I was talking to [l:http://penguinday.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Dkg|Daniel K. Gillmor] at [lk:newyork.penguinday.org|Penguin Day] about podcasting and audio recording. I recorded this description of a program he helps out on that teached public school kids to produce "radio" shows.

We talked about the technology they use, and later, not on the recording, we talked a bit more about using podcasting to empower communities (school kids or low income communities).

Fromt he conversations about podcasting that I had at penguin day and after ward (at teh bar) many people think it is a fad that is not going to go anywher (including Noemi, a woman i spoke with who tried to make the case thaqt not enough people have broadband for podcasting ever to matter) I disagree, it hink it already matters, but we are going to have an explosion of podcasting and then there will likely be a consolidation and we will need "truset brokers" to promote and aggregate good podcasts.

ANyway, here is what Daniel had to say. There is a third voice on this (chimes in about the sony mp3 voice memo pen) but i can't remember who it was, if you recognize your voice (or the voice) let me know who it is.

also mentioned are NPRs Radio Diaries and http://www.audioactivism.org

click here to listen [l:files/dgillmoraudiodiaries.mp3]

sorry about all the background noise....