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Congrats to Evan Williams for selling Odeo for a reported $1,000,000 and welcome to the industry in a big way SonicMountain. Launched in November 2006 this little known group is obviously filled with folks with big plans as you can see from the news on their website. I’m sure they’ll pay attention to the things not to do as refreshingly detailed by Evan and reported on GigaOM.
- Larry
I just did an interview with John Havens of About.com who expressed great interest in a pet podcast project of mine called “Random Kindness.” In the whirlwind of the Blogger & Podcaster magazine launch it made me remember why I got into this business in the first place. This is a podcast where I find deserving people in need of a helping hand and tell their stories in a podcast show. Here’s the experiment I’d like you to participate in: Go and listen to the story of Susan Benaszek & Lamonte Chenvert at www.randomkindness.net. Then give a dollar or two and then pass this along to a few friends and ask them to do the same. I think we can change the world through podcasting — $1-2 at a time. $1-2 won’t be a hardship on anyone and by working together we can turn the lives around of this family who lost everything in Hurricane Katrina and is still struggling to this day. Once we get them back on their feet, we’ll take all the extra funds from this grand “experiment” and do even more for other forgotten victims of Katrina victims. C’mon let’s put podcasting on the map as a force for good — $1 at a time!
- Larry
Apologies for the delay in getting out our podcast edition. Most of the April stories are now finally posted on our website, but the RSS feed still needs to be created. This will happen shortly and will enable you to download the entire issue (or just the stories you care about) and listen when and where you desire. Thanks for understanding as we work through our launch “kinks.”
- Larry
With the launch of Blogger & Podcaster Magazine, we simultaneously launched the B&P Guide. It’s designed to be like “TV Guide” for blogs and podcasts, allowing you to easily find new content on the subjects you care about. If you click the B&P Guide tab you’ll see our listings have grown pretty nicely over the last week. It shouldn’t be too long until this is a great and more complete resource. If you have a blog/podcast you want to have included, listing in the online directory is free. You can sign-up at www.bloggerandpodcaster.com/guideinfo.php
- Larry
I made the decision to charge for the print subscription to allow as many people as possible to have access to the magazine. If we would have given the print edition away for free, like many trade publishers do, we would have had to cap circulation at around 10,000 before our printing and mailing costs would force us to have to charge advertising rates that would be too steep for what the industry can afford at this time. By offering the digital and podcast editions for free we can literally allow millions to have access to the content without having to significantly raise our advertising rates. Hope you understand.
- Larry
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Blogger & Podcaster Magazine
We are working diligently to fix the final bugs before we release the digital edition of our inaugural issue. We wanted to release this today, but based on the update I just received most likely it will be tomorrow or Wednesday. Also, we’re putting the finishing touches on the podcast edition which will be released and available for download by the end of the week. The print edition is at the printer now and will be mailed out next week. As you might imagine it’s been crazy trying to put out a new magazine…in 3 formats (that are all different)… at the same time. Hopefully you’ll all give us the benefit of the doubt while we get our “sea legs.”
- Larry
Well, here we are. Blogger & Podcaster Magazine takes its first steps out into the blogging world. Hey, it’s nice here! I’m looking forward to sharing our magazine-creation journey with you all, and hearing how you like our “baby”.
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