podcasting may 5, 2008 chris lebeau brent husher
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Podcasting
May 5, 2008
Chris LeBeau
Brent Husher
[email protected] & [email protected]
Dec 11, 2007
Quiz Question 1Facts vs Myth of Podcasts
Only iPods can play Podcasts
Can only iPods play podcasts?
NO
All computers, any MP3 player, and many mobile devices like cell phones can play podcasts, in addition to iPods.
POD + CAST
POD = Portable (Play) on demand
CAST = to throw forth
An Online Broadcast
Characteristics of a Podcast
Subscription Free or fee Listen/View or Create MP3 file (generally speaking)
Formats (Viewing, Listening)
1. Audio - MP3 lecture, radio program, concerts,
language acquisition, music (also .mp4, .m4a, .mov, .m4v)
Other Formats (Viewing, Listening)
1. Paper (pdf)2. Multimedia (contains video) -- vodcast
MP4, M4v
3. Enhanced Podcast chapters, sound synchronized with
images or links to images
4. Virtual reality
Where Can I Find Podcasts?
Go directly to a site you like NPR, JCPL, KCUR
Stumble across them
Aggregators and Directories: Yahoo, PodNova, Podcast Alley, Juice,
iTunes
Quiz Question 5
iTunes is only for music
• False
• http://www.apple.com/itunes/http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/radio_podcasts/
Legalities
Podcasting Legal Guide From the Creative Commons
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Podcasting_Legal_Guide
Podsafe Music
Here are some sites for podsafe music: The Free Sound Project SoundSnap Flash Kit - Sound FX Podcast Bumper Music fOUR bEES Free Media Podsafe Audio Common Content: Catalog ACIDplanet
From http://www.learninginhand.com/podcasting/create.html
To Listen – All You Need is...
Sound/video file
Podcatcher (Account or Aggregator)
Listening deviceB
[email protected] & [email protected]
Dec. 11, 2007 [email protected] & [email protected]
Podcast Icons / RSS feedsSome common ones
Click on these to copy a feed to your podcatcher
How do I subscribe to a Podcast? Need an account (Podcatcher)
(feed reader, aggregator) such as: iTunes (needs installation) Juice (needs installation) Bloglines (web-based) Google Reader (web-based) My Yahoo (web-based) Browsers Outlook
To Listen – All You Need is...
Sound/video file
Podcatcher (Account or Aggregator)
Listening device
See class Web page for Web sites to visit for podcasts
http://h.faculty.umkc.edu/husherb/pod.html http://www.npr.org
Look for Podcast Icons
NPRhttp://www.npr.org/rss/podcast/podcast_detail.php?siteId=4985903 Left click easily install podcast in my browser feed list Right click – copy shortcut – allows me to place the
feed into my own podcatcher
National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/nihpodcast.xml
Visit NPR
Choose a show to subscribe to Set up the RSS feed in Bloglines
Creating a Podcast
Create an account on Podbean
http://www.podbean.com
Summary of Steps to Create a Podcast
1. Record your audio file
2. Upload file to your server or webhost
3. Upload the HTML coding to your Web site
4. List your RSS feed in Podcast directories
What You Need
Recording software or digital recorder Audacity with the LAME MP3 encoder installed (free)
Microphone Web Host or Server Distribution method
Podbean serves as your host and provides a distribution method
The gift for gab
(from http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11293_7-6246557-1.html
For Today
Podbean (our server host) http://www.podbean.com (home) http://beantown.podbean.com
(Chris’ address on Podbean)
Bloglines (our podcatcher) http://www.bloglines.com
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Connection between the host and the Podcatcher (feedreader)
Bloglines Podbean (listener logs in for updates) (Holds the MP3
files)
RSS feed from Podbean sends
Alerts to Bloglines
...And Speaking of RSS Feeds
Do you know that many databases have RSS feeds that serve as alerting services?
EBSCOhost Proquest CSA
Creating the Sound File
To learn how to use Audacity
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/
See also handout
Creating Feeds
A podcast feed is an RSS file that includes a description of your podcast, a link to your MP3, and other information
The most common formats are RSS and Atom.
If you host on a remote public server like Podbean or Feedburner, these programs will make the feed links for you.
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RSS
Really Simple Syndication Rich Site Summary
(Take your pick)
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Feed Formats
Feed formats are constantly being updated with new versions.
Internet Explorer supports RSS 0.91, 1.0, and 2.0, and ATOM .3, 1.0.
All web feed formats are based on XML
Feed Generators Podbean - free Feedburner -free
Feeder ($29.95) for Macintosh FeedForAll ($39.95) for Mac and Windowsit will have you upload the RSS feed to a web server.
Creating Your Own XML
You don’t need to do this if you use a hosting service that creates the XML code for you, but if you’d like to know how to do it see:
http://www.podcastdirectory.com/help/createxml.php
Hosting a Podcast
Free sites: http://www.podbean.com/
podcast_hosting_audio_video_blog_hosting_features
http://ww.switchpod.com/plans.php http://podcastpeople.com/pricing http://www.podshow.com/new_signup/
How To Sites
Search Engine.com – Making a RSS Feed http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?
page=2175271
Podcast411 http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html
CNET – How to Publish http://reviews.cnet.com/4660-6490_7-6250947.html?
tag=vid.1
Feed Validators
http://feeds.archive.org/validator/ http://rss.scripting.com/