Panel Recap

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And we're done. The panel was alot of fun, although I was somewhat surprised to see how little people know about blogging in general and how it relates to podcasting. But I think the people that attended walked out of the room with a better understanding of everything we discussed. We stayed away from the legal aspects of podcasting and the legalities of not using "podsafe" material in them other than to point out that 1) none of us were lawyers and 2) technically, it's illegal to use music in a podcast that you don't have rights or permission to use.

Podcasting is such a buzz term here that everyone is trying to learn as much as they can about it. We tried to point out that a podcast is basically just a big MP3 file with numerous things contained on it, whether it's just talk, music or both. The advantage of podcasting is that by use of an aggregator, it is delivered to your computer, ready for you to listen to. This is in contrast to MP3 Blogs and the extra steps involved with manually downloading the MP3 files they offer. We also explained the difference between music blogs and MP3 blogs is and the technology each of us used to make their own podcasts. Not exactly breaking news to the readers here, but remember, this is the music industry we are talking about. All in all, alot of fun. Any time I get to sit behind a microphone and spout off about something that I'd like to think I know alot about, it's all good. Many thanks to Wendy Harmon and the FMC for inviting me to participate.