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Folks, after recording this personal blog on the Quickcast, I have to tell you, the summer is really starting to heat up. The Ford Videos are being pushed out. The contests continue with the Summer of Podcasts II contest. I have been confirmed to go with Andy McCaskey out to the HP Tech Forum. We are working on another HP Data Vault!

Tons of great items and cool stuff from Geekazine, Dorkazine, Sportazine (including a contest I didn’t know about) and TVazine.

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Yep, this month’s Quickcast talks about the contests of April, May and the summer. If you are a podcaster, then you need to be at the Summer of Podcasts II contest page signing up your show.

We also talk about the trip to Detroit for Ford and all the other cool happenings at Geekazine.

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This month I took some time to check out Netflix and how they have changed since I last used them. I had Netflix back in 2002, where you would have to wait a whole week and a half for the next 3 movies in the queue. It was an upgrade when they put in a new distribution center closer to me, therefore movies only took a week.

I moved over to Blockbuster simply because of convenience. That year I also switched banks because of convenience – More locations, more options. But this last year I closed that bank account and went back to my credit union. Online banking made it easy for me to get stuff done.

So I figured, if I can do it with banking, I can do it with movie rentals.

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I also go into a little more information about the Ford SYNC car I will be driving next week. Finally, I talk a little bit about the HP Road Show – Converged Infrastructure and the contest to win the HP Elite 2530p.

This week I hosted TPN Weekly. On the show, I talked about increasing the traffic to your Podcast through Social Networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. I talk about how posting to these networks can really show credibility. I also talk about how making friends admins on your Facebook fan page can help and how your should treat your RSS like Gold.

To check out the episode:

TPN Weekly 2010-03-30 #49 5 Way to let Social Networking Work for Your Podcast

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You might be a Transumer. You might have Netflix or Blockbuster for your online movie rental. You might even have Gamefly for your Game rental. But how about your online Book rental? Well that is the business model of BookSwim – an online Book rental system.

Simply choose your plan, choose from the large library they have and get the books in the mail. No late fees – return at any time through the pre-pay envelopes. The next book will arrive shortly.

Eric Ginsberg - Bookswim.com

In this Quickcast interview, we talk with Eric Ginsberg – a teacher, musician and librarian that brought over some great ideas of online book rental to life months after BookSwim was created by George Burke and Shamoon Siddiqui. We talk with Eric and discuss the reasons why someone would use BookSwim as opposed to an e-reader, buying or just going to the Library to get books for Transummers.

Plans start at $3.95. Gift cards are available for those you love, too.  If you are a Transumer – person who rents, consumes, then gives back – Bookswim will definitely fulfill the transummation of books.

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