If you want your podcasts to sound great, but you are baffled by all the terminology and jargon, and are finding it hard to understand what all the equipment specs and knobs mean, take a look at the SAE reference material center. It has clear, detailled information about all aspects of audio. Everything from how microphones work to compression and other effects, using a mixing desk, and even building a studio.
If you’ve read much of this blog, you’ll know that I love writing about and linking to other podcasting sites. Linking is what makes the web so powerful. So you’d think I’d be keen to link to a site with the tag line “Podcasting Tools - Daily Podcasting News and Information".
Unfortunately, I’ve got a bit of a bad taste in my mouth at the moment, because it looks like the author of the “Podcasting Tools” site has a different view on the matter. I was browsing around and found a blog post that consists solely of most of my recent article on podcast hosting. Admittedly, if you look very carefully, there is a small “more information” link which points back to my original article, but the text offers no suggestion that the writing is not the original work of “Podcasting Tools".
I generally have a pretty easy-going view of reuse of my content - I have chosen to put it up under a ‘Creative Commons’ licence, so it’s explicitly made available for reuse, but one of the things that licence does imply is that if you reuse any of my work, you should acknowledge that it is mine and not claim copyright yourself. The site author must be aware of this, as he/she even has a section about Creative Commons licencing on a how to podcast page.
Creative Commons - Creative Commons offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. Creative Commons has built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. They are a nonprofit. All of their tools are free.
I’d like to think that common courtesy and web usage would lean in the same direction.
I can’t find a name for the site author so far, although the pages are marked with a sweeping “Copyright NotePage Inc, 2005″. There is a contact email address of webmaster@podcasting-tools.com. I’ll be getting in touch with some gentle suggestions, and if anyone else would care to back me up, it would be much appreciated.
So, by all means take a look at Podcasting Tools, but beware that the site content may not be what it seems.
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