Podcasting killed the text edit star
Monday, December 4th, 2006I’ve been getting a lot of questions about podcasting lately. So much so, that I’ve decided to try it. The following is the story of my foray into the realm of podcasting.
First, I heard that DoIT has a partnership with Apple for podcasting. So naturally I did a Google search for DoIT podcasting site:wisc.edu and clicked on the top link (because that’s all anyone ever does, right?).
After poking around the DoIT site (and, admittedly a few others) I found that I needed a few things.
- A microphone (I bought an inexpensive Logitech microphone for about $13)
- Recording software (Audacity is free
- A place to publish the podcast (that would be this blog).
Now I had a premonition a while back that this podcasting thing would eventually catch fire here at the School of Business. So I found and installed a plugin for Movable Type called MTEnclosures that assists in publishing podcasts.
Now that I had a microphone and Audacity installed, I could record my first podcast. I’ve decided to read this post verbatim. Very, very exciting stuff.
To top it off, I registered with feedburner so I could track subscriptions to the RSS feed. Here’s the final result.