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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.

Subscribe or just listen to it directly.

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.

Interested? Want to get started? Click here to sign up for a free Advertiser or Publisher account. If you have any questions about PodcastAds, you can email us at info@podcastads.com.

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.