I’m at my desk in Texas, reading the morning’s blogs, and watching Twitter messages go by. I’m finding out about all the fun happenings at PodCampNYC over the weekend; the 1000+ attendees, the partying, the people I know who went and didn’t invite me to come along. I’m a molten pile of seething jealousy.

Actually, I’m not seething. I certainly wish I could have been in New York, but it is the very existence of the blogosphere and the podosphere that makes it possible for me to have a meaningful vicarious experience here at home. Had I been at my desk Saturday, instead of running around town doing errand, I could have dialed in immediately, and almost live to see video and read blog updates. But all that great stuff is here for me today, just a few hours after the fact. Even better, people are distilling the best parts on their blogs and offering their own post-game analysis. Cool!

Here are a couple of PodCampNYC blog links. For more, check in at Technorati.

• PR Blog News
• GlitchNYC, one of the co-organizers

Every event has at least one great story: something wacky, zany, outrageous or silly that happened while you were elsewhere. My nominee is the sad story of the Pickle Man. Gary Leland, grand poobah of the Podcast Pickle directory site, brought his Pickle Man mascot outfit to New York and hired someone to wear the suit during PodCamp. We got the first word of a shocking injustice from Gary on Twitter this morning.

“TSA held the Pickleman Mascot up in NY, they would not tell us why. It was national security and that was all they would say. He is innocent.”

We Pickle fans were outraged. I was just about ready to lead a protest. But Gary is an easy-going guy who sees the humor in the situation. “If it was not so funny, I would be mad.” he Twittered a little later.

We love to cover PodCamps, as well as other blogging and podcasting-related happenings. Let us know about your events and we’ll add them the the monthly Blogger & Podcaster calendar.

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