Tommy VallierNew Media Strategist - Kingston, Ontario

So this weekend I had the great fortune of traveling to Pittsburgh for Podcamp Pittsburgh 2. What a blast. Double points, and timbits, to Locobone for the ride from Niagra Falls. Thanks again.

PodcampPGH2 didn’t disappoint. In addition to meeting a bunch of new people, I got to learn things, talk tech/web (Something that doesn’t happen often enough in K-town), be pointed to what sounds to be a really cool day from Adobe, and hang out with existing friends.

I also got to present a new presentation from TalkShoe, ‘Your First Shoes’. I’ll have the slides on the web soon. It went over pretty well to an ever-growing group finalizing around 30 people.

And I helped coin ‘bacn’. Oops.

So bacn, if you don’t already know, is the mail you want… But not right now. It’s the middle class of email. Emails from your mom are not bacn – that’s a good, legitimate email. Emails alerting you that you won a foreign lottery is not bacn – that’s spam. What about the Facebook notifications? Or Twitter notifications? Or the Amazon recommendations? Or the countless newsletters? Those emails, while informational, aren’t something you generally have time for. That middle class, the emails you want, just not right now, are bacn.

Now, bacn does have a web site. And it has a forum. And a PSA. But most of the publicity has come from the many many many many many posts around the internet. Wow.

Was a good weekend. Who wants to send me to Boston?

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