The ups (and downs) of VoIP podcasting

Tonight I had the privilege of recording a podcast with some of the best minds in the telecom industry: Ken Camp, AndyAbramson, Dameon Welch-Abernathy, and Alec Saunders. I was most impressed with the different points of view each ofthese gentlemen brought to our round-table discussion. Ken's experience with AT&T served as a nice counterweight tomy relative lack of carrier-grade knowledge, while Alec's enterprising Voice 2.0 knowledge was highly transcendental.Andy's market understandng was, as usual, very informed, and Dameon's hands-on experience hacking with some of the best(and lesser-known) VoIP goodies was evident. I also found out that Dameon's name is pronounced just like"Damon". Perhaps that's why he goes by Phoneboy.

Ken did a great job moderating the discussion.Though the technology didn't exactly cooperate (Dameon started on a WiFi VoIP connection and ended on a land-line andAlec was having some jitterbugs on his connection) the exercise served as a great proof of concept for the notion of anall-VoIP podcast roundtable. This is the kind of thing of lot of us have been talking about for quite a while, so it wasneat to actually do it. The tool we used was Gizmo Project, which has a built-in party-line style conference bridge aswell as built-in recording, very handy for podcasters.  I know Ken is busy in the editing room, so the first VoIPThink Tank podcast should be posted soon. I'll let you know when it is.

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