Podcasts, Problems, and Possibilities

Another reason to love Macs: you can create a simple podcast right from your own laptop in class with no additional software or equipment! Garage Band and a built in microphone allows novice podcasters to make their own, export to iTunes and then… How exactly do you get it on a blog or make it accessible to others? As near as I can tell ( and I spend most of the class fiddling and investigating this), you need to upload your podcast to a feed, which can cost you. One way to post an audio clip on a blog is to convert it to an MP3 file and then upload it to the internet. You then paste code into the blog. Ugh. I haven’t managed to do this yet, but I have made a little test podcast that I converted to an MP3 file.

I did listen to an episode of Stuart McLean’s Vinyl Cafe. Very cool. If i had an iPod I would put in on there.