Entries tagged with “podcast” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

I have what may be a radical suggestion for the “always control you content” types, you should consider making a change to your show’s site: instead of providing an “iPhone friendly” version of your site, send iPhone and iPod touch browsers right to your iTunes listing. This accomplishes two things: it keeps you from having to find (or make) a good mobile version of your site, and it gives your visitors the ability to add your podcast to their device immediately and start listening right away. For those of you who missed it, the most recent set of new features for the iPhone included the ability to download...

I took a look at Audio Hijack Pro as a potential tool that is inexpensive and simple enough that even I can use it as a two-person audio podcast recording tool.

Dictate has been a good enough product that it has made it worth dealing with MacSpeech again.

Why is this man jumping off the wall? The return of DekePod. I shot this on the set of Deke's soon-to-be-released next installment of DekePod, a podcast from our own Deke McClelland that made its first irreverent appearance a while back to great acclaim. The latest round will feature plenty of in-your-face, World-According-to-Deke information on all things digital imaging....

Deke McClelland joins the InDesign Secrets podcast, and the hosts help untangle some of the knots Deke encountered when creating his latest book in (and about) InDesign.

I'd like to officially announce my newest podcasting endeavor: The Puzzle Podcast. I'm co-hosting this short weekly show of brainteasers with David Leschinsky, the owner of Eureka Puzzles, a popular puzzle and game store in Brookline, Massachusetts. David is the show's "Puzzle Guy," while I'm the rube that has to answer the questions. The premise is simple: we pick a...

Location, location, location: In this brief online video, podcaster David Adam Weiss demonstrates how to improve your voiceovers dramatically just by tweaking your mic position. Weiss makes his point with a $65 Giant Squid mic taped to a ballpoint pen, but says it works equally well with the $15 mic he uses for Boston Behind the Scenes. After watching the...

I recently listed my podcast at the iTunes Store and wanted a shorter way to give out the URL. The standard link you get by right-clicking the tile is this monstrosity: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207870198 Note that the important part is the last nine characters, the iTunes numeric ID. Apple's Scott Simpson clued me in to this little-known shorter version of the...

Brad Fuller's article "Inside Pandora: Web Radio That Listens to You" went behind the scenes of the Internet radio station with the human touch. As Brad explained, Pandora's playlists are shaped by a staff of expert music analysts. Now one of those analysts has launched a podcast that goes inside the music itself. The working title Pandora Podcast is the...

In a recent MacDevCenter article, I discussed how to build interactive iPod experiences using the iPod's "museum mode". As a supplement to that article, here are a number of museum podcasts that you might enjoy listening to. SFMOMA ArtcastsAn insider's take on the museum and its exhibits. More than mere museum tours, SFMOMA Artcasts paint vivid audio portraits of artists...

The first rule of good cable buying is simple. Don't go cheap. Good cables cost money. Spend it. You don't always have to buy the most expensive cable at the music store, but never buy the cheapest either.

Audio podcasts are the perfect accompaniment to my long, once-a-week commute to O'Reilly HQ. If I can find shows that are relevant to work, even better, because I feel like I'm gearing my brain up for the workday rather than stressing about the traffic that's keeping me from the things I have to do when I get there. (And did...

A podcast about geospatial stuff: "We discuss Open Source GIS (obviously), the Canadian government's role in supporting OGC and Open Source tools, and the hurdles to data access in both the US and Canada."

Apple announced this morning that iTunes now supports podcast downloads, and a new podcast section at the iTunes music store.