Category: About podcasting

Another interview but this time a screenshot of the Odeo homepage. So much talk about Odeo before the official lauch, i feel even my mom’s knowing about it.. 8 iPodlounge Q&A: Odeo’s Evan Williams talks podcasting

More than 22 million American adults own iPods or MP3 players and 29% of them have downloaded podcasts from the Web so that they could listen to audio files at a time of their choosing. That amounts to more than 6 million adults who have tried this new feature that allows internet ‚Äúbroadcasts‚Äù to be… Continue reading 29% of mp3 player owners do listen to podcast

Is Toronto having is first podcast? You guyz will love this one. Hector covers some of the best canadian music playing around these days, from an expat point of view. Give it a try – * Avalanche Radio’s 49th Parallel playlist.

Podcast retour sur la table ronde L’avenir de la radio qui a eu lieu la semaine dernière sur les ondes de Radio-Canada. – téléchargez le ici Les thêmes que j’aborde dans cette capsule sont les suivants : – Les bloggeurs sont ils des hackers refusant de se plier aux règles? – Le podcasting, à quoi… Continue reading Podcast retour sur ‘L’avenir de la radio’

Meeting podcasters is a funny thing. Unlike bloggers, they aren’t that familiar with the whole blog thing and dont know that much about mtl bloggers (and its perfectly ok, i sometimes just expect people to know every blog i am talking about… By the way they will join next yulblog meeting so it might be… Continue reading Encounter with podcasters

Podcast Research takes the form of a blog and podcast that examines the podcasting phenomena and studies it with an academic eye. There are various themes the study is interested in such as whether it can be considered a serious medium as blogging has become, and whether commercialization (like it or not) has to happen… Continue reading Podcasting ressources

Ztélé topo on podcasting is scheduled on mars 30th – 19h.

Whew – Shipments of MP3 players–Apple’s iPod is the best-known–rose by 116 percent in 2004. (…) Over the next five years, shipments of MP3 music players will expand from 36.8 million in 2004 to 132 million units in 2009, market research group iSuppli said. Source: news.com

Seems like CBC podcasting trial is a hit among listeners.

CBC tech columnist Tod is in town, too sad i’m too busy to meet. We’ll set up something for May, ’till then you should check out his column on CBC and his website(s).

Kind of late on that, but thx to christopher for the hint: The Sci-Fi channel and specifically BattleStar Galactica took another step forward for podcasting with their new BattleStar Podcast. They created a podcast that is meant to be listened to along with watching the TV broadcast as a ‚ÄúProducers Commentary‚Äù. Source: Geek News Central

Our firt podcaster gathering could take place on wednesday 23th 2005, as a 5@7 kinda thing, at Laika on St-Laurent. I suggest Laika ‘caus i am real sick of la cabane, the place where yulblog gathering are held, + laika as a new cozy section and its in the middle of everything (it’s even the… Continue reading Podcasters unite!

a little late on this but here is one of the most interesting analysis about where is heading traditional radio, and podcasting: ‘Regardless, a trend is afoot that could transform the $21 billion radio industry. Consider the basics: With no licenses, no frequencies, and no towers, ordinary people are busy creating audio programming for thousands… Continue reading Podcasting: The New Radio Revolution

… et dieu créa.. le podcast. Plusieurs on décidé d’emboîter le pas cette semaine, alors dompez tout ça dans vos ipod, juste pour voir s’que ca fait : – miss sushi – dan – sylvain

Mais quelle journée! Après la BBC et la CBC, Radio-Canada va elle aussi offrir le podcast – ou baladodiffusion – mozusse j’ai hâte d’entendre Marie-France Bazo dire ça moi! – à ses usagers. Vous pouvez lire l’article de Michel, ‘L’avenir de la radio‘, et aussi écouter l’entrevue qu’il a donné à Michel Desautel (voir la… Continue reading Radio-Canada veut offrir le podcasting elle aussi!

CBC Radio Begins Podcasting : a podcasting trial with 2 shows; what is podcasting : CBC Radio Podcasting web page. Podcasts available will be identified with a huge ‘podcast’ icon. Help newbies catch the buzz.

Billboard magazine’s got a new TypePad-powered blog on the economics of digital music called Post Play. It’s the best medium for tracking a market that’s moving so quickly * Billboard Blogs

Following the article about podcasting in La Presse newspaper this morning – which is by the way a translation from the NYT article from 2 weeks ago – Montreal media scene seem to suddenly be waking up. ‘hheeee we have a bunch of bloggers over here! ‘hhhheee oh! we also have podcasters!’ I say: GREAT!… Continue reading Podcasting facts

Droped by web pioneers Noah Glass and Evan Williams, Odeo was annouced at the TED conference last week – did i wrote about the TED conference yet? If your answer is yes, what a good reader you do! So yeah, i was a little late on reading my feeds, took some-kind-of-weekend-off. But here’s one of… Continue reading Watch out ‘coz Odeo’s comming –

Before we’ll all get crazy about it, i think we should sit down and make some things clear about the home version of podcasting. We all know about the technical aspect, and if you dont, you’ll soon figure out that setting up a podcast is pretty easy. A good setup is nice, but it is… Continue reading Podcasting manifesto

I got so hooked on listening to podcasts in rental cars with mp3 CD players that I went to a car audio shop yesterday to see what the aftermarket had to offer. When I told them I’d want a unit that allowed fast-forwarding and rewinding within selections (the players in the Ford Foci I’ve been… Continue reading Podcasts: the hot new thing

‘The end of radio (as we know it)’ – your guide to podcasting, radio tivo adn the HD revolution, in the march issue of Wired mag.

A good coverage after all, just watch the wave and hype get even stronger now: (…) Their show, mostly ad-libbed, is a podcast, a kind of recording that, thanks to a technology barely six months old, anyone can make on a computer and then post to a Web site, where it can be downloaded to… Continue reading Podcasting does the NYT

LOS ANGELES–Jazz composer Maria Schneider took home a Grammy on Sunday for her album “Concert in the Garden,” without selling a single copy in a record store. Schneider, 44, financed her Grammy-winning album through an Internet-based music delivery service called ArtistShare that opens the financing of production to dedicated fans. Music labels, hello? Are you… Continue reading Hello? someone there?

Thx to everyone for the input about my request to music labels. I will put this down openly since i believe i will get a maximum of input that way. Upon recommendation, i will be contacting music labels directly to get some kind of ‘authorization’ to play their bands music on my podcast. I am… Continue reading Proposal to music labels

“The artist controls just part of the music-making process; the audience adds the rest. Fans’ imagination makes it real. Their participation makes it live. (…) We are just troubadours. The audience is our collaborator. We should be encouraging their collaboration, not treating them like thieves” – Wilco‘s band leader Jeff Tweedy to Lawrence Lessig in… Continue reading Podcasting vs the RIAA

With iPods on their way to the masses, podcasting is destined to become a major trend in 2005. * Podcast Like a Pro

Dunno how much time i am spending answering mails everyday – probably 2 to 3 hours. What if i would just answer emails by voice, record an mp3 and post it straight? ‘paul, here’s your answer: … christopher, here’s your answer: … you, here’s your answer: …’ The thing is, this data could be archived… Continue reading Uses of podcasts

Découvert via le blog franco de sébastien, qui lui a trouvé le liens via le musicarnetier David_F : * Avec les blogs, les mélomanes tissent leur toile

This website has a relatively rich section about training in radio production – many thx to ‘toine for the link: * The Home Of The Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production.

Heoh, maybe i should think about doing the same so you wont hear my fridge anymore! no jokes, the imic seems to be the best way right now to record voice for podcasting – using it as a pre-amp for a microphone. I’m gonna get mine this week!

Discovered today – the quality of the recording makes me jealous, scandinavia makes me anxious. Listen to this promising podcast – – New Scandinavian Music – Podcast – Jesper Markward Olsen. Another one i wish i would have discovered before xmas – with this xmas podcast i could have rocked the house a little: –… Continue reading Scandinavian music, Radio clash and women podcasts

Until we get a proper directory somewhere, i am gonna list here all the podcasts made in qc. Comment this entry to see your podcast linked here: – inoveryourhead.net – deadwhitemales.net – bobandaj.info – Vu d’ici (you are here right now!) – CatFish Show

I’m currently working on making a little more professional setup – seems like the line in microphone on the pb g4 disappoint most people who thought like me, that plugging a mic into it would be easy and give a crisp and clear voice recording. What happen is that the sound is not perceptible using… Continue reading Podcasting on osX – microphones