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I'm sure you all marked your calendars for this special anniversary:

Podcasters in print

Posted By Cathy Resmer on Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 9:13 AM

Hey, so Bill and the gang from Friday Coffeeblogging are featured in the new Podcasting Pocket Guide from O'Reilly. Congrats, guys — your fame is well-deserved. Now crank out some more o' them episodes!

It was indeed the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in print - that makes people:

Friday Coffeeblogging is unique among podcasts and not only for its content: the show is recorded in a coffee shop in downtown Burlington, Vermont, and the atmosphere is recorded right along with the show. Captured in the background are the clinks of coffee cups, the murmur of the patrons, and the warbling of the café's background music. (And you can almost smell the coffee...)

The hosts of the show are Bill Simmon, N. Todd Pritsky, and Gregory Giordano, also known by their "web handles" Bill, Ntodd, and Flameape. In some respects, the show is like Seinfeld: it's about nothing. The podcast is simply an exploration of whatever happens on the day it's recorded. This lack of direction may turn you off, but the personality of the hosts is what really grabs you.

This podcast is a talkfest among three close friends with the occasional slice of music thrown in to spice things up, and, in most cases, the conversation slips into geek speak. Discussions range from meanderings and personal anecdotes, such as Flameape's claim that he is a personal disaster zone, to opinions of movies such as Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith where the gang interviewed fans waiting in line for the premier at Burlington's Roxy Cinema.

This *is* history. Do as you will...