First Crack Podcast with Garrick Van Buren

My coverage of Jim Cuene’s Web 2.0 presentation at the May 2005 Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association salon. One on one comments with attendees and Jim’s full presentation. Lots of insight into the current local interactive marketing scene vibe. Once again, I slide the Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle into conversation.

Listen to Web 2.0 in Minneapolis [1 hr 12 min]

Sam Buchanan follows up our home roasting with a cupping and tasting of the Indian Monsooned Malabar. He walks you through the cupping ritual and provides his impression of this unique coffee.

Listen to Sam’s Cupping of the Malabar [11 min]

Looks like First Crack isn’t the only game in town. Coffee-n-Caffeine puts the PodcastMN count to 18.

Sam Buchanan and I roast up a couple of batches in my garage and talk about home roasting and coffee tasting techniques.

Oh, and I celebrate Uchenna and Joyce, the winners of CBS’s Amazing Race 7.

Listen to Home Roasting with Sam Buchanan [9 min]

Scott McGerik and I discuss the best and worst of Twin Cities dining. Including:

• The 3 places in the Twin Cities with Juicy Lucys
• How to get the best sushi
• A bad idea at Applebee’s

Listen to Restaurant Reviews with Scott McGerik [25 min]

I’d like to thank Julio Ojeda-Zapata and Leslie Brooks Suzukamo for the PodcastMN article in the Saturday Pioneer Press.

The article is right, a key challenge is to lure advertisers. I’m actually not confident the advertiser-publisher relationship we’re accustomed to in radio, televison, and newspapers will effectively migrate to podcasting.

As PBCliberal mentions in his recent ‘Finding my Niche’ show, the strength of podcasting is how effectively it can speak to a very small audience. The same is true of weblogs and websites as a whole.

The barrier to entry is so low with podcasting and the audience so niche, then there’s the fact that a show could be listeneded to the first time months after it was originally published. The traditional mass media ad models won’t work. Honestly, if the products of services the advertisers are hawking are actually compelling - then they should have their own podcast.

On the other hand, following the public radio model makes far more sense - I think ITConversations is setting an excellent example of how to offset the costs by bringing in donors and underwriters. Doug spells out the ITConversation business model here.

By the way, PodcastMN - the Sound of Minnesota is officially up. 14 podcasts, in a single site.

Things I talked about:

• Dave Slusher interview @ PodcastSolutions.com
• Garrick’s Podcast Picks @ Gigadial
• PodcastMN

Listen to First Crack News Break May 2005 [12 min]

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I was reading Scripting news when it I noticed it. The words I was reading were spoken by Dave Winer.

I’ve never met Dave. Something I’d like to do, but all the same, I’ve never met him. I’ve only listened to his podcasts (which continue to explore the bounds of this new audio form). From his podcasts, I have a place in my brain for Dave’s cadence, his inflections, his pronunciation, his personality.

In my head, the words I read are always spoken by The Voice of the Author. Some archetypical voice without a name or face. Reading Scripting news this morning, it was Dave speaking. His voice reading the words back.

Behold, the power of podcasting.