Almost Famous

Friday Coffeeblogging is getting ink in BusinessWeek!

It's an early May day in Burlington, Vt. Flameape and Bill are sitting in a local café, talking with Matty the Greek, the program director at RadioFreeSatan.com. After much meandering, the discussion turns to podcasting, the latest craze on the Internet. Thousands of citizens, including the gang in Burlington, are creating their own radio shows -- podcasts -- and beaming them as MP3 files onto the Net.

No, it's not quite as easy as it sounds -- not yet, anyway. The Vermonters agree that the details of creating a podcast are technically challenging for the general public. But that sure doesn't stop these tech-savvy talkers. You can listen to their weekly half-hour gabfest, and even carry it around on an iPod or any MP3 player, by downloading it from Friday Coffeeblogging (candleboy.com/fridaycoffeeblogging). If listening to the guy from Radio Free Satan doesn't sound quite right for your morning commute, there are scads of other programs. You can check out a broad selection on PodcastAlley.com.

Of course they pick a week I wasn't on, so I am once again forgotten despite being the heart and soul of all things bloggy, poddy and good.  Serves me right I guess: I'm blowing off this week's FCB so I could escape to the Fortress, tho we might do a Skype session (if Bill and Flameape actually follow through this time--ahem!) to include me remotely.

ntodd