Diane Corriette

It looks as if there is a H4 contender when it comes to creating podcasts on the go!

http://www.shinyshiny.tv/2007/02/olympus_ds50_re.html

Check out Shiny Shiny…! Love it.

My Podcast . Com are offering free hosting and the opportunity to earn revenue from your podcasts. You can read the full news article by clicking on this link (the url was way too long to include it!)

RSS Feed and Podcast Creation and Management Tool

The newest version of FeedForAll includes a built in validator,
advanced publishing features, and full support for RSS extensions
including : Apple iTunes, Dublin Core, Content and Syndication.
FeedForAll’s integrated support for Apple iTunes allows publishers to
easily create an audio podcast or video podcast that can be added to
Apple’s popular iTunes Music Store. FeedForAll’s extension support for
all RSS namespaces makes RSS feed expansion a snap for webmasters and
publishers.

Read the rest of the article here….

http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/802163

http://www.podcasterspace.com/

If you want to hang out with other podcasters get yourself over to Podcaster Space. Its a social networking site for people who podcast!

Link to me as a friend when you get there :0)

Music for your podcasts. You need to ensure you use royalty free music to avoid getting yourself into trouble. Even if the record company doesn’t find you, your podcasting host will not want to associate with someone using music illegally

Here are a few places to go for music (check out the link on the right - podcast music - for more)

Podsafe music network http://music.podshow.com/

Stock music http://www.stockmusic.net/

Over 10 days ago I ordered a wonderful Sennheiser PC150 PC Headset
through a reseller on Amazon and it still hasn’t arrived. It seems
Royal Mail tried once and are obviously not up for trying again! They
confess to leaving a card (which amazingly was not on my door mat!) and
my patience is now growing thin.

I could continue to use my Logitech headphone but it keeps catching the
kids playing World Cup Football on play station downstairs (well at
least their shouts of "ggooooaaallllll" when their team scores).
Omnidirectional mics (mics that pick up all sound are useful for
podcasts where you having background effects - especially for radio
shows - but aren’t useful for fireside chats with your listeners!)

So when considering equipment, get yourself a mic that has nose
cancelling technology. A uni directional mic will cut out the noise
around you.

So in the meantime I am waiting, but that’s okay because there’s also
alot of learning and reporting to do. I have taken down all my old
audios and am trying to decide whether to re-create them as podcasts or
just start again with my new headphone/mic and some decent equipment (I
believe I have Adobe audition someone on my old laptop!)

If you have a wordpress blog then there are two great tools you can upload to your wordpress blogs so that you can include audio and/or podcasts to them.

Mighty Seek has a plugin called PodPress and here are some of the features

• Full featured and automatic feed generation (RSS2, iTunes and ATOM and BitTorrent RSS)
• Preview of what your Podcast will look like on iTunes
• Podcast Download stats
• Makes adding a Podcast to a Post very simple
• View MP3 Files ID3 tags when your Posting
• Control over where the player will display within your post and what it will look like.
• Support for various formats, including Video Podcasting
• Automatic Media player for MP3, MP4, MOV, FLV, ASF, WMV, AVI, and more, with inline and Popup Window support.
• Preview image for videos
• Support for seperate Category podcasts
• Audio Comments

You can download this plugin by going to http://www.mightyseek.com/podpress/

The other useful plugin is by 1pixel out at http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/#podcasting

You can download an audio plugin that also has a facility to create the podcast play image too.

Adding this to your wordpress blog is a great way to get started without any real expense. You create your audio, upload it to your hosting account and place the path to your audio into your blog. Finished!

Uploading this is easy too. Download them, using your ftpclient upload it into the plugin folder of your wordpress blog. Go to your blog and click on the plugin area, activate them by clicking activate.

Of course both sites have full instructions. Just follow them one step at a time.

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A podcast is downloadable digital media (either audio or video) that
can be played on portable equipment like an ipod, zune or mp3 player.

The great thing about them is the fact that you can watch them at
your convenience. With a TV or radio show you have to be home to
watch/listen to it. If you miss it then unless you record it (or watch
the repeats!) you have missed out.

But with a podcast you download it to your phone, or your handheld
and even if it’s 2am in the morning you can still watch it then.

This provides the opportunity for people to enjoy shows when it
suits them, rather than when the radio/TV station says they have to.

When you listen to a podcast it will sound very much like a radio
show, it may contain adverts, or an interview with someone, or even a
live show with members of the public, or it could just be one speaker
talking to you. I have listened to many podcasts ranging from 15
minutes to an hour so length varies.