I have just integrated bbpress into the wordpress blog, you can sign up here. When you register you will be sent a password, once logged in you can change your password by editing your profile. The main discussions will the placed on the right hand side of the home page. The RSS feed for the forum is http://podcom.org/rss.php.
Website: http://podcom.org
Grab the lastest from Sky news on the move.
RSS Feed - http://podcast.burstinteractive.co.uk/rss.xml
Nearly ready to launch The Podcast Community in Ireland over at podcom.org and here’s a new tagging experiment.
iTunes Affiliates have now added two text ads targeted at podcasting. They are as follows:
Podcasting. The next generation
Sample and subscribe to
Since iTunes 4.9 has come available for download I have seen my daily hits double to over 400, also I am receiving much more e-mails from people needing help with podcasting.
Apple have released an updated firmware for all iPods which gives them a separate podcasting category, which means podcasts won’t get placed in with your music files. It will also support bookmarking so I can listen to podcasts and resume where you left off.
Also Apple have announced that the iPod and iPod photo lines are merging, now all iPods will feature color displays with the ability to view album artwork, photos and play slideshows in color. The simplified iPod lineup features a 20GB model, holding up to 5,000 songs priced at just €319 and a 60GB model, holding up to 15,000 songs priced at €449.
iTunes 4.9 is now ready for download.
For each person who arrives to get the update they will be wondering what the podcasting icon is all about. iTunes embracing podcasting means that more people can and will hopefully be subscribing to podcasts.
Notes:
Start podcasting your radio shows please. The demand is there according to my referers list.
The first major podcatcher for the MAC will soon be released under beta for Window users.
It’s been a deep dark secret for some time now, but we can finally announce that a Windows version of iPodderX is on its way! So not only will iPodderX run on Intel on the Mac OS, it will also run on Intel or AMD on your PC.
But the problem is by that time iTunes 4.9 should be available as the latest update. Most iPod users will automatically switch from their current podcatchers to iTunes. But it is great to finally she that iPodderX will be switching to Windows.
Just heard that Virgin Atlantic have just launched a podcasting.
The website is virginatlantic.loudish.com.
Thea aim of the podcast is to use podcasting to bring you exciting and up to date content about their destinations, starting with a series of audio guides to New York.
Breda Bubear, Head of Advertising and Communication at Virgin Atlantic said: “Podcasting gives us a fantastic opportunity to communicate with our customers in a new and innovative way. We believe that providing travellers with relevant destination content will help them plan their trip, and giving it to them in a portable format will enable them to make the most of their time away. We’re very excited to be championing this new technology.”
CastFire allows content producers of audio and video to generate advertising revenue by seamlessly connecting them with media buyers and consumers. Whether the content is entertainment, news, knowledge, stories or talk shows, the CastFire engine automatically adds relevant advertising to the content, generating a revenue stream for the content producer.
Three people arrived today looking for an “Irish Learning Podcast”. This may actually be beneficial for people to re-embrace the Irish language through this means. Maybe people in their thirties or forties who want to gain a grasp of the Irish language so they can pass it onto their children and help them with school work.
BizTart is a two minute podcast from Justine Troy featuring the latest US Business and Finance news.
It’s a perfect length for this sort of podcast content.
RSS Feed is http://www.biztart.com/rss
“More than this you need not know.”
With these two invites you can begin beta testing Odeo.
Tom Raftery has caught the podcasting bug. Last night he posted a blog item explaining how to podcast using wordpress, in the blog post he linked to a podcast of the blog item explaining podcasting and also linked to the podcasting feed.
Firstly Tom’s podcast is a great idea for the blind people not only around Ireland but around the world. They get to listen to Tom’s blog without needing assistance. All they need to do is get someone to subscribe to the items that interest them (from tagged items or categories) and they can conneted their iPod each day and get the latest updates.
Secondly it’s great to see the Irish grabbing a hold of podcasting and getting their voice out on the Internet. We now have 6 Irish podcasters who have gone through the whole experience and for podcatchers in Ireland it’s great to hear some homemade talent.
Tom’s podcast feed is: http://www.tomrafteryit.net/category/podcast/feed/
There is already 70 mentions of Ireland in the podcast feeds which have been included in Odeo. Adding your podcast feed is a very easy process and you can tag it with any amount of keywords.
With Odeo you can locate, create, and subscribe to the latest podcasts and grab independent audio content for your MP3 player.
Once logged in I quickly began to feel at home; Doppler, iPodder and Nimiq became a distant memory, Odeo is seen as a way to bring podcasting into the ears of the average Internet user. I had already seen screenshots of Odeo appear on Flickr but having full access meant I could fully interact and test it out for myself.
Firstly the colours/layout of the main page is excellent. Because Odeo is simply for listening/syncing and creating that’s what it sticks to. The main navigation appears just under the Odeo logo, just underneath it features 4 podcasters, in this area you can listen to their latest podcast/view their image and click to see their information.
Just underneath is the hottest podcasts currently being listened too with details of the amount of shows they have/comments they have received and subscribers they currently have. Below this is the latest news section which features articles relating to Odeo.
The right hand column features the most important information on the page. It offers the options to search through podcasts, browse the most popular podcasts and the latest entries. Tagging is becoming more and more information for bloggers thanks to Technorati, Odeo allows you to submit your RSS feed and tag it how you see it.
I finally got an invite from Odeo to beta test their podcatcher and podplayer. At the moment the ‘create and publish’ area is still under construction. My impressions on Odeo are that it’s really easy to use and very nice looking. More opinions coming soon…
Pod Channels should be up and running by the middle of July, it will be aiming to make podcasting more accessible to everyone.
For Listeners there will be a vast directory with gathered data from your friends to suggest podcasts you may be interested in.
For Podcasters they will be offering free hosting and also make podsafe music available to you for inclusion in your show.
For Musicians they offer the chance to submit their music for podcasters to use in their shows.
The problem most people encounter after learning about podcasting is where they can go to upload their podcasts. The most popular podhosts are libsyn, slapcast, podlot and podbus. This may be a little off putting to people who just want to give it a try. Just recently PodBlaze launched and offers the following items:
Personalized podcasting site
Subdomain (www.yourpodcast.podblaze.com)
Podcast upload capability
RSS feed
Show notes area for each podcast show
No special software or programming skills required
Streaming media player
Coventry University is to follow in the footsteps of Tipperary Institute by recording class sessions for students to listen or re-listen depending if they went to class. Movie clips will also be distributed over 3G phones. Harold Fricker and Eduardo Carrillo came up with the idea and are quoted as saying -
We are not kidding ourselves — there will always be lazy students who prefer to stay in bed or let their minds wander during the seminars. This technology provides a safety net.
The orginal idea came from Bernie Goldbach and has served many students greatly on the run up to exams.
PodPay could be a new system to be placed on public transport and in restaurants. It’s basically a touch screen device connected by wifi and it has a podcast directory built in. People select their favourite podcasters and click download and listen to them to break their journey up.
Mixcast live has just been integrated with Big Feeder.
Big Feeder makes it easy to search and surf the latest media feeds. If you already use Mixcast you can easily upload your podcasts via ftp and tag your show in the process. Now people can subscribe to a tag and receive the recordings as Podcasts.
If you have already purchased Mixcast live you will receive 200MB of media file uploads and unlimited feeds and posts on Bigfeeder.com.
Wrigley’s Extra has just launched a giant digital music give-away in association with Apple. The company will give away 10,000 iPods and over 90,000 other prizes, including front row gig tickets, online album vouchers and €5 iTunes vouchers.
Once you rip your packet open you will see a 6 number code. It will also tell you straight away that you are the lucky winner of a 20GB iPod or a 1GB iPod Shuffle. You can claim your prize on the Wrigley closer to music website and see if you have won.
Just finished a layout change for the Podato site, have a look and tell your friends about this amazing free dating site.
With all the major developments in the past few months EPIC has been updated to cover Podcasting and it’s future implications.
Susan Smith Nash and David Penrose have launched Podutainment (portable educational entertainment).
Implied in the term is exciting, refreshing, and “mind feeding” material being presented by a host of scholars devoted to helping others learn using the latest technologies.
What is Podcasting?
A podcast is a recorded item, it can range in any length and be about anything. You can record your own podcast via your mobile phone, a minidisc or direct from your computer.
Podcasting is the process of uploading your completed podcast and posting it onto your website. If you don’t have a website just log on to blogs or blogsome for a free website.
Once you post the location of the podcast file. It will be inserted into a RSS file. The RSS file allows people to copy the link and paste it into a podcatcher which will automatically download these shows at set times. So people can sync up their MP3 player and listen to your recording on the move.
When I first came aross the domain name back in November I thought this would be a website dedicated to bringing podcasters podsafe music to use in their podcasts. This isn’t the case and podsafe costs £49.50.
The Spec is finally up and viewable over at PSWG.
One-Click subscription describes the method of subscribing to a podcast RSS feed by just clicking a link in a web page. An application installed on the user’s computer will be invoked by the user’s web browser when the link is clicked. The application is then able to add the selected podcast feed to the user’s subscription list.
Soon to be available at http://podspecwg.org/.
Appearing on numorous websites from around the world.
Recording/Editing/Producing Podcasts.
Spending 7 months on a college project learning all about Podcasting.
Buying my first domain name podish.com.
Featuring in google news.
Being introduced to Podcasting.
Appearing in the Sunday Tribune.
Launching podato.com.
Being the first ever Irish Podcaster.
Enjoying every moment of it :)
“Podfas are a limited edition of 250 unique handcrafted figures, fully poseable and standing approximately 3-inches tall. Each Podfas comes with 4 coloured display backgrounds and a certificate of authenticity signed and numbered by the artist.”
Podbrix was the first to jump on the iPod bandwagon and have really hit the big time. The idea of selling anything as “limited edition” usual means quick sales. Since the beginning with the launch of the 1K Brix Minifig Timi has gone from strength to strength.
Just like PodFas, PodBrix sells modified minifigs inspired by the popular ad campaign for portable music players. Moving on from the minifigs Timi produced a great t-shirt for use with the iPod Shuffle with a magnetic attachment. This quickly sold out and soon after he launched PodShirt which sells for $29.
Buy Podcaster a Podshirt
Podcasting News is a great resource for all the latest news in podland. It recently talked about britcaster.com, a united site for British podcasters:
A new podcasting site, BritCaster, is calling itself “the hub of UK podcasting”. The site features non-commercial UK podcasts, and all Britcaster podcasts are available via an aggregated feed.
Maybe the podirish site should become the home for Irish podcasters to sign-up, post and upload their podcasts.
Sell yourself over the phone, the company gets daily podcasts that the recruitment team listen to ‘on the move’ and decide which people deserve an interview.
The only problem is the amount of domains relating to this which have been purchased.
jobcast.com, jobcasting.com, podjob(s).com to mention just a few.
Garageband has just added Podcast support. The area is called GarageBand Podcast Studio which is now the world’s largest selection of podcast ready music.
This is a very useful tool as every artist on the site now has a free podcast, where listeners can receive new songs (and other audio messages), gig listings, and news posted by the artists.
Jenna Drey is one such artist who is now playing on my iPod after I easily downloaded her songs all at once.
It’s strange for me to have a new podcasting item that is my very own. Usually it’s a post about podnova, new podcasts or new podblogs.
Podish involves Irish people embracing podcasting without having to pay to upload their items, all they need is their mobile phone. The mobile allows people to easily record an item/issue in the news that they want to express their opinion on, or maybe be adventurous and interview somebody or do a sound seeing tour of their town area. The possibilities are endless.
Podish is an open forum where you can speak your mind about any issue. All you need to do is grab your mobile phone… speak your mind and send it as a MMS to podish@gmail.com.
Updated: Podato won’t be in this weeks Village Magazine due to pressure of space.
Should of being podsong.com. This podcast features Irish folk music, Scottish songs and American folk music along with the latest folk news.
I want to keep the folk music tradition alive and preserve folk music with this podcast. The music featured is a variety of traditional folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, and occasional American folk songs and original songs, plus, commentaries and news occasional news.
Interesting idea but as of yet has no RSS feed.
Podish begins today.
What is it?
A website for Irish people to contribute to by sharing their views on any number of topics which interest/effect them.
Just to pick up on what James has said about Podato, the idea may be totally amazing concept but it’s an open source idea, we use free tools for the whole process, wordpress, blogsome, gmail, amr to wav converter and finally a wav to MP3 converter for the full podcasting experience.
I was recently pointed to the Guardians Soulmates website and informed that they have added the option for singles to record a voice clip for people to listen to them as they read through their profile. This is a great addition, but doesn’t include any RSS feeds.
The problem with these and other sites is in the cost. They may say:
Becoming a member is quick, easy and free.
But what they really mean is “Sign-up, fill out 5 pages of a profile as detailed as possible, receive email confirmation, log-in and realise you need to pay-up to send anyone a message… rates start at nearly £17 for just one month, a year costs a massive £95 pounds, the Irish sites aren’t much better value.
Podato is free and will remain so, why pay to meet someone (that’s illegal in the real world). Just give ‘Podato A Go’ and see where you can go from there… for free.
Bonus Link: Stumble Upon
Today I decided to sign-up for Apple Store Associate Program, just to add some ads to the site (what site is complete without them) and not to make money. I spent 15 minutes filling out my details and was waiting for confimation which I just received. I was turned down for one of these reasons.
Presence of Apple competitors on your Web site.
Fit of Apple’s messaging and branding with your Web site.
A well-defined Privacy Policy on your Web site.
Maybe it’s because of the Sony Minidiscs in the image above or the Nokia Mobile or because I don’t have an iMac?
Podfeed.net is a great resource on the web for all things podcast. Whether it’s learning about podcasts, finding podcasts that interest you, reading user reviews, or interacting with other members of the podcasting community, podfeed.net is for you.
Podnova is a web based application which builds on RSS and OPML.
PodNova is an initiative from Active8. The company which was at the birth of iSpider (now known as iPodder lemon). We have tried to solve the following problems.
Podcast client and Web audio spidering in one.
Podcast: Subscribe to and download all your favorite podcasts into YME. Listen to them in YME, or transfer them to your favorite device.
PLUS: Enter any URL, and “slurp” all the audio files from the page. Additionally, you can spider into the links (up to any depth!) and slurp all the audio files from those sites as well. Beware…you will have the ability to suck down content from an entire website or network of linked websites :)
Bonus feature: Drag-n-drop a URL from Internet Explorer onto the PodcastPLUS plugin entry to auto-slurp it!
Support the Irish grab the feeds and listen to them on your mobile device.
04/05 has been a massive year for blogging in Ireland more so than any other year what with the launch of Planet of the Blogs, Irish Blogs and the free wordpress blogs over at blogsome and Irish blogs… not to mention the Irish blogs group over at Yahoo!
This blog began back in November which seems a really long time ago, in this time many Irish people (around 6) have gone about producing a podcast. Many people have e-mailed with some amazing ideas, future ideas and also people wondering how they can turn their radio stations into podcasts.
Now I see a chance of creating a weekly podcast of recordings, clips about all sorts of topics week, all placed together, edited and uploaded. It’s really easy to record items (mobile phone, minidisc or via computer). I have 100 MB of webspace over at eircom.net, so that could host between 7-14 shows (depending on the length). Once it reaches its max capacity I can upload them to gmail for archive purposes.
| Gathering Random thoughts, blog posts or your interests. |
Recording Via minidisc, mobile or computer. |
Podcasting Uploaded once a week. |
I have numerous ideas floating around the web at the minute. One which I am set on is the idea of iPodcast (Irish Podcast), getting Irish bloggers/people to submit content each week for inclusion in a group podcast, I have just done up a quick mock-up of the process and have set up the page from where iPodcast #1 will be discussed.
http://irishpodcast.backpackit.com/
I am waiting on confirmation from ourproject.org to use their website as a place where we can have a group discussion. But for the time being we can use this location.
Username - irishpodcast Password - ipodder
After a week off from updates I will be back on track from Monday of next week. I will have some interesting ideas to discuss and items relating to the months ahead. You can reach me by e-mail irishpodcast@gmail.com or via mobile on 085 7202355 in the mean time.
I am hoping to establish a Podcast Community in Ireland. I have already set up two content management systems but they are on an un-reliable free webhost. One called Podblog where anyone can sign up and post an item relating to podcasting. The PodArea will be a place for people interested in Podcasting to come and ask questions. They can also set up their own weblog and post their podcasts from it. What I am hoping to do is get donations and purchase a webhost for these two websites where people can join-up, get information on podcasting and upload their podcasts also.
Interesting to see that irishpodcast.com has been registered. What will become of it?
First there was Lib Syn. But now something bigger is happening Lib Dem have created a podcast. This is a fantastic way to get their opinions/goals across to people on the move.
It’s a three part Podcast of this morning’s Iraq speech - each file is about 5MB big. If you can’t use the snazzy Podcasting XML below, then links to the individual files are also provided.
Head over to the Irish Podcasters google group and get involved.
Send your messages to: 
Before you head starts spinning this is not about people podasting on buses or in their car. Although this does happen an awful lot with people wanting to try something different to brake up their monotonous journey to work. They are actually podcasting from podbus and podlot. Although I have talked about podlot before podbus has arrived on the scene and wants to be podhost for people’s podcasts.
Podbus is a new service allowing people to sign-up and receive 300MB of storage and an automated RSS feed (much like what dircaster achieves) for $4 a month. This basically means you can upload 15 shows with a length of 20 minutes. For an extra $2 you can host a website with php enabled.
I’ll recap on podlots service to be fair - They offer 150MB with unlimited bandwidth for $5 month, or if you are a podcast addict you can get 1000MB of storage costing $15 a month, this allows you to host up to 15 domains and have unlimited e-mail addresses. They also offer php support if you want to create a website with added features like cgi, perl and python.
My advice would be to sign up for the basic package and host your site/blog on blogsome for free and link to the podcasts from there.
A number of podcast sites that could have massive potential are
Podkissed: Allow easy management of podcasts to mobile.
Podsafe: Registered late last year, will maybe have a database of usable content for podcasts.
PodcastAds: Dates all the way back to November. Is it now too late for this idea as podshow is aiming to push the same idea?
Podbat: All round tool, management system for podcasts, show notes and a podcatcher.
Podglo: Sounds interesting, but not fully sure what it will offer.
Odeo: Currently in beta, most people very keen to use this site.
Podscope has just launched it’s searchable service. Now you can actually locate shows which relate to items you’re interested in.
The items relate to the difference but the connected analogue has with digital and how demediation occurs. Liam, Fiona, Bilal, Natasha and Sharon have an open discussion lead by Bernie Goldbach as part of their 3rd level degree program at Tipperary Institute.
Fiona, Sharon, Natasha, Bilal and Liam discuss how people share files across the Internet.
TVEyes (partners with Yahoo!) will begin keyword indexing audio and video podcasts via a site called Podscope.
Podscope looks for podcasts and creates an index against every word, thereby making the contents searchable. The user can search on a term, generate a list of results ranked by a variety of methods to find the most relevant podcast and click to play or click to download.
You can enter your email to get an announcement once it launches and you can also submit your RSS feed for crawling. This service should be up and running by the end of the month.
Bonus Link: Podshows
Dave Winer launched podcatch.com last week which will be a site dedicated to the podcast community. It will feature news items and useful links to valuable information relating to podcasting.
Recently Adam Curry launched podshow.com which he is aiming to get people involved so they can start making money from their podcasts.
Dave places a quick dig at Adam on his site when he states -
Can developers and users party together once again? ;->
After 7 hours of production time (editing down the large files, learning how to use Pro Tools on Mac, pulling intros and outros down from xdrive, deciding in what order to place them and finally converting them to MP3 for your portable pleasure). Here is Irish Podcast 0506 in all its glory 7.11MB. View shownotes in : opml or html and subscribe to your favourite Irish Podcaster.
I’m just back from the German Circus, which was very amusing!!! I decided to bring along my mini disc to see what it would sound like. So I placed the microphone beside me and hit record. It actually sounds really good (I’ll post some tomorrow), the music was great and matched the preformances excellently.
Anywho I got around 18 minutes of the show, but at this stage I began to worry because the clown was looking for people from the audience to come on stage. So I quickly untangled the microphone from the miniisc and placed it firmly back in my pocket, so yes you guessed it I was picked out as my parents picked a ring-side seat. He gabbed three other males and a female, he enacted playing an instrument which we had to step into the spotlight and copy. So it comes to my turn and he starts playing the air guitar. So yep I had to stand in the arena jumping up and down playing with an invisible quitar. The others had to play the sax, the drums, one guy prending to preform in a microphone and the female got the chance to dance.
So once we all had our minute in the spotlight he gave us all a blow up instrument and gave the lead singer a funny outfit, so there I was going through the motions when he comes over and pushes me over so I was lying flat wiggling me legs in the air while playing the guitar. It was great fun actually playing along.
