Many thank to Ewan for this tip, this is great tool for sharing audio files, and involves no registration, just upload and get a link which you give to the person you want to share your audio with. You can set the time of when the link expires from 30 min to 7 days.

Saw this article about starbucks starting these Mp3 downloading stations in there coffee shops, I can see this be very successful especially if people have 30 mins to spare and they want to listen to a free podcast , Personally I would never buy music in starbucks,but I do see this as a big opportunity for different people to explore there specific interests through podcasting, all while enjoying a hot mucha chucha latte!!

This is really good idea found over here, the idea is to record an album in 28 days of February sort of like the fast forward film festival only with music, , if anyone would like to help me they are more than welcome, I reckon I have everything equipment wise to it, now all I need is some songs !! should be fun though, and I think you are bound to get something listenable out of 10 songs,

I am bit late on this , this site does a free montly magazine writing by podcaster for podcasters.This is on its 12th edition now and can be found over here!

Here is a great series of podcasts I am listening to at present. This series of 24 one-hour programs explores the remarkable collection of music, spoken word, and sound recordings that make up Folkways Records, It features the music of modern day giants like Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan and golden oldies like with Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie,

Going to head along to this on saturday,looks like there will be some good talks held down there, check out the wikki which can be found over here

MIT are offering there course in what called OpenCoarseWare. It is expected that by the end of the year every course offered at MIT will be available on the OpenCourseWare site, including lecture notes, homework assignments, and exams.Check out there site and see what you can learn for free

Saw this interesting article on how music industry is changing the way it views podcasting and a way to distribute it music. The article explains how this big record producing companies see podcasting as to display there product. I think that they are recognizing that people will happily will use creative commons music and they in effect are missing out. As “Adam Block, senior vice president and general manager of Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings, says the podcasts are "essentially a movie trailer for our projects." He says the possibility of the shows' being copied wasn't much of a concern because the songs are embedded within a long program that is difficult to redistribute.

Managed to delete most of my old template I was rushing posting something when accidentally saved over my old template , ah well give me a chance to give this blog a facelift, new year ,new look. if any readers out there know is there away blogger can restore your previous template, would be interested to know. I think from now on I will adopt the practice of religiously saving everything!!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone happy new year,had great xmas,and took a little break from blogging for a bit,Have plenty on new material to write about the next couple of days,

Saw a good article on Rss and how Microsoft are trying to patent it. I am not sure what microsoft intentions i do know that there are a lot of money to be made when targeting people interests., Also very good post in steve rubel blog where is talking about the new google reader a rss aggregator has a new feature, that shows just where your attention goes, this as steve points out is valuable information

Also found a really good site, with tons of really good information about podcasting and how to promote your podcast from Jason Van Orden. Hopefully will get to implement these ideas soon!!!

Hey a new show is up for those who want to listen,hopefully have more up by the weekend too
Can be found over at http://learn4fungaelige.libsyn.com/, as always any feedback is appreicated!!!!

Hey this is a very good friend site which i encourage everyone to go over and have a look at it,it can be found at http://www.yaboya.com/ . The site look great and it really makes we want to get off my arse and get into webdesigning again.Hopefully can get some work done over xmas

Yale University has introduced an official podcast, the Yale Podcast that features lectures and speeches given at the University by professors, alumni and other notable guest speakers.

According to Yale spokeswoman Helaine Klasky, the podcast has received over 50,000 hits in its first week This shows the usage and popularity.

Klasky later says that “For all the lectures, it is important that they stand alone - it is never necessary to follow a series in order to appreciate a single recording.”

I see all third level institutions provide podcasting, to support there students learning as they slowly recognize the need of digital natives. I think with continued usage, institutions will recognize the ability to podcast there content is very achievable and ultimately very appealing for students learning

I think for Rss feeds to take of it will be the successful seamless integration in applications like Blue Dot. Through this you can keep track of what your friends write about. The reason why mentioning this is because by definition this is what makes a podcast ,it not just posting up audio, but the ability to subscribe to shows this via a RSS feed.

This comes as new Pew Report was made available. In the Report the key points are below.

• Some 12% of internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they can listen to it or view it at a later time. This is a 5% reported growth in downloading compared from a February-April 2006 survey.
• Just 1% overall report downloading a podcast on a typical day.
• 15% of online men say they have downloaded a podcast,
• Compared with just 8% of online women.

This report would suggest a failing on the part of RSS feeds for subscribing to podcasts. Perhaps Rss aggregators aren’t good enough yet see blastfeed or threz. Both of these tools help organise and prioritise feeds. But how about including like podzinger into a feed,or a better ranking system in podcasts. Something where you can distinguish between the content you want to hear, and the stuff you want to ignore. Perhaps some visual representation might help. I have noticed over the year of listening to the more popular podcasts, more advertising, and myself having less patience for unrelated content. I think improving the current consumption mechanism will encourage more people to listen.

How do you consume your podcast?

If the content is good enough, and supported on the blog or website, with good links from the show I would tend to stream the audio from that site.

The other interesting point from the report was internet users for six or more years are twice as likely as those who have been online three years or less to have downloaded a podcast (13% vs. 6%).This statistic would again suggest room for more growth. I believe there will be more adopters with a growing infrastructure and distribution mechanisms.

What is not to surprising both from the Washington report below is that people like digesting there content generally from there pc, What would be interesting would be to know the percentage of students utilizing the feeds as way to get there podcasts. I would think that RSS feeds would lend themselves particularly when digesting something like a module in college. Perhaps there would be more involvement if it where more of a collective contribution. See Podserve where as a contributor you might be more inclined to subscribe.

Praise the lord the first test podcast is now complete and can be found over at http://learn4fungaelige.libsyn.com/

Its far from perfect but you sort of get the idea of where it is trying to go
Hope you enjoy and would apprecitate any comments or suggestions you have!

As you can see having trouble getting the ping functionallity working on my blog,I am not sure where exactly to put this code,would welcome any knowledgable readers out there who have had this same problem


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There is an argument that people are more inclined to listen to there podcasts in front of there pc. So why would service like Podlinez and Fonpods work. The advantage of these services is that potentially it makes it more accessible to deliver content to user. Particularly through wi fi. Everyone has a phone, and in this way there is a potential infrastructure to deliver content.

I think there success as mentioned before is on phones syndicating themselves with popular podcasting shows. Some people, I believe will be put off by the flat rate of these, as it is phones are already expensive/but say for instance, if they where part of your package when you are signing your mobile phone. Instead of getting 100 free texts a month you choose the unlimited podcasts on your phone rate instead.

I am not sure about the success to these services especially with the threat of the apple Iphone coming out soon Handheld devices are getting more and more ubiqtous, and I think most people would choose to carry it all around in one device rather than having there pockets full with unnecessary baggage.
I believe apple if they get this right could make a serious inroad into phone market as well as tightening there stranglehold on podcasting

Went to see Bruce Springsteen concert last night in the Seeger sessions tour. I must say I thought it was one of the best concerts I was ever at. There was a 17 piece band on stage, and I have never seen a band look as if they are having as much fun.

After seeing them live I don’t think the record does them justice. They were absolutely brilliant and I urge anyone who has the chance to go see them

However it got me thinking about how podcasting could be utilized in concerts. If you had a RSS stand there and people could pay for the feed recording of the night. I am sure there are plenty of legal issue and highly encrypted DRM management to think of, but I wouldn’t think any consumer would mind that if they got to relive the show, by the time they got home. I think nowadays you are seeing so much old content been podcast as just another distribution mechanism I think this was really utilize the power of feeds to distribute content quickly whilst meeting the demand of the consumers.

There are lots of varying opinions on podcasting.Many people think that simply posting up an audio of hour long lecture is it necessarily pedagogically enhancing. I believe that many lectures aren’t pedagogically enhancing either. My argument if it is important enough to say once it is important enough to listen back too.

There seems to be a fear from lectures that it will leave them redundant. Certainly although I haven’t started recording yet it is a daunting task posting up your class for the scrutiny of world listeners.

To quote Charles Martin” podcasting requires teachers and students to think more deeply about our content, look for new connections when using media, and be more reflective about the ways we teach and assess students.”

This is a link to video on a presentation of podcasting in Duke University .Initially there where a lot of negative press with Duke. The college in collaboration with Apple decided to give all there first year students I-Pods .Its was sort of looked upon as jumping into tech without thinking about the teach. What most people didn’t realise is that Mp3 players can be used to record lectures, store computer files, and listen to course-related audio segments. This is beneficial for any student. I believe that Duke were setting up an Mp3 infrastructure for there students.

The interesting features from this video is that are that there is a video option where they record the lecture so that you are not missing out visually. Also how they supplement the podcasts with PDF and other lecture material. All the information is open source and is a paving the way in digital distribution.

In the continuation of the Lectopia trial, since January 1, 2006 Duke has seen an additional 16,623 hits to its recordings (compared to 34,367 since the system was installed), with over 300 additional lectures recorded. That is a total of 500 lectures and usage of over 50,000.hits