About these Authors
Matt May is a Web accessibility specialist, and has written on the interaction of people and technology since 1995. He keeps his own weblog at
bestkungfu.com, and produces a podcast called
Staccato, which features Creative Commons-licensed music.
Alex Williamsblogs, consults and produces unconference style events, where people immerse in DIY media. These are fun occasions, designed for people who want to get together with authors, artists, technologists and leading thinkers to converse, eat, listen to music, write, shoot photos and post podcasts and videoblogs. Alex also works with companies to establish DIY approaches, where writing, photography, voice and video come together to create new conversations and communities. Alex is currently fascinated with digital photography. His girlfriend calls him a Flickrholic. Send Alex a nice message: alexhwilliams at gmail.com.
Nicole Simon loves blogging and podcasting, dashed with an European view. As consultant she helps to facilitate such tools for business purposes or personal publishing empires. She can be found at
cruel to be kind and on her private blog
Useful Sounds.
Roland Tanglao is a well known podcasting enthusiast and a passionate advocate of blogs, RSS, and social software as a means of online expression for people, organizations and businesses. He is a prominent participant in the blogosphere and online communities and one of the founders of Bryght and as Bryght's Chief Blogging Officer reads hundreds of blogs daily. He graduated from the University of Waterloo, worked at Nortel Networks where he ran its first internal corporate blog, has has been blogging since 1999, and was the first business blogging consultant in Canada.
Alex Williams
Matt May
Nicole Simon
Roland Tanglao
1. randulo on September 3, 2006 12:22 PM writes...
Yep, it's sad but many, many "podcasts" are no such thing, just videos with no feed. A large number of the feeds don't work, both of which basically sabotages the whole podcast idea, particularly the video aspect.
Permalink to Comment2. Podcast Autocue on September 19, 2006 4:56 AM writes...
78% had feeds that didn't validate ...?
WOW!
There really isn't any excuse for that when you're using Wordpress, MT, Blogger, etc. - all with hundreds, maybe even thousands of templates that validate ...
Unreal ...
Cheers
Nick :)
Permalink to Comment3. Podcast Autocue on September 19, 2006 4:56 AM writes...
78% had feeds that didn't validate ...?
WOW!
There really isn't any excuse for that when you're using Wordpress, MT, Blogger, etc. - all with hundreds, maybe even thousands of templates that validate ...
Unreal ...
Cheers
Nick :)
Permalink to Comment4. Kris Hansen on October 21, 2006 5:14 AM writes...
Is it a big issue that some podcasts exceed 500k in size? As an audio professional and audiophile with 8meg broadband, if RSS is doing its job properly the transfer should happen without my even noticing, and thus the download time and bandwidth used is of no concern to me compared with incautiously encoded audio at low bit rates with digital artefacts all over them. Simulating broadcasting should not be taken so far as reducing the audio quality to that of a shortwave radio programme.
Permalink to Comment5. Jessica on October 29, 2007 12:48 PM writes...
I never really understood the attraction to podcasts being longer than 60 mins in length. I use the Podcast Hosting service of CyberEars.com and we find that keeping Podcasts to no more than 30 mins in length, with a sample rate of 44.1khz makes an easily digestible Podcast for downloading.
Jess
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