My girlfriend and I have been staying at Soniat House, a small, 200-year-old hotel that’s featured in Patricia Schultz’ 1000 Places to See Before You Die. It’s expensive, but very nice. This morning, as we were leaving, I took a little video of the entrance. Take a look.
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Photo by Clayton Cubitt. Check out his great set of Katrina photographs.
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Just booked a flight to NYC for the weekend. 950 people have signed up. I have to see it. Here’s a picture in case you’re looking for me this weekend:
Also, my phone number is:
I’ll probably respond to email faster, though. :)
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My 150th show, done from the balcony of a hotel room during SXSW 2007. The state and future of the web and of media personalities, my position within the structure, and where I hope to be. It all came out.
This was a great show to do.
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Done with South by South West for the day, I think– or at least long enough to take some downtime. In this brief audioblog I discuss Galacticast, Jet Set Show, Steve Garfield, and some other stuff I really don’t remember.
I wish I could say that the first day has been awesome, but right now I think I’m dealing with a cavity, which just detracts from the whole thing. Also, having so many people around is somewhat overwhelming. I prefer little gatherings, I think.
Later on is the Ze Frank party, which will likely be filled to the brim. See you guys tomorrow!
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So I’m in San Francisco right now, chilling in a house we rented with Patrick and a certain girl. The next few days involve recording a podcast and general vacationing, getting together with some Podshow peeps and listeners to the show. Yesterday was Flickr’s 3rd anniversary party, which was super fun.
The Podcamp Toronto thing thatweall organized was seriously awesome. Here’s a few things I learned:
1) Mitch said one thing that I suspect will ring true for us a number of years from now– that social networks and dating sites will soon cause a drastic drop in the divorce rate.
2) Twitter is all over the place! Chris Brogan had it on his slides; Chris Penn did too. Scoble just added his 700+ fans to his friends list, as a radical listening experiment. This may be the coolest thing I’ve seen someone do in 2007.
3) Podcasting may finally be ready to move beyond the simple monetization methods that have long held the medium hostage. Through ourTrust Economies session I feel that some momentum is pushing the idea of networks-as-ROI forward. Take a look at the video here (it requires Quicktime), and please leave your comments if you’re so inclined– I’d love to hear them.
Filed by Julien at 9:23 pm under projects, travel, community, podcamp toronto, trends, podcasting
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I spent this past week in New York City without a great deal of fanfare. It was the first time I was there, hanging out with a friend and people I’ve met through CouchSurfing.com, a site for travelers who want to do it on the cheap and meet cool people.
Although my initial impressions of the couchsurfing phenom made me feel that it might be kind of awkward to be in other people’s houses all the time, I am pleased to say that I was wrong. The people I spent time with were so generous, I can’t help but be encouraged to get more involved in their community. It was seriously great the whole way through.
There is so much that happened to me this week that’s difficult to express right now. I’m waiting for a bus right now that’ll take me back to Montreal, where I’ll put out some more podcasts and, this week, start work with Homeless Nation, a non-profit that embraces podcasting as part of their strategy to help empower street kids. I’m really looking forward to it.
