Tim Bourquin, creator of the New Media Expo, is thinking about quitting the tradeshow business.
He cites five reasons - reasons that he feels “threaten the very industry itself”:

High speed Internet costs. Nearly all convention centers have long-term, exclusive agreements in place with high speed Internet providers and the prices they are charging are ludicrous.
Drayage. Drayage [...]

Podcamp NYC is coming up this weekend, April 25-26, at Brooklyn Polytechnic. Podcamp NYC is an unconference focused on educating participants on how to use, implement and share all kinds of new media tools including, podcasts, videocasts, blogs, Second Life, Facebook, and YouTube.
The conference is free to attend, but you must register in advance.
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The schedule for the fourth annual New Media Expo has been announced by event organizer Tim Bourquin. Formerly known as the Podcast and New Media Expo, and/or the Portable Media Expo, this year’s updated and expanded event sports a new name, and has moved from California to Las Vegas.
The New Media Expo, which runs [...]

Sessions from last fall’s Podcast and New Media Expo (PNME) continue to be released via Gigavox Media’s Podcast Academy site. The latest session is of interest to any podcaster who wants or needs to include music in their episodes. “Music Licensing for Podcasts and New Media” covers a lot of ground in under an [...]

The Podcast and New Media Expo, taking place September 28-30 in Ontario, California, kicks off this morning. The Expo brings together digital media creators, podcasters and content developers from around the world for three days focused on content creation, the new media business, discussing trends and networking.
You can get a preview of the show from [...]

Event organizers and attendees alike are making final preparationsfor the third annual Portable Media Expo, now with the updated name Podcast and New Media Expo.
We caught up with event organizer Tim Bourquin earlier today to ask about his expectations for the Expo:
Elisabeth McLaury Lewin: How will the event be different this [...]