Tonight I had the privilege of recording a podcast with some of the best minds in the telecom industry: Ken Camp, Andy
Abramson, Dameon Welch-Abernathy, and Alec Saunders. I was most impressed with the different points of view each of
these gentlemen brought to our round-table discussion. Ken's experience with AT&T served as a nice counterweight to
my relative lack of carrier-grade knowledge, while Alec's enterprising Voice 2.0 knowledge was highly transcendental.
Andy's market understandng was, as usual, very informed, and Dameon's hands-on experience hacking with some of the best
(and lesser-known) VoIP goodies was evident. I also found out that Dameon's name is pronounced just like
"Damon". Perhaps that's why he goes by Phoneboy.
Ken did a great job moderating the discussion.
Though the technology didn't exactly cooperate (Dameon started on a WiFi VoIP connection and ended on a land-line and
Alec was having some jitterbugs on his connection) the exercise served as a great proof of concept for the notion of an
all-VoIP podcast roundtable. This is the kind of thing of lot of us have been talking about for quite a while, so it was
neat to actually do it. The tool we used was Gizmo Project, which has a built-in party-line style conference bridge as
well as built-in recording, very handy for podcasters. I know Ken is busy in the editing room, so the first VoIP
Think Tank podcast should be posted soon. I'll let you know when it is.
1. Did you guys use the pure VoIP version of our conference calling (where you dial 1-222-XXX-XXXX) or did you use the PSTN/VoIP conference bridge? Just curious because pure VoIP has better audio quality...
Best,
Jason
Posted at 12:23AM on May 2nd 2006 by Jason Droege