Monday, June 05, 2006

Services That I Use For Podcasting

Here are the services that I utilize to power all the podcasting here at Podcast NYC.
  • Blogger - Simple, flexible and free. Blogger powers all of the podcasts that sit on the main Podcast NYC site. $0 per month
  • Wordpress - The grand daddy of all weblog software if you ask me. WordPress powers my New York Minute Show, Flow and New York Mets podcast websites. $0 per month
  • Feedburner - All of my podcast feeds are run through FeedBurner. And I use their HTML republishing tools to power the Latest sections on the front page of Podcast NYC. $0 per month
  • LibSyn - All the audio and video files go here. I never leave home without it. $30 per month
  • Dreamhost - Industrial strength web hosting at rock bottom prices. All Blogger pages, WordPress installs and all images are hosted under various Dream-hosted domains. Home of the famous "one click install" for WordPress. Nice! $9.95 per month
  • Hipcast - Formerly known as Audioblog, this service is best used for publishing audio and video on your blog websites. I like to use this service to call in posts that are then automatically published to my podcast websites. $4.95 per month
  • Google Video - This works really well for adding a nice flash video player on all the posts that contain video podcasts. See it in action at my Video Extras page. $0 per month
  • Gmail - The best web based email IMHO. All the email for Podcast NYC gets routed through a single Gmail account and management of it is a snap. $0 per month
  • Feed Player - The Big Contact Feed Player is the best solution around for streaming and sharing your audio podcasts. $0 per month.
So what does that add up to? Forty five bucks per month. Forty five bucks per month to power an avalanche of content. Just one of the reasons why podcasting is growing and media is changing so fast.

Soon I'll publish a list of all the hardware that I'm using to power my podcasts. Believe me when I tell you that it costs a lot less than the (audio or video) rigs that the "experts" will tell you that you should put together to power a "professional" podcast. Whatever. If you tweak the settings properly your subscribers will never know the difference.

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