Two Great Podcasts for the Price of None

Remember podcasts? Those great audio files you can listen to on your computer while you're doing other stuff -- or transfer to your iPod? They're free?

- Back in March, I moderated a really informative panel at South by Southwest on "Building an Online Fan Base." The MP3 audio is here, and for context, there's some textual coverage of the panel here. Panelists were:

> Scilla Andreen, IndieFlix
> Jim Miller, Brave New Foundation
> Ian Schafer, Deep Focus
> David Straus, Without A Box
> Joe Swanberg, Filmmaker
> Lance Weiler, Filmmaker and Editor, The Workbook Project

- Speaking of The Workbook Project, Lance has just posted an interview with Nicholas Reville of the Participatory Culture Foundation, which is trying to ensure that the medium of Internet TV stays open and independent.

Upcoming Panel on Podcasting and Hollywood, from the PGA San Francisco

The San Francisco chapter of the Producers Guild of America and Baycat are putting on a panel discussion this coming Tuesday, June 5th, called 'Where Do Podcasting & Hollywood Converge?' It's open to members of the PGA and non-members as well.

Panelists include Leo Laporte, host of "This Week in Tech"; John Furrier, CEO of PodTech.net; Emily Morse, host of "Sex With Emily"; JD Lasica, president of the Social Media Group; Oscar Grimm, director of Freshtopia.net; and Nick Quesada, host of Baycat's podcast. Moderating is John Gilles, former vice president of G4TV.

The event is Tuesday, June 5th at the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, 2415 Third Street, Suite 230. It starts with networking at 6:30, and the panel begins at 7:30. It's free, but you need to RSVP no later than June 4th: e-mail sfpgamixer@yahoo.com, with your name in the subject line. Sadly, there's no Web site.