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So I spent the weekend geeking out, as my roommate calls it, at UBC for the 3rd annual Bloggers Conference Northern Voice. I got a heavy dose of the social software scene and had a chance to integrate myself into blogger world, which until now I had never really identified myself as part of. Sure I have a blog, doesn’t everyone? I thought when I set up my little wordpress wonder two years ago, I would simply compliment the Spinning Drum web site with a random note side page dedicated to my turntable discoveries. It was a place to work out ideas, cast them into the digital ocean and hope they’d float by a few musically inclined web surfers. Well, my naivety about my simple little blog was shed this past weekend as I immersed myself f2f in the real world bloggisphere.

If you look at a web site like a house, the blog, I thought, was like a side room, maybe a small bedroom off the kitchen, near the back, but now I realized for many it’s the front door whose space extends into the living room. The blog like the living room, gets more of the foot traffic than the rest of the house, and it was a virtual place to meet and greet, more often than not the most active entertainment room for most of your guests. Northern Voice gave me a little paradigm shift and reinvigorated my blogging interests. I feel a renewed commitment to mixing it up in the blog world.

At Northern Voice the big draw for me, aside from the philosophical explorations of why we blog and who the hell cares, were the podcasting workshops. Dave Olson’s The Three Ps of Podcasting:Plan, Produce and Promote was my favorite. With no more tech-aid than a stack of paper and a paint brush, Olson made one of the most creative and hilarious presentations I’d seen in a long time. Better yet the piece was not only easy to understand and incredibly informative, but he also affirmed the importance of a beverage while producing a podcast. It’s these little details that allow you to get through some of the mind numbing parts inherent to digital hobbies. Getting your podcast levels right was affirmed by the Levelator presentation which gave the audience a recording 101, and if nothing else, reiterated the evils of clipping. The main bent of the whole presentation was to advertise the fact that this new software freebie could turn any voice based podcaster into an intermediate sound engineer through a drop and drag process. Providing newbie sound engineers with a brainless way to even out voice recordings is a worthy endeavour, maybe the corp should apply for charity status given how many ears they may save.

Overall, the most important thing I walked away with besides the importance of the blog to the evolution of humanity was I got a handle of what to do with my feeds (burn baby burn), and signed up with feedburner, technoratis and all the other rss agents that promise to deliver my blog to the masses.

So in the end what does it mean to the spinningdrum? Well perhaps more frequent blog posts, now you can subscribe; and as of last night, I let feed burner write and sort all my feeds. Sort of a more work less work equation for me and a less work less work equation for readers. Thank you Northern Voice.

For notes on the conference and all the good blog stuff you missed check the Northern Voice Wiki

Want to get podcasting try these tutorials
The Art of Podcasting
Podcast-how to
Podcasting from wikipedia

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