A neat little site. It’s simple, but just what’s needed to cut through the fog trying to decide what equipment might be needed to start (or improve) podcasting. It’s from Paul at The.Point. Essentially it just offers a small selection of recommended podcast “rigs” and a simple blog of notes and site changes.
Check out the site at PodcastRigs, and make sure you let Paul know if you like it, or if you have any alternative suggestions.
“Forbes” has a fairly straight-forward article on podcasting. It passes the “mention RSS” test, but falls a bit short on the “you don’t need an iPod” test.
The author, Arik Hesseldahl, appears to be hung up on the idea of satellite radio as some major “threat to conventional radio", though, and seems to be in danger of confusing its effects with those of podcasting.
The nature of radio is changing in part because of the popularity of the satellite services XM Satellite Radio (nasdaq: XMSR - news - people ) and Sirius Satellite Radio (nasdaq: SIRI - news - people ). Digital radio is coming to conventional radio soon, but its going to take some time to catch on with consumers who will have to buy special digital-friendly receivers.
As I have said before I don’t really think that satellite radio is as significant as it may seem. Sure there’a a lot of channels, and they claim an absence of commercials, but fundamentally it’s still broadcast, with all the problems of demographics and scheduling that entails.
Read the article at Forbes.com: Podcasting The Night Away
A simple but very useful list of podcasts from public radio. Worth checking out - I certainly found some interesting ones I wasn’t aware of.
James Farmer, very much a “put your money where your mouth is” education blogger, presents a scathing criticism of big-budget lecture recording/streaming systems, and recommends (you’ve guessed it) podcasting:
- A lecture delivered to a theatre is utterly and totally different to the kind of thing you’d broadcast as just audio (if it’s any good it’ll be interactive & unbroadcastable!)
- It has become painfully obvious that even the most diligent of learners is not going to sit for 60 mins or more at his or her PC listening and focussing on what you produce
Read more at: incorporated subversion: Why you have wasted all that money you’ve spent on streaming lectures
It must be a good job, then, that my local college hasn’t spent any money on anything like that :)
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