About
Liam Burke is available via irishpodcast@gmail.com and from podish.com. You can leave a comment/item to add here.
Win a podcast award
Podcast Awards will be opening nominations on the 15th of June. It is the chance for podcast lovers to vote for their favoutie podcasts with a large range of categories to choose from.
Increase your workrate
The Podcast Network now has a new addition: The Personal Productivity Show. Interviews and information on mindmapping and other items which can increase your workflow.
Podcast bingo
This could be a daily/weekly event, to receive your numbers you could text a 5***** number and receive your numbers, or a simple javascript program could send the numbers to each participant. The player grabs the podcast and marks off the number on the move.
Be Shuffled
The Podcast Shuffle is a great podcast player. It’s small, cheap and looks the part. The randomness means that you can sync up your podcasts in the morning and listen to them as they come through.
Free Sounds
The Free Sound Project asims to create a massive database of audio snippets, recordings and sound effects for podcasters to use.
Become an overnight celebrity
Dawn and Drew began podcasting back in October. They have featured in CNN,CBC, USA Today to name but a few.
Make money
Many podcasters now receive money via advertisments on the shows.
Find yourself a partner
Podato was launched back in March and allows singles to sumbit recordings via their mobile. These recordings are converted to mp3 and inserted into two seperart RSS feeds.
Debug you rss feeds
One problem many podcasters have is getting their rss feed to work with podcatchers. Feed Validator will give you messages for each type of problem and highlight where the problem first occurs in your feed
Do it via mobile
Many mobile phones have an added function which allows you to record items and send it via mms, to fully make it a podcast configure a pop account with wordpress.
Get yourself a job
Listen to up-to-date job vacancies on the move, maybe even submit your skills via a live recording so the recruitment ferm can listen to them on the fly.
Get personal advice
A problem shared is a podcasted problem. Suzy from the UK launched a podcast in late 2004 where she dicussed peoples problems and ways to solve/fix them.
Podcast your favourite radio show
With BlogMatrix you can record live streams of your favourite radio shows. So if you always miss your favourite radio show because of work/college you can listen to it at your own leisure on your way home.
Help the blind
Web accessibility is becoming more and more a talking point. What podcasters can do is record their blog posts and make each available for download.
Get podcast friendly feeds.
Mfeeds turns your rss feeds into podcast feeds. Once you enter a rss feed it enables enclosures, meaning you can place it into a podcatcher.
Create podcast logos
Tim Madden was quick to realise that to clearly identify a podcast a icon would be needed. These are the most widely used icons that podcasters use on their websites.
Listen to free audio books
Earth Core was the first novel to become available soley for podcasters to listen to on the move, many other authors have followed in his footsteps.
One click podcasts
Podnova allows you sign-up for free add select any number of podcasts to listen to from their web interface. The main feature of the site is the option to add a podnova button to your website with you rss feed added to it. Once someone click this button it automatically adds it to your subscriptions on the website.
Total Annonimity
Because nobody can see you, you can be totally honest with your listeners and express problems/secrets and get their feedback and help.
Wear a PodShrit
This special iShirt starts from $28.99 and allows you to easily attach and play your podcasts on your t-shirt.
Play free podsafe music
Thanks to Garage Bands recent announce that it now has 40,000 active podcasts available, podcasters can now add music to their podshows.
Free podhosting
Ourmedia allows you to upload you mp3 files no matter what size they may be or how many you upload.
Pass your exams
Recording devices are becoming cheaper and cheaper, this is excellent for students who can record their lectures each week and distribute them as podcasts for other lazy students to listen to in bed.
Nude Podcasting
Because no one can actually see you, you can actually podcast once you wake up in the morning. There is no need to look the part as long as you sound the part.
It is so simple
PodBlaze will make you a podcaster in less than five minutes. They will give you a web address, upload and store your podcast there and give you a RSS feed to distribute to your friends.
Search audio content
Podscope allows you to search through podcasts. This helps you search through thousands of podcasts to find something specific.
Purchase a podsite
With the explosion of podcasting many hundreds of people having started buying podsites such as: podcasting.net, podish.com, podato.com and podcrawl.com to name a few.
Submit your podcast feed
Once you get your podcast up and running the next step is to get it listed in the many numerous podcast directories and get people to vote for it over at podcast alley
Personalise iPodder
iPodder Lemon allows you to customise your own podcatcher and preload it with your podcast feed and select others to introduce them to podcasting.
Mobile Casting
This is the ability to retrieve podcasts using sms. The return channel is MMS alert with embedded audio or linked audio.
Be like Paris
The first movie to step a podcast to advertise their film before it was release was “House of Wax”. The six podcasts were recorded by Paris Hilton star of the show.
Tag your podcast
Podcast Tags is a podcast directory where the podcasters can tag their podcasts so that it appears in this directory.
Free Recording Tools
Audacity is the best free audio editor and recorder which gives you get options when recording your podcast. You can record a live show or sync up your minidisc. The multi-tracking is an excellent addition and can give you the professional feel.
Podcast Hotel
Reserve a place at the Podcast Hotel will take place in Portland, Oregon, Sept. 6-8, 2005 at the Jupiter Hotel. We’re turning the Jupiter into a podcast and videoblog studio. Part conference, part happening - it’s an event to create and extend our concepts about media and what it means.
Podcast your Wedding
Chad & Erica have started podcasting the run up to
their wedding. This will be useful listening for couples about to plan their own wedding. They may even podcast the wedding.
Podcasting on the job
Working Podcast is all about the weird happenings during work in The Netherlands.
Learn a new language
Shona Podcast came about when a British man wanted to learn Shona because his wife is from Zimbabwe.
Podcasting for business
Loudish will combine your audio and distribute as a podcast. They will then distribute it to their target audience.
Directory for schools
iPodcast is the first UK directory to list podcasts suitable for educational use and podcasts produced and published by pupils, young people and teachers in schools.
Play podsafe music
Podsafe music is great to insert into your podcast, it not only breaks up the speech but also allows artists to get notice and gain listeners of their own.
Free podcast software
Loudblog is a content management system which allows you to ftp your podcasts onto your web server and have them appear immediately in an rss feed.
Relaunch your career
Podshows was the first to begin making money from listeners. Shows start from £0.29 and reach up to £1.50, the presenters are past radio/TV stars looking to re-start their careers.
Get feedback
Many websites are now available to grab a phone number and place it onto your blog. J2 allows you to sign-up and receive a free number. If people decide to ring the number it goes to voicemail, people give their feedback and it is directly emailed to you as a MP3. Now you can easily insert the feedback into your podcast.
Podcatch for everyone
Bashpodder works with MaxOSX, Solaris, AIX, Net Open and FreeBSD, iPodder for windows and iPodderX for Mac
Have a Conference
PodcastCon hopes that everyone who participates in the convention will leave fully confident about Podcasting and excited about making their own podshows.
Pimp a podcast
This is where you take someone elses podcast and totally revamp it by adding jingles, introductions and sound effects.
Attract tourists
Sound Seeing Tours are a great way of attracting foreign tourists, the podcaster brings their mobile podcast set-up with them around town and they begin to talk about the best historical monuments to visit, the cheapest places to eat/drink etc.
Pod Porn
It had to happen; this site allows you to sumbit your sex stories for inclusion in the rss feed.
Appear in iTunes
Version 4.9 will have podcast support meaning that people will be able grab your podcasts directly from iTunes and onto their iPod.
DIY podcasting
Todd Cochrane who runs Geek News Central wrote this fantastic book all about podcasting. It is very cheap at just $13.59. The book details how to choose the correct software, subscribe to the best podcasts, produce one with equipment you already have, record and distribute your shows—even explore the geeky stuff. Whether you’re producing a podcast or listening to one, podcasting puts you in charge.