I didn't get an opportunity to do as many podcasts as I wanted during mesh (there were so many good people to interview!) but I manage to sit down and talk with Rocketboom.com's Andrew Baron and Qumana's Tris Hussey. Baron talked about Rocketboom's launch of a $4 a month subscription service through BitTorrent that will provide users a high-definition feed with no advertisements. While he concedes the company expects a small amount of pick-up, even 10,000 monthly subscribers means annual sales of $600,000.
Update: Baron's compadre, Amanda Congdon, was at the Syndicate conference in New York. Langdon said Rocketboom's popularity spiked after a recent endorsement by Steve Jobs.

After a great first day, mesh's second day got off to a rousing start with a great conversation between Steve Rubel and Stuart MacDonald about marketing and public relations in the new world of blogs. How you do engage the blogosphere? Should you be reactive or proactive? For some reason, there was a lot of talk about character blogs (i.e. Captain Morgan) and whether they worked.
  Paul Kedrosky followed up with a lively discussions about venture capital. The highlights included his opening remarks about Maxthon (a Web browser that layers on IE) getting VC funding. That makes it the second browser to get funded in the last year with Flock being the other one. Kedrosky, by the way, said he was "baffled" by the Flock funding. When asked if we were in the middle of another bubble, Kedrosky's answer was "so what?", which means it takes mistakes to be successful so if money is poured into bad companies so be it. Kedrosky put is more colourfully when he said "it takes a lot of bodies to fill a swamp".
  Not surprisingly, Tara Hunt put a show with an interactive presentation in which some of her assumptions were enthusiastically challenged by people in the audience. She made the biggest fashion statement with an army fatigued-themed outfit.
  Perhaps the highlight of this morning was Tucows CEO Elliot Noss prepared to launch himself into a passionate critique of WordPress that began with "I want to meet the guy..." - only to be told Wordpress domo Matt Mullenweg was sitting four feet away. Tucows, by the way, operates Blogware. Talk about meshing! (Update: Mathew Ingram snapped a photo of Elliot and Matt, who apparently had a good chat). Matt held court in the food court of MaRS with a demo about "to do" app that had Om Malik, Kedrosky and Mathew Ingram enthralled.
  3 p.m. - Just came back from moderating the "Do Web 2.0 Companies Need VC?" panel with 37Signals' Jason Fried and J.L. Albright's Rick Segal. As most people know, 37Signals is a red-hot Web services company (Campfire, Backpack, Writeboard) but it has decided not to take any venture capital. Fried's position is straightforward: if you don't need, it don't take it....and 37Signals, which actually sells its products, doesn't need it. Not to say there isn't a line-up of VCs who would like to invest in the company but it doesn't look like 37Signals is going to take any money soon. Segal did a great sales job of telling Web 2.0 entrepreneurs in Canada that he's open for business...or, at least, a 30-minute meeting. Check out his blog for details on how to contact him.
  5:00 p.m. - hey, mesh is over! what a crazy and amazing nine weeks. Everything was fantastic. Can't wait to do the next mesh event.
  For more blogosphere coverage on mesh, check out  Troy Angrignon, Canuckflack and Mathew Ingram.