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
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.
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:
With these two invites you can begin beta testing Odeo.
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.
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.
With all the major developments in the past few months EPIC has been updated to cover Podcasting and it’s future implications.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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. |
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.
Head over to the Irish Podcasters google group and get involved.
Send your messages to: 
Podscope has just launched it’s searchable service. Now you can actually locate shows which relate to items you’re interested in.
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? ;->
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Streaming would be for listeners who either:
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.
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”.
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.
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.