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.
Bernie and Aidan have come up with a new innovation, which could help podcasting grow around Ireland.
1.) Firstly record your podcast.
2.) Copy it over to your mobile (must be bluetooth enabled and have an MultiMediaCard (MMC).
3.) Take a quiet pub in Ireland hook in a MMV-100 into the scart connection. Now once you stay within 10 meters of the TV you can broadcast your podcast.
Missed the show today? Here it is posted so you can listen at your leisure.
To listen just click the above image or you can subscribe to the following feed: http://podcaster.blogsome.com/feed/rss2
If you want to listen as a podcast just place the RSS feed in a podcatcher and click the download button, now it will download as you work and you can place it on your mp3 player. It runs for just over 23 minutes (perfect for your commute).
Worried about the effect a popular podcast could cause you? The Free Bandwidth Project is here to help.
We provide free bandwidth for your video, podcast, software download, or any other file you want to post. We will support downloads of any quantity and are adding infrastructure to support very large volumes of downloads.
The first step is to sign-up and register your website. Now when you publish a podcast just enter the location of the file on your hosting sites web address and add the following: .freebandproject.com.
Example: http://podcaster.blogsome.com.freebandproject.com/uploads/podcast_0506.mp3
Paris set to podcast:
Podcasting is hot. But it just got hotter. Paris Hilton invites you to join her on “The Paris Hilton Podcast — Countdown to House of Wax,” beginning on April 29. Join Paris and friends as she shops, parties, poses and publicizes in the days leading up to the May 6 opening of House of Wax.
Just in case anyone is confused at this stage it’s a podcast not a porncast. View the details here.
grafedia: words written anywhere, then linked to images, video or sound files online.
How it works: you send an image by MMS to yourword@grafedia.net. You publicise it by writing the word you choose anywhere in the real world in blue with an underline (just like a hyperlink). The person sees it on a street corner gets out their mobile and sends an MMS to theword@grafedia.net. To anyone else it may be graffiti put to people in the know it’s a link into a wider community.
Example: Lets say you take a picture at 4am of your friend lying outside a church. You take the picture and send it to holygirl@grafedia.net. The next day you write holygirl@grafedia.net on notice boards, on printouts, on street corners etc People take notice and can get the picture by sending a blank MMS to holygirl@grafedia.net. If they do this the image is sent to their mobile phone. This service also works from your computer where you send a blank email to holygirl@grafedia.net.
So let us relate this to Podato.com, the single person can send in their recordings as usual, we then get their name and make a email like emma@grafedia.net, we/she can add the link to where ever possible for people to see. The single guy can see this and use his mobile on the spot to send an MMS to emma@grafedia.net and is soon sent her recording to his mobile and no data is swapped between the two people.
Test it out - Send a blank email to podato@grafedia.net and see what happens.
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/irishpodcast
Update - The RSS feed does not support enclosures so podcatching will not work. I would generate a url from mfeeds but that service is currently down.
I had so much fun at the Triangle Bloggers Conference at the University of North Carolina that I thought Podcasters needed their own event. So I set the ball rolling for PodcasterCon.org. My hope is that Podcasters will work together to make this event.
Here is the statement of purpose as of now:
PodcasterCon is a free users conference about podcasting. The focus will be on learning. In effect it is an anti-expo without swag, without product promotion, and a way to keep podcasting fun!
Got a Shuffle for playing your Podcasts? The ideal item for you is the iShirt.
PodShirt offers specialized apparel designed to show-off your iPod shuffle. Using a patent-pending magnetic clasp system, the iPod shuffle attaches seamlessly to the clothing to become part of the apparel design.
Sizes come in Medium, Large and X-Large with a price tag of $28.99.
The technorati tags have hit it off big time over the past few months. Now Paramagnus have set up podcasttags which will actually become a large, podcast directory, it can place your podcast in many different categories. This is very handy because not everyone’s podcast is based on the one subject, the categories are now unlimited. In most podcast directories at the moment they lack many categories such as relationships (were our podato podcast should be) To change this you have to email people to ever get a podcast listed over at ipodder.org. But now with the tagging service it can update as soon as you post your podcast. The site currently features 22 categories but over the next few weeks should reach well over 100.
This post is tagged as Ireland.
Dave Winer has just registered two new websites. They are independentpodcasters.com and indiepodcasters.com, which will probably be a place for podcast lovers to go and get noticed.
The other podcasters (money grabbers) can sign up with Curry and put adverts in their podcasts.
CNN will have a feature about podcasting on its Next@CNN show. It will be shown tomorrow Saturday at 12:30 and again later at 18:30, if case you arrived late and missed it there is a repeat Sunday at 21:30.
It wll focus on Grape Radio, PodcastAlley and of course what podcasting is.
Thanks to the use of a site meter over at Podato we have learned an awful lot. We can see if their browser supports png (portable networks graphics) images, what operating system they are currently on, how long they stay and what location they are from. 14% of users have arrived directly by typing the url, 8% from Ireland thanks to the work of the technorati tags. We have also received hits from New Zealand (1.3%), Japan (1.2%), Switzerland (1.2%) and from the UK (2.5%).
Nearly half of the visitors are using Window XP, 23% are still using ‘98 like myself, 15% using 2000, just 9% are using a Mac and 6% arriving from Nokia Phones.
Also to my excitement over 60% of arrivals are using Firefox, with IE 6 making up 26% and 1.2% of people are still using IE 5. Opera users accounted for 6% with Mac Safari coming in at 5%.
Podthings is a website dedicated to finding the best information regarding podcasting, it’s a very useful tool to get all the content I miss, he currently has are great links to items regarding paycasting and podcatchers amoung other things.
Also, he has great links on the right hand side to help new users to understand what podcasting is.
So head along to Podthings.com (check out the cool logo also). I’ve already subscribed, so why don’t you?
Great to see more activity in the podcasting world, with more and more people becoming aware of it brings new ideas/applications. Podr.com will be an easy to use podcast download application using bitorrent which will be a handy feature for people still on dial-up to get their favourite show faster. Which can only be a good thing.
After finding out about PodLot two nights ago I decided to give it a test run. It offers unlimited bandwidth at $4.00 a month and domain hosting is only an additional $2.00. This is dead handy for people who have a large following.
So I signed up for the trial run (5 days) to compare it to Slapcast and LibSyn. At the sign up page you are greeted with the contact details which is always a good sign, especially when you can get in contact via mobile, IM and Skype, so if you have any problems they are ready to assist you. (more…)
Major thanks to James Lewin who got in touch to ask a few questions about PodDate. He runs a great podcast resource over at Podcasting News. It’s a nice piece and will get more interest from others.
I had included James Corbett (who came to me with the idea) in the reply:
The idea came about after I had made a post about using gmail as a storage space for people who just want to try to record a podcast and don’t want to pay for storage. I already have three people after trying the service in a week, which is great – hopefully they will keep it up. This lead to James Corbett writing this post, after leaving a comment he got in touch by emailing me details of his idea.
The article can be viewed at Podcasting News, and the PodDate site is up and running, ready for singles to become part of the community.
Also posts over at PodcastPlayer.org and Largehearted Boy.
A new arrival in the PodHost market is Podlot.com. They offer hosting packages which gives you unlimited bandwidth each month.
They offer three different packages:
Standard Lot ($4.00 a month)
150 megabytes of storage unlimited bandwidth domain hosting*
Following my daily visit to Adam Curry’s weblog I noticed he had made a post saying that ipodder.org had been updated. Of course I popped along to see the new look, it’s nice and simple (just the way every site should be). The newest podcasts will still be posted on the main page along with links to each category. The links are now placed on the right hand side, the logo is very strange, I don’t know what the meaning of it is (if there is one), maybe cutting the wires from radio and moving to podcasts?
But the biggest difference to the site was the inclusion of an advert for podshow.com, I clicked and was greeted with a heading saying “Making Podcasting Better”. What will this site be? Well it’s part of a group venture between Ron Bloom and Adam Curry as part of BoKu Communications (but more about that soon). The ideas is to get advertisers involved (much like what podcastAds was set up for) and give them placement in podcast shows, this is called targetcasting. Other areas covered are an information centre/application to help podcasters get off the ground and to help you make money from your podcast. For listeners this probably will just be details of how they can listen to podcasts and how to subscribe to shows, not only this but they may even have a pod player ready for distribution (see the bottom segment of the site for more details). Also if interested you can sign up to be informed of the latest news. You can also listen to details about PodShow from Adam Curry from the pod player.
These two sites now form the bases for bokucom a company set up with the following goal:
BoKu is in the process of expanding its podcasting system into a network that is enabling thousands of producers to cost-effectively create compelling content to fit the needs and desires of millions of users, with marketers benefiting from the connection. This dynamic audio and video content marketplace has a reach that extends beyond the computer into a fully mobile environment comprising communications, content and commerce.
Thought Out has designed a pedestal for your iPod family. This allows you to keep your desktop tidy and also keep your iPod out of danger of falling or having drink spill on it (perish the thought).
Thought Out has teamed up with MacCast (A show for Mac geeks by a Mac geek) to offer the iPed at just $19.99 a piece. This is the first step of co-operation between podcasting and companies, teaming together and giving special deals, in return for being heard on the show.
Thought Out offers exclusive iPed Discount for MacCast listeners.
It’s a very sleek design comes in Gloss Bright White, Off White or Grey and usually retails for $25.99.
Subscribe to MacCast
Over the past three days I have been in contact with James Corbett via email to discuss his blog post regarding PodDating.
With so many Irish people now turning to the web in search of a partner, there is now a way to include podcasting in this process.
How you may well ask, the answer is simple by the use of their mobile phone. People can attach their voice clips in an MMS/Email message and send it to podato@gmail.com, it is then manually converted to MP3 (the problem with mobile phones is that they record in .amr) but while converting it gives us the chance to check the content, change the ID tags, and begin the blog entry where the MP3 file will be placed (add optional advert e.g. visit poddate website at the end).
The website is currently at podato.com, users can subscribe to three different feeds, one for each sex or if they want they can listen to both sexes. If people don’t have MP Players they can just listen to the content on the website. Now the blog comes in handy at this stage, it allows people to give feedback on the voice (podclip) they have just heard: either asking for more information or wanting to get in contact with the person via email etc. a listener may even send a podclip aimed at the person they have just heard.
Unlike many dating websites there are no profiles so everyone starts on an even playing field, the problem with dating sites is that viewers look at the content and judge in fives seconds that this person is out of the question or if they have a picture this can have the same effect.
With these podclips people can feel secure and sell themselves at the same time. They needn’t feel embarrassed as no one will know them (they can make up a nickname when they start).
Also subscribe to the feed on the site so your can listen to single guys/girls on your way to work!
Yesterday I travelled alongside Bernie Goldbach with Mike Kiely at the wheel to help out at the Schoolworks at Tipperary Institute programme. On arrival we travelled around the campus looking for an ideal location for recording, luckily we had a choice of many rooms because of reading week. We found a rectangular room which became my home for the day. I set up my recording equipment and positioned them in the following layout:
The students sat down along the left hand side with Bernie asking questions from the right, the microphone stayed closer to the students because they had a quieter voice and Bernie is used to lecturing and his voice carries well. I used my iPod ear buds to listen in during the recordings, I would advise people to use larger headphones but the location was so quiet I felt the need not to.
The students had already designed images to coincide with what food they ate for St. Patrick’s Day. Only 3 out of the 14 have typical Irish Meals. But while recording them speak about the food they ate I learned that most people eat out for St. Patrick’s Day which is unheard of in this household.
The students also read a chapter of Blink by Malcolm Gladwell so during the recording session they were asked by Bernie about their thoughts on the book.
The first student to enter was Siobhan Scarlett who made some great images in Adobe Photoshop. She talked about her ideas and how she documented items for her portfolio work, along with her thoughts on the week long programme and why she choose her Patrick’s Day food.
The next two students to arrive in were Ronan and Christina. They had read an item relating to Kenna and how people judged him on first appearance and didn’t give him much chance even on the radio. They also talked about the food they most enjoyed to eat on St. Patrick’s Day.
Finally Paddy Murphy and Amy were next in the hot seat. They talked also about first impressions relating to the college. They also talked about and why they eat pizza and SuperMacs for lunch.
Most people nowadays not only just have a normal mobile phone, it is not uncommon to see a class full of students with camera/video features built it. The functionality allows them to record a Podcast. To do this via your mobile phone, record a sound clip and insert it into a MMS/Email message. Next step is in send it to your email address.
Once you log-in to your email you will see the message and your number to go along side it. Click to open and view the attachments. 
Now you will see the recorded .amr file along with the smil file. This smil file is just data and is sent with all MMS messages - so take no notice of it. All you have to do is click the download button and choose the folder that you will to save it in. Remember to save under all files, it save as 3GPP you will be unable to convert to wav. (more…)
Check out NuParadigm DrizzleCast. This new application is for Windows and uses Microsoft BITS technology to download RSS enclosures using your idle bandwith. It’s a very simple and easy to use podcatcher, just what we need to get the latest podcasts.
Download it from NuParadigm
Thanks to James Corbett over at Eirepreneur for mentioning podhost and for sending a podclip from his Nokia 6600. He also had the following news:
I think I’ve finally convinced a friend of mine to start his own podcast, one which I believe will offer a very valuable service to a specific subsection of the community. Stay tuned….
Login into gmail and have a listen for yourself.
login: podhost password: ipodder
I just so happened to come across a podcast site from South African while browsing through google. It’s a website specifically for South Africans to come and learn all about podcasting and also place their podcast in the directory much like what I’m doing here. It has got some very informative content which is worth checking out.
I’m sure many Irish people have heard about podcasting and want to get involved in the process. Many wouldn’t want to pay hosting site to upload their MP3 files and maybe that’s why they haven’t started, well to make it super simple and free just email your MP3 file to podhost@gmail.com and maybe add the show notes in the body of the email. Now all people have to do is login to the gmail account > click and listen on their computer. Now anyone with a voice can start a podcast, It will be very interesting over the next few months to listen to a wide range of Irish people share their views/experiences.
Just send your MP3 file to podhost@gmail.com, people can listen to the shows by logging in with podhost and password: ipodder.
I remember back to when I was in 6th year in school wondering which college to go to. All I heard on the radio were adverts for Dublin, Waterford and Cork and I like most students was too lazy to visit the websites one by one and look at what they had on offer. In the end I choose TippInst for a number of reasons, it was in an ideal location, the course offered a great range of items (that I was already interested in) and the campus was nice and cosy.
But if TI is to get more students each year it needs to attack the right market just like other colleges. Each evening back then I would usually tune into 2FM and stick with it throughout the night. Then along came Beat FM and I soon switched (to a more local show, bigger chance of being heard).
The only radio I hear now is when the radio is on in the background while I’m having my daily meals.
I choose not to listen to radio, even when I am sitting in front on my computer (the room has no TV), I never turn on the radio, not even to hear the chart run down. Podcasting covers all these topics for me, although it’s not yet localised to my situation, it soon will be (give or take a few months). So if Podcasting really does catch on and I’m positive it will (thanks to the amount of MP3 Players that people now have). So wouldn’t it be worth placing little adverts in podcasts to extend your reach. You never know who may be listening.
After three hours of fiddling and lots of coffee, I finally have bbpress installed and in working order. I want to be able to implement the stylesheet so it will blend in with this site, but that’s for another day. The overall package of bbpress is amazing, it’s so simple but so very addictive, just like wordpress. Again it is open source so you can have a go at installing it and changing it as you see fit.
I can safely say that this is the first bbpress forum dedicated to Podcasting. It’s nice to have it up and running and to know that it will hopefully be a great resource for Irish people especially, to come and post and interact with other podcast enthusiasts. So why not pop over and help the Irish Podforum grow.
While looking through my previous webspace I found a few useful items, one in particular brought a lot of memories back. I remembered back to November when I explaining to my mother what my project was about and I tried to explain podcasting to her so she could realise what I was doing. To do so I got out my DVR and ask her to speak for a minute or so, my mother and technology don’t really mix. Have a listen for yourself, you won’t find it difficult to understand why I didn’t get to show her the whole process.
After 129 posts this blog is going public, allowing people to register and write an article. This can range from the first podcast you listened to after hearing about podcasting, the podcasts you listen to, what equipment to use, problems you had with podcasting or even useful items you have seen on the web or in the press relating to podcasting. Anything of interesting as long as it relates to podcasting.
Another new site under construction is Podbat, which will be geared towards podcasters and podcatchers. This should really be a great for podcasters if it has all of the below functionality.
Base: login/register and get your podcast news and feed. Subs: manage your feeds and downloads. Box: manage you podcasts, shownotes, tag manager (recording area coming soon). Bat: upload you podcasts, update RSS feed and file manager.
I know it’s early days and all but I just set up an Irish podcast area on meetup.com.
At least it will be there when people want to join up and meet other podcast enthusiasts once a month.
If you’re anyway interested about podcasting head over to the Podcasting Meetup Website. If you’re looking for information on podcasting or want to start your own podcast this is the place for you.
Another Podcast site to put on your watch list. It’s an exciting time for podcasters, we already have podsafe and podkissed expecting a launch someday soon. I will keep you up to date as usual on these three websites.
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I tried out the service and found it very easy to use. Once you are logged in you appear on the blog entry page. Here you can decide whether you are posting a podcast or just a text blog, all the usual items are there. You can upload your image to coincide with your post along wit your MP3 file. The handy feature is that you can automatically ping audio.weblogs once you post, meaning more people will come across your podcast.
We have started a new podcast at http://sandbox.libsyn.com . It’s open for everyone to post podcasts, blogs and pictures on. You can change whatever you like. Just keep in mind, someone else can change whatever they like too. It’s also a good way to check out how our service works.
In the media files section you can view/delete your uploaded podcasts. Two very handy shortcuts also appear here:
You can click the MP3 file and get the enclosure tag code if you want to use your own RSS feed. There is functionality to click the id3 tags and enter your title, album and so forth along with an image.
Blog Settings allows you to change your page title, description etc. It also gives the handy tool of editing your CSS file to personalise it to your standards. You can also change what order the side panel content appears. (more…)
Want to stay up to date with your favourite blog but don’t have Internet access while you’re on the move? RSS2WAP allows you to enter in the website RSS feed and it will convert it to WML for access on mobile devices. This means you can get the latest content wherever you may be. Not too many sites are wap friendly so if you want to find the latest info it will either come in many separate pages or it may be too large to even view.
This is a useful tool for podcasting, once someone posts a podcast they could enter the shownotes in the blog post or even place it on a separate feed. People could play a podcast and enter the rss2wap address on their mobile to view what’s coming up on today’s show. This would come in handy if it was a 40 minute show and you need to know what appears and when.
The next podcasting show will soon begin production and will have a more appealing magazine feel to it. We will feature soundscapes, spoken approved essays, a trip around Ireland to see what other bloggers are talking about using the useful irishblogs tag. Another interesting section is Hidden Ireland, which will feature issues dealing with items that don’t appear for tourists on their guidebooks, such as places to go that offer the best meals, the best pubs to drink an authentic pint of Guinness. We already have some useful one-minute tips, which need to get out to people. MyJob will be a section for students to become involved with especially our current 3rd year students, they can record a CV like segment dealing which could be heard by potential employers who are listening and may have an opening for them once they leave college. Also an Inside View column to be spoken out be Bernie Goldbach featuring the quotes from the people featured in the article.
Once we get a couple of shows out featuring the above items, we may offer each one as a seperate feed for people to subscribe to.
I spent tonight working on a layout for podcasting.blogsome.com, a place holder for my PURK idea, I hope to have it fully populated in 3/4 weeks time ready for any person to visit and learn from the beginning all about podcasting.
MTV refugee Adam Curry is leading a grassroots revolt called podcasting. Why amateurs may soon rule the airwaves (begin download now).
Welcome to podcasting, the medium that promises a future where anyone can make radio, instead of just listen to it. The biggest podcast audiences now number in the mere tens of thousands. Yet real radio, the kind with bona fide mass audiences, is starting to use the technology to make its shows available for download.
Thanks to spam trackback that I opened in my inbox, I remembered that I had signed up and blogged an item relating to podcasting way back on the 20th of October which related to: The Podcast Revolution Begins.
PURK - At the end of this project I would like to have a downloadable pdf file that explains podcasting to the masses, what it is, benefits, how to listen, how to download and use podcatchers. Also what to do with the orange RSS button, they just need to know how easy it is set up a podcast of their own. Should begin this process by Friday.
Even if the usage is high we could have a gmail account set up especially for these people to send it to so listeners can log-in and download it. This means they needn’t worry about the storage space issue.
WinPodcast is available for download at podcast.scon.de.
This is a great free application for people who have just heard about podcasting from various sources and want to start a show of their own. All you need to do is download the program, insert your microphone and talk about whatever topic you feel passionate about.
Once downloaded open it up and click on File > New Podcast and now you just have to enter the show name, author, keywords and pick a folder for where your saved podcasts go to. Once completed click the microphone icon and start talking. When you start you can type your show notes in the left hand column which will be saved as your showname.txt. This is a great add-on and will allow others to view what’s on your show before they decide to listen. (more…)
Get ready for a make-your-own-podcast program called Podcast Wizard which will be available in five days time. We’ll just have to wait and see if it can be any competition to MixCast Live. Hopefully some screenshots wll be up soon.
Interested in podcasting? Ever try to do it? Podcasting is not trivial - it’s actually quite hard. Or at least it was. Podcast Wizard, new from Paramagnus, takes the pain out of podcasting. Simply create, publish, and promote.
Podcasts help people to and from work, the only problem is timing. I have a 15 minute commute to college each morning and The Dawn and Drew show lasts around 30 minutes, so once I reach college I have to remember the time stamp and wait until my trip home to finish it off. It takes a while to turn the wheel to where I stopped it from.
To solve this maybe podcasters could have an alternative feed with AAC as the file enclosure. AAC audio files support bookmarks, so if you stop listening you will be able to continue where you left off upon re-access.
Many popular podcatchers support MP3 to AAC file conversion. Having this alternate feed allows the subscriber to choose which file format they prefer if they have an iPod.
I know when I was younger I didn’t read too many books, although I was joined the local library but I mainly took out ‘make and do’ books which gave me a vivid imagination to create wonderful items that appeared in the books. I do regret not reading that many books when I look back on my childhood. I remember back to when I used to go to speech therapy because I couldn’t pronounce simple words like coat properly.
During one session she asked me if I read many books, I was on the spot and couldn’t think of any recent ones that I had read. The Famous Five flew out of my mouth, she then asked me to name out the leading characters. They could have been Tom, Dick and Harry for all I knew. I remember naming out common names like John, Mary and Seamus, thankfully she said them out soon afterwards and I left with my head down ashamed of lying to her.
Nowadays many more children are missing out on a good read because of the time they spend in front of the Television. Thankfully books like Harry Potter and A Series of Unfortunate Events are grabbing children away from the TV and into their own world of imagination.
Over the past year there has been a massive increase with children having MP3 players particularly an iPod, many of which who own them are between 10 and 12 years old.
What would be great to see happen is for a parents council of a particular school getting together with parents of pupils and try to get children listening to spoken content instead of music all the time. The parents could get together and decide upon a children’s book and read it aloud while recording. Each adult is given a character to read out and one person acts as the narrator. Once completed the children can download it to their MP3 player and listen to the finished piece either with their friends or alone. Allowing them to use their imagination while they listen to the content.
Looking through my referral logs for the past week I have made an observation that 25 people have arrived from google looking for RTE Podcast information. I wonder if they want to find podcasts of their favourite radio shows or do they think RTE is about to do a feature on Podcasting for one of their TV programmes?
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.
At the start of this project I knew zero about recording/editing or even what a podcast was. 4 months have pasted and I must admit I have podcasting sussed completely which is great and can always retell how at the start there were only 452 entries in google for podcasting. Podcast sites were rare to none. iPodder.org, Podfly and Podstar were the only chance apart from the yahoo podcast group to find information on Podcasting, four months on we have podcast stars (Dawn and Drew). It has appeared on BBC2, CNN and many major newspapers; unfortunately Ireland is slow to do a feature but it early days and Ireland is slow to catch on.
Back to the recording/editing status. I am currently working on Podcast 0506 with technical director Mike Kiely. Most of Friday was spent in college, more specifically between the AV lab and the Sound Studio. From 10am until just after 3pm we worked on getting all the sound files together so we could make adjustments and get them to sound in tandem.
Firstly we tested each track in SoundForge to see what they actually sounded like. On Tuesday I had all the tracks editing down (in SoundForge) as best I could, unfortunately as I found out the default for Soundforge is to save file as .MP3 so once I had them on disc I opened them on screen, Mike needed to convert the sample rate of each track so they sounded on the same level, we located this thanks to google. We entered the sound studio and opened Pro Tools on the Mac, now he needed to grab the tracks from my CD and convert them back to .wav; I had three CDs with me, the originals, the edited versions and the intro/outro segments. I hadn’t labelled the CDs properly so this held us up as I gave him the wrong CD to convert (Note to self: Use a black marker). During this time Mike found that the Ellen MacArthur piece was in Mono and all other clips were Stereo. So to overcome this difference he copied the file and pasted it into a left and right output.
Now once we had all .wav files on a USB storage card we could save them onto the Mac and get ready to get our show together. Mike gave me a demonstration on how to use the ProTools which in the end looked simple to use. I have never had any experience with Macs before so that was an experience in itself. ProTools has a nice layout to understand and follow, we laid out the segments on two different parts, one for the interviews and the one below was for the introductions and outros. We made a quick outline of where the content would appear along with the intros and iteming following to the next section.
Problems with the recordings:
Ellen MacAther: Sound quality was good except it was in mono which set us back a bit on productivity. Maeve Connolly: Segment was just 20 seconds long but involved an awful hissing noise due to the surroundings or a connection lose, this was completely blocked out by using the dehisser option under audiostudio. Feargal McKay: Two separate recordings sounded okay, one of them was louder than the other so we used the limiter to quieten it down. Eamon Kearns: This was a phone interview which actually was of great quality but we wanted to give a more realistic sound, so people actually knew it was recorded over mobile phone so we used the limiter.
I spent just over an hour by myself getting to know ProTools and figuring out where each action was which was a very valuable experience, I could easily move the files around and put them in the order which I preferred.
I got the chance to test out the Nokia 9500 in the sound studio with 7 other Multimedia Students. We had an open discussion lead by Bernie Goldbach relating to Smart Mobs written by Howard Reingold. The opening sentences of each chapter were read out and we inserted our own opinions/views on what they actually meant and how they related to us.
I opened the Nokia Communicator on the desk which was the central feature of the room. I just had to hit the ‘my own’ button while I was on the main menu followed by record. Once the 30 minute session had ended I just had to click stop > menu and scroll down to save as and enter the file name. To take out the 512MB memory card I had to open the mobile from the back and pop it out. I later used the Memorex card reader to upload to my college PC, the computer recognised it but it had no data. After thinking everything was deleted it was pointed out to me that the card was upside down, not very clear from the device as to what way to insert it.
The sound clips were in amr format meaning I needed to use a simple converter program and change the four files to wav so I could listen to the sound quality. I tried uploading them to the xdrive but the college computers had problems uploaded such large files. When I got home Tuesday I tried from home, I selected the file to upload, it was uploading but gave no feedback as to if it was successful, unfortunately it never got there, so today at 7pm tonight I uploaded each one again. I know one of them appears on xdrive so at the moment I have just logged in to xdrive and I’m still waiting over 5 minutes to view my uploads to see if the rest made it.
Why not start up a podcast magazine? We have unlimited content to make it a success and build on it from there. We could have. I’m sure every podcaster would love to buy it to see what other people are up to and podcasting is starting to hit the average Joe on he streets so maybe a magazine may be the best medium to get them into podcasting.
News Section:
New podast websites. Segments on new podcasters. Latest information on podcasting.
Main Section:
Interviews with podcasters. Tried and tested podcast equipment (which is best for which situations). Review of certain podcasts. Podcasters: Who to watch out for. The latest gadgets available to help people out. Tutorials on how to podcast, how to listen etc. Podcatchers evaluated.
Interactive Section:
CD with magazine which features the best podcasts on it for newcomers to try out in their car. Readers write in with their problems; answered by podcasters themselves. People can send in an MMS of their set up.
Running out of storage space for your podcasts? Why not set up a gmail account such as mypodcastshow@gmail.com. Upload your MP3 file and give Podcast #1 as the subject line so people can come and open it. To let people know about it you could post from your blog everytime you record a podcast or e-mail them, although it wouldn’t be a good idea for people who like to subscribe using the RSS feed. But if people really want to listen to your show give them the login and password for this specially set up google account. Now they can either right click and save or open it with real player.
After articles in USA Today I’m sure a lot more people are googling for information about how to set up a podcast for the least amount of funds.
The can start with a free blog either at blogger.com or on live journal. Or if they have some web experience go to dhost and set up a free account with ftp access. After this they can decide to install movable type, mambo or my favourite wordpress, because it has ftp access you can upload images and mp3 files as it has 100MB of space. You could set up multiple accounts it you’re going to have a lot of shows.
Or another solution although slower would be to email your mp3 files to submit@openpodcast.org and wait to see your feed pop up in the archives section and link to it from your blog. Although this will be slow if someone wants to download it, but if you get subscribers they won’t notice as much.
A square unresizable podcast receiver, which proberly is the most popular podcast receiver available at the moment. It’s got 5 taps along the top:
Status: Is the main menu which shows your podcast RSS feeds, an area to add your feed and buttons to select or remove and check for new podcasts.
Sceduler: Where you can select when to check for new podcasts at whatever time you want to.
Preferences: General options appear here, such as do you want to hide iPodder at start up and select which folder to download podcasts to.
Info: Gives details on the programmers and an area to donate money.
Log: gives details when you’re downloading podcasts.
This software will make keeping up-to-date on the latest and greatest podcast feeds absolutely effortless.
At the start of this project I knew zero about recording/editing or even what a podcast was. 4 months have pasted and I must admit I have podcasting sussed completely which is great and can always retell how at the start there were only 452 entries in google for podcasting. Podcast sites were rare to none. iPodder.org, Podfly and Podstar were the only chance apart from the yahoo podcast group to find information on Podcasting, four months on we have podcast stars (Dawn and Drew). It has appeared on BBC2, CNN and many major newspapers; unfortunately Ireland is slow to do a feature but it early days and Ireland is slow to catch on.
Back to the recording/editing status. I am currently working on Podcast 0506 with technical director Mike Kiely. Most of Friday was spent in college, more specifically between the AV lab and the Sound Studio. From 10am until just after 3pm we worked on getting all the sound files together so we could make adjustments and get them to sound in tandem.
Firstly we tested each track in SoundForge to see what they actually sounded like. On Tuesday I had all the tracks editing down (in SoundForge) as best I could, unfortunately as I found out the default for Soundforge is to save file as .MP3 so once I had them on disc I opened them on screen, Mike needed to convert the sample rate of each track so they sounded on the same level, we located this thanks to google. We entered the sound studio and opened Pro Tools on the Mac, now he needed to grab the tracks from my CD and convert them back to .wav; I had three CDs with me, the originals, the edited versions and the intro/outro segments. I hadn’t labelled the CDs properly so this held us up as I gave him the wrong CD to convert (Note to self: Use a black marker). During this time Mike found that the Ellen MacArthur piece was in Mono and all other clips were Stereo. So to overcome this difference he copied the file and pasted it into a left and right output.
Now once we had all .wav files on a USB storage card we could save them onto the Mac and get ready to get our show together. Mike gave me a demonstration on how to use the ProTools which in the end looked simple to use. I have never had any experience with Macs before so that was an experience in itself. ProTools has a nice layout to understand and follow, we laid out the segments on two different parts, one for the interviews and the one below was for the introductions and outros. We made a quick outline of where the content would appear along with the intros and iteming following to the next section.
Problems with the recordings:
Ellen MacAther: Sound quality was good except it was in mono which set us back a bit on productivity. Maeve Connolly: Segment was just 20 seconds long but involved an awful hissing noise due to the surroundings or a connection lose, this was completely blocked out by using the dehisser option under audiostudio. Feargal McKay: Two separate recordings sounded okay, one of them was louder than the other so we used the limiter to quieten it down. Eamon Kearns: This was a phone interview which actually was of great quality but we wanted to give a more realistic sound, so people actually knew it was recorded over mobile phone so we used the limiter.
I spent just over an hour by myself getting to know ProTools and figuring out where each action was which was a very valuable experience, I could easily move the files around and put them in the order which I preferred.
Using my girlfriends Nokia 3220 I decided to try some tests. I wanted to see if my Wordpress would allow for my Video to be placed in my RSS; unfortunately I had to do it manually in the end. Here is how:
Go to the advanced editing mode. Scroll down to custom fields and place enclosure in the key section followed by the link to your video in the value text box. Now write your post and hit post.
So I opened Nimiq, selected my RSS feed and hit ‘download now’. To my surprise it downloaded the video in five seconds It was placed in my Nimiq folder ready to view. The default opening is for Quick Time. The phone can record for 50 seconds but doing so means you are unable to send it, so the recording time for this is just 13 seconds.
Using different technologies with Podcasting can we fun and can also save you time in many different manys. Today I was introduced to the Sony S700i by Bernie Goldbach. 10 Multimedia Developers gathered in the Sound Studio of the Tipperary Institute to discuss their project is a quick 20 second soundbyte.
Which focused on “What are you doing for your project”, we all had 2/3 minutes to jot down the main points of our project, inturn each Mutlimedia student sat down directly in front of me to speak about their projects. Each voice level was different from the last one so I needed to be on hand with the mobile moving it closer/futher from their mouth.
Once each item had be recorded as individual soundclips we exported them to a labtop. Unfortunately we discovered that the recording turn out to be .amr and not mp3 as we thought. This handed us a large problem which not even google could solve. We looked everywhere even purchased the latest Real Player to see if it could at least play it, this wasn’t the case, but luckily Michael Kiely (Video and Sound Expert) was on hand and solved the problem by sending a zip file of a program which allowed us to convert it to .wav. We placed each seperate clip in Soundforge and copied and pasted each one together. I edited down blank noise, gaps in sentances and other noises.
The Sony MZ-N10 was one of the first recorders I worked with. Before this I had never come into contact with a Mini Disc player. It’s a very easy device to pop out of the box and start Podcasting from.
Recording items is very quick and simple. Just gather a group around a table and shift the record bar to the right and begin your podcast. Once completed just hit the square stop button. If your holding the recording in your hand at this stage you should begin to hear it viabrate while it saves. To upload this .wav file connect your cable to your laptop and use any sound program e.g Soundforge.
Streaming would be for listeners who either:
Music Podcast is quoted as saying:
We are a bunch of music lovers who have access to great, mostly independent music that you probably haven’t heard of (yet). We provide a fresh alternative to the radio you may be used to. It is all 100% legal and safe to download. Each AMP member has his or her own unique podcast show, but we all share a passion for getting great new music heard, and we believe AMP helps everyone: music listeners, bands and labels, podcasters, and podcast service providers (PSPs).
It has already got seven members who are dedicated to playing podsafe music for people to listen to. Talking about podsafe, there has been a lot of talk about placing music in your podcast and if it’s legal. On Adam Currys show recently he talked about the ASCAP Internet license which features information on how you can:
Play song “samples” or excerpts that are not more than 60 seconds in duration.
Podsafe.com has been registered and will probably be location for Artists to place their music so people had place them in their show and not worry about the legalities of it all.
Check out my simple guide which will teach you have to record on a mini, this should be a good resource for people new to podcasting that don’t know an awful lot about recording.
Now you need to test your voice (a) to see what you sound like and (b) to set the volume to the right level. If the rectangles are at around 80% it’s going to be good quality. If the speaker has a quiet voice pump up the volume by pushing the play button upwards to nearer 30 (the maximum).
The Minidisc is a fairly simplistic device but can cause hair loss if you are not fully sure how to use it properly.
Firstly to start recording you need to purchase some recordable minidiscs (you can get 10 for €20 which come in nice coloured coded discs, each one has a max of 80 minutes recording time).
Getting to know your Minidisc
To turn on the device flip it over to its back and slide the switch to the on position. You will also notice a hold switch which is useful when you have it resting in your pocket. The right hand side of the device has the vital slots which will be mostly used when podcasting (recording). The black slot is the line in option commonly used when listening to your recordings, but this slot is also used for when you want to upload tracks to your computer. The red slot is used to connect your microphone or external microphone depending on the circumstances of your usage. (more…)
Having tuned in from Podcast number five, little did I know that Dawn and Drew would become major celebrities, as Johan van Rooyen said in their comment stream: “Some folks mumble in their beer that Dawn is going to become the next Oprah with Drew as the next Jerry Springer.”
Whatever they decide to do they deserve it, they have kept us all entertained with their wacky and outlandish content. Most people decide too tune in at night time to suit its content. But me? I prefer to connect my iPod in the morning, get the latest show and listen to it on my way to college which is just about the length of their podcast. I find myself laughing for the most part out loud, something which I can’t control and I often get people looking back over my shoulder wondering am I right in the head. This content of their show is just perfect for podcasting, it’s just speech so no problems with copyrighted material, it contains the content that just cannot ever be heard on the radio, showing people why it really is an alternative to the radio. They can listen to content that suits them, there are no restrictions, you can say what you want when you want and if you offend someone so what? No one is in charge you have total freedom of the medium which is what Dawn and Drew do so well in their podcast.
Just after dinner three or four times each week, Dawn and Drew plop down in their Salvation Army-decorated living room and record 30 minutes of funny, inane and often racy husband-and-wife yakking — a show about nothing. But how they’re delivering the program worldwide is quite something.
I just found a problem with my RSS feed. It seems that every entry I post with an image is including automatically in an enclosure tag, meaning anyone who has also subscribed will have all my images if they use a podcatcher. I have fixed the problem so it’s business as usual.
While looking through Dawn and Drews comment stream I saw a link to Slapcast. Sounds intriguing doesn’t it. Well it’s in its beta stage at the moment so I’m sure it will be updated with lots of MP3’s especially when people start signing up. It offers:
Unlimited bandwidth for your podcast 60 minutes of phone messages included each month Easy set up
At the moment Slapcast has a free trial which allows you to try it out and submit 3 free messages. Once you have tried it out and are happy with the service you can sign-up for just $5 (each month – unlimited bandwidth). It says you can go from sign-up to login in less than one minute.
Update: After logging in the my account I was pleasantly surprised at the set-up. It gave all the information about how to podcast either through email or phone, if you use phone they ask for the number you have dialled from which allows for identification. You can edit the title, artist and comment fields for your particular podcast. If you have an existing blog you can post the MP3 file to your blog also.
It also shows your RSS file to add to directories and for others to add to their podcatcher. You can check out my slapcast website and see whats it looks like for yourself: http://slapcast.com/users/podcaster.
Another new website recently setup is Podcast World.
Just after purchasing version 0.9 last night. I tried testing it out but it was around 2am when I got to play around with it. By this time a Podcast was beyond my reach. I recorded a few clips with music effects and sound but when they played back I was either getting just the music or just my voice. I need to change the settings tonight and get a 20 minute show of my own up for your consumption. In other news Podcast 0506 will be available tomorrow, featuring loads of interesting interviews.
It’s not the Oscars but it is a start, a new website will be giving awards out to podcasters on the 15th of June. The site is part of podcast connect which is a place holder for sites such as podcast-one which is a commercial marketing venture. They want to get money from podcasting by getting small businesses involved and do all the start-up work for them. Tech podcasts are looking for people who produce a technology based Podcast to contribute and participate to the site; the last link is left for podcastalley which to my knowledge has no link to the podcast connect website.
After hearing about MixCast Live over two months ago I knew it would be massive. I was hooked from the start after watching a quick demo. This application is fantastic and will get more people into podcasting once they hear of this application.
“MixCast Live’s going to allow a lot of people to get into this, produce high quality recordings, without having a whole lot of knowledge of how to do it.”
MixCast Live is now available on Pre-Release with a discount of $20 to make it just $39 (€30.34). MixCast Live really is podcasting for the People. All going to plan I will be getting my copy tomorrow and evaluating and testing it with a podcast.
Mobile Podcasting - MMS is now standard on all mobiles along with voice recorders, most of these recordings are in .amr but as I have noticed when you send a sound clip to your email it converts it automatically to .wav which is a handy shortcut, but what if there was the be a mobile podcast community? A place where you could get Podcasts delivered directly to your mobile, allowing you to stay away from your computer and never have the need to purchase an MP3 player.
For this to work for the whole community (e.g. subscribers through RSS) we will have to wait until Mobiles come with MP3 recorders that are affordable for everyone so they can be included in your feeds. When this happens it could be the first money making attempt to succeed from Podcasting. People can subscribe to your show which you record on the move on your mobile. They subscribe by topping up your mobile and you send them your latest podcasts for a month to their mobile. Another barrier which whas gone which helps the spread of mobile podcasting is that you can now send MMS messages from O2 to Meteor and visa versa, I’m not sure if Vodafone allows this at the moment.
Having just tried it out from my o2 Sony Ericsson (which allows for ten minutes of recording time) to my Meteor Motorola V300 the sound quality was clear to hear and of a good standard. If a podcast was to be a maximum of ten minutes people would get tried of holding their mobile to their ear and just listening to content. People don’t realise it as much when they are interacting with people over mobiles. So couldn’t there be and Bluetooth option that allows you to listen to podcasts. Just insert your headset, leave you mobile in your pocket and keep your hands free for the shopping bags.
Text to Speech is a great item which can help people with disabilities get to hear the content just like everyone else. Having used text to speech before it is very simple, you can just write in your content and choose which voice should speak it. The voice is clear and concise and something could hopefully be implemented on most blogs in a few years time. Bloggers can enter their content as usual but while their blog is updating it is also converting it to speech (at the moment it is converted to .wav). Once it appears on the site it also features a button for people to click and listen. Maybe in the future the speech synthesis will be able to convert to MP3, which could be added to your RSS file so they can connect their MP3 Player and listen to blog posts on the go. So they not only get to listen to podcasts but also blog entries.
Having just visited Podfeeder, I noticed a site revamp had taken place recently with the added addiction of a new logo by Bryan Bell. For a novice user looking at the site they may find it to be another podcast directory site, but really under neat it all it’s another podcatcher. I have downloaded it and am currently trying it out. Expect after this 30 day trial I’m sure I will make my way back to iPodder if I have not already done so by tomorrow.
After a 30-day trial period, your current subscription list will be locked. If you find that you like Podfeeder, you can purchase a subscription for only US$11.95 per year.
Firstly I’ll explain how to use the site, you will need to hit the create an account button, enter your name, email etc. Now download the application and login with your details. You will be issued with an email to welcome you into the fold. Once login is successful you will be able to change your settings which are: the location where they should downloaded to, your bandwidth limit (very useful if you’re using dial-up), once podcasts are downloaded you can choose between iTunes or Windows Media Player (Apple v Windows). You will now notice Bryan Bells new logo appear in your toolbar. To add podcasts you can either visit here or right click > podcasts > update collection. Now you can carry on with your daily work and wait for your podcasts to download or you can update them at any time.
My first use of the Sound Recorder which comes with Windows XP, with a little help from my Sony Microphone. It’s just below a minute. Should it be a daily/weekly podcast or a non-starter?
A lot of Podcast sites have drifted away. I remember back to the beginning of Podcasting and looking around google to find new podcast sites. There wasn’t an awful lot of choice out there. Podstar.com was a site which was updated daily with some interesting content that enhanced my experience of Podcasting. It was even a sponsored link in google so it must of getting a lot of visitors although the comment rate didn’t reflect this.
Another site which I regularly visited was podfly.com, I remember back to when I emailed the owner to discuss what his site would be based on and which CMS he should use. In the end he installed Mambo which was something I had never heard about and wouldn’t be a choice for me even after seeing it. Podfly featured in many sites as a great place to find out “How to Podcast” in three easy steps. It was easy to understand but the problem was the way in which the content was displayed with messy links to navigate through it.
Podfly then decided to open up its site to allow for other podcast enthusiasts to contribute and add an article. It started off well with some great content from Gary Bibb and Kristopher Smith. Alas within a few months the content had dried up and it hasn’t been updated since the 3th of January.
While these two were the main sites (along with ipodder.org) at the beginning of the evolution of Podcasting, the main site now is Podcast Alley who has over taken and features the main place for podcasters to interact with each other on the forum. People flock to it everyday either to check for new podcasters or to see if they had any feedback from their listeners.
But is Podcast Alley such a big deal? The majority of podcasters feature either a link or have it included in their podcast asking people to visit Podcast Alley and vote for them. I know feedback is a major part of podcasting and if you don’t get feedback what makes you carry on knowing you might not have listeners. But don’t most podcasters have blogs which allow for comments, if not they can always drop you an email (with optional MP3 attachment). Or maybe you have a j2 account or Skype where you could record and place these recordings in your podcasts.
Why do people feel they need to be rated on some website? Although this site is the main place to find podcasts at the moment and as pointed out in mobilepodcasts latest podcast it is the best for people new to podcasting to locate the top 10 most popular podcasts that they should subscribe to. But at the start of the show he was very upset to find a comment left on podcast alley which was as follows:
Not so great, I started listening to this podcast thinking it was about Treos, but was disappointed to find ramblings about everything but. I’d pass on this one and pick up the Wizards of Tech as they seem to talk about Treos more than this podcast.
He goes on to agree with my point of view saying:
Time to change? But then I saw it was signed by ’superdork’ and realized just how meaningless podcastalley.com is…
Podcast Alley is a site for people to view their mind whether they like or dislike your podcast. Not everyone is nicey nicey as Gary Bibb pointed out saying:
“Why in the hell is everyone in podcasting so damn nice to one another?”
To be a true podcaster we need to take on the advice and either do something about it or just forget about it and “podcast on”.
On a Saturday my girlfriend (Suzanna) always looks forward to buying The Sun so she can preview all the major soaps to see what’s happening for the week ahead. Once she has a quick glance she quickly grapes the newspaper and flicks through until she finds the Dear Deirdre section. When she finds it she’s in her element, there’s no stopping her, it’s like she just switches off completely. She looks towards the main heading: “I slept with my boyfriend and his dad and now I’m pregnant” and gets sucked in. Most of it is sensationalised rubbish in my opinion but you can’t let her know that. What she needs is a podcast which includes people’s problems and helps them through it. Step forward The Hotline hosted by Suzy. Anyone is able to email her their problems and she will advise you in the best possible way. So if you want to know which colour to paint your kitchen or know how to get a date, just email your questions to her. I know Suzanna will definitely be a subscriber.
With my first chat on Skype with my girlfriend I decided to try recording it for test purposes. I was using the Sony Stereo Microphone with my iPod ear buds, Sue was just using an ordinary computer microphone. All I did was open SoundForge and hit the record button and chat away. The quality is usable but background noise features heavily throughout.
Are you using iPodder? You may have noticed that it has been acting strangely. Once I search for new podcasts I’m never sure how many podcasts I’m going to get from the one feed and if I leave it to download automatically while I’m away I often come back to find that its downloaded around three shows that I have already listened to from the one feed. If you subscribe to over five feeds this is a major problem. So why not check out other Podcatchers and give them a trial run.
Having heard of jPodder all those months back I decided to download and give it a test run for myself. It also has a nice tidy website to go along side it. Its very easy to use and is clearly laid out.
The top tabs are:
Directory: which is powered by iPodderX’s. Its a simple menu, just click on the category followed by the podcaster ad click the tab beside the find button to subscribe to it.
Personal Feeds: is where your selected feeds go, you can unsubscribe to them add any time by clicked the square box, it also features the preview and download now button which always comes in handy if you are bored and want to listen to some few podcasts.
Downloads: This is the feedback area with the status bar showing how which it has downloaded to, once download has completed you can easily clear the contents.
Log: Is where you can follow how the downloading is going and if any podcasts were un-able to be downloaded.
Settings: This is a very useful area. you can decide which media played they will play on, where the downloads will take place and you can also import your favourite podcasts from iPodder.
Help: This area is very detailed and offers all the help you need if you come across a problem with the help of diagrams.
Overall this is a very good podcatching, easy for beginners but I’m still sticking with Nimiq.
I decided to put my previous post into action. I got my Sony Ericsson T630 just before Christmas it was only yesterday that I actually recorded something and sent it to my inbox. With a recording time of ten minutes I felt it was long enough for a mobile podcast that could feature updates or little tips/news stories. So it recorded in .amr format but when I checked my email it had transformed it into .wav which was strange. But on hearing the recording it was very bad quality a buzzing sound played loudly in the background which was a disappointment. If my sound seeing tour of Clonmel is to happen I need to test out my old Moto v300 and check its quality.
Update: I recorded a quick 20 second snippet on my Motorola v300 and sent it to my Irishfree account, it remained in .amr so I needed to locate a zip file which I had earlier used on another podcast. Luckily I located it and converted it in seconds. To progress with this I will need to delete some applications and images to increase its recording time.
As a child growing up my father would always say to me “You get nothing in life for free”, to which I would also answer what about the free lollipops with the Dandy or the free TV guides in the newspapers, “but you have to buy something to get something back” he would reply. While shopping in Dublin many years back I came across a catalogue in Argos and shouted “Dad, this is free!”. Free it may be, but what’s it for? What can you do with it except pick an item out and pay for it”. So up until 18 months ago I couldn’t think of anything that was “free” until I came across Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. I learned in a lecture that you could actually rip off the cover and put your name on it, imagine how cool that would be? You could be an author and show your Grandmother how amazing you were. The following lectures led us to the Creative Commons which is a place where you can value your work and decide how it should be used. This means that in some cases you can use other peoples work for absolutely free.
Liam, thanks for the kind note. I’m about to launch into the podcasting space myself, so I’m happy to help and learn. It is extremely exciting to hear about how you all are spreading Free Culture. Have you seen the Free Culture movement (not related to me) started by students at Swarthmore (http://freeculture.org)? Also, it would be great if you used CC music in your podcast — to again, reinforce the point you make in the beginning of your post.
Now people can choose to either pay for songs from iTunes or get free content on their MP3 players (Podcasts). Podcasting will get many artists noticed in the future (just like Bradsucks.net) who gets played in many Podcasts – even mine once it gets underway. Podcasting is free to listen to, if you don’t like it you can stop listening and subscribe to another. Many people are now looking at ways to make money from podcasting which could mean having to pay to listen to your favourite shows. This was an idea discussed by Dawn and Drew who already have a sponsored advert from msmobiles.com and appears at the end of the show so it doesn’t get it the way. Adverts in Podcasts can work if they are done in a fun way much like what Dawn and Drew do: you get the message but are entertained at the same time.
Having an iPod means alot to me, I can store my entire collection of CD’s and over 80 podcasts (many of which from openpodcast) that are updated daily. An MP3 player to most people means you are listening to music, expect this becomes a problem when you’re listening to Dawn and Drew or Armando and Sara and you start laughing out loud in public as people watch in dismay and wonder “How could a song be so funny?”.
We need some company to build a MP3 player dedicated to Podcasting (a great market ploy to get new podcast enthusiasts thinking: “Do I need one of these to listen to podcasts?”) The publicity would help podcasting grow and also warn people that if someone is laughing out loud it doesn’t mean they are mental.
With more and more podcasts appearing aren’t we stuck for choice? Yes and No. Let’s say for arguments sake that Podcasting is a Magazine. We can all go into a newsagents pick up a Magazine and browse thought it, thanks to Open Podcast it allows people to send in MP3 files by email people can send in promos (adverts) for others to listen to. I have subscribed and will find it hard to unsubscribe because of the following reasons:
It’s short (between 2-10 minutes); you get to listen to a wide variety of topics some of which you would never have subscribed to. It’s a little taster and if you like a show just listen out for the web address and jot it down in your mobile for when you get home.
In this case we can empty out the trash and subscribe to what we like the sound of, Podcasting needs to be personal (just like Adam Curry and Armando and Sara) who let us into their world while they podcast. In this way you get a bearing of what they are about and what makes them tick.
Unfortunately some major podcasters [Engadget and Radio Whore] have stopped for reasons unknown (I just wonder if they were getting enough listeners), which is a shame as I enjoyed listening to both. That’s the problem Adam Curry would never have seen come through: too many people podcasting for our attention.
Open Podcast is soon to release the code that allows people to send an MP3 to an email address and directly appears on the webpage, the website also allows you to ring (206) 984-1190 and have a podcast available to download straight away. Just be careful not to include:
Although it mostly features promotions, it does have some great content, if you subscribe you’re sure get a lucky dip not knowing what you’re about to listen to on your MP3.
Here’s the valuable feed: http://openpodcast.org/podcast.xml
A more focused Irish Blog area dedicated to Irish people as Podcasting in really starting to take off here, with more and more people beginning to Podcast.
Podcast Profiles - will be a place where you can get to know your favourite Irish podcasters, a mini interview asking them: how they got started, what their show is about, what they listen to etc. I will be emailing other podcasters and asking them the same 5 questions.
Irish Podcast News - will give informtion on new Irish podcasts and where to go to get them, and talk about their site. It will also be a place to record when Podcasting is featured in the press.
Contribue - will be a place for Irish people to have their say and feature on the show with their comments/opinions or even chat about one of the themes.
Podcasting Explained - will be very useful to people who have just heard about podcasting, it will feature terms such as Podcatching and Podmedia. Users can also contribute to this list.
Podcaster - will be the home home page for all of the above and will feature snippets from each of these and also some fresh podcasting news.
Normal service as usual continues here.
While listening to open podcasts I came across #701 from Hank Lynch, who was talking about how he doesn’t use a podcast receiver and doesn’t have the time for it, he doesn’t have a MP3 player so the only chance he gets to listen to podcasts and make his own is when he’s in front of his computer.
Well his problem was when he wanted to listen he needed to download each show especially Adam Curry which would take about 5-10 minutes a time and that’s just for one podcast. And once he downloaded and listened to it he then needed to locate the MP3 and delete it and complete the process again and again each day.
The answer finally came to him recently:
Prior to PodcastMania.com, in order to fully enjoy what podcasting was all about, you would have needed to download special software to “tune in” to these podcasts. I personally had over a gig of podcasts, in several directories on my hard drive and two 3rd party applications installed to gather and play podcasts. I was constantly downloading files, building playlists, deleting files….there had to be a better way! Enter PodCast Mania, the one stop, click and listen portal for listening to PodCasts while you’re tied to your desk! No third party apps, no file management, no clutter on your hard drive, just click and listen. Aaahhhhh….that’s more like it!
I would never of thinking to use Nimiq; the first three receivers you think of are iPodder, Doppler and iPodderX. 
Once downloaded Nimiq seemed to somehow stand out from the others. It looked really good. Unlike iPodder which has a text box to paste the RSS feeds, Nimiq requires you to hit subscription and enter the feed in the pop up box, you can enter how many enclosures to download (may come in handy if you’re on dial-up) and you can also decide where the playlist goes to: either iTunes or Windows Media Player.
The icons are nice, really clear, but the clean up icon is a correct sign, without the text I’d be wondering what it would do. It has a very useful Opml browser added to it, so you can scroll through the iPodder directory and select a feed from any category.
Under tools > options you can change the folder where the podcasts are sent to and schedule when downloads occur.
Podcasting has already featured in Time and Newsweek magazines; it appeared on CNN’s website and on BBC2. What needs to happen soon is some references to Podcasting in the Irish Press, get people to notice Irish Podcasters and maybe start their own Podcast from the information they are pointed to.
We have some excellent Irish bloggers which appear world-wide; why not have some excellent Irish podcasters?
How about an Irish couple who are more outlandish than Dawn and Drew? How about a drunkcast - instead of ringing your ex after a night out why not get out your mobile and record a live show in abrakebabra as you wait for a soggy kebab (that will be dropped on the footpath as soon as you get out).
I’m already subscribed to Eirpod who at the moment is just getting to grips with recording and has yet another listener.
Get young people involved in creating a local podcast (for the South East) , creating something useful that will stand for them in the future (e.g. content management, show production, editing and publicising), because it’s from teenagers I’m sure it would get a great audience.
Show could include topics on:
Also wouldn’t it be great to get a personal view of an event/location. For example with CAO forms due soon, surely wouldn’t secondary level schools like to know what Tipperary Institute is really like, what the courses involve, what lecturers are like, how’s the food, facilities and what’s the night life like.
Open source and creative commons are some of the massive steps to change the way we use the Internet. Sites such as wordpress, textpattern and many hundreds of free programs enhance our involvement of the Internet. Anyone can have a website for free to place their thoughts/opinions and their images.
The best source of advertising isn’t through television, magazines or the radio it’s by ‘word of mouth’ which is why Podcasting (only in it’s 4th month) has been so successful, you only have to look at sites like podcast alley or iPodderX to realise how many people are involved without them being told about this from other sources.
A podcast can be recorded by anyone of any age with only a little knowledge of information which is available on this site. All you need is a microphone/voice recorder, something to talk about, a computer (optional) and if you want to polish your podcast use a free sound program like audacity. Now once uploaded write a blog entry and place a link to your MP3 file, your blog should automatically add an enclosure to the rss file. With this RSS file people can subscribe to your show using free applications such as iPodder or iPodderX.
To listen you a podcast (podcatch) just go to audio.weblogs or the ipodder directory and get the RSS feed from their site, all content is free to listen to with most if not all playing non IRAA music such as Brad Sucks.
Another great service useful to podcasters is J2, this company allows you to sign up for free, get a number assigned to you that can allow listeners to ring you and leave comments about your podcast. The key item is that once recording it emails it to you in MP3 format so you can easily insert them into your own show.
Basically Pocketcasting is podcasting from where ever you are as long as you have GPRS access in your area. For example you can podcast a sight seeing tour while on holiday back to your friends without accessing the Internet.
Take my Sony Ericsoon T630 mobile, a podcast device? With a bit of work it can be your ‘on the move recording device’. Firstly enter the main menu, navigate to ‘pictures and sounds’ and scroll down to record sound, once you click it records so be ready. It records a maximum of ten minutes and stops, if you’re recording is less than that just click stop. The recording will stop and be saved in my sounds. It will be a default value of ‘Recording’. Now hit more > send > as picture msg > (click edit if you want to add text - could be show notes or links to websites). Finally hit more > send > followed by where your sending it to e.g. e-mail address and enter your e-mail followed by send.
At this point your podcast isn’t much use in your inbox unless your parent/friends have your password. What you need to do before you leave is to set up a gmail account or any other mail service with POP. If you have a blog such as Wordpress you can login > options > writing and enter your details such as your login name and password. Now you can enter your gmail in the recipients list on your mobile as you send the podcast.
This means you can podcast from any special event or any location right there and then allowing your listeners to be kept up to date. This makes your podcast so much closer to ‘Almost Live’.
Our Podmedia Podcast will soon be under way will the following themes. But we have already recorded two mini podcasts which are about two minutes in length (to listen to one of these click the logo to the left). These were great for testing and finding problems and overall user testing is what makes improvements in sound quality and sound production. Stay tuned for the Podmedia Podast launch date.
Subscribe to the feed and view the production notes.
When travelling to other countries what’s the first item we purchase? No it’s not a bikini or a pair of sun glasses or maybe it is? What most people buy is a travel companion guide with information about the region. So why not take Podcasting to another stage and make a sight-seeing tour from where you’re from. You could talk about the area, buildings, items of use to tourists like shops, prices, best places to stay, what the weather is like and what monuments you need to see. So before you leave for your destination go to (for example) sightseeingtours.com, search for the location you will be visiting and download the podcast to your MP3 player.
You could also record a podcast while on your holiday (a perspective from a tourist) and upload it to the website through GPRS or get to an Internet Cafe. This means a database should fill up for the most popular locations, best places to visit and areas to stay away from.
An interesting article on why some people don’t think the iPod is a useful item for Podcasting. As Adam has said on “The Daily Source Code“:
“Apple hasn’t picked up on podcasting because they are thinking about how things work from Apple to the rest of the world. They are not seeing what is happening.”
The Sony Condenser Microphone was later used for a podcast dealing with Christmas in Ireland. There was 8 of us contributing our views on what sound we think of at Christmas and what gadget a girl would like for Christmas.
This item was ideal for this recording. Each of us were sitting and standing around a table so sound needed to be heard from a long distace. We placed the Microphone in the center of the table, connected it to the Mini Disc Recorder and began talking. It picked up the sound very well and has a useful connection wire of 60cm which can allow alot of people to Podcast in one room.
Just to let all know, EirPod is up and running, www.eirpod.com, please forgive the untidyness of the site, but hey, if I dont get started, procrastinaition will set in. New Year and all that. Feel free to stop by. Blog is just my ramblings and plans for the podcast will be a weekly programme, (and no, not a program), as the tag is it says , EirPod - a view from Ireland. If you said two months ago I’d be doing this, I would have laughed at you, but thats why I like this format. I like it and I hope you do. Few things to sort out but we’re all learning.
Thanks to Liam for this site and please use the facilities. Go on, go on, go on go on, and do it. We’re a nation of talkers, so let’s talk, the world is listening. Thanks also to Adam Curry for the support and Marc of Mindcast, for talking to me over Skype, to set up a feed etc , relatively painless I assure you.
Only hours ago I stumbled across Eirpod, which to my surprise is an Irish Podcaster. He will produce a weekly podcast dealing with his interests. He is gifted with a “radio DJ voice” which is quite rare among people when they are recorded. Even he is shocked that he can podcast with a little help from his friend. This is a perfect example for anyone out there who has got something to say, don’t be scared, give it go. This podcast will be a must have on your MP3 player. So go to Eirpod and listen/subscribe to his podcast right now.
Andrew Davey has recently launched a Podcasting Client for MS SmartPhone 2003. You can use this application to subscribe to and download podcasts, right on your phone. Give your feedpack or ideas to ipoddersp@equin.co.uk and maybe donate some money.
History of Project
10th January 2005 iPodderXP v0.3 released Improved podcast download window and error handling. Settings window to alter iPodderSP behaviour iPodderSP v0.2 released - fixed update window not closing bug 9th January 2005 iPodderSP v0.1 released 8th January 2005 iPodderSP development started
Have you just discovered Podcasting? Want to Podcatch? Well all you need to do is take a glance at my simple step guide to downloading, installing and using iPodder.
Visit the iPodder.net homepage and click the link under download now. You will then be directed to Sourceforge, here you can click Podder.NET_0.11.zip and choose a corresponding mirror to download from. Next unzip the file and wait for the installation wizard to guide you through the process by following the instructions.
You should now see an iPodder icon on your desktop. When you double click it a mini icon will appear on your bottom toolbar. Now right-click the icon and choose options.
Application:
You will notice that you are subscribed to The Daily Source Code, Evil Genius Chronicles and The Gilmore Gang. If you want to try them out leave the box ticked, but if they don’t take your fancy just deselect them.
On the top left hand corner you can specify were your podcasts should download to. The default is set to C:\FeedDownload but may be best to change it to Podcasts to avoid any confusion. You can change to Refresh time from 30 minutes to as far as 1000 minutes, this time period may depend on the amount of Podcasts you are subscribed to. If you are only subscribed to one or two it may be best to leave a long refresh time.
Now to the main part of the application, the RSS Feed submission area. This is very simple process indeed, just travel to your favourite Podcaster site and click on their syndication feed and copy/paste it into this area and click “add feed”.
It will appear shortly in the box below along with the Feed name and the RSS location. The last option is to manually check for new podcasts by pressing the retrieve now button.
With the launch of the iPod shuffle last night, the more I think about it the more I see what a great tool it is for Podcasting. If you load this iPod with songs you can’t control in which order they are played meaning if you love playing a song over and over it’s not the device for you.
You don’t have a display and thus can’t easily choose which mp3 to play, so if life really “is random”, why not load it up with your favorite podcasts.
But with Podcasts you only want to hear a Podcast once and get rid of it. No one wants to listen to a 40 minute show or even a one minute show more than once. You know you’re going to be listening to Podcasts which you are subscribed to and listen to regulary.
I got the chance to test out the Nokia 9500 in the sound studio with 7 other Multimedia Students. We had an open discussion lead by Bernie Goldbach relating to Smart Mobs written by Howard Reingold. The opening sentences of each chapter were read out and we inserted our own opinions/views on what they actually meant and how they related to us.
I opened the Nokia Communicator on the desk which was the central feature of the room. I just had to hit the ‘my own’ button while I was on the main menu followed by record. Once the 30 minute session had ended I just had to click stop > menu and scroll down to save as and enter the file name. To take out the 512MB memory card I had to open the mobile from the back and pop it out. I later used the Memorex card reader to upload to my college PC, the computer recognised it but it had no data. After thinking everything was deleted it was pointed out to me that the card was upside down, not very clear from the device as to what way to insert it.
The sound clips were in amr format meaning I needed to use a simple converter program and change the four files to wav so I could listen to the sound quality. I tried uploading them to the xdrive but the college computers had problems uploaded such large files. When I got home Tuesday I tried from home, I selected the file to upload, it was uploading but gave no feedback as to if it was successful, unfortunately it never got there, so today at 7pm tonight I uploaded each one again. I know one of them appears on xdrive so at the moment I have just logged in to xdrive and I’m still waiting over 5 minutes to view my uploads to see if the rest made it.
Only recently used for our Podcasts. It’s a great piece of technology from Sony. It’s a touch screen devive with Flash, Movie Recorder and also a useful voice recorder.
This makes Podcasting so easy to record. To turn on the device slide the switch on the left hand side upwards. The main menu will appear with all available programs. In the bottom left hand corner touch the Voice Rec icon. The voice recorder application will now appear. Now when you’re ready to record touch the rec button and away you go. Once finished press stop and wait for it to save. You can now take out the Memory Stick and insert into our computer.
The new iPod Shuffle has just been comfirmed and will be shipping soon. The shape is quite shocking as it looks more like a remote control for your T.V. This could be called an iPod mirco as it’s only packed with 1GB (240 songs). The first of the iPod family to feature a flash memory-based.
It will be available in 512 MB and 1 GB versions, the iPod shuffle is sized at 3.3″ x 1″ x 0.3″ and .78 oz.
This will be a massive hit even though people can’t control what songs they listen to, which makes it all the more fun. The suggested retail prices are $99 USD (512 MB) and $149 USD (1 GB).
Several Irish companies have IVR services that work like a champ. Imagine working with one like Globetech and then setting up a service that reads your podcast feeds, download them onto a server that you could call with your mobile phone. You would use the IVR commands to flip through the new podcasts, all the way down to specific minutes inside the podcast. You could listen through earbuds or with a Bluetooth headset. Or just with phone-to-ear (but that will fry your brain).
We’re going to create a podcast channel that delivers 15 - 30 minutes of content once a week into the iPodder community. Some initial themes include:
- One minute tip: covers mastering hardware, software and firmware
- Crunch Notes: five minutes at a time of things you need to know to write answers to exam questions.
- Dementia: wacky and short
- Around Ireland: no more than seven minutes of short takes of the online Irish landscape. This could be a survey of irishblogs and the online news sites.
- Inside View: reading of technology column, no more than 1200 words.
- Sustain Yourself: coffee chat with hands-on practitioners who live off the land in a sustainable way. Lots of ecology, organic tips, and an undercurrent of 21st century pastoral Ireland.
email: irishpodcast@gmail.com
mobile: +353 (0)85 7202355
web: http://podish.com
skype: irishpodcast
First there was the grand daddy of all directories ipodder.org, but there’s a major shift happening. More and more directories are popping up and are around to stay just like digitalpodcast.com. Sportpodcasts.com is the first category dedicated to one subject. Only recently set up it just contains 3 podcasts, but will spread and grow in time, no doubt its appearence as a paid google sponser will have great advantages.
Just completed a very basic Podcasting: How To Guide for the people arriving wondering how they can Podcast and get a show going.
This Sony Professional stereo microphone worked very well and projected a good sound across on Skype. We are yet to try it during recording times in the T.I but as it is Uni-Directional we would need to be passing it around for people to grab ahold of once they have something to say, which is a problem once it comes to editing as its very easy on this Microphone to pick up background noise.
Electret microphones are a variant of condenser microphones that mostly utilise a permanently charged diaphragm over a conductive metal back-plate. This model is Uni-Directional (stereo)
Podcast Expo will have a conference in America, but I have heard rumours of the first UK conference on podcasting. Stay tuned, hopefully it will gather legs.
Over a month has pasted since Heineken recorded their podcast, I must say I did listen to see what they could come up with after Adam Curry pointed me to it on his Daily Source Code. After listening to Adams earlier ideas about trying to get Heineken to sponser The Rock and Roll Geek Show (he emailed them and informed them how it could benefit them), the only problem was Heineken thought Podcasting could help them moreso if they made a Podcast. Having listened to an interview I was extremly let down, what a waist of time, if only they sent out a couple of bottles of Beer a week to Michael Butler and have him advertise during his show it would have worked out much better. The Rock and Roll Geek Show should come out smiling in the end as he continues to make Podcasts which don’t go dead.
Podcasting and updating my blog has taken a backseat over my Christmas break but will be moving ahead in 2005 big time! Stay tuned for the latest developments.
When people look back on the evolotion of Podcasting Dawn and Drew will feature along the way, one of a kind. A show which will always cheer you up and one you can listen to anywhere. Congradulations on your excellant show. Won’t be long before they celebrate their big 100.
woah, our 50th show! pretty wild. i wasn’t sure how many shows we’d get to before we would hang our hats, but the response is still so overwhelmingling positive, that i’m sure we’ll do at least another 50. if this is your first time listening to our show… please be prepared for 2 people sitting around talking to each other as if you were in our living room. nothing super exciting. some people even say we suck and are a waste of bandwidth. but then some people say they love us and can’t wait to hear another episode. so judge for yourself. if you don’t like the show, we won’t hate you. but for those of you out there that really do enjoy dawn and i rambling about with each other, then i’m sure you’ll enjoy this episode…
All Podcasts is a great search engine if you’re looking for a specific podcast concerning football, movies or fashion.
Mfeeds allows you to add a RSS (or just the website address) from a site and get MP3, torrents, etc.
This lets you receive a podcast from any page that has MP3s on it (or .movs, .torrents, etc). For example, you can “subscribe” to a band’s MP3 page or to a radio station’s archive. When they post new stuff you’ll get it automatically.
Podcast Opinion is a fantastic new site that I was directed towards. Only two blog entries but they are must reads for podcasters and podcast listeners. Topics such as “Podcasts, No Ads, Please” and most recently “Pod casts, No Taxes Please”.
The main reason for pod cast to be so popular today is that people, yes your consumers. Customers wants to get content relevant to their interests, but I notice with some pod cast (like the popular dawn & drew show) is now being infiltrated by that age old model of shoving advertisement to listeners.
A brand new blog which will deal with Podcasting starting with a How-To segment.
podcastinghowto is a complete waste of time, a quick money making idea. They offer a Podcasting: How-To Guide for $5. If you don’t have a clue how to podcast just visit how to podcast which offers a step by step account or take a look at the podcasting portal: podfly for a quick and free how to guide.
Podcast Reviews offers an honest opinion of Evil Genius Chronicles, Daily Source Code and Slashdot Review. As the following statement shows:
Adam Curry should seriously consider renaming his “show”. Why? Because it has nothing to do with source code, or with programming at all.
Wondering what the perfect present for your girlfriend will be? Already got her all the rings, chains and ear rings she could ever need? Well listen here to what she really wants.
This site will inform you about ever to do with Podcasting. What it is, why it’s so popular, how you can create one yourself. Also how you can download and listen using different applications. Stay tuned for daily updates and podcasts.
Our multimedia group gathered for another studio session to record items on the following:
What sight or sound do you associate with Christmas in Ireland? What kind of gift would be most appropriate as a “gadget for her”? Fast-forward ahead to the year 2020. What sight or sound related to multimedia today might be considered a digital artefact in that future year.
Recording took place in the sound studio with 8 Multimedia students, for best sound quality we used the Sony mini disc recorder with the Sony Microphone attached along side it. This enabled us to sit/stand around the room and all to be heard at the same voice level, which helped me produce better sound quality. When recording I made sure to slide the mini disk record button to the left and listen for the feedback, recording now took place with the help of Thelma Cotter who introduced each topic followed by our opinions.
Once recording had finished I hit stop and felt it vibrant in my hand. I got out a laptop and connected it to the mini disc and opened Soundforge. A mini problem occurred here, there were other files on the mini disc and I never looked to see what numbers were our recent recordings so I disconnected the device and played each item, jotting down the number as I went along. Finally I had the details I needed now I hit record in Sounforge waited a few seconds and pressed play on the mini disc and left extra time at the end for sound editing purposes.
I edited out the blank some and some jumbled words which appeared. Now I copy/pasted each one into on big file and added my introduction to the podcast using text to speech technology and also created my outro with contact/comments details. Listen here.
Gigadial is just what podcasters need right now, it can also be a great tool for enthusiasts of podcasts. It describes itself as the podstation directory.
GigaDial.net is a new approach to radio programming. You can use it to create and subscribe to podcast - powered stations composed of individual episodes from your favorite podcasters. To subscribe, browse the list of recently updated stations below, or the list of all stations, and then point your podcatcher at the station feed, linked from the XML button on each station’s page.
Listen to my station [ gigadial.net/public/station/2551 ]
RSS [ gigadial.net/public/station/2551/rss.xml ]
Just a little problem that I pondered about today which was about the longevity of Podcasts. Well before podcasts people listened to music on their MP3 player over and over and over, heck I listen to the same song up to 6 six in a row (The last one was Gwen Stefani - ‘What you waiting for’).
The problem is would any podcast ever be so good that you re-listen to it? Take for instance a chat show on the radio (Beat FM record a talk show from 1.50 to 3.50 and is repeated again at 11.50 until 1.50) I must say I have listened to the show on a few occasions during the day time and again at night (when most radio stations are boring and play songs for people working late shifts).
But now that I get great Podcasts arriving straight to me, the on switch to the radio has now gathered dust. DSC takes me from college to home, DNDS takes me into the night, podcasts such as The Sports Pod, Reel Reviews and have recently tried Matthew Bischoff to make my night pass by with entertainment. Most podcasts now feature music (between 2/3 songs) so will this help podcasters to be re-listened to? Let us hope so. Comments on this please.
Wouldn’t it be great to connect to wap, download your favourite show and listen to it whenever you want to?
All you pay for is the download cost, no need for a computer. This would be ideal for students who love listening to the Dawn and Drew Show. This would mean you bypass using ipodder, ipodderX or dopplerradio, and get the content without subscribing. But how do you know when a show has updated you ask? Well you don’t want to be wasting credit ever hour looking through their site. To solve this all we need is a company to realise the potential of all of this and set up a text alert scheme. You could send the RSS file location to whatever number (costing 30cent max) and receive texts for every new show for the price of a normal text.
This podcast features three different segments, with an introduction and outro. The first item is about a change in devices in the year 2020, which items will be artifacts then? We also discussed the perfect ‘tech’ present for a girl this Christmas from their very mouths. Finally we each discussed which sound we think relates to Christmas in Ireland.
Subscribe and grab the production notes.
It all started over 3 weeks ago when Adam Curry decided to try and get sponsorship for “The Rock and Roll Geek Show“, unfortunately after Adam getting in touch they decided to put a Podcast together themselves.
Heineken Music proudly presents the very first Podcast. In this audiofile you can hear an exclusive interview with Thirst Resident DJ Daniele Davoli.
The sad news is it’s just self publicising the Heineken music, with just an interview. Not too much thought gone into eh?!
Podcasting with Bittorrent
I wrote up a tutorial/primer for using bittorrent to distribute your podcast. If you’re concerned about bandwidth, this will be the way to go. With this particular method, you will NOT need to run a tracker and you can adjust the bandwidth you use locally by just adjusting the upload speed of the bittorrent client. I tested it out and downloaded a show through ipodder.
Read the tutorial.
After 491,000 results google finally understands Podcast and Podcasting. Podcasting is after all the new broadcasting.
PodcastHost is a brand new website, that will hopefully reduce your bandwidth problems. How does it work? It has listings of podcast torrent files that allows you to download podcasts using any bittorrent program or aggregator that supports .torrent enclosures. If you don’t have either of those, there is a program at the site that you can install, that will allow you to easily download.
Podcasters can upload torrent and seed files from this site.
There is no charge for anyone, so now anyone can start podcasting without any bandwidth worries.
Anyone looking for Podcast torrents can find them listed.
Easy sign up at this site. Anyone can contribute.
It also allows podcast authors to upload their content. At this time, uploading is limited to users that are running Windows operating systems.
Here’s the money making attribute for your podcast
Publishers Are you a podcaster… Would you like to make money from advertisers… Bandwidth can get expensive, and that new mixer or mic is looking pretty good right about now. We aim to deliver the same easy simplicity as using Google Adsense – only tailored for the audio and video podcasting market.
Advertisers Do you fantasize about reaching the trend-setters, the early adopters, the cool hunters? Podcasting is exploding, and you can’t afford not to get in on this hot new medium. PodcastAds gives you a super easy way to reach the most popular podcasters, make informed media buys and track your campaigns.
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Podcasts tools does exactally what it says on the tin, it goes into great detail on podcasts, training (on how to set up your free podcast) and also gives you the tools need to get started.
Their xml generator is a fantasic tool for non web-abled people. All you have to do is cite the number of items you want followed by what title and content you want to give it.
Check it out at podcasttools.com.
The second year Multimedia and Communication class got a taste of creating podcasts today. They were gathered together to discuss Christmas in Ireland (posted here soon) relating to their Media Writing. Our third year group also discussed certain items relating to Christmas such as “What sight or sound do you associate with Christmas in Ireland?”.
Another was in relation to an item we had covered in a recent assignment to do with a found artefact. We voiced our opinions on which item we would consider a digital artefact in the future year.
An upcoming podcast will extends electronic discussion about connected schools from a topic emerging in the lecture “PR in education.”
An Irish flag now appears at potkast along with my podcast! Hopefully more Irish people will embrace podcasting and feature along side me. Special thanks to Edwards Adams and check out his site which has an user interface to compose playlists.
Last Thursday I replied to a comment from Curtis at The Sports Pod by e-mail, where I discussed about me during a report on Hurling for his show. This would be fantastic to be a part of, firstly by keeping Americans up to date with fixtures, news and results but also to be apart of someone else’s podcast which would be brilliant. Who would of thought over 4 months ago that podcasting would take off so quickly and span these great shows. I will get down to podcasting for the show on Friday at the latest. I’m currently too busy to fit it in, what with a presentation tomorrow and a major exam Thursday.
Special thanks to Michael at Reel Reviews who took the time to ring Curtis and leave a voice-mail all about his love for Hurling and how I should come aboard to report. So thank you and check out his totally cool podcast.
Also if you travel to The Sports Pod home page right now you will see a hurling picture of Offaly against Kilkenny (The Cats).
Using a mobile to Podcast from was a brand new experience for me. Although over two months ago I did record a quick show and sent it by MMS to my e-mail. The problem I encountered was that is was saved as a .amr file, one which I had never heard of. This made it useless to me and I quickly sent it to my trash folder.
The same experience happened today from using the Sony Ericsson S700i without the handbook, we thought the phone was capable of recording in MP3 and transferring it over to a laptop. The exact same problem happened, it would only record in .amr format. We knew this wouldn’t be of the best quality to use so we googled for applications to convert them to MP3, only 5 results arrived back: forums with people asking the exact same question. Along came Michael Kiely with just what we needed a handy zip file that converted what we had to .wav, which as we all knew could be easily converted to MP3 for podcast use. Bernie opened each file in Quicktime and saved them as MP3 files. After a brief tutorial of Soundforge I quickly got down to work and copied each MP3 file in and deleted the beeps form the start and end of each recording.
The process just took about 20 minutes from recording to podcasting. Listen to the end result.
The Tipperary Institute Multimedia Group talk about their 3rd level projects. These range from a educational hurling video to a website promoting an Artist’s work. Subscribe | Listen
Using different technologies with Podcasting can we fun and can also save you time in many different manys. Today I was introduced to the Sony S700i by Bernie Goldbach. 10 Multimedia Developers gathered in the Sound Studio of the Tipperary Institute to discuss their project is a quick 20 second soundbyte.
Which focused on “What are you doing for your project”, we all had 2/3 minutes to jot down the main points of our project, inturn each Mutlimedia student sat down directly in front of me to speak about their projects. Each voice level was different from the last one so I needed to be on hand with the mobile moving it closer/futher from their mouth.
Once each item had be recorded as individual soundclips we exported them to a labtop. Unfortunately we discovered that the recording turn out to be .amr and not mp3 as we thought. This handed us a large problem which not even google could solve. We looked everywhere even purchased the latest Real Player to see if it could at least play it, this wasn’t the case, but luckily Michael Kiely (Video and Sound Expert) was on hand and solved the problem by sending a zip file of a program which allowed us to convert it to .wav. We placed each seperate clip in Soundforge and copied and pasted each one together. I edited down blank noise, gaps in sentances and other noises.
It was then my task to save as mp3, burn to CD and upload to my web server, Dircaster automatically inserted it into an RSS file so subscribers could listen to the first ever ‘College Podcast’ relating to Multimedia Projects.
There’s more to come and things will sound better as we evolve. We are ensuring that one element of our creative development is the documentation of wireless podcasting. It’s important to have this skillset in your pocket if you’re caught out behind normal lines of support. That skillset also works well for deployed or embedded journalists.
Podcastpedia has just been registered and set up with wordpress. It will have “Everything you ever wanted to know about Podcasting”, I’ll keep checking back to see what content they will have.
vivapodcast is a brand new podcast orientated website, just set up to hold their podcasts. Another couple podcasting but this time minus the sex, Greg and Lisa who are living in New Mexico chat about films, T.V, music and the pressure of starting a podcast. This podcast is easy on the ear and quite interesting.
MSN have just put their blog service live, the eagled eyed Bernie Goldbach has quickly noticed and set up a blog space dealing with “Podmedia“.
I’m using it to talk about our Podmedia project from my perspective as a technologist interested in accessibility and a critic committed to narrating visual art to the blind.
This is a fantastic idea, most art we see is untouchable, except for the odd few exhibitions that allow for interaction. During these installations the blind person can get an understanding for shape, texture and interrupt the art for themselves. The trouble with masterpieces such as The Birth of Venus or The Tribute Money by Masaccio is that they will never know what they look like. It would be interesting to see how my sister (an art teacher) could describe vividly ‘Soft Construction with Boiled Beans’ (about The Spanish Civil War) by Salvador Dali or to explain any works by Piscasso and podcast them.
What shows do you listen to? Is it the same ones everyday? Although this was true for me up to last week I have started opening my horizons and trying new content. The usual suspects where Dawn and Drew, Daily Source Code and maybe try others from time to time. But since Monday I have tuned into (subscribed to some) many different podcasts such as The Sports Pod, Coverville, Beercasting and Reel Reviews.
Podcasts are here, but are you listening? Podcasting Technology is growing every day, but if no one is listening, does it even matter?
Some are of excellent quality and could be considered radio standard but podcasting for me is about people sitting around and just chatting as seen with my show, Beercasting (set in a pub) and also the sports pod which can go on for over an hour.
podkissed.com will provide a queuing system allowing easy management of podcasts on your mobile device. Development has just begun, and we hope to have a beta up and running by early 2005. Stay tuned.
This site is and will be fantastic as it grows. It has great links, resources and is regulary updated for you.
Takes the form of a blog and podcast that examines the podcasting phenomena and studies it with an academic eye. There are various themes the study is interested in such as whether it can be considered a serious medium as blogging has become, and whether commercialization (like it or not) has to happen before it can reach critical mass.
vb. -s, -ing, ed or er. 1. The process of creating an audio show of some sort available in MP3 format via an RSS 2.0 feed that supports enclosures and downloaded to an iPod or other media device.
The receiving end of podcasting. Podcatching is a verb that describes the functionality of software that subscribes to RSS podcast feeds and aggregates them in a file or folder. Podcatching is the action that the aggregator takes to get podcast content.
Podcasted Computer Tips for Busy People.
This podcast has very handy tips placed in one minute podcasts such as the one below:
Tip 6: Bargain Basement prices with SMS
Here is a tip that might save you some money. Next time you are out shopping and need to know the lowest price of an item. Whip out that cell phone and send a message to 46645. Enter the ISBN number in the subject line and send the message. In a few minutes, some of the lowest prices found on the web will be returned to you.
He also explains the applications he used, the software and how he makes it available to subscribers.
The Culture Show Podcasting feature in detail:
Adam’s show introduction starts proceedings.
Reporter talks about the technology and how it’s DIY radio.
Adam explains podcasting in his words to Zina.
Dawn and Drew show introduction played.
Adam details how to subscribe and that there’s over 500/600 podcasts available.
Tokyo Calling introduction played.
Heather Hollick said: “It’s user friendly”.
Adam chats about the history of podcasting, now has 50,000 listeners.
Zina goes on to say that most podcasts aren’t as slick as The Daily Source Code.
Lee Wellbrook says that he listens to humorous shows.
Sample of tap dancing podcast is played.
Followed by Adam saying how good it is.
Paul Cleghorn is quoted as saying “it’s talk by geeks about open source software”.
The reporter says that the podcaster rejoices in the amateur status.
How American radio stations have created their own podcasts.
Adam: “Radio not challenged like what we have seen with magazines, newspaper and T.V.
Will established radio muscle in and will amateurs survive?
Adam defends by saying how good The Dawn and Drew Show, Engaget and Geek Show really are.
Ends with Adam saying: “Party Along”.
Should be up on the Internet by tomorrow hopefully.
Tonight’s the night, finally Podcasting will get the attention is deserves. A 7/10 minute account of what podcasting is will feature on The Culture Show on BBC2 from 7-8pm. Check it out, it’s sure to be great what with Adam Curry being the main person to explain podcasting.
Podcasting is the latest Internet fad with the potential to shake up the way we listen to radio. Enthusiasts record their own home made shows, which can be downloaded on to portable players like an iPod. Zina Saro-Wiwa listens in.
Want to get Podcasts downloaded automatically to your computer while you sleep, have broadaband? Well you need to join 27.500 and download iPodder.
What is the iPodder application?
iPodder is a media aggregator which automatically downloads podcasts to your computer or portable device based on a RSS feed, leaving you ‘one-click-away’ from latest media feeds. The whole process is done on it’s own, so you don’t have to select files, search for them or click links to download the media. All you do is specify some feeds and wait to get yourself the podcasts. All you have to do is decide what your going to listen.
If you know of any other Irish podcasts please add them to my station below, or just listen to mine for the time being.
The best podcast I have ever heard (so far) is the podcasting session by Adam Curry the session leader at Bloggercon III. The conference lasts about 1 hour and 17 minutes and was recorded on 11/6/2004. Adam first briefly introduces the idea of podcasting and his hopes for it’s future. Also allows questions from participants talking about their experiences with podcasting mainly Dawn and Drew.
According to Dawn and Drew someone keeps stealing ideas on their shows and not giving them credit. Well to sort this Dawn wanted a podfight with the other pretenders. She went on to explain that she could send a podcast ranting madly to the group and they could reply back with another mp3 file to listen to wherever they may be.
Looking for new podcast sites I came across podcastexpo.com will be a new trade show, according to the site it will have wide-ranging exhibits and conference sessions devoted to developing, producing, editing and podcasting unique audio and video content. The complete conference program will include four different high-interest tracks during both days of the show, each featuring a combination of keynotes, expert panel discussions and other informative sessions - including audience Q&A.
They will upload podcasts of each of these programs.
You will be able to investigate new products and services, view demos, pick up literature, white papers and meet representatives from companies ranging from software to hardware .
If you are interested in RSS feeds with enclosures, hardware to podcast interviews, generating revenue from your podcasts or just learning more about this new phenomenon, this convention is for you.
It’s all happening in the Spring of 2005
Just listened to the final Daily Source Code from Adam before his move to England. Just over 40 minute long show, done to it’s usual high standards. The show includes “the mini source code” which I had the joy of listening to yeasterday. Go to Nick Starr.com to listen to an edited down version of Curry’s show (for the mini iPod as he says). He goes on the talk about Viktor Von Riesling’s podcast about learning Spainish and the phrases you need. He also features another podcast called the “One Minute Tip” which today is about keyboard shortcuts on the Apple OS X. Check it out here. Hopefully Adam will find a Wifi spot to podcast and upload from tomorrow on his way to his new home in Engand.
podca.st is basically a simple podcast site. If you can look past the pink and bright red colours used, you can find some interesting information. It’s just one page and has topics dealing from: why “POD”cast?, how did it begin and talks about the benefits and negatives of podcasts. Only visit if your a newcomer to podcasting. Overall 3/10
Podfly are looking for writers. They want someone to write daily blog-type postings on the topic of podcasting. Find out more information on how you can sign up.
The early days: Tue 11/02/2004:
Hey, I noticed your site linked to mine, PodFly.com. Now it’s gone. I just updated it, added how-to content, and improved the design. Let me know what you think.
Problems with click rate:
What’s dissapointing, so far, is that 75% of my visitors stay on the site for less than 5 seconds. So does that mean I have experienced podcasters stopping buy, or are the newbies just not liking what they see?
Beercasting is exactly what comes to mind, a group of people in a pub chatting away at any old subject.
The idea is simple:
Put a bunch of people together, add some spirits, and conversation flows in every which direction (some great, others bizarre). In short, the best conversations form in the froth of a frosty mug. We’ve outlined some of the notes for how to do one here below.
Some basic guidelines need to be followed:
Topics automatically rotate when a new beer (wine, drink, etc.) is ordered. Anyone can speak at any time, the loudest one wins. Anything goes, there’s no filtering.
E-mail from potkast.com:
Hi there. Please categorize your podcast at POTKAST.com. Happy casting, Eddie Adams.
Always nice when people personally e-mail you even if it’s this short. But if he makes time for you, you make time for him. Just viewed the website, it looks like it has potential. Firstly it designates podcasts into regions, something much needed because all people find is podcasts from America (even when the BBC were visiting Adam Curry to do a feature on Podcasting, they said “Hello America” while he was podcasting). It is currently work in progress but will be sure to change in the upcoming days.
Podfeeder is a great website, although to the visual eye it’s not the most aesthetic site around to view, with this said, it does serve the basic purpose of having 186 shows available. Each of these have the xml file location, and the show type which is very handy, so at least you know what you’re downloading. The blog hasn’t been updated for over a month now but does feature some interesting news and also a plugin for Mozilla users.
The site layout does continue throughtout the site, but is pretty simple with navigation placed at the top and uses the simple white background. The download page has links to dircaster (which creates enclosures automatically for you) and also a python script that uses rsslib to generate an RSS feed. You can also add your podcast or do it on behalf of someone else. Check out their OPML file of all their shows:
http://podfeeder.com/allshows.opml. Overall 6.5/10 [needs to update more]
I decided to use Google’s news service to check out all the latest podcast news. Podcast currently brings up 37 news stories, so I was hoping to find a newspaper or online source from Ireland talking about podcasting. When I searched for ‘podcast Ireland’ all I got back was ‘did you mean forecast Ireland?’. A bit slow to catch on aren’t we?
Want to be told when your favourite podcast has been updated? Just send the xml address to 086 0639158. Firstly open a sms message on your phone and type your favourite podcast xml location. You can specify if you want to be updated everytime your show has a new podcast type EVERYTIME. Of maybe if you want to just receive a weekly text containing the number of show you can listen to text WEEKLY.
E.g. www.sitename.com/podcast.xml, everytime
This service is free of charge, just just pay for the price of the first text. Only available in Ireland.
Tim Madden has created heaps of podcast logos for anyone with a podcast. They are free to use. Check out the full range of logos. Just right-click to save and use on your site when you record a podcast.
1.) Create your content (speech, music, etc.) using your microphone or voice recorder. If it’s .wav or another file format convert that file to a MP3 file.
2.) Next you need to upload your .mp3 file using ftp to your (free) host.
3.) If your site doesn’t automatically create a RSS feed, you need to download dircaster, or if you know your way around html why not create and update your own RSS feed. If you decide on this method just add this line:
<enclosure url=”link” length=”size” type=”audio/mpeg”/>.
Sex + Podcast = Super Smart Radio Whore?
The idea of a guy called “Tech Guy Dan” who has hired a girl to just sit in front of a microphone and talk about sex. The main girl calls herself Cody Shin and deals with such stupid topics as “is it okay for a married man to go to a prostitute?”. Not compelling listen but will go down in podcasting history as the first ever podcast dealing with sex.
podstar.com is a site you must visit… it has all the latest news from around the world of podcasts. It’s updated everyday with really interesting content.
Podcasting 101 from Tod Maffin. If you’re making your own podcast then read this. From how to interview, to what microphone to use, Tod will set you straight. It’s an extremly handy guide for new users.
JournURL makes podcasting easy, well in three simple steps and also explains how to place it in an enclosure.
Want to listen to a podcast? Don’t know where to go, take a peek at the last 100 podcasts at audio.weblogs.com which has a wide range of topics.
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