Georgia Podcast Network

We made national news!

The Associated Press wrote a story about PodCamp Atlanta that was first picked up by five or six Georgia papers (Athens, Columbus, Macon, Rome, Hall County). Then the national press picked it up either yesterday or today. So far, those include the Boston Herald, Businessweek, Forbes, Fox News, the Houston Chronicle, Newsday, the Sacramento Bee, USA Today, the Washington Post, and many others.

There were even two outlets in the UK that picked it up, so I guess we're world-wide!

Congratulations to teambrown for being named best podcast of 2006 by Athens Banner-Herald columnist Ryan Lewis! Here's Lewis' write-up from his Action 5! column:

Local gadabouts Jared and Hillary Brown expound on all manner of things in these virtual fireside chats available from the Georgia Podcast Network on iTunes. Whether you are looking for discussions on linguistics, zombie movies, the names for various sizes of wine containers or the finer points of Veronica Mars, Wall of Brown has something for you.

Not tired of hearing mine and Amber's voices yet? Head over to What Is Goin' On and listen to us explain the intricacies of podcasting to host Wilson R. Smith. Or, more accurately, listen to Amber explain the intricacies of podcasting and hear me mumble, stutter and occasionally interject a sentence fragment (I was still recovering from the flu when the interview was recorded).

The show featuring us aired last Thursday, Nov. 29th at 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on WLYU in the Savannah/Lyons/Vidalia area. Here's a direct link to the audio file.

Thanks to Wilson for having us on! We hope to interview him on Mostly ITP in the near future. If you're not listening to his show, you should be, as he's quickly become the best interviewer of politicos in the state.

Awesome! Mostly ITP, the podcast Amber and I publish here on the Georgia Podcast Network, just won readers' pick for Best Locally Produced Podcast in Creative Loafing's Best of Atlanta 2006 contest! I didn't see a critics' pick anywhere on the site. I'll update this post if I find one. Thanks so much to everyone who voted for us!

A quote from my interview with pastor Billy Ball at the Atlanta Pride Festival was featured in an article in AfterElton.

Rusty Tanton, a Mostly ITP show host with the Georgia Podcast Network, interviewed Ball during the Atlanta Pride festival.

"We're out here preaching the gospel and warning the sodomites that are part of this gathering that if they don't repent they are going to hell," Ball told Tanton. "We have an objection to [homosexuality] because God has an exception to it. It's an abomination in the sight of God. It's the most accepted tolerated sin in America right now, I think, besides abortion, and the church is way too quiet about it.

"We came out here because we love these people enough to warn them and rebuke them, Ball added. "The word of God clearly spells out that sodomy, man with man, woman with woman, is an abomination before God."

Check it out here.

Check it, our humble Mostly ITP podcast was plugged on the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies site. Thanks again to Laura and Aaron for being awesome guests.

Aileen Harris was kind enough to allow us to post our press release on the GoDekalb site. If you read my blog post from last week, you've already read the release, but you should check the site out anyway. It's a neat source for DeKalb news that melds professional journalism with community-submitted news and allows reader comments.