Podcast & Blogging user group talks by Ron Lichty

SDForum is starting a new Search SIG, and its first topic is an overview of the audio search market and an in-depth look at podcasting startups, directiories, and tools:

Audio Search : Selling Picks & Shovels at the Podcast Gold Rush
Date of Event : Wednesday, September 14 2005
7:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Sunnyvale


BayCHI, the Computer Human Interface group, will at its next meeting present two speakers on podcasting:

Podcasting: Media Evolution or Revolution? --Doug Kaye, IT Conversations
Podcast Solutions and Podcast Problems --Dan Klass, The Bitterest Pill
Date of Event : Tuesday, September 13
7:00-9:30 pm
Palo Alto


The East Bay IT Group's Blogging & RSS SIG will, in its upcoming meeting, explain measures to go beyond just counting blog hits, and truly understanding blogs' impacts:

Measuring the Blogosphere
Date of Event : Tuesday, September 06, 2005
6:30-9 PM
Emeryville


MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (VLAB) is having the president and CEO of Feedster talk about how his company is building a business around providing vertical search for listings, news, and blogs:

Feedster: Vertical Search - Show Me The Money!
Date of Event : Tuesday, September 20, 2005
6:00 PM Networking, 7:00 PM Presentation
Palo Alto


The SF chapter of the American Marketing Association is hosting a panel of blogging executives who will share their thoughts and ideas on the evolution of online journalism:

Blogging: Leveraging Blogs for Marketing, an Evolution of Journalism
Date of Event : Thursday, September 15, 2005
5:30pm - 7:30pm
San Francisco