The 2004 film, Sideways, inspired wine drinkers the world over to mimic snooty remarks like, “No, if anyone orders Merlot, I’m leaving. I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot!” I went to see this movie. I sat in the theater. And while others chuckled throughout the entire 124 minutes, the only thing I realized….I was in the dark. It’s no surprise that I was delighted to find a podcast devoted to the distinguished art of drinking. Much like Miles and Jack (of Sideways), Joe and Lori (of A Guy, A Girl and A Bottle Podcast) embark on adventures throughout California’s wine country.

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Aaron Johnson’s wife went into labor a week early, so he was a bit taken by surprise as he ushered her out to the car to head to the hospital. Even so, he remembered to grab a few essential items: a satchel of clothes, a car seat, his iPod and an iPod recording attachment.

His iPod? Well, sure. How else was he going to capture audio of the birth of their first child, Brooklyn, to play on his podcast?

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Gretchen Vogelzang and Paige Heninger, the co-hosts of the MommyCast podcast on child rearing, are serious about their podcasting business — and they want it to make money. They discuss advertising deals with sponsors (including Dixie), their goal of creating a network of shows, and their working relationship with PodShow indie podcasting network.

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When I first heard about podcasting I did some initial research about what it was, how to get it and who was doing it. I got the drift that it was radio via the internet. So what? I could already do that. Podcasting sounded so complicated and so geeky I didn’t even bother to listen to a single show. Then I discovered it was “audio blogging”.

Oh great, now I can not only read but also actually hear all about some guy’s family road trip to Florida or why some Republican thinks George Dubya is the next Messiah and a Democrat believes him to be the Devil incarnate.

But then I realised the flip side to that quarter has a platypus on it – anybody can make a podcast.

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The Podfather — He was one of the first to make a podcast, and now he’s turning his free download into cold, hard cash. Listen to the Adam Curry’s Marketplace segment on NPR today (01/05/2006) locally (San Francisco, CA) at 4pm on KQED.

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In just 18 months, Adam Curry has sparked a creative revolution online. In July, 2004, the former MTV music jockey and amateur techie posted software on the Net that allows anyone to create and distribute an audio show online. Podcasting was born, and now the Net is buzzing with more than 20,000 podcasts of everything from Delta blues to ayurveda yoga. Curry is on to Act Two as the podfather. In August his PodShow startup raised $8.9 million to build a network of indie podcasters and attract millions of listeners — and advertisers. Curry’s grand ambition? Grab at least part of the $30 billion spent annually on audio advertising.

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Madcast’s Allen and Mike discuss a research analyst briefing with PodShow founders on Friday, December 16th in San Francisco.

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Along with podcasting evangelist Adam Curry, Ron Bloom founded PodShow to build a network that attracts thousands of indie podcasters and advertisers. Bloom talks about aspects of the network including podcasting and audience-tracking software, agreements with podcasters, and working with advertisers. Bloom also explains how he believes advertising can change and evolve with podcasting.

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- Listen to the Podcast Here (11.9MB – 25 minutes 51 Seconds)

Interested in finding out more about the PodShow Music Networks PodSafe Christmas song? Adam Curry recently talked about it and played some pieces from a new version in his Daily Source Code podcast. If you don’t listen to the Daily Source Code regularly, find the link below to the snippet of audio where he talks about it…

Listen to Adam talk about it now (MP3 / 2MB / 2 minutes).

SF’s podcasters build on assorted quirks, intrepid ideas, and a will to get naked.

MIKE BUTLER JUST got a new job, and he can’t shut up about it, on or off the air. Butler, a house painter and local musician (Exodus, American Heartbreak), was understandably nervous about closing down his business, Michael Butler Painting, which he founded in the late 1970s, and starting work at PodShow (www.podshow.com). In early November he began his first-ever office job as one of the newest employees of the company, which is owned by former MTV VJ Adam Curry and longtime business partner Ron Bloom.

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