Steve Garfield is one of the most active and pioneering folks in the video podcasting/blogging space. Garfield has spent countless hours getting perhaps the first elected official making media, Boston City Councillor John Tobin.

Steve talks at a variety of events including the recent Podcast Academy, is a correspondent for Rocketboom, and hosts a couple of helpful and entertaining videoblogs. He’s recently been featured in Wired and RollingStone and is a tremendous asset to the medium as a whole.

Garfield recently joined Hipcast as their Community Manager, and will be building a destination to teach folks about audio and video podcasting and everything surrounding it.