This section includes links to Web sites relating to podcasting as an entity. These sites provide information about the community, as well as links to software and podcasts. These are the first sites that a new podcaster should visit to get a feel for the community. Our PodcastTo listen to the podcast made especially for this book, check out this site: www.peachpit.com/podcasting General Podcasting Web SitesThese Web sites are catch-all reservoirs of podcasting information. Most of these sites contain how-to information, a top-ten list of podcasts, a large bank of podcast feeds, and links to the latest and greatest software for podcasting-related activities. Digital Media Tips N Tricks (video podcasting): www.codedsignal.com/serendipity iPodder.org: www.ipodder.org Podblaze: www.podblaze.com Podcast Alley: www.podcastalley.com Podcast Bunker: www.podcastbunker.com Podcast Central: www.podcastcentral.com Podcast Expert at Podcast and Portable Expo: www.portablemediaexpo.com/podcastexpert/index.php Podcast.net: www.podcast.net The Podcast Network: www.thepodcastnetwork.com Podcasting News: www.podcastingnews.com Podcasting Tools: www.podcasting-tools.com The School of Podcasting: www.schoolofpodcasting.com Weblogs.com: http://audio.weblogs.com General Search EnginesThese are the search engines you can use to scour the World Wide Web for anything related to podcasting. These engines gather data by the minute, so making the same search every day or so often yields different results. AltaVista: www.altavista.com Ask.com: www.ask.com Google: www.google.com Lycos: www.lycos.com MSN: www.msn.com Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com Podcast Search EnginesAlthough any search engine, such as Yahoo! or Google, can come up with all things podcasting, only one (Podscope) currently is dedicated to searching for specific words or phrases in podcasts themselves. Feedster.com: www.feedster.com Podcast Directory: www.podcastdirectory.com Podcast.net: www.podcast.net The Podcast Network: www.thepodcastnetwork.com Podscope: www.podscope.com Yahoo! Podcasts:http://podcasts.yahoo.com Podcasting-Related SitesThese Web sites are not catch-all podcasting sites, but they often contain valuable information for some topic related to podcasting. Engadget: www.engadget.com Podcast and Portable Media Expo: www.portablemediaexpo.com Podcasting Avenue: http://podcasters.blogspot.com Really Simple Syndication Web Sites (RSS)These Web sites cover everything from the history of RSS to the down-and-dirty details of the specification itself. Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University): http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS Digest: www.bigbold.com/rssdigest Music LegalitiesThese are the various Web sites where Creative Commonslicensed music is available and where you can learn about Creative Commons. I have also included the license links for both ASCAP and BMI. ASCAP Internet Music License Agreements: www.ascap.com/weblicense BMI Web Site Music Performance Agreement: www.bmi.com/licensing/forms/Internet0105A.pdf Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org The Freesound Project: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php Opsound: www.opsound.com Podcasting Software: Aggregators (Podcatchers)These are the programs that go out and grab the podcasts for you to listen to. Some of the podcast aggregators listed here are not covered in this book, but I thought it worthwhile to list them here for your convenience. Armangil's podcatcher: http://podcatcher.rubyforge.org BashPodder: http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder CastGrab: http://castgrab.berlios.de Doppler: www.dopplerradio.net FeedDemon: www.newsgator.com/NGOLProduct.aspx?ProdId=FeedDemon FeederReader: www.feederreader.com Golden Ear: http://brooklynnorth.com HappyFish: http://thirstycrow.net/happyfish/default.aspx iPodder: www.ipodder.org iPodder.NET: http://ipoddernet.sourceforge.net iTunes 6: www.apple.com/itunes jPodder: www.jpodder.com Nimiq: www.nimiq.nl Now Playing: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying PlayPod: www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/index.html PocketRSS: www.happyjackroad.net/pocketpc/pocketRSS/pocketRSS.asp Podcast Tuner: http://thenowhereman.com/podcasttuner PodOmatic: www.podomatic.com/home Pod2Go: www.kainjow.com/pod2go ppcTunes: www.pocketmac.net/products/ppctunes Primetime Podcast Receiver: www.primetimepodcast.com RSSRadio: www.dorada.co.uk Synclosure:http://raphb.ch/c/synclosure Transistr (formerly iPodderX): http://transistr.com TVTonic: www.tvtonic.com WinPodder: www.winpodder.com Podcasting Software: Creating PodcastsThis is the software that you use to create podcasts from scratch. From recording the content to editing out mistakes and inserting music, these are the programs that do it. Adobe Audition 2.0: www.adobe.com/products/audition Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download Audio Hijack: www.rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack CastBlaster: www.castblaster.com Digidesign Pro Tools LE: www.digidesign.com Easy Hi-Q Recorder: www.roemersoftware.com/moreinfo5.html ePodcast Producer: www.industrialaudiosoftware.com/products/epodcastproducer.html GarageBand: www.apple.com/garageband Jazler Radio Automation: www.jazler.com/products/jazlerradio.asp MixCast Live: www.mixcastlive.com Panorama: http://wavearts.com/Panorama5.html PodProducer: www.podproducer.net Propaganda: www.makepropaganda.com Sound Byte: www.blackcatsystems.com/software/soundbyte.html SoundEdit Pro: www.rmbsoft.com/sep.asp Sound Forge: www.sonymediasoftware.com/products Sound Recorder (Windows): www.microsoft.com Sparks! 2.0: www.blogmatrix.com/products/main Podcasting Software: Publishing PodcastsThese are the links for the software packages I've recommended that can help you create an RSS feed with ease. ePodcast Producer: www.industrialaudiosoftware.com/products/epodcastproducer.html Feed Editor: www.extralabs.net/feed-editor.htm Feeder: www.reinventedsoftware.com FeedForAll: www.feedforall.com Live365 (streaming): www.live365.com/index.live Nicecast (streaming): www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast PodShock: www.podshock.com Propaganda: www.makepropaganda.com Sparks! 2.0: www.blogmatrix.com/products/main Widget Podcast: www.widgetpodcast.com Publishing Podcasts: Web-Site Hosting SolutionsThese are sites I recommend if you are interested in paying a hosting service that specializes in podcasts to host your files. Liberated Syndication: www.libsyn.com MediaBlog: http://mediablog.mail2web.com MyPodcasts.net: www.mypodcasts.net Podbus.com: www.podbus.com PodshowCreator: www.podshowcreator.com Switchpod: http://switchpod.com WebCyberHosting: www.webcyberhosting.com Commercial Podcast SourcesI can't possibly list every commercial venture that has podcasts available. That said, these are the major sites that you can visit just to get the flavor of what's available. Audible.com: www.audible.com AudioBooksForFree.com: www.audiobooksforfree.com Audiobooks Online: www.audiobooksonline.com Blackstone Audiobooks: www.blackstoneaudio.com CBC.ca (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation): www.cbc.ca ESPN: http://espnradio.espn.go.com/espnradio/podcast/index iTunes Music Store: www.apple.com/itunes/store National Public Radio: www.npr.org Other SoftwareThese are links to software that can play a role in podcasting, from media players to Web-page design programs. Dreamweaver: www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver FrontPage: www.microsoft.com
Microsoft is phasing out FrontPage, but it's still in broad use. GoLive: www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html QuickTime: www.apple.com/quicktime RealPlayer: www.real.com Replay Radio: www.applian.com/replay-radio/index.php Windows Media Player: www.microsoft.com Top PodcastsTo come up with this list, I went to Podcast Alley and took the top 15 podcasts from its voted top-50 list one day in April 2006.
HardwareThese links take you to companies that manufacture some of the hardware discussed in this book. Apple Computer: www.apple.com Audio-Technica: www.audiotechnica.com Behringer: www.behringer.com COWON America: http://eng.cowon.com Creative: www.creative.com Edirol: www.edirol.com Electrovoice: www.electrovoice.com Griffin Technology: www.griffintechnology.com iRiver: www.iriver.com JVC: www.jvc.com Labtec: www.labtec.com Logitech: www.logitech.com Marantz: www.marantz.com M-Audio: www.m-audio.com Rio Audio: www.digitalnetworksna.com/rioaudio Sony: www.sony.com Other Interesting SitesThis section lists other interesting Web sites that are related to podcasts and/or podcasting in some way. Duke Digital Initiative: www.duke.edu/ddi How-To Podcasting: www.engadget.com/entry/5843952395227141 TVTonic: www.tvtonic.com Veoh: www.veoh.com |