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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?

Podcasting is spreading worldwide.

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.

Podcast Feed

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.