1. Creating and Using Podcasts Stanford University Continuing Studies CS 43 Mark Branom markb@stanford.edu http://www.stanford.edu/people/markb/ 650.725.1717 Course Web Site: http://www.stanford.edu/group/csp/cs43/

2. 2 Week 4 Agenda Publishing Your Podcast –Using a web server, like Tripod –Using a Podcasting Service, like PodBean.com, MyPodcast.com, or PodcastPeople.com Advertising Your Podcast Using RSS –What is RSS? –RSS example –Submitting RSS Feeds Creating a Transcript of Your Podcast

3. 3 Publishing Your Podcast Once you have finished creating and editing the audio or video files that will become your podcast, you need to publish them to the Internet. There are several ways you can accomplish this: –Publish to a web server (Tripod, Geocities, a computer you have set up to act as a web server, your personal or company web site’s web server, etc.) –Publish to one of the Podcasting Services (such as PodBean.com, MyPodcast.com, or PodcastPeople.com) –Publish to the Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org)http://www.archive.org –Publish to a blog (http://www.blogger.com, http://www.typepad.com, http://www.wordpress.com, etc.)http://www.blogger.com http://www.typepad.comhttp://www.wordpress.com

4. 4 Advertising Your Podcast Using RSS What is RSS (Really Simple Syndication)? “RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines or podcasts. An RSS document, which is called a "feed," "web feed," or "channel," contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually.” (wikipedia.org) An excellent 2-minute video explaining RSS in plain English is at: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

5. 5 RSS Feeds, continued RSS feeds are XML files. For a detailed explanation of what iTunes requires for the RSS feed, go to http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcaststechspecs.html The Apple/iTunes FAQ on Podcasting: http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcastingfaq.htmlhttp://www.apple.com/itunes/store/podcastingfaq.html Here is a sample RSS feed: Title of Feed Goes Here Description of Feed Goes Here Link to the Feed Goes Here Title of Podcast Goes Here Description of Podcast Link to Podcast

6. 6 Submitting RSS Feeds Doing it yourself: YahooMSN SearchFyber SearchBulk FeedsTruth Laid Bear MoreoverBlog StreetMemigoFeeds FarmBlogarama News KnowledgeBlog WiseNews TroveEvery FeedBlog SE Syndic8Boing RSS ClippingFastbuzzEatonweb Newsmob2RSSFeedsterSearch4RSSAnse SourceforgeBlog DiggerDay PopFeed-DirectorySarthak Blog BloggernityBloogzTechnoratiNews Is FreeRocket Info GenecastEasy RSSPostamiTopixHeadline Spot BlogdexFeed DirectoryPub SubBlog TreeFindory Blog CatalogStep NewzWeBlogALotNews GoblinNews Feeds FeedplexPopdex NewzfireRead A BlogBlog Pulse Press RadarRub HubFeed 24FeedsForAll Blog Map WeblogsFeed BurnerBlo.gsBlogRollingTechnorati NewsGatorPingomaticRSS NetworkPlazooFeedzie Feed CatFeed MinerIce RocketSphereMoz Dex Uncle FeedPluckRSS LocatorNews Net PlusFocus Look Blog BunchBlogtasticExplore BlogsFeed PubFeeds2Read RSS DirectoryHouse Of BlogsRSS MadBlog ResourceFeed Burner All FeedsContent DeskFeed SeeBlog Watch4GuysFromRolla GnoosOctoraRSSMicroFeedooyooGolden Feed RSS-Feeds-SubReadafeedFeedageRorseekRSS Junky Feed FuryNews on FeedsiTunes

7. 7 Submitting RSS Feeds, continued Using a service –http://itunes.apple.com/http://itunes.apple.com/ –http://www.submitrssfeed.com/http://www.submitrssfeed.com/ –http://www.feedsubmitter.com/http://www.feedsubmitter.com/ –http://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.htmlhttp://www.dummysoftware.com/rsssubmit.html –http://allrss.com/rsssubmission.htmlhttp://allrss.com/rsssubmission.html

8. 8 Creating a Transcript Be sure to create a transcript of your podcast. Having a transcript is important for accessibility reasons, but also since some people might not have the time to listen to the entire podcast, they might prefer to skim through the transcript to see what your podcast contains. Further, if you add a transcript to your podcast, you can make searching through your podcast much easier by search engines as well as human beings (i.e., at timestamp 3 minutes, 22 seconds the speaker begins talking about the influence of computers on society). While it is time-consuming to do it yourself, here are some places you can go to have transcripts created for you: –http://castingwords.com/http://castingwords.com/ –http://www.docsoft.com/http://www.docsoft.com/ –http://www.automaticsync.com/http://www.automaticsync.com/