For an “un-conference” frantically produced by a bunch of disparate forces with virtually no money, PodCamp NYC last Saturday came off 
smoothly for 1,300 participants at the appropriately grand and dowdy Moonie hotel, The New Yorker. In the days and weeks to come I will follow up with people I met to explore some of the technology, productions and personalities but for now the over all impression is WOW.Â
I was blown away by the emerging podcast sub culture and how PodCamp has managed to draw it together. Musicians, artists, actors, producers, educators … even an occasional though gladly outnumbered PR person … came from Boston, Washington D.C., Texas, even Long Island. One couple drove up from Virginia and attended the RSS seminar because they like to be with creative people. The guy gave out blank CDs with a cool PodCast NYC logo. No message, no product, no contact info. Just because. It was almost like a Grateful Dead concert without the electric kool aid (what was in those ubiquitous water bottles outside every room anyway?)
PodCamp, opening Saturday morning, April 7 in NYC, seemed a couple of weeks ago like a quaint little gathering. It’s quickly snowballed into this humongo event that had to be moved from the New School to the New Yorker Hotel to accomodate the throngs. Sponsors have piled on, there are networking parties, concerts, events, and a day chock full of interesting sounding sessions – all in a “un-conference” setting. Yes, and it’s free! 
When you look from space you see flare ups across the earth, weather systems, lightning, fires. The skies are always in motion and the earth is revolving. The same with the blogosphere. Little flare ups across the globe sometimes lead to bigger questions, resolutions, or all out war.
worse,” Richard Edelman says in the following interview with PRBlogNews. 