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