Brian Russell wrote: (...)
I'm a Podcaster and when I read Tod Maffin's blog entry I wrote one called, "Podcasting will save it's Creators from Corporate Media" This blog post is here. http://www.audioactivism.org/archives/000023.html
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Hi Brian, thanks for the reference to your article. Looking aroung your audioactivism blog, I also found a link to your podcasting tutorial "What is this new Podcasting stuff?" http://www.digitaldivide.net/blog/brussell/view?PostID=848 (23.12.04), which I had missed under Xmas: thanks for that too: it's very clear.
Had to laugh at "Tip: The files sizes of Podcast can be rather large." In 2003, when we first started Tam Tam,ADISI's radio series of short broadcasts* on IT uses and repercussions, one condition was that we could put the sound files on our site. Back then, though, the recording was done by a technician of Radio Fiume Ticino, and he made whacking big stereo files. I objected that not everyone has a fast connection, and that stereo was unneeded for a jingle-intro-guest speaking-extro-jingle thing. Giovanni Rengucci insisted that the files on the site should sound pro.
I got a trial freeware to translate the files into something downloadable by others: under 500kb. This way I was able to make an alternative library on a MayeticVillage joint we used for "drafting" pages. The program was valid 30 days, but we had already quite a few broadcast, both already aired and in store. After 26 days, though, the damned thing started trying to call the internet for me to buy it, so I uninstalled it. I was lucky it didn't mess up my registry, which I have no clue how to fix.
In the end, Giovanni had to remove the files from the main site: they were eating up our allotted storage capacity. Since we started the new series last autumn, he has been in charge of the recording and editing, and is now making more reasonably sized files for the site.
I'm pushing for the podcasting of these interviews: I even put one of the old files at the podhost.de place Andy mentioned, where the RSS feed is automatically produced. But Giovanni and Mahdi Mezher (ADISI's IT specialist) want to wait until we move the site to a US server where we can have a resident RSS file producing feature (not possible with the one at Ticino.com).
It's fun. I don't really understand the tech issues involved by RSS and hence podcasting (XML is Greek to me) but I like the application prospects. Mahdi does (he's got an MA in software engineering)and likes the prospects too. Giovanni is now catching up on RSS. So we experiment in MOB, in a tiny manner.
cheers
Claude
-- Claude Almansi www.adisi.ch
* Bonnie Bracey was one of our first guests, btw. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
