I’ve been blogging all week about the sessions I attended at Podcamp Toronto 2010.  If you’ve looked at the schedule you know that there were a lot of great sessions happening concurrently. Although technology hasn’t evolved to the point where I could be present to hear all the presentations live, we do have the next best thing; podcasts and slideshare.  Videos of the sessions are going to be available online soon.    http://2010.podcamptoronto.com/sessionmedia.html

Podcasts of Podcamp Sessions:

Podcast of the session: Location! Location! Location! Mobile social media: present and future

 (Robin Browne) 

With mobile location apps like Foursquare blowing up this discussion is a chance to talk about current and past mobile social media case studies (those that worked and those that didn’t in) – and what’s next. Let’s keep it real – real case studies that is. This is the place to talk about what’s really happening. I’ll facilitate, record and share it but the rest is up to you.  

Here’s what I learned:    

• There is a WordPress plugin which formats your site with a mobile theme for the Apple iPhone / iPod touch, Google Android and other touch-based smartphones
• Go in and Tag your business in Four Square so anyone in Four Square can find your services
• Please Rob Me was mentioned heare and was also covered in Personal Privacy and the Social Web
• Murmur Toronto is an audio story telling network about a location.  You can call in and leave a story or listen to a story.  You can be in the location in the city and listen to a story about the space. Ears around Toronto signs with a phone number to call.  Create your own city Tour. 

How Ryerson, Western, thetyee.ca and rabble.ca came together to create the Maker Culture Project. MakerCulture is an 11-part series produced by 45 students at the University of Western Ontario and Ryerson University. It used a wiki, twitter, social bookmarking, posterous, facebook, livestream and Skype for its creation and promotion. In the process, it turned the traditional journalism process on its head. A case study presented by course instructor: Wayne MacPhail and Western student: Curtis File. 

What is Maker Culture? 

“If you weren’t making things 100 years ago — you’d be dead. Your home, your food, your clothes and even your toys were all made by you or someone you knew. Somewhere along the way, humans seem to have forgotten that we were makers, and instead became consumers.  Now, when some people build, sew and bake they are making a conscious choice to return to our maker roots. This movement is Maker Culture. Today, makers challenge the mainstream and make instead of buy.” [History Making - Rabble.ca] 

In this session they discussed 3D printing!

Steve Larson printed a replacement part for his car, a discontinued rim cap he had been unable to purchase. Unfortunately, the car’s manufacturer had stopped producing the specific model Larson needed and he was unable to find a replacement — until he attended a the same Fab Lab night course as Dale Nott. Larson enrolled himself in Introduction to Personal Fabrication where he learned all about the technology that allowed him to reproduce his discontinued rim cap.  Three dimensional (3D) printing allows a user to make or print, anything they can design. This technology can produce functional prototypes, concept models and even end-use parts. [3D Printers: The Ultimate Makers] 

Please let me know if you know of other Podcasts available of sessions from Podcamp Toronto 2010. I will update this post as I watch the videos of Podcamp Toronto 2010 sessions when they are available.

You may also be interested in these related posts:

1. PodCamp Toronto 2010
2. Podcasting 101: What I learned at Podcamp Toronto
3. What will happen to my websites when I die?
4. Personal Privacy and the Social Web