A Day in the Life / Iclectic Podcast: 03/01/2005

iclectic podcast #4 3-26-2005

Another short but sweet podcast. I talk about my new mic, some of my favorite casts this week and I review Tod Maffins (http://radio.blogware.com/) "Idea to Air" first in a series of ebooks for freelance radio professionals.

Check it out. I hope you like it

ipod junky - iclectic podcast#4

Getting Ready

Ok I just checked my Feedburn stats and I have 13 readers. Wow I have always had just one reader (me). I hope to podcast more often but I have been planning for this trip to europe. Still working out the details but you can check back for audioposts that I will leave. You can all join me as I tour Paris, Arles, Nice, Florence, Rome (hang with the Pope), Venice, Salzburg, Interlaken, Bern, Geneva and back to Paris.....

So check back as I plan to update a least every few days from my eurotrip....

Please check-out my links below. Dailysonic, maccast and my other favorite podcasts and blogs always deliver.

New iclectic Podcast Available

You can check my new iclectic podcast. Its short but sweet. No production value, but who needs that. Just a short blurb on my upcoming Eurotrip....

Click on the link above.....

Thanks and see ya soon

ipod junky - iclectic podcast #3

Where does the time go

So it is now 2 weeks til my trip to europe and I am thinking I will wake up late miss my flight and find out the airline is booked until boxing day. So I have been thinking about my trip but busy that I haven't done much to organize. So this week will be coundown to get things done so I don't worry time.

Podcasting and keeping healthy have taken my time. I miss my baby.........

Short but we will see more

See ya

I Need Help - 12 step program for podcasts

Ok its official. I am an Ipod Junky. My Ipod Mini (older 4 gig model) just got filled. I can't belive how many podcasts I have. I know I need to delete the ones I hear but I want to keep a favorite list. Just can't decide which ones. Anyone want to meet up and creat a group. We can all meet drink coffee and check our Ipods at the door.

Short and sweet. Just want to see if anyone has the same problem.....

Check out my recent podcast at http://dharmapath.tripod.com/junky

See ya

Podcast - Problems with setup

So I started my first official podcast today and just had a tough time with my setup. I was listening to Adam Curry's issues he was having recording to the hard drive on his mac and I am having the same issue. I need to beef up my Memory on the G5 but I think a flash based recorder may be the way to go.

I see alot of podcasters going to a traditional recording device outside computer recording. I know I am using GB which takes memory, but it has hanged alot lately.

So I wanted to start by getting some good shows in the can, but I realize that it's going to take more work in order to some good icasts up.

Hopefully we will be up and running soon... Stay tooned

Any comments or feedback. Comment below.

Please listen at http://dharmapath.tripod.com/junky

Podcasting

I started posting podcasts today. My weekly podcast, iclectic, is a cast that has somthing for everyone. My first cast sounds like some hack ham radio rant that was dumped to an old 8 track. Yes I am new to the artform and there is a slight learning curve. I promiss the content and breavity will be checked in future icasts so that you will actually want come back for more.

Why podcasting? It's much like amature radio. Anyone with a $10 microphone, a blog and host space on the web can podcast. I have been listiening to podcasts for awhile now and I didn't know it. Once KCRW started podcasting, I wanted to learn more about it. So litterally in a weeks time I have become a Podcast Junky. The market for podcast is ripe for corporate homoginization, and yet only 6 months old this is the future of on-demand audio content from the web.

There is nothing new about downloading audio in MP3 format. Nor is there nothing new in listening to radio content on your ipod. I started by tapping the Real feed from KCRW to hear some of their segments and reviews with musicians and authors. Little did I know I was a consumer of a podcast. So what is new about this? The distribution methods. Adam Curry of MTV fame started with an Apple Script program that would look at Rss feeds for embeded matirial on a periodic basis. Thus saving the trouble to check your favorite blogs or web sites for new mp3 casts.

Is podcasting going to kill radio? No. But what it will do is give consumers (geeks right now) a choice of programming that has never been available before. There are only a number of radio stations and most of commercial radio is the same. So now we have the opportunity to pull media off the web and load our Ipods (or simular devices) to our hearts content. I personally like hooking up my mini to the car stereo for my commute time and at work.

There are tons of resources for Podcasting so I will save the posting of my experience (or lack there of) for a latter time.

If you are interested check out www.podcastexperts.com. They have a open forum of users who post their blogs chalk full of ideas on how to podcast.

I am sure Howard Stern is safe and will not go out of business anytime soon due to this new craze, but I can tell you Internet will be the defining bell weather of new technology and content delivery and one day in my lifetime, we will see a true marketplace of media that will be affordable, profitable and most importantly independent and diverse.

My 3 cents on podcasting for now. Thanks for tuneing in.

Please check- out my very first podcast and let me know what you think. You can link to the blog that is hosting the podcast by clicking on the link or going to http://dharmapath.tripod.com/junky.

Thanks

Dharmapath