Daily Podcast News

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/

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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…