I enjoyed Podcamp Ottawa yesterday. Thanks to Mark, Andrea and Bob for organizing.
The conversation was frank and informative and it was nice to reconnect with the likes of Julien and Charles who I haven’t seen in a while.
After much conceptual talk in the morning session about context and content and connections, Hugh McGuire did a great job “rebooting” our conversation when he led off the afternoon with a poignant reminder of why, I think, most of us in the room choose to spend the entirety of a Sunday in November sitting on the floor — lovely as the plush red carpet was — talking about podcasting.
Hugh played a clip from well-known Canadian podcaster Scarborough Dude which very effectively reminded us it’s about the audio; that audio, whether it’s online, on the radio, or on a portable device … that audio has a way of communicating to us, of engaging us, of captivating us in a way that the written word or visual media simply cannot.
Chalk it up to the primacy of language, the power of the spoken word, or the theatre of the mind, the fact remains, audio is the most powerful form of communication we have.
And our love of audio is why we choose to spend 6 hours numbing our butts at the NAC yesterday.