After a day of looking at podcasting what better way to relax than go to a meetup related to..  go on guess?   Firstly the venue, unlimited coffee in Glendale was better than the usual meetup fare where you have to work round  noise,  limited space  and a population of people that really measure you by how much you consume while there.   Coffee was good too which in relation to most of the crap I've had recently was a pleasant surprise.

As with most start ups it's  a who does what, why and where they want to do this next 

 What's nice is an impromptu  demo of the  new boss br1 recorder which is well I thought I would be biased towards it  but it has the same kind of compromises that my Zoom H4 has but for different reasons and while I have the ability to edit in the Zoom it's frustratingly annoying to do so but  I can  live with it since the x:y stereo pair on the top are pretty bloody good for the price.   

Usual talk about video and what's overkill / underkill for web video.  It's a bigger question  than today though.  While it may be impractical to deliver 1080p  online today in 4-5 years it could be  viable and now your  content ( assuming it's not ephemeric ) is going to look like crap in relation..   Tis  a pickle. 

K two new books have appeared.

These are Secrets of Video Blogging and the insanely titled Hands-On Guide to Video Blogging and Podcasting: Emerging Media Tools for Business Communication  one is on the casual end of the spectrum  and the other is "serious"   I will probably be spending some of the weekend, Dobh willing, on reading these.