PalMD taught this workshop Friday, January 15. These are my quick notes.

• use an external mic – doesn’t have to be that expensive, if you have multiple people in the room, you might want a 2 channel mic
• use audacity and plan to do a lot of editing
• find a place to host these things, he found that even with 30-40 downloads of a 30 minute podcast, his bandwidth charges would be really high, so he is hosting his on ScienceBlogs.com (I wonder if OurMedia.org is an option?)
• Need to save and then export to MP3
• create an RSS file so people can find new entries – he manually edits one each time and then pings the server
• enclosure url (your url for your podcast) length in bytes (open file in explorer to see its size)
• whether you like it or not, you have to register your podcast on iTunes if you want it found.
• nb: iTunes has extra tags
• (from me: please, please, please use ID tags for your podcasts! as well as whatever itunes or xml metadata)
• from another participant  – maybe try podomatic.com – from someone remote via Henry – podbean.com
• general discussion about headers and long intros and intro music. (for music you might want to try searching for podsafe music)
• are there topics that work better for podcasting or do you do the same things – there are some things that work better as audio
• recording skype – sol uses Pamela – says it works well (costs ~$25 maybe)
• from the audience – how about when you interview, does the interviewee sign a release? get to listen to it first.