Very shortly 2005 will come to a close for us folks on the East Coast of the United States. What a year it was in 2005. I discovered podcasting and was able to be a part of a burgeoning media revolution. In mid-February I created an account with Feedburner and began pumping out content. I started with music that I've been writing and recording for years. I moved on to the audiobook that I'd been recording. I added a few rants, talked about New York City and indulged my love of music. It became a veritable orgy of content known as Podcast NYC.

Along the way I noticed that I was gettng referrals from some site called Big Contact. As a result I discovered a cool service with a great RSS feed player and met a guy named Nat Guy with as much passion for music and technology as I have. Things got hot in early summer when Apple unleashed their iTunes podcast directory and Odeo was just sliding into beta. I hooked up an account with Audioblog so I could use their cool phone in podcast feature. I discovered that they also had a killer video publishing service at a ridiculously reasonable price. My bandwidth started to exceed it's limits at my web host so I started hosting files over at LibSyn. It was a good move.

I kept it rolling even after my wife delivered our first child on June 1st. Who knows why? It certainly wasn't for the money. I love to create and I've got a lot to say. I watch a lot less TV and that's a good thing I believe. Throughout the summer more and more people started coming to me wanting to be a part of podcasting. It became obvious that this thing called podcasting was really going to change things. The musicians, businesses, reporters and fans came a knockin. What a fun time.

Somewhere along the way iTunes decided to feature my New York Minute Show podcast prominently on the front page of iTunes podcast directory. Subscriptions doubled overnight and so did the emails. 'I must be doing something right", I thought. I'd also been doing some stuff with the Boomer Esiason Foundation when I was asked If I'd like to attend this podcast expo in Ontario, California.

Around the same time I attended a Brother Love show in NYC. I convinced Brolo that it would be a blast to head out to Califrnia and turn things upside down. The expo was a big hit and Brother Love played a great acoustic show along with Chance. We also started the Brother Love Podcast called Brother Love Notes and we've had a blast with those monthly recordings.

I knew that the Video iPod emergence would cange things even more so I made a concrted effort to add more video to the site and ended up starting Flow, a music video podcast from New York City. You'll see a lot more along those lines in 2006.

That said, I'm doing way too much and I'm going to be focusing on just a couple of channels in 2006 while occasionally posting to others. It's going to get a lot better. I can promise you that. I'll probably have a few more dust ups like the ones with Rocketboom and Eat Feed. I'm opinionated and confident but also experienced. I made some great friends in 2005 and I'll make more in 2006.

2006 is going to be a big year for podcasting. You just wait and see. I'll see you there.