Screencast Demo of Castblaster Podcasting Software

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If you’ve been looking for a tool to make podcasting much easier than using Audacity, you might want to check out Castblaster. I’ve used it for quite some time and each release it just gets better and better.

While browsing the Castblaster forums, I came across this screencast put together by Troy of the Rutters Ramblings podcast that shows a pretty complete picture of what Castblaster does.

If you don’t feel like downloading the software, but are curious as to what you could get from it, check out the screencast. Yes, it can be that easy.

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posted by Ron Bieber on 09.13.06 @ 6:58 am | Comments Off | Digg This

  • For the first time since joining the Podshow+ Developer Beta, this morning when I went to update my podcasts in iTunes I wasn’t prompted for the closed beta login. It looks like Podshow has opened up the site for public beta. Go take a look. Comments Off

Raw Voice Releases Podcasting Social Network Site

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The folks over at Raw Voice have released BluBrry, a podcasting / social networking site. I haven’t had a lot of time to play around with it, but in the time that I have spent I have run across quite a few bugs like memory errors and a link going to the default Apache installation page when going to modify your profile. To be fair, the site is in beta right now, just being released last night. It definitely looks interesting and has some of the features of the Podshow Podcast Delivery Network beta sans the actual distribution of the media.

Check out the site and let me know what you think. I’ve got the podcast loaded in and I’m curious to see what kind of response it gets.

For those who do not know, Raw Voice is the company started by Todd Cochrane, the host of the Geek News Central podcast, a podcast I listen to all the time.

Keep up the great work Todd!

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posted by Ron Bieber on 07.01.06 @ 11:11 am | Comments Off | Digg This

Keith and The Girl Dissect the Podshow Contract

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On Monday’s episode of Keith and The Girl, Keith and Chemda dissect a copy of the Podshow contract that was sent to them by an anonymous listener. This was quite entertaining.

Funniest thing to me, a clause stating that you can be fired by podshow by e-mail.

Finally, if you don’t want to actually listen to the whole thing, Keith states at the conclusion of the main contract:

"And then you can sign it. Uh, Somebody did sign this one. Name - My Balls, email @yourmouth.org."

I think that pretty much states their opinion of the contract.

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posted by Ron Bieber on 03.30.06 @ 7:30 am | 1 Comment | Digg This

  • I’ve been having problems with the podcast site just “going away”. I have a couple of tickets submitted to my hosting provider and hopefully they’ll have the problem fixed soon. If you’re trying to get the podcast, you can grab the RSS feed from Feed Burner. Comments Off
  • Will people pay for radio shows on the net? - While I can see paying a subscription for satellite - and maybe a podcast aggregator, I don’t think I’d pay show for show for a podcast. Give me advertising any day … Comments Off
  • Eliot Van Buskirk asks whether Howard Stern could have been better off better off Podcasting rather than moving to satellite radio. Comments Off
  • Adam Curry announced on this mornings Daily Source Code that Podshow has created a developer site at developer.podshow.com, where the podshow API’s will be published. Totally cool to see another company starting a development community as one of its main goals. Comments Off

Sirius Radio Podshow Audio Quality

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Jonna bought me a Sirius Satellite Radio setup for the car for Christmas in preparation for the Howard Stern move. One of the stations that I listen to is Sirius Stars 103, for the Adam Curry Podshow. One thing I noticed was that this channel sounded very much like AM radio. I had mentioned this to Jonna when I first set it up, but thought it was just me.

Well, on today’s Daily Source Code (#316) someone actually asked the question about the sound quality and Adam explained it. It actually is lower quality. It’s not my brain playing tricks on me.

This aside though, the first two weeks of satellite radio has been cool. I like being able to pay for unedited and uncensored content and while there are commercials, it is nothing like terrestrial radio. No 20 minute commercial breaks. I’m really liking it - aside from the three or four spots on the way to work where the signal dies and I get the “aquiring signal” message …

One final thing, Sirius 103 is the only channel I’ve had this quality of sound with. Everything else sounds great.

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posted by Ron Bieber on 01.16.06 @ 8:20 am | 3 Comments | Digg This

  • Check out this description of the new release of GarageBand. A lot of new podcasting features including support for artwork, sound effects and jingles, and a built in speech enhancer. Comments Off
  • Ken Underwood has put together a very simple “listening to podcasts HOWTO” in both printable and screen resolution PDF. For those of you who want a simple set of instructions to get your family and friends into podcasting, check out the Podcasting 101 links in the “Getting Started” section over on this page. Comments Off
  • Slate.com’s Andy Bowers reflects on where podcasting has gone in 2005 and some predictions on where it might head. Comments Off
  • According to this article, religion is the fastest growing genre in podcasting. Comments Off

Latest PSP Update includes RSS Support

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Latest PSP Update includes RSS Support

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Jake applied the latest update to his PSP last night and asked me what "RSS Channels" were, which gave me the opportunity to walk him through subscribing to podcasts. I have to say, I thought this was a pretty cool thing.

Pictured here is a view of his PSP subscribed to podcast.bieberlabs.com, which come to think of it, needs an update itself sometime.

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posted by Ron Bieber on 12.12.05 @ 5:49 am | Comments Off | Digg This

  • The HUAR command center site is now up and running. HUAR stands for “Humans United Against Robots”. This organization, started by Keith Malley of the Keith and the Girl podcast, “was designed to educate and aware the citizenry of the world the impending attack that computers and robots will put into affect against humans”. Comments Off
  • GarageBand Launches Podcasting Tools - GarageBand opens GCast end to end podcasting service. Quote from article: “The firm said it was motivated to create Gcast after a Podcasting feature introduced on the GarageBand site doubled the company’s overall traffic. ” Comments Off
  • Sony and TiVo support Podcasts - Sony adds support for RSS enclosures to the PSP and TiVo makes podcasts available through its service using feeds from the Yahoo Podcasts directory. Comments Off
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