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Podcast Hotel, a conference specializes in web 2.0 topics and podcast technology. Bridging the gap between web 2.0 and music marketing.

I was in Seattle for Yaris works which was hosted to promote Toyota’s Yaris. We had a Podcast Clinic session. We had a good time. (check out some pix I took) The guys from bands for fans were there and giving lots of feedback. We ended up having lunch together. Awesome peeps. Brent dropped by and gave us support as well. Thanks B.

A while back, I had a great conversation with uncleweed about podcasting. Uncle weed is a podcaster with lots of personality who lives in Vancouver. (You should listen to his shows). At the end of the day, as he said, it’s all about the content you have.

In today’s web, to the recent two-tier internet talk, is about the struggle of content. When everything is about media, creating media content becomes a crucial element in the whole mesh-up of digital age. The media should suit the context of the content. Different styles of media deliveries and technology style determines the final communication of content. Looking at video as one example, all the different ways of recording videos, and putting videos online have changed in its own ways. The fact that everyone can put their video on youtube or any other places …

I am at the podcast hotel seattle right now. It has been amazing. We had our first event last night with 3 bands playing: 3ce, blame amy, and fiasco. Not only did they play amazing music all night long, they were super awesome people to hang out with too. The night went on with lots of people mingling and talking. I did my virgin podcast as well, holding the official podcast hotel microphone. (It will soon be up after I capture the footage…) Thanks to thinkspot for the awesome venue and help. We will be partying there for another 2 nights.

Today we are at the triple door having our first day of conference. We have some pretty smart people talking here. Right now I am sitting at the very front row rockstar seating looking at Robert Spier from NPR …