So I've received a copy of the podcasting book I blogged about last week and the bit about Friday Coffeeblogging is great. To recap: super tech publisher O'Reilly has published a pocket guide to podcasting called, appropriately enough, the Podcasting Pocket Guide. It's a precursor to a larger and more comprehensive book on the subject that they're preparing. The author interviewed us last summer and sure enough, we're in the book. Specifically, we're in chapter 5: 30 Great Podcasts. FCB is the first podcast covered in the section.



Below I have copied what the book says about FCB. I have yet to further peruse the guide, but it looks like its a really straightforward how-to guide for podcasting--both finding and subscribing to podcasts and making your own. The 30 Great Podcasts chapter looks like a gold mine of good content and considering how many people read these O'Reilly books, I should really get to editing the FCBs I have sitting "in the can." I suspect some traffic might come our way from this

Friday Coffeeblogging

url: http://www.candleboy.com/fridaycoffeeblogging/
Frequency: Weekly
Duration: 30 minutes
Rating: PG

Friday Coffeeblogging is unique among podcasts and not only for its content: the show is recorded in a coffee shop in downtown Burlington, Vermont, and the atmosphere is recorded right along with the show. Captured in the background are the clinks of coffee cups, the murmur of the patrons, and the warbling of the café's background music. (And you can almost smell the coffee...)

The hosts of the show are Bill Simmon, N. Todd Pritsky, and Gregory Giordano, also known by their "web handles" Bill, Ntodd, and Flameape. In some respects, the show is like Seinfeld: it's about nothing. The podcast is simply an exploration of whatever happens on the day it's recorded. This lack of direction may turn you off, but the personality of the hosts is what really grabs you.

This podcast is a talkfest among three close friends with the occasional slice of music thrown in to spice things up, and, in most cases, the conversation slips into geek speak. Discussions range from meanderings and personal anecdotes, such as Flameape's claim that he is a personal disaster zone, to opinions of movies such as Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith where the gang interviewed fans waiting in line for the premier at Burlington's Roxy Cinema.

Thanks Richard!