PodcampNot the usual thing you”ll see here, this announcement, but if you”re interested in podcasting for your poetry, you”ll want to keep your eye out for PodCamp. The first PodCamp takes place this weekend in Boston, but if it goes well, there will be more scheduled in other parts of the country.

Direct from their web site:

Sept 9-10, 2006 Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, 9 AM – 5 PM

Welcome, Rocketboom viewers!

PodCamp is a FREE BarCamp-style meetup for podcasters and listeners, bloggers and readers, and new media types of all stripes. Our first PodCamp is PODCAMP BOSTON: SEPT 9th-10th, 2006 at Bunker Hill Community College (sponsored by the Museum of Science, Boston), accessible by public transportation. Get BostonDirections <– here.

You do NOT need to be a podcaster to attend. If you”re interested in podcasting, if you”re a listener, if you”re a podsafe musician (or want to be), or just someone curious, WELCOME!

The weekend will feature lots of info on how to: create, produce, publish, publicize and more. If you”re considering making podcasts of your poetry or anything else, this is bound to be one heck of a get together. The event gets started Saturday morning at Bunker Hill Community College at 9 AM sharp. There are seminars and presentations sheduled throughout the day, and dinner from 5-10 PM at the Grand Canal – free unlimited food and dinner after the sessions end for the day. The sessions will continue on Sunday.