At long last I have the shows from Northern Voice posted on BlogosphereRadio.com. You can see the full listing of shows here. Unfortunately, we did not get to record four of the six panels – it just wasn’t possible for us. One thing I learned is that we should have had two machines working, one for recording and one for processing/uploading. That would have allowed us to start posting shows much earlier. Next time, we’ll do better 🙂

The episodes are all a little bit tinny (with the exception of the interviews episode), but it was the best audio we could get from the house feed. Megan says that it gives the “auditorium” feel anyway! If you encounter any problems listening to, downloading, or subscribing to any of the episodes, please let me know. We’re still working on the servers, so if things are a little slow, bear with us.

Lastly, enjoy!

Just got back home, and man, I wish I could go back. I’d take the grass and warm weather over this snow crap any day! Transferring shows…

I have tried a few different Internet connections now, even a wired one at Kinko’s, and I just can’t seem to get any decent speeds. And I have about 500 MB of stuff to upload, so 15 k/s isn’t going to cut it. I am back in Edmonton tonight around 11 PM MST, so I will just copy the files across the network then. That means, no BlogosphereRadio shows will be up until then. Sorry if you’re eagerly awaiting them, but that’s the best I can do.

We’ve also realized that the limitations of our servers and Internet have been stretched, and just can’t do what we need any more. Thus, new server equipment has been purchased this weekend (and partially setup) and new Internet will be coming this week. So by next Sunday, everything should be peachy!

I have all of the recording from yesterday’s Northern Voice conference ready for you to hear, the problem I am having is that the upload from the hotel here is terribly slow. It’s like watching paint dry when I look at the progress bar. Anyway, Tim Bray’s and Robert Scoble’s sessions are up in MP3, the download link for the ZIP file will come a little later.

Megan and I are going to the NV dim sum at 10 AM PST, so I think I’ll try and find an Internet cafe or somewhere that I can plugin for high speed to upload the rest of the stuff. Sorry for the delay – so much for my “almost live” tagline for these shows!

The conference is now over, and what a conference it was! I spent a lot of my day recording, but I also got a chance to talk to some really interesting people. The panel I was on, “Working with Multimedia Content”, went quite well. I didn’t really say much, but that’s okay. Most of the panel focused on Marc Canter and his new project for working with metadata. In any case, I really disagreed with some of the things he was saying, and quite frankly, I thought he was very rude to the audience.

I am currently encoding the files for BlogosphereRadio.com, so unfortunately I don’t think all the shows will be up by 6:30 PST which is what I had been telling people. On the flip side, we spent some more time recording, so we have some good interviews and sound clips from conference attendees in addition to the sessions.

As soon as the shows are up, I’ll post here, and if you subscribe to the BR feeds you’ll of course get the shows right away. Next up for us is the after party at 7:30 PST. More later!

Here you can see our podcasting setup in the main theatre at Northern Voice. Basically we’ve patched into the house feed so we are picking up the microphone from the podium, and they also have a lapel mic that is a bit quieter.

It seems like a regular thing for me to be stealing power! It’s been talked about at the conference here, and it’s kind of funny, people don’t sit at the front of the room unless there is no space left by the power outlets. Definitely a technology conference!

We decided that we’d podcast the Community Blogging session instead of the Introduction to Video Blogging, simply because it was taking place in the main theatre. I am still planning to podcast my panel session at 3:15 PST.

Of course the day of the conference is the day we have a problem with our database server. Thanks to Dickson for getting everything working! The BlogosphereRadio site is back up now, and I’ll hopefully start posting the shows around 5:30 PST.

Also, if you picked up a Podcast Wizard beta CD at the conference today, definitely give us your feedback! You can email us at info@paramagnus.com or leave a comment, or flag me down! We’ll do our best to get back to you immediately. And please remember, it’s a beta…so don’t be mad if it doesn’t work properly! Instead, help us fix it 🙂

Okay we’ve got the website all setup and ready to go! You can check out the episodes related to Northern Voice on BlogosphereRadio.com now. Be sure to check throughout tomorrow for updates.

I have now been awake for about 36 hours straight – time to sleep!

Megan and I arrived in Vancouver today without any problems, though it did take a while for our luggage to get off the plane. Or maybe we were just being impatient, that’s probably more likely! Anyway we got to the hotel, and found that we are on the floor marked “Executive Suites”, so we were happy to see that! Nice room so far too, high-speed wireless Internet that Megan has been having trouble connecting to, but it seems to work for me.

We decided to walk around downtown a bit today, so we of course stopped at Starbucks. There’s lots of them around too, you can’t go more than two or three blocks without seeing one. My kind of place! We also went to the UBC Downtown campus to check out the rooms for tomorrow’s conference. Looks like they have a nice house feed that we can tap into for the big theatre, and although we couldn’t get into the smaller room, it looks do-able too. Unfortunately we can only record one session at a time, so here’s our plan for podcasting Northern Voice:

• We’ll be podcasting both Tim Bray’s and Robert Scoble’s keynotes from the theatre.
• We are planning to podcast the Introduction to Audio Blogging and Podcasting session at 10:30 AM.
• We are planning to podcast the Introduction to Video Blogging session at 11:30 AM.
• We are planning to podcast the following panels: Promoting Your Blog and Building Traffic, Working with Multimedia Content.
• We’ll try to record some impromptu interviews with people during the coffee and lunch breaks, and because we’re not sure about the Lightning Tool Talks, not going to promise anything there.

Sometime tonight we’ll get the Northern Voice show setup on BlogosphereRadio so that you can subscribe JUST to those episodes if you want. Of course, all the audio will be included in the main feed as well. Still not exactly sure how the audio will sound, I am gonna try and set it up tonight so that we can podcast very quickly after each session. This probably means no Windows Media feeds, sorry about that.

Just about to leave the house for Vancouver. Megan and I are there for the Northern Voice conference this weekend. Stay tuned here and at BlogosphereRadio for updates!