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Charles "C.C." Chapman is a prominent figure in the community of podcasting and podsafe music.

From a home studio in the Boston area, Chapman hosts the independent music-focused podcasts Accident Hash and U-Turn Cafe, and contributes to PodShow Music Rewind, a weekly digest of music shows on the PodShow network. He also promotes PodShow's Podsafe Music Network, a major archive of music licensed for free use in podcasts.

Chapman has been invited to speak about subjects such as podcasting, podsafe music, and music licensing at meetings and conferences around the world, including the Portable Media Expo in Ontario, California, the Podcast Hotel in Seattle, Washington, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Podcastday2006 in Cologne, Germany. His opinions as a podsafe music advocate have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe and on ABC and FOX news programs.

In 1996, just before graduating from Bentley College, Chapman co-founded an independent film production company, Random Foo Pictures, with good friend Dan Gorgone. Chapman acted in, produced and directed a number of short films, but it was his experience marketing the group's projects that led him to discover the many possibilities of online promotion, networking, and sharing media online.

Chapman has always tried to stay ahead of the curve by utilizing the newest web technologies. He started his first blog in July 2001 and his first podcast in December 2004.

On December 21, 2004, Chapman produced his first podcast: Reality Bitchslap Radio. The format was mostly talk, but Chapman also found time to showcase songs by his favorite local musicians. He soon made the decision to produce a show solely to promote this kind of undergroud music. Thus, on January 10, 2005, Accident Hash was born. The podcast gained immediate popularity thanks to Chapman's enthusiastic style and his love for "podsafe" music. During the summer of 2005, Hash was one of the first podcasts to be included in the iTunes Podcast directory and it became a featured podcast on PodShow.

During 2005, Chapman also began producing U-Turn Cafe, a podsafe music podcast focusing on acoustic performances.

On May 6, 2006, Chapman launched a non-music podcast, Managing the Gray, which "aims to help the business professional, through insights and interviews, stay up to date on what is happening in the world of new media, consumer generated content and no control PR."^[1]

Some of Chapman's appearances on other podcasts include:

• August 2005: guest hosted Adam Curry's Podshow on Sirius Stars
• April 2006: guest hosted (with wife Laura) the April Fool's edition of Baby Time, a podcast about pregnancy and raising children
• May 2006: podcast mashup with TPN Rock, a German music podcast
• August 2006: podcast mashup with BandTrax, another podsafe music podcast

Chapman was born and raised in New Hampshire and currently lives in Massachusetts. He is married with two children, a graduate of Bentley College, and maintains a non-podcasting day job.

• C.C. Chapman's official blog
• C.C. Chapman's self description
• C.C. Chapman at IMDb