Awakened Voice

As always, iTunes giveth and iTunes taketh away. So what am I getting at? Recently my New York Minute Show video podcast has shown up on the front page of iTunes. It’s been a boon for my subscribership, pushing my numbers well over the 5,000 mark. Truth be told there’s not much of a point [...]

It’s worth mentioning that Kevin Smith and Co. have been maintaining a blog and video podcast during the production of Clerks 2. I’m sure that this is old news to many but they’re doing some good stuff here so I thought I’d mention it. They have to video podcast feeds. One specifically for iTunes and [...]

This is something that just sucks, but you knew people would figure out a way to do it. Several podcasters are spamming the recently published podcasts list over at http://audio.weblogs.com. I noticed the first one doing it a few weeks ago and now a couple of others have followed suit. I know they’re doing this [...]

Like it or love it, Howard Stern’s replacement David Lee Roth has a podcast. It’s not a true, dyed in the wool podcast. It’s simply a re-purposing of some of his morning show audio from the radio. But you can catch snippets of the David Lee Roth morning show if you slap this RSS Feed [...]

My favorite sleeper podcast management/directory site Big Contact has added video podcast support. The service already included a host of free features like simple blog and podcast creation along with an audio podcast feed player that you could easily implement on any site. Now they’ve upped the ante by adding video podcast support. If you [...]

I’ve been on MySpace since June 2005. It’s simply a place that music podcasters have to be. I haven’t done much posting using the blog functions there but when posting recently I noticed that they’ve added a field for a podcast enclosure. And since they’ve already got an RSS feed there it’s yet another way [...]

A number of service providers are lining up to match podcasters with advertisers. This is nothing new. PodShow announced their intentions to months ago. PodTrac showed up at the Podcast Expo. Audible has a plan that’s a big question mark at this point due the their use of proprietary file formats and other related guffaws. [...]

A few weeks ago I realized that Blogger was unable to publish to my web host Namesecure via FTP. I don’t think that Blogger is broken and my web host said they can’t do anything about it. So if I want to publish new content or change templates I have to redirect people to a [...]