Chris from Jupiter Broadcasting offers his take on the best podcasting microphones, including the Rode Mic, the Blue Snowball, the MXL 990 & the Heil PR-40 along the way. Unfortunately, there’s really no “best podcasting microphone”. The best podcasting mic will depend on your budget, your requirements and your preferences. If you can, try out [...]

When it comes to podcasting as a medium, I’m a true believer.

No, it never exploded the way microblogging or social networks have, but the number of podcasts, the adoption of podcasting by mainstream media, and the number of listeners continues to grow incrementally, not to mention general public awareness of the medium.

Dave Winer, the author of the RSS 2.0 specification on which podcast feeds are based, is working on a new project, to bootstrap real-time podcast feeds: We’re trying to bootstrap a network of realtime feeds, and it’s going pretty well so far. Podcasts are implemented with RSS too, and while we have excellent examples of [...]

A common problem of indie podcasts is excessive or unwanted background noise and room sounds. Several companies have responded by marketing mini vocal booths that are portable and help block out unwanted sounds. Instructables has published a tutorial on building a DIY portable mini vocal booth: The DIY Portable Mini Vocal Booth is ideal for [...]

The Making of Raul’s World of Synths is a short documentary, created as a school project, that outlines Raul Pena’s process for creating his synthesizer podcast, Raul’s World Of Synths.

Grooveboxmusic.com has introduced a video tutorial course, Producing Voiceovers with Logic 8, that could be useful for podcasters. Here’s what they have to say about it: Presented by Logic master Eli Krantzberg, this collection of Logic 8 video tutorials will show you how to make professional voiceover productions for commercials, advertisements and more. Starting with [...]

This series of videos demonstrates how to make a podcast with Garageband. The videos are very Apple-centric, but cover a lot of territory if you’re thinking about making podcasts on Macs.

Micro Persuasion’s Steve Rubel says, even in the day of new media, text is still king on the Internet.  He offers five reasons why: It’s scannable – according to Jakob Nielsen users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average site visit and 20% is more likely Three letters: SEO [...]

Michael Geoghegan, veteran podcaster, author and co founder of training seminar series The Podcast Academy, is offering download access to the complete recordings for Podcast Academy #1. The catch? The podcast recordings, long out of circulation, are available for today only, only to visitors who complete a quick 10-question survey. The first Podcast Academy was [...]

Professional podcast training event company and publisher The Podcast Academy is “opening the vault” for a week, offering for sale a set of audio recordings of all the sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 New Media Expo. “I decided to offer a historical look at podcasting,” said Podcast Academy editor-in-chief [...]