tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-109427222011-04-21T14:54:01.229-07:00Joe Radionoreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10942722.post-1110371068008487072005-03-09T04:04:00.000-08:002005-03-09T06:42:40.786-08:00So you've decided that the world can't live without your opinion on <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~aritenou/">random crap</a>. How do you get these brilliant thoughts of yours that are currently going unrecorded and unexploited into a form that can be uploaded into the podosphere and dissimated in a viral like manner, leading to a major posivitive feedback spiral that turns you and your opinion on <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~aritenou/">random crap</a> into the next big thing? <br /><br />What did I just say?<br /><br />Whatever. <br /><br />You need some audio editing software. And, in this open source world in which we live in, you shouldn't have to pay a dime for it.<br /><br />That's right. Free software. Here are my suggestions:<br /><ol><br /><li><a href="http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/">GarageBand</a>.<br /><li><a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a>.<br /></ol><br />Both are great. Both will do what you need done. Audacity is free. GarageBand comes free with most new Macs. <br /><br />Get one of these programs and learn it.<br /><br /><b><i>Next...setting up Blogger to host your podcast.</i></b><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10942722-111037106800848707?l=icanpodcast.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Joe Radionoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10942722.post-1108833980684524082005-02-19T08:45:00.000-08:002005-02-19T10:58:12.330-08:00To avoid reinventing the wheel, here is the definition of "podcast" from wikipedia.org/:<br /><br /><br />"<I>A podcast is much like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the internet, and she or he can listen to them at her or his leisure.Podcasts differ from traditional internet audio in two important ways. In the past, listeners have had to either tune in to web radio on a schedule, or they have had to actively download individual files from webpages. Podcasts are more flexible and much easier to get. They can be listened to at any time because a copy is on the listener's computer or portable music player, and they are automatically delivered to subscribers, so no active downloading is required.</i>" For the complete definition, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting"> click here</a>.<br /><br />In short, podcasting is sort of like TiVo for radio. <br /><br />This is how it works from the podast consumer side: You find a blog that has podcast you like, perhaps Steve Lacey's informative <a href="http://www.steve-lacey.com/blogarchives/2005/01/a_brit_abroad_j_2.shtml">A Brit Abroad</a> or the very funny albeit risque <a href="http://www.dawnanddrew.com/">Dawn and Drew Show</a>. You locate it's feed address on the site (for Steve's this would be http://www.steve-lacey.com/podcast.xml. Dawn and Drew's is http://www.dawnanddrew.com/rss2.xml). You enter that address into an "aggregator" such as <a href="http://ipodderx.com/">IpodderX</a>, thus subscribing to that particular podcast. You tell the aggregator to check for fresh content from your subscription list once an hour, once a day, once a week, etc... When fresh content is found, the aggregator downloads it. You can then listen at your leisure on your computer, or, if you are really hip, cool, and an early adapter, have it transferred automatically to your Ipod (hence the term, PODcast.) You can then go about your day listening to the cool stuff you have found, quickly becoming the envy of your less technically literate friends.<br /><br />Why am I and many other so excited about podcasting? As God said when he started the creation of the Grand Canyon; "This is gonna be huge."<br /><br /><B>COMING NEXT... <i>How do I create my own podcast?</i> </B><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/10942722-110883398068452408?l=icanpodcast.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Joe Radionoreply@blogger.com2