Ripple6 about Ripple6 being acquired by Gannett and how social media is going to integrated with traditional media.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 14 – length 38:40 download or click to play:[audio:TalkSocialNews0014-Ripple6.mp3] Subscribe to podcast in iTunes:

Other topic discussed this week are:
What the blog:
Obama’s first address to the nation on YouTube

Fail of the week:
A Sad Day In Silicon Valley

News this week
Blackberry Storm
How fast is google android phone?
Video Chat comes to Gmail
Twitter 20 interviews

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Posted on November 14, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Charlotte WordCamp: It's all about WordPress, Design, Plugins, Promotions & Networking

This Saturday is Charlotte WordCamp also known as CLTWordCamp. The event is being organized by Creative Strategist, Jason Keath. (thanks Jason) The schedule is below and you can follow the conversation on twitter via the CLTWordCamp tag. I’m not sure about a video live stream yet but I’ll see what we can work out.

As this being my first WordCamp I’m excited to join others who are passionate about WordPress. Also I’m looking forward to joining other colleges on a panel to discuss promoting and marketing your blog and the keynote session from Mark Jaquith.

If you have any questions for not only for the panel but for CLTWordCamp attendees you can ask them here using google moderator.

Schedule:
09:45 – 10:00: Introductions
10:00 – 11:00: WordPress for Beginners
10:00 – 11:00: Meet and Greet
11:30 – 12:15: Technical & Design Panel
12:15 – 01:00: Lunch
01:00 – 01:45: Content Development/Technique Panel
02:00 – 02:45: Promotion/Marketing Panel
03:00 – 04:00: Keynote Speaker (w/ Q&A) – Mark Jaquith

Also I still want to apologize again to the Triangle, NC (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) community for WordCampRDU being suspended. Someone else will be planning WordCampRDU for 2009.

Again looking forward to Saturday for CLTWordCamp and as always follow the tweets (@waynesutton) for updates.

Posted on November 11, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

My #2 most asked question: What equipment do I use for recording video & live streaming

My #2 most asked question: What equipment do I use for recording video & live streaming. Here’s the list and then some.

Mobile live streaming hardware:

1. Nokia N95
2. Apple iPhone 8gb (jailbroken)
3. Blackberry Curve 8830

Mobile live streaming software:
Qik.com
Flixwagon.com
Kyte.tv

Conference live streaming hardware:

1. Samsung SCD103
2. Logitech QuickCam Ultra Vision SE Webcam(works with Mac & PC)
3. Apple MacBook builtin iSight webcam

Conference live streaming and chat software:

1. Ustream.tv
2. Mogulus.com
3. Cover-it-live (chat)
4. Meebo (chat)
5. WordPress.org (I know it’s not a software but a platform & I love it)
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Posted on November 11, 2008 - by Wayne Sutton

Blog Promotion: Who are you pinging?

This weekend I’ll be perticipating on a panel about blog promotion at WordCamp Charlotte, we’re going to have conversations on differnet ways to increase your blog readership and using social media to build an audience to get your blog infront of the readers you want to stick.

For some pinging may be old school in the blogosphere but it’s still needed, so I thought why not post a list of urls that I ping. Not included on the list are pinging sites such as http://pingoat.com.

What pinging services do you use?

What sites do you use to ping that’s not on the list?

The List

http://rpc.pingomatic.com/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping?u=http://example.com

http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2

http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://www.pheedo.com/api/ping

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx

http://api.moreover.com/ping

http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2

http://ping.bitacoras.com

http://ping.feedburner.com

http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php

http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/

http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/

http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping

http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2

http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2

http://www.blogoole.com/ping/

http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php

http://www.wasalive.com/ping/

http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/

http://blogping.unidatum.com/RPC2/