Tristan and Dan’s time at PodCamp was quick, but fulfilling. I think it’s safe to say that we now know everything we’ll ever need to know about social media in a disaster.

Although not at all a part of the festivities in Toronto a couple of weeks back, Shane and Tom from Shane and Tom’s Squeezebox share a pretty funny story about Tristan and Dan, the opera, and PodCamp in their latest episode. The part they leave out, however, is that after being told by the man best known as Scarborough Dude that their podcast was great and that they were “legends,” Tristan and Dan were asked which of them was Shane and which was Tom.

There are many things happening around the world this weekend, and one of them is the 2008 installment of PodCamp Toronto, held once again this year at Ryerson University’s lovely Rogers Communication Centre. Both Tristan and Dan will be in attendance, so if you plan on attending, why not come by, say hello, and grab one of Tristan’s impractically thick business cards.

In other news, Dan will be making one of his frequent appearances on CBC’s GO! on Saturday morning. Not sure what he’ll be doing there, but the show is about Facebook, so odds are he’ll probably be talking about how he doesn’t want to use it.

Also, From the House of the Dead, the opera that features Tristan as an extra, has been getting so many ridiculously wonderful reviews and will be playing for the last time on Friday night. What will be next for Tristan? Broadway, perhaps? Only time will tell.

Torontonians in the know are well aware of Dan Misener’s Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids reading series. Not in Toronto? Or simply not in the know? Not to worry! This Saturday, the world at large will be able to experience a taste of GRTTWaK on CBC’s GO!, as Dan and a few of his fellow grownups, including Tristan, will be talking about the series, and reading things they wrote as kids.

Live in Canada? It airs on CBC Radio One this Saturday, January 12 at 10 AM in all time zones with the exception of Newfoundland, where it airs at 10:30 AM. Find your frequency. Live somewhere else? Tune in online at 10 AM ET.

After two years of not bothering to figure out how to configure collectiveproductions.com to host blogs, we availed of the services of our unpaid web technician Dan Misener and now here it is, the Collective Productions blog. Amazing.

As you may have noticed, we’ve resurrected the Jim Dupree: Enthusiast blog, complete with brand new versions of all 30 original episodes, which are slightly bigger, slightly better looking, and properly cropped (in the case of the widescreen episodes). You can now also stream the episodes directly from the page, thanks to the setup at Blip.tv, which now hosts all of our video files. The crummy looking YouTube files are a thing of the past. All except for this one, of course:

There are new things on the way, and even though we’ve said this several times over the past year or so, we really mean it this time because we’re actually in the middle of doing them. Sooner or later we’re bound to tell you what at least one of them is. Until then, just keep watching that YouTube video and marveling at the awesome harmonies.