Podcasting-Related Web Sites
| This section includes links to all Web sites relating to podcasting as an entity. These sites provide information about the community, as well as links to software and podcasts. These are the first sites that a new podcaster should visit to get a feel for the community. Our podcastTo listen to the podcast made especially for this book, check out: www.peachpit.com/podcasting General podcasting Web sitesThese Web sites are catch-all reservoirs of podcasting information. Most of these sites contain how-to information, a top-10 list of podcasts, a large bank of podcast feeds, and links to the latest and greatest software for podcasting-related activities. Audio.weblogs.com: http://audio.weblogs.com iPodder.org: www.ipodder.org Podcast Alley: www.podcastalley.com The Podcast Bunker: www.podcastbunker.com Podcast Central: www.podcastcentral.com PodcastExpert.com: www.podcastexpert.com Podcast.net: www.podcast.net The Podcast Network: www.thepodcastnetwork.com Podcasting News: www.podcastingnews.com Podcasting Tools: www.podcasting-tools.com General search enginesThese are the search engines you can use to scour the World Wide Web for anything related to podcasting. These engines gather data by the minute, so making the same search every day or so often yields different results. AltaVista: www.altavista.com Ask Jeeves: www.ask.com Google: www.google.com Lycos: www.lycos.com MSN: www.msn.com Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com Podcast search engineAlthough any search engine, such as Yahoo! or Google, can come up with all things podcasting, only one currently is dedicated to searching for specific words or phrases in podcasts themselves. Podscope: www.podscope.com Podcasting-related sitesThese Web sites are not catch-all podcasting sites, but they often contain valuable information for some topic that's podcast related. Engadget: www.engadget.com Podcasting Avenue: http://podcasters.blogspot.com Portable Media Expo: www.portablemediaexpo.com Really Simple Syndication Web sites (RSS)These Web sites cover everything from the history of RSS to the down-and-dirty details of the specification itself. Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University): http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS Digest: www.bigbold.com/rssdigest Music legalitiesThese are the various Web sites where Creative Commons licensed music is available and where you can learn about Creative Commons. I have also included the license links for both ASCAP and BMI. ASCAP Internet License Agreements: www.ascap.com/weblicense BMI Web Site Music Performance Agreement: www.bmi.com/licensing/forms/Internet0105A.pdf Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org The Freesound Project: http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php Opsound: www.opsound.com Podcasting software: Aggregators (podcatchers)These are the programs that go out and grab the podcasts for you to listen to. Some of the podcast aggregators listed here are not covered in this book; however, I thought it worthwhile to list them here for your convenience. Bashpodder: http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder CastGrab: www.fubarpa.com/projects/castgrab Doppler: www.dopplerradio.net FeedDemon: www.bradsoft.com/feeddemon/index.asp FeederReader: www.feederreader.com HappyFish: http://thirstycrow.net/happyfish/default.aspx iPodder: www.ipodder.org iPodder.NET: http://ipoddernet.sourceforge.net iPodderSP/Skookum: www.equin.co.uk/ipoddersp iPodderX: http://ipodderx.com iTunes 4.9: www.apple.com/itunes jPodder: www.jpodder.com Nimiq: www.nimiq.nl Now Playing: http://brandon.fuller.name/archives/hacks/nowplaying PlayPod: www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/index.html PocketRSS: www.happyjackroad.net/pocketpc/pocketRSS/pocketRSS.asp Podcast Tuner: www.podcasttuner.com PoddumFeeder: www.ifthensoft.com/index2.html Pod2Go: www.kainjow.com/pod2go ppcTunes: www.pocketmac.net/products/ppctunes Primetime Podcast Receiver: www.primetimepodcast.com/blog/default.aspx RSSRadio: www.dorada.co.uk Podcasting software: Creating podcastsThis is the software that you use to create podcasts from scratch. From recording the content to editing out mistakes and inserting music, these are the programs that do it. Adobe Audition 1.5: www.adobe.com/audition Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download GarageBand: www.apple.com/garageband iPodcast Producer: www.industrialaudiosoftware.com/products/index.html Propaganda: www.makepropaganda.com Sound Byte: www.blackcatsystems.com/software/soundbyte.html Sound Recorder (Windows): www.microsoft.com Sparks! 2.0: www.blogmatrix.com Podcasting software: Publishing podcastsThese are the links for the software packages I've recommended that can help you create an RSS feed with ease. Feeder: www.reinventedsoftware.com FeedForAll: www.feedforall.com iPodcast Producer: www.industrialaudiosoftware.com/products/index.html Live365 (streaming): www.live365.com/index.live Nicecast (streaming): www.rogueamoeba.com/nicecast Propaganda: www.makepropaganda.com Sparks! 2.0: www.blogmatrix.com Publishing podcasts: Web-site hosting solutionsThese are the two sites I recommend if you are interested in paying a hosting service that specializes in podcasts to host your files. Liberated Syndication: www.libsyn.com Podbus.com: www.podbus.com Commercial podcast sourcesIt goes without saying that I can't possibly list every commercial venture that has podcasts available. That said, these are the major sites that you can visit just to get the flavor of what's available. Audible.com: www.audible.com AudioBooksForFree.com: www.audiobooksforfree.com Audiobooks Online: www.audiobooksonline.com Blackstone Audiobooks: www.blackstoneaudio.com Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: www.cbc.ca iTunes Music Store: www.apple.com/itunes/store National Public Radio: www.npr.org Other softwareThese are links to software that is mentioned in the book, from media players to Web-page design programs. Dreamweaver: www.macromedia.com/software/dreamweaver FrontPage: www.microsoft.com GoLive: www.adobe.com/products/golive/main.html QuickTime: www.apple.com/quicktime RealPlayer: www.realnetworks.com Replay Radio: http://www.replay-radio.com Windows Media Player: www.microsoft.com Top podcastsTo come up with this list, I went to Podcast Alley and took the top 15 podcasts from its voted top-50 list.
HardwareThese links take you to the various companies that manufacture the hardware discussed in this book. Apple Computer: www.apple.com Audio-Technica: www.audiotechnica.com Behringer: www.behringer.com COWON America: http://eng.cowon.com Creative: www.creative.com Edirol: www.edirol.com Electrovoice: www.electrovoice.com Griffin Technology: www.griffintechnology.com iRiver: www.iriver.com JVC: www.jvc.com Labtec: www.labtec.com Logitech: www.logitech.com M-Audio: www.m-audio.com Rio Audio: www.digitalnetworksna.com/rioaudio Sony: www.sony.com Other interesting sitesThese are a collection of other interesting Web sites that are related to podcasts and/or podcasting in some way. Duke University iPod First-Year Experience: www.duke.edu/ipod How-To Podcasting: www.engadget.com/entry/5843952395227141 Podcast about the Podcast: http://reelreviewsradio.com/archives/2004/12/27/podcast-about-the-podcast |
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