Edit:

Posterous seems to have screwed up the audio upload. Here's a link to the same audio, hosted on SoundCloud:

iPad USB Audio demos by Ihnatko

 

 

Well, my iPad Camera Connection Kit came in this morning. And I wouldn't have believed it, but yes indeedy: if you plug (almost) any USB audio device into the iPad Camera Connection Kit's USB adapter, you can use it with the iPad! Witness a little burst of live music:

...Followed by about 7 minutes of "Holy jumping prophets on a unicycle!" commentary:

...All recorded on my $150 Blue Yeti USB microphone.

Kudos to Glenn Fleishman over at TidBITS for being the first to point this out. I'd like to think it would have occurred to me to try this...but I'm pleased that none of us will ever know how long that would have taken. :)

Audio of my first panel at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder. I explain Twitter and how it makes sense to me.