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Advice on recording tomorrow's podcast?
Friday, October 02, 2009 by Dave Winer.
Tomorrow we're doing a live Rebooting The News podcast at the SF Hilton. It's going to present an interesting challenge because it will be in a room with a number of people talking, and without spending a lot of money on new equipment, I have to get them all on the recording with a single mike. 
Which leads to this: omnidirectional microphone.
I'd like to have the room set up as a big conference room with seats around a table, and a single microphone in the middle of the table.
There will be no time for sound checks, it has to work the first time.
Whatever I buy has to be here by tomorrow mid-day. If it's not here, we'll have to go on without it.
It would also be nice to webcast it through BlogTalkRadio and perhaps Ustream or similar services.
One possibility, admittely low-tech, is to have everyone call in on their cell phones! 
Any advice people have would be quite welcome.
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Dave Winer, 54, pioneered the development of weblogs, syndication (RSS), podcasting, outlining, and web content management software; former contributing editor at Wired Magazine, research fellow at Harvard Law School, entrepreneur, and investor in web media companies. A native New Yorker, he received a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, a Bachelor's in Mathematics from Tulane University and currently lives in Berkeley, California.
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