Michael Geoghegan: Making money with your podcast
Spent a while yesterday at Podcamp West with Michael Geoghegan, who's figured out how to make money at podcasting better than almost anyone. His Grape Radio podcast is sold out of sponsorship positions for the next three months. Michael, the co-author of the book Podcast Solutions, talks about what Grape Radio did right. Apologies for the less than stellar lighting. (Ourmedia page | watch video)
November 19, 2006 at 06:01 PM in Interviews, Podcasting, Video/vlogging | Permalink | Comments (0)
Tim Street on French Maid TV
Ever since Vloggercon, I've been meaning to catch up with Tim Street. So at Podcamp West yesterday, I interviewed him about his wildly viral videoblog, French Maid TV. Ooo la la! (Ourmedia page | watch video)
November 19, 2006 at 05:35 PM in Interviews, Podcasting | Permalink | Comments (0)
Doug Kaye on the state of podcasting
At Podcamp West yesterday, I interviewed Doug Kaye, the second person who began podcasting after Christopher Lydon — and before Adam Curry — so it's odd that Wikipedia doesn't mention Doug in its history of podcasting. We talk about IT Conversations, The Conversations Network and Gigavox Media. (Ourmedia page | watch video)
November 19, 2006 at 05:12 PM in Interviews, Podcasting | Permalink | Comments (1)
Podcast with hip hop group, alt rockers
The most intriguing podcast interview I conducted at the South by Southwest Music Festival last week came with the members of Heavyweight Dub Champion, a hip-hop/reggae/Caribbean sounds group out of Colorado, of all places. Spoke with Jeff (pictured at top), Stero, Totter, Grant and Patch in the podcast, featuring two of the group's singles. They say they have three records coming out this year.
I also interviewed the members of pouty girl rockers Magneta Lane (with bass player French pictured above) for this podcast (mp3 file | TowerPod page). Chris Ritke of 49media produced the podcast.
Technorati tags: podcasting, podcast, Heavyweight Dub Champion, hip-hop, reggae, indie music, alt rock, Magneta Lane, SXSW, SXSW2006, SXSW Music, band, music
March 22, 2006 at 01:57 AM in Music, Podcasting | Permalink
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CJ Wilson on video & audio compression
CJ Wilson, a multimedia specialist, talks about how to use video and audio codecs (compression technologies) during this 12-minute video interview conducted at the Podcast Hotel gathering in Portland a few months ago. (I've been too swamped to post it until now.) Lots of pointers to online resources, especially for those starting out in podcasting or videoblogging.
January 14, 2006 at 04:58 PM in Podcasting, Video/vlogging | Permalink
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Duke students on podcasting
Not long ago I appeared at Duke University at a symposium on podcasting, and I briefly interviewed a couple of really bright students about iPods and podcasting.
Meantime, Richard Lucic, associate chair of the Department of Computer Science at Duke University -- whom I met at the podcasting symposium -- is interviewed this week on Phil Leigh's Inside Digital Media podcast about the university's iPod program. Go to the site, choose the Jan. 13 segment, and pick download or stream.
January 14, 2006 at 03:08 PM in Podcasting | Permalink
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What is podcasting?
A podcast is audio you can carry in your pocket — portable, time-shifted, on demand. It's any audio on the Internet that you can subscribe to and download to a portable device (like the iPod, hence the unfortunate name) or computer.
Webcasting, where music or audio is streamed, is not podcasting.
Some folks use the term "Internet radio" to refer to podcasting. But Doc Searls has written persuasively that podcasting should not be equated with radio — mostly for political and public policy reasons.
Radio is mass media. It generally caters to least common denominator programming. It's delivered on the programmers' schedule. And, most significantly, its content is regulated by the federal government.
Podcasting is personal media. It caters to individuals. Its most salient feature is that you can download podcasts to listen to on demand — on your schedule. And it's utterly unregulatable.
Podcasting was born in November 2004 and gained significant uptake last year, with thousands of podcasts and millions of subscriptions on services like Apple's iTunes.
Quite a few people are both vloggers and podcasters, although most folks gravitate to one media form or the other. I'm more of a visual person, but I'll be posting podcasts here as well.
If you're thinking about podcasting, you should consider joining Ourmedia.org. The nonprofit service will host your podcasts for free, so you never get socked with bandwidth bills from your Internet Service Provider if you happen to upload a file and it becomes wildly popular; for example, my friend Glenn ran up $10,000 in bandwidth bills for book chapters he placed online.
Check out services like the Podcast Network, Indiepodder.org, Podshow and Podcast Alley for directories of popular podcasts.
January 1, 2006 at 02:14 AM in Podcasting | Permalink
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Leo Laporte: Everyone should podcast
Leo Laporte, the personable and knowledgable former host of TechTV's "The Screen Savers," is now doing four podcasts, including This Week In Tech. I caught up with him shortly after his keynote at the Portable Media Expo & Podcasting Conference in Ontario, Calif., in November 2005. Leo talks about the looming irrelevance of commercial radio as people look for authenticity, meaning and community through podcasts. "Everybody should do a podcast," he says.
December 31, 2005 at 11:25 PM in Podcasting | Permalink
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Jason Calacanis offers 6 podcasting business models
Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs Inc. (now owned by AOL), gave a keynote address at the Portable Media Expo in November 2005. I caught with him outside the Ontario (Calif.) Convention Center and he gave this 12-minute summary of the highlights of his talk. He discusses six possible podcasting business models, including podcasting directories, podcast search and podcast ad networks.
December 31, 2005 at 10:33 PM in Podcasting | Permalink
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Mia Littlejohn on the Eat Feed podcast
Mia Littlejohn talks about the Eat Feed food podcast, launched in January 2005.
December 31, 2005 at 12:52 PM in Podcasting | Permalink
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