NYC Pod Squad Podcast #1

Last night we had our inaugural meeting for the NYC Pod Squad. It was a great event held over at The Triple Crown Restaurant and Ale House on 7th Avenue between 28th and 29th Streets in New York City. There was a very lively crowd due to the Oasis concert at Madison Square Garden, which is just a few blocks north of the bar.

In this podcast you'll be introduced to some members of the group, find out about their podcasts and hear some great podsafe music. Send questions, comments, complaints, etc. to podcast@nycpodsquad.com.

SHOW NOTES

• Intro (0:00)
• Podsafe Music - Karma by Chris Yurchuck (1:31)
• Jim from MadPod podcast (4:22)
• Podsafe Music - (get your own) Holy Grail by Spiraling (5:28)
• Frank from The Overnightscape podcast (9:28)
• Podsafe Music - The Girl Who Has Everything by Motherboard (12:10)
• Rachel and Todd from the Beware of the Babylon podcast (15:49)
• Podsafe Music - Left You Out by Clio (17:58)
• Adam from Dailysonic MP3zine (22:47)
• Ben from the Tracks Up The Tree podcast (23:51)
• Meaningless banter (24:57)
• Podsafe Music - Glow by James Katz (25:35)
• Suzy Chase Osborne from The Groove podcast (29:44)
• Podsafe Music - Gospel Book by Kathy Zimmer (30:53)
• Outro (34:39)
• Podsafe Music - Can't Say by Marwood (36:13)

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Welcome To The Groove Radio

We're proud to add another member to the NYC Pod Squad this week. Suzy Chase Osborne produces "The Groove" a radio style podcast where Suzy plays her favorite R&B and classic soul music. Right on! Her podcasts are set up as hour long shows, with no commercials of course. We're glad to have Suzy as a member of the group and look forward to hearing he soulfulicios podcasts.

Welcome To Tourist In The City

We're pleased to announce Andy from Tourist In The City as the latest addition to the NYC Pod Squad. Andy has over fifty short soundseeing tours currently in production. We look forward to hearing every one!

Come Meet The Squad

You are cordially invited to come out and hang with some really cool (I promise!) NYC area podcasters next Wednesday, June 22nd. Members of the NYC Pod Squad and the New York City Podcasters Association will be gathering for our monthly casual meetup. Prospective members are invited along with anyone who enjoys or wants to learn about podcasting. Here are the details for the gathering:

Date: Wednesday, June 22nd 2005
Time: 7:00 - 9:00PM
Place:
Triple Crown Ale House and Restaurant
330 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-736-1575

NYC Pod Squad Tags Available

Nat from Big Contact and Hellthy Entertainment has been nice enough to provide some image tags for use within the group and by listeners and fans of the NYC Pod Squad. The tags below link to this site. Dropping one of these on to your site shows your support for independent podcasting and helps the promote the independent podcasters participating in the group.

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The Intent of This Cooperative

I just wanted to take a moment to clarify the group's position on commercialism and podcasting. I don't think that this group stands against the commercialization of podcasting. And by commercialization I mean someone who wants to sell their content or otherwise make money from podcasting. If someone can create quality content and use that content to honestly earn a few dollars then that's fine.

We are, however, a group of independent podcasters. This means that we haven't signed contracts with corporations (like PodShow) in exchange for our podcasts. We also don't have large amounts of money for marketing and promotion. So independent podcasters need to join together in order to pool our resources. By taking this action we will prevent highly funded podcasts from dominating the market and furthur ensure that people will continue to see independent podcasting as a viable option.

We welcome all active podcasters from the NYC metro area to join our group. You can send an email the NYCPodSquad@PodcastNYC.net if you're interested in being a part of the group.

Welcome To Hellthy Entertainment

Nat from Hellthy Entertainment has just agreed to be a part of the NYC Pod Squad. Hellthy Entertainment is a podcast/ MP3 Blog/ Online Radio Station / Free MP3 Hybrid highlighting great music from around the web.

Hellthy hosts eight different music feeds featuring a wide variety of musical content. Nat also runs a web based RSS feed management and creation service called Big Contact located at http://www.bigcontact.com. We look forward to working with Nat to spread the word on podcasting and all the great content originating from the NYC area.