Podcasting Theory

Originally presented by Ryan Price at BarCampOrlando and BlogOrlando in 2007

Podcast Toughts

You don’t need to be like Big Media
Put your favorite NPR show, your favorite music and a show you created in your living room on your mom’s MP3 player
Why the iTunes directory is king
What’s with the “Pod” anyway? Is there a better word for it?
Some podcasts are for your eyes only
Think like the little guy - keep it real
Just get past your first episode
What’s in a name? SEO/Branding
Promotional Tools & Community
Episodes, shownotes, flash players, widgets
Stereo vs. Mono, bitrates, filesizes, hosting
Audio vs. video, text, photo, Internet TV vs. videoblogs
How do I publish a feed? How do they subscribe?
Networks vs. all-encompassing shows
Skype is your best friend
Playing music during shows
Atmospherics - is the Air Conditioner a friend or foe?
Enjoy it while it lasts - AKA “Podfading”
ENGAGE YOUR AUDIENCE

Podcast Alley is great for finding passionate podcasting audiences
Podcast Pickle is great for getting embeddable flash players
Pluggd semantic heat maps
Everyzing audio tag search
TechCrunch on podcasting over cell phone
ODEO
PodDeus by Casgle will synch all your podcasts to an appliance on your desk
TalkShoe
Audacity free cross-platform audio editor
GoldWave PC Audio Editor
Pamela for Skype will record calls and can automatically podcast the recordings
CastBlaster
AudioShell iD3 editor for Windows
PodPress is a plugin for WordPress that makes uploading and annotating podcasts very easy
Soundflower is a Macintosh app that lets you record system audio as well as your vocals
I use two MXL V57M microphones and an M-Audio MobilePre USB to record most of my podcasts, but I already owned that equipment when I got into it. I highly recommend spending less than $100 for getting started in a new hobby or experiment like podcasting. A simple USB headset will do the trick.

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