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Growing the audience of your podcast can be tricky. Simply posting audio files and providing an RSS feed won’t guarantee you hundreds or thousands of subscribers. Listing your podcast in all the known directories, like Yahoo! and iTunes is certainly a good start (Robin Good offers a great list of places to submit your podcast). […]
If you’re interested in video blogging, you probably already know about Rocketboom. You might not know there’s someone besides the show’s host, Amanda Congdon, making those daily episodes happen. Andrew Baron is Rocketboom’s producer and key influencer in decisions about distribution formats and the various other behind-the-scenes aspects of producing a daily show. We talked […]
The million and one options for creating and hosting podcasts generates more confusion than it should. In my mind, once you’ve got an audio file, the last thing you need to worry about is which tools to use in distribution. Windows servers vs. Linux servers. ASP pages or PHP pages to advertise your RSS feed. […]
Jason Dunn of Digital Media Thoughts interviewed AnnMarie Thomas, the Marketing Manager from Microsoft’s Digital Imaging Group , and here’s how it went:
Shortly after Digital Image Suite 10 was released, I sent an e-mail to a contact I had on the Digital Imaging team with some interview questions. Nine months and one new version later, […]
Walt Mossberg recently wrote a very level piece on DRM that’s ironically locked behind the Wall Street Journal paywall. His take on CD DRM - if a CD has it, don’t buy it. Glad to hear mainstream folks like Walt finally speaking out on something the rest of us get labeled the lunatic fringe for […]
Jason Dunn of Digital Media Thoughts writes:
I’ve just emerged from a scuffle with DRM, and I’m one for two in the battle. Here’s what happened: recently I went out shopping with my wife, and among other things, I bought five new CDs. I love music, and am happy to support the artists whose music I […]
As one of the tiniest cameras Kodak have ever produced, the 5-megapixel EasyShare V550 is the top of the line in its Pocket Series cameras. Slimmer than a deck of cards with the jacks and queens taken out, this extremely pocketable camera sports an all-glass Schneider Kreuznach 36-108mm (equiv.) 3x optical zoom lens with aspheric […]
Few things annoy me more than Windows telling me a file can’t be deleted because it’s in use. I know the file is just sitting there idle and yet something is tying the file up keeping me from deleting it. You’ve probably seen the associated error message at some point: Error: Cannot Delete File or […]
Newsgroups seem like a destination that should gradually disappear from the Internet, the same way the roadside cafes vanished with the development of the U.S. Interstate Highway system. The backwaters of the Internet thrive, primarily because of the active community of file swappers who still rely on posting large movies and audio files in chunks […]
Chris Baty of National Novel Writing Month writes:
Hey there! We are sad to report that EarthLink, one of the world’s largest ISPs, is refusing to fix an internal error that makes the NaNoWriMo.org site inaccessible to its customers. We’ve contacted the company about the problem repeatedly with no success. And we now ask for your […]
RSS and BitTorrent are the two Web technologies I vote to have the biggest impact on this first decade of the new millennium. Both contribute to the fundamental shift in the way we receive and consume information. RSS completely alters the information delivery process, while BitTorrent takes advantage of bandwidth we all pay for but […]
Your home network probably isn’t optimized for BitTorrent. How do I know? Most people install the software, search for the torrent they want to download and initiate the download without ever taking the steps to configure the network for optimal downloading. Optimization does make a difference. It requires a few setting tweaks in the software […]
Shanna Underwood’s moody voice is absolutely captivating on Shanna & the Hawk’s same-titled debut release. Throw in Haakon “The Hawk” Kallweit’s edgy vocal harmonies and electric guitar, Rob Sylvain’s crying dobro, Pip Walter’s sighing steel, Mark Cousins’ straight-ahead drums and stand up bass by Kris Day, and you have a sound that fits just about […]
I’ve written several articles recently about embedding MOV files and launching an external player from embedded MOV files to make viewing your movies easier. In general, I find the MOV format to be somewhat imperfect for sharing movies with all viewers because the format relies on your Web visitors to have QuickTime installed. iTunes effectively […]