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I’ve been really poor at posting recently. I have a bunch of draft posts waiting to be completed but I’m forcing myself to be timely with this one.

I went to PodCastConUK 2006 on a whim yesterday. It was mentioned in a podcast I listened to on Friday, Ididn’t have any plans for Saturday, and was pretty cheap. It was an interesting day, talking to podcasters, manufacturers and advertising/pr people.

I spoke to a number of people about the technical opportunities and the main area that kept coming up in all of the discussions was that of audience feedback. Everyone wants more and IMO we can make it easier for people to submit feedback and for listeners to consume the feedback from other listeners. Definite food for thought that I’ll hopefully attack this week.

Some of the discussion was wider than just podcasting. The panel on ‘Citizen Journalism’ in particular threw up a bunch of interesting opinion, including from BBC and Guardian employees. There seemed to be a concensus that the term is problematic and that people who meet journalistic standards are journalists regardless of whether they’re a blogger or podcaster.

Overall, it was a fun day, with lots of things to think about, lots of interesting people to talk to, and some really good music.