un plaisir de te jaser!

By: Hugh

Hugh — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:43:19 +0000

It was mostly show-and-tell about audio gadgets, but I spent the whole time talking to serge about how podcasting meet-ups & camps are always talking about things like how to grow your audience, how to market yourself, what gadgets to use, etc, which is fine, but it would be much more interesting to spend more time talking about the cool projects people could be doing, with “podcasts” just happening to be the means of distribution, which is what serge (from du bon et du con) and i talked about, to whit:
-an exploration of north american french accents, talking to louisiana cajuns, franco-ontariennes, quebecois from lac st jean to gaspe to gatineau, and acadians, among others
-a show about the old folk stories etc from the groups above
-a weekly show about the issues surrounding suicide, with interviews with kids, parents etc
-interviews with farmers about their lives
– a daily? weekly? 5 minute clip with random old people talking about what life was like when they were kids.

etc. etc. etc.

why aren’t more people doing more interesting things with audio on the net.

it drives me crazy.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:31:15 +0000

“PodMtl is a welcoming, non-judgmental gathering in an open, non-threatening environment”

Is this Alcoholics Anonymous or for podcasters?

Seriously – Can’t believe I missed it. Please post a round-up / review.

By: reuben

reuben — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:42:12 +0000

that logo is utterly badass.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:14:11 +0000

experimenting with Mirror Community Events Classified Ad writing style.

By: mtl3p

mtl3p — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:53:51 +0000

“welcoming, non-judgmental gathering in an open, non-threatening environment”

hunh? that’s the first time I’ve seen this language in the tech scene. What’s the deal? I’m interested.