[extropy-chat] Odeo: best podcasting application

Emlyn emlynoregan at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 06:37:59 UTC 2005


On 26/09/05, Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:
> Podcasting is a recent fashionable name for downloadable audio (and tomorrow
> video) shows with an RSS feed to alert subscribers of new issues. I have
> been  looking for a good podcasting application and Odeo is the best I have
> found so far. Of course it has a client app to download shows in the queue,
> but a feature which I really appreciate is the ability to listen to a show
> in streaming mode without having to download it to the PC first.
> Odeo has a large user built directory of podcasts - users can add channels
> to the directory. Odeo supports tagging - users can tag channels and
> individual shows with keywords. For example I have added Changesurfer Radio
> to the directory and tagged it with "transhumanism" and "technoliberation".
> Tagging permits creating and subscribing to custom RSS-enabled directories
> like http://odeo.com/tag/transhumanism.
> Apparently Odeo will offer soon podcast creation and hosting features.
>
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Podcasts are ridiculously easy to create, as long as you have
somewhere to put your mp3s. Here's a twenty minute or so method for
creating a free podcast:

1 - Go to Blogger.com and create a blog for your podcast.
2 - Create a meta feed for the blog at Feedburner.com . It has an
option to turn a blog into a podcast, expecting the the LinkURLs in
the Blog point to your audio content. The address of this meta feed
(given to you by feedburner) is the address of your podcast.
3 - Upload your first mp3 somewhere publicly available
4 - Create a blog entry on blogger for your first podcast, refering to
the mp3 in the LinkURL.
5 - Repeat 3 and 4 ad nauseum for subsequent shows.

It's easy, it uses all free web based tools so you can get to it from
anywhere, there are no ads in the podcast or any junk like that. If
you need free hosting for your mp3 files, http://ourmedia.org/ will do
it for you apparently.

You really really don't need any kind of podcast creation software to
create a podcast.

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Emlyn

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