Christina K. Pikas is a science and engineering librarian in a special library as well as a doctoral student in information studies.
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.
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I have been a participant in a number of podcasts now, although I am not the one editing and posting them. We do ours by conference call. The key seems to be using a real landline for the interview; cell phones are awful, and a cordless phone is almost as bad.
I don't get the podcast thing, but I know I'm a visual person. I do like the idea that I can reach another audience through a different media like this... and world domination is what I am really all about.
Posted by: Pascale | January 15, 2010 12:08 PM
I need to figure out if there's any way to get podcasts into iTunes® without actually having an account (with no Windows or Mac boxes, running iTunes® is a bit difficult, and to be honest I really don't have an interest in setting up an account if it can be avoided).
I started a little podcast project about scientific papers that's currently in low gear while I try to figure out how to get some listeners and feedback (so I can tell whether the idea interests anyone besides myself).
Posted by: Epicanis | January 15, 2010 1:50 PM