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Robert Scoble is a well known blogger, technical evangelist, and author. Scoble is best known for his popular blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Microsoft. He currently works at PodTech.net, a video-podcast startup. He is also author of Naked Conversations: How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers. Scoble has long been a prominent advocate of both RSS technology and the Tablet PC. Before joining Microsoft, he worked extensively with Microsoft technologies in a professional capacity at NEC Mobile Solutions, where he was sales support manager, and UserLand Software, where he was director of marketing.

With tens of thousands of podcasts now being published, and yet less than 10% of all computer users having ever listened to a podcast, how does podcasting "go mainstream?" Many of the most popular podcasts are targeted at podcasters and other computer-centered topics. What, besides just time, will it take to get podcasting to be as broadly accepted as other media? Elisabeth Lewin (Publisher, Podcasting News) will lead a no-holds-barred discussion on this vital topic.

Scott Sigler is on a one-man mission to change the face of fiction publishing (ok, so it`s more than one-man, it`s many-man, or actually, many-person, but "one-man" sounds much more dramatic and Clint Eastwoodish). Scott will give an overview of why podcasting slays the content gatekeepers of publishing, eliminates narrow definitions of genre, and puts the decision of what is "good" and what is "bad" writing in the hands of the reader, not the editor. And get ready all you Junkies, Scott will spend the last 10 minutes reading a scene from "Mt. Fitzroy," the sequel to "EarthCore." He also might rant a little bit. It will be just like listening to his podcast, only with facial expressions and the blinding glare of his bald melon.

With us this week is our permanent special guest, Ken Gellman. GoogTube: the Google-YouTube Acquisition Arbitrons Portable People Meter gets FCC approval Arbitron Sues over PPM Patents Helios Upscaling DVD Player NEC creates dual-mode chips, hoping to call cease fire in the silly Blu-Ray/HD-DVD wars Third format for HD DVDs launching at CES for $175 U.S. Whos really watching internet video? DSM technology [...]

The final day of the 2006 Podcast Portable Media Expo at Ontario, California, including a conversation with Michael Zwerling, owner of KSCO/KOMY radio at Santa Cruz, California.