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CPN passes two years and 1,000 posts


I've not written anything to mark the two year anniversary of the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. Nor have I written anything about our passing of 1,000 posts. So, this is the post that satisfies those requirements.

I had planned to record a podcast to celebrate 1,000, but couldn't find the time to finish it. Things have been busy over the past two years, and I'm pleased with the results.

I've just begun CPN's first off-line marketing campaign of our history. Be on the look out over the next week for fliers that will go up over town. Every week for a month I'm going to print one out that lists three or four of that week's events.

We've also begun posting events from the U.Va Law School as well as the Miller Center for Public Affairs. I'm hoping to recruit new volunteers to record more community events. I'm no longer able to go out in the evenings, mostly because I wake so early to work at WNRN. If you're interested, please contact me. And, if you think you'd like to start your own podcast, I'll help as much as I can.

You'll also notice that in the sidebar of this blog I'm beginning to showcase various feeds, including CPN. There's also currently cvilleblogs.com and TV Squad. I'm going to begin adding other blogs where I often comment. Blogger has made some interesting changes that make it easy to customize blogs, using widgets to accomplish this task. I'm a fan!

Now it's back to producing podcasts from Coy Barefoot's Charlottesville--Right Now. Coming up in the next 72 hours, interviews with Liz Securro, David Toscano, Andrew Burstein, and Rick Britton. What the topics are, I don't know. As I said, I've got to produce them, first!
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Anonymous said…
Congratulations, Sean. 1,000 posts in two years is a lot, especially when you factor in all the audio production and whatever scheduling goes into the recording of it.

I've listened to a couple of podcasts and if I lived in Charlottesville I'd probably listen all the time. CPN is precisely the kind of thing we don't have in Winnipeg.
10:54 PM
Sean Tubbs said…
Thanks Eric! I'm also going to add your blog to the sidebar here on my personal site.

I've enjoyed the past two years, and I look forward to the future. I've backed off on some of the more ambitious projects for now, but I do hope to resurrect the headlines podcast in the future. That's the kind of service that I predict will be valuable in about five years.

The problem with Charlottesville is that it's too small to really make something like this viable. There are only so many early adopters, and none of the local media outlets (save for the Hook) really seem to get what's going on. They will get it once someone else creates a template for them.

We're also aided by Waldo Jaquith, whose efforts with cvillenews.com and cvilleblogs.com are really examples of what I think every local community should be doing. Informal portals, not controlled by commercial interests.
12:33 PM
Anonymous said…
Very cool. Thanks, Sean.
11:56 PM
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