The Podcast Hotel is teaming with MusicFest NW, a music festival here in Portland, featuring 250 bands over three days.

So, it looks like this could work out well. The Podcast Hotel will go Sept. 6-7, running into MusicFest NW, which starts Sept. 8 and runs through the weekend, ending Sept. 10.

Part of my interest in all of this is the music angle. It's where Corante is experimenting a bit so it seems appropriate to be there and teach musicians what podcasting and videoblogging is all about. The idea is to do workshops for the musicians during MusicFest NW. We'll be doing workshops with kids, too, teaching them about podcasting so they can extend the remix that is such a part of their lives. We're talking about podcasting some of the shows. Jam sessions that we podcast would be cool, too. We'll interview musicians and muse about where all of this podcasting talk is taking us.

I have to thank Mark Zusman, editor and publisher of Willamette Week, Portland's Pulitzer prize winning weekly newspaper. MusicFest NW is a Willamette Week event.

I had put a call into Mark earlier this spring. Zusman had orchestrated Willamette Week's winning the Pulitzer this year.

Us Portland folks just beamed when Willamette Week won the big prize. Better yet, it's the first Pulitzer for a story that broke online. The story dealt with a nasty bit of history dealing with former Gov. Neil Goldschmidt. Willamette Week covered the story like no one else and came away with the prize.

Mark listened to what we were doing and asked if we would be interested in changing the date for the Podcast Hotel so it would run around the same dates as MusicFest NW.

It made sense. We had thought about changing the dates. A lot of reasons for making the decision but teaming with MusicFest NW helped make up my mind that this was the way to go.

So, we'll have more to say about all of this in the coming weeks.

Should be fun.