PODCASTING LECTURE
Tuesday, March 5, 2007
TAT 338 - Prof. Steven Levinson
CSU Monterey Bay
Definition
Podcasting is a way of publishing sound & video files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new files automatically. [ full definition ]
PLUS: Unlike radio or streaming media, podcasts are time-shifted, meaning that listeners have control over when they hear the recording.
- Time-shifting video: VCR, Tivo - favorite TV show
- Time-shifting audio: no equivalent to VCR in audio
MINUS: Podcasts cannot have live participation or reach large audiences as quickly as radio can.
Overview
- PHENOMENA: CBS Evening News piece (April 26, 2005)
- PROCESS: Diagram
- EXAMPLE: How I make a podcast at Tree House Concerts
Equipment
- condenser mic - picture
- Firewire interface (microphone) - picture
- Garage Band (Mac)- picture
- mixing board - Jake Ludington's MediaBlab
- More examples from U of Wisconsin-Madison
Subscribing
- iTunes - podcast receiver
- Juice - podcast receiver
- RSS example - similiar to HTML, but uses XML
- Make your own RSS - editors
Examples:
- Adam Curry - the Podfather (although Dave Winer made the technology work)
- Lascivious Biddies - from the CBS Evening News piece
- The Catholic Insider - did podcast walking past Pope John Paul II
- Dawn & Drew Show - husband and wife from Wisconsin
- KCRW - Santa Monica CA
- WNYC's On The Media
- Sound Seeing Tours
- PopSci Podcast From The Moon - Jonathan Coulton
- Thing a Week- Jonathan Coulton
Directories
- ipodder - the first
- Podcast Alley - one of the better ones
- Odeo
- Yahoo - I've notice they cache their results, so updates can be slow to see
Music
Podcast licensing - ASCAP and BMI (performance rights organizations) - Understand the difference between "performance" and "mechanical" rights.
- College broadcasters study the problem
- Buy a license - Coverville - licensed music from ASAP and BMI
- Get permission per song - IndieFeed (US), The Miller Tells Her Tale (UK)
- Play only Creative Commons music - Podsafe Music Network, IODA's Promonet
- TreeHouseConcerts podcast 3 FEB 2007- included Peter Bradley Adams