SMEast 2007: Shoutouts to LR friends

Steve Safran May 16th, 2007

There are some genuine friends I have made through the years at Streaming Media conferences, and I really look forward to meeting up with them every year. I admire their work, and I admire them as people. So if you’ll forgive me, I want to recommend you check out their excellent year-in, year-out work. Jose Castillo, whose ThinkJose site has become a source for great podcasting information. Jose’s also a cool dude. More link love to Andy Plesser at Beet TV. Not just because he interviewed me live on his site (OK, partially because of that), but because he completely gets the idea of using a blog as a marketing tool to promote one’s line of work. Steve Bryant, who has far too many writing gigs for me to count, is worth checking out at his Google Watch blog and Hollywood Reporter blog, Reel Pop. Bryant has a great sense of humor and an even better BS detector. Jarvis, of course, always comes in, makes a kerfuffle, and leaves a windstorm. Alisa Fiksdal from WorldNow has spent more “floor time” than anyone I know at these things, and is unfailingly polite as she gives demos for what must be the billionth time. The FeedRoom’s Bart Feder always has great insight into the industry, and is a former Boston guy. My new colleague Andrew Deal of Cellecast came all the way in from Vancouver, Washington for this - we met at Streaming Media West. Good to see Paul Ragland and Cory Factor from Dayport as well - they’re good guys to talk “state of the industry” with. And, of course, conference organizer and overall madman Dan Rayburn who pulled it off again. I appreciate the indulgence, folks - these are people I just wanted to thank.