September 2007 Posts

We heard long ago that Will would be moving into the old theatre-looking space next to the Cruises Only building, but later found out he was bogged down in legislation, or something to that effect. Here's the first I've heard about Will re-re-re-relocating (if you count the Will's Pub South incident and his current arrangement with TASTE).

From Orlando Metromix:

Will's Pub is coming back to not only Orlando, but Mills Avenue. Here's an excerpt from my column that is running in the Orlando Sentinel this Friday about it:

"I may not have come back with a dime from Vegas last week, but I felt like I hit the jackpot when I got home that night and found out Will Walker has found a new space for Will’s Pub. Better news is it’s on Mills Avenue in Orlando, not far from where the old place once stood, but closer to the Wally’s, Uncle Lou’s, Paradise and Peacock Room end of the action.

According to Walker, the space is roughly the same size as the old pub with three rooms instead of two. You should see the opening of the bar at 1040 N. Mills Ave. in the next month or two."

One thing I noticed is that this is just one street south of Say It Loud. Julio must be beaming.

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Over at m.30boxes.com they've got a neat little service called Twapper - "Twitter Mobile for WAP". I didn't think much of it until just now when I realized that I only twittered a few times today, but John and Chris wrote several texts. I was even quoted in one of them!

Twapper is so easy you can use it from your cell phone, but it makes a great deal of sense as a web service as well. Think, I wanted to see tweets from just a few users, not all my friends, not just me. No special #tagging or @addressing needed, just a good service. If you want to see more than one stream, just type +bloggingfringe or +johnrife+hailtheale to the end of your URL. I think it has a limit on the number of streams you can combine, but it is ad-hoc groups! Ad-hoc! Buzzword compliant!

Another very useful thing that was omitted from this screenshot (for archival purposes) is a little text box just below the stream that bears the legend "Direct twitter this group only!" That's a very useful feature, so easy you can operate it from your crappy cellphone browser.

Also, John was inspired to try out some live YouTube as per my suggestion at Friday's lunch, so check out that link too.

I will be leading a discussion at the 2nd Annual BlogOrlando Unconference on Friday, September 28th at about 3PM. Josh Hallet, who organizes the event, has asked the session leaders to give participants an idea of what we'll be talking about, and get the discussion going beforehand. Please feel free to help me add/subtract/update this list. Some things I've been thinking about:

• You don't need to be like Big Media
• Put your favorite NPR show, your favorite music and a show you created in your living room on your mom's MP3 player
• Why the iTunes directory is king
• What's with the "Pod" anyway? Is there a better word for it?
• Some podcasts are for your eyes only
• Think like the little guy - keep it real
• Just get past your first episode
• What's in a name? SEO/Branding
• Promotional Tools & Community
• Episodes, shownotes, flash players, widgets
• Stereo vs. Mono, bitrates, filesizes, hosting
• Audio vs. video, text, photo, Internet TV vs. videoblogs
• How do I publish a feed? How do they subscribe?
• Networks vs. all-encompassing shows
• Skype is your best friend
• Playing music during shows
• Atmospherics - is the Air Conditioner a friend or foe?
• Enjoy it while it lasts - AKA "Podfading"
• ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE

That's the list as of now. Josh is going to be linking to this from the BlogOrlando site somewhere, so keep checking back. This is also the post where I'll be publishing any links, downloads, slides, samples, etc.

Update: I spoke about this subject using these slides at BarCampOrlando, and this is what Tim took away from it:

Hints: name it within the 1st 5 episodes. Keeping the same name and url helps retain viewers/ listeners. Episode numbers are not essential but paying attention to locations of listeners and content popularity helps focus on what is working. Make sure to keep it personal, an extension of you not a competition to real media which you will never beat. Show notes help a lot to keep subscribes connected and personalized.

“Make it something interesting for your audience”