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Earlier this week, Marantz Professional invited me out to their home office as part of a presentation they asked me to participate in. My host was Brian Gorman, Brand Manager for Marantz Professional. After having used their gear for so long it was great to meet all the people who work behind the scenes to make it all happen. They have quite an operation.

I also got the unique opportunity to participate in giving feedback on some upcoming products they are working on. Let’s just say some really cool devices are coming.

If you are curious I have uploaded a tour of their offices.

It has been a busy week for me speaking about what we are working on at GigaVox and podcasting in general. First I had the opportunity to go to the Chicago area Tuesday and Wednesday for a visit with Marantz Professional and to speak at an event at Northwestern University. After that it was back to Los Angeles for Thursday and Friday and a presentation at PR Online Convergence 07. At Friday’s lunch, Jason Calacanis gave the keynote. I always enjoy hearing Jason speak. Count me among the fans of his blunt approach; it has always resonated with me. Lots of good stuff plus a little hint about what he may be up to with Project X.

Tomorrow it off to Disneyland to provide podcast coverage for the world premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Always fun to do red carpet coverage at the Happiest Place on Earth.

A recent TV news story on counterfeit wines integrated some video from our Grape Radio video podcasts. All with proper credit of course. We are the media…

WIne Counterfeiting Costing Thousands

Here are the links for today’s presentation at Northwestern:

Podcast Release Plugin for WordPress
Podcasting Legal Guide
IT Conversations
Podcast Academy
Podcast Academy Blog
Podcast Academy Forums
Educational Podcasting
The Levelator

Using the great Mint stats program I am able to track the most popular recent posts on this blog. Here they are: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. All time most popular? My Podcast About the Podcast (way back from 12/04) over at Reel Reviews.

A conference I am speaking at next week, PR Online Convergence 07, has taken a unique approach to spreading the word; an inventive video posted to YouTube.

I picked up a Garmin 60CSx at the REI sale this week. I’ve posted before about my use of GPS when mountain biking but as a recent member of the Orange County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue team I needed to get a full featured unit. So far I like it. A lot of the team members were singing its praises at last weekend’s training session. Anyone have any tricks or tips or better yet, experience with the Mapsource Topo software?