podCALGARY

This is your last chance to regester for the June 7 class.

The “Nuts and Bolts of Podcasting” will cover everything you need to know to start podcasting. Recording, editing, hosting and Feeding. It is a hands on class, meaning you will learn as you do. Ideally, participants should have their own laptop, but we has a couple of ways around that.

The cost is $75 and their are only 8 spots available so email me and we can get you registered.

More information is available at my site amuk.ca

I wanted to let everyone know that I will be teaching a class on how to podcast on June 7 2008.

The “Nuts and Bolts of Podcasting” will cover everything you need to know to start podcasting. Recording, editing, hosting and Feeding. It is a hands on class, meaning you will learn as you do. Ideally, participants should have their own laptop, but we has a couple of ways around that.

The cost is $75 and their are only 8 spots available so email me and we can get you registered.

More information is available at my site amuk.ca

Daryl Cognito

That’s simple, when it is Streaming Audio. Well, it’s simple for those of us swimming in the web 2.0 soup, but not for everyone. To put it simply, a podcast is a media file with a RSS feed (or is it an RSS feed, grammar isn’t my strong suit) pointing to it. The RSS feed is what tells the podcatcher or aggregator where the … Blah Blah Blah Blah ipod Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah CBC Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

That’s how many people here the explanation. Okay enough with linking, what’s my point.
A couple of times this week while I was engaged in my real life, and while I working on some stuff for amuk.ca I encounter two listings for podcasts that interested me. Actually, they really excited me because they were both tied to my other passions. After searching for quite awhile for a feed link I contacted the groups producing these podcasts and one got back to me. After a very pleasant conversation (yes I used a phone) I realized that the RSS feed may not be as understood as I had assumed. In both of these cases I volunteered to help get the feed set up. (This was self serving because I really want to listen to this content on my mp3 player, not my computer but it also fits the mission of podCALGARY)
You can find examples throughout the tubes where people use the term “Podcast” when what they have is Streaming Audio. This can be a problem not just because we can’t subscribe like we like to, but also because it confuses people about what a podcast really is.

My question to you is, is this a real problem? Do we need to guard the term “Podcast” and work (gently) towards its correct use?

Daryl Cognito

A little while back I took a run through the directory and cleaned it up a bit. I notice the listing for a fun little music podcast hosted by DJ Jeff, it was called Confessions of a DJ. Reluctantly I deleted the listing because the DJ had hung up his microphone.  But, wait just a minute, do I her the siren call of of a Gibson Flying V, or the soul shaking sound of a stack of Marshalls? Why, I think I do. In fact my head is being filled with ROCK! That can only me one thing, yep, Mr. Rock and Roll himself DJ Jeff is back with a new Podcast. High Voltage Rock has just dropped it first show. Welcome back Jeff we’ve missed you.
I am starting to think Calgary might be leading the way in Music podcast.

Regards

 Daryl Cognito