The podcast review site at PodcastReviews.net has posted a nice review of WebTalk Radio. It is always great to read feedback like this from a person who is dedicated to looking at and reviewing online audio shows. The online radio community has never had this until podcasting.

Many great things have come from the podcasting craze that is going on right now. KinRowan is the reviewer at PodcastReviews.net and he does a great job of looking deep within the content to share the important nuggets of info on each reviewed show.

The New, New Podcast Review site gets four stars from me as well.

Podcasters met in person last night (Jan 15th)at the Icon Grill in Downtown Seattle to discuss what podcasting is and to help layout the basic topics for the coming Podcast and Portable Media Expo.

The Chris Pirillo poked fun at the name Podcast and is still on the fence about calling his new Chris Pirillo Show a podcast. I can see his point as podcasting is currently a very small distribution piece for a radio or webcast show of any kind. It also refers to one playback device which is also a problem. We all had fun last night talking about it all any how. We all agreed that podcasting as a name was here to stay, but how really important that name will become is still in question. All I can say is that podcasting sure has brought a lot of talented folks out of the closet to get on the air.

List of Podcasters eating together in the real world:

Eric Rice, Chris Pirillo, Jake Ludington, Emile Bourquin, Tim Bourquin, Alex Williams, Michael Geoghegan, Doug Kaye, Phillip Torrone, Rob Greenlee, and Peter Yorke.

We even had a reporter from USA Today in the room during the whole dinner. He sure got a lot to think about from all of us.

See Chris Pirillo’s post on his blog about the dinner and watch the video he made at the dinner. Chris is such a personality. You must check it out.

I just saw a mainstream Los Angeles Times article about a woman who was so sick of Adware and Spyware that she just unplugged the computer and gave up. What is the deal with mainstream media? They are always so quick to feature a story about someone who has no idea what they are doing with a computer and creating this huge perception that this is what most people are doing because of the adware and spyware issue online.

Here is part of the article;

Now Seemayer, 50, is again on the cutting edge: Sick of spam clogging his in-box and spyware and viruses crashing his system, Seemayer yanked out his high-speed connection.

A small but growing number of computer owners are coming to the same conclusion. They’re giving up or cutting back their use of the Internet, especially at home, where no corporate tech support team will ride to their rescue.

This reporter has no evidence or facts that support his claim that a growing number of computer users are coming to the same conclusion. He contradicts himself by saying that Internet use is continuing to grow. We all know that adware, spyware and spam are problems for millions they are not problems that cannot be solved by educating yourself and doing a little research on available tools.

This reporter really does a disservice to us all by not talking about possible solutions to these problems. No he runs for the sensational facts about how bad the problem is. I am just sick of seeing uninformed journalists creating more of a problem then contributing to intelligent discussion on solutions.

I have 16 PC in my world and adware and spyware is not any problem at all. I run adware and spyware applications on all my PC’s. I use Ad-Aware and Spybot Search & Destroy and they do the trick for me.