{"id":32,"date":"2005-10-23T22:16:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T05:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podfeet.com\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2024-12-12T11:09:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T19:09:21","slug":"nosillacast-10232005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/nosillacast-10232005\/","title":{"rendered":"NosillaCast 10\/23\/2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I discussed various improvements to podfeet.com (can you spot them?), did a review of the open source audio tool Audacity, another review on the shareware RSS Feed creation tool Feeder.com, intermission was a movie review of David Duchovny&#8217;s movie &#8220;House of D&#8221;, and provided an extensive review of Todd Cochrane&#8217;s book &#8220;Podcasting Do-it-Yourself Guide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><body>Listen to the <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/NosillaCast\/NC_2005_10_23\/NC_2005_10_23.mp3\">Podcast<\/a> &#8211; Time:  23 min 26 seconds<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Today is November 23rd, 2005 and this is show #13.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Continuing improvements to podfeet.com<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>header is now clickable to home<\/li>\n<li>formatting on the boxes on the right &#8211; Photoshop<\/li>\n<li>subscribe buttons on &#8220;how to subscribe to NC&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>iTunes<\/li>\n<li>Odeo &#8211; chipmunk<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo! &#8211; need yahoo login<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>still trying to figure out how to do stuff in WordPress\n  <\/li>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Audacity Review &#8211; freeware &#8211; Open<br \/>\nsource<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\">http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>audio recording tool I use for recording NosillaCast<\/li>\n<li>Cross platform &#8211; Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU\/Linux, and<br \/>\nother operating systems<\/li>\n<li>record in proprietary format, export to MP3 or Ogg Vorbis or WAV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>takes a fair amount of time to compress, maybe 10 minutes for a<br \/>\n20 minute podcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>traditional buttons from the old tape recorder days<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>triangle for record, circle for stop record, two bars for<br \/>\npause, square for stop, FFW\/FFR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"audacity buttons\" src=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/NosillaCast\/NC_2005_10_23\/Audacity_buttons.png\" style=\"width: 316px; height: 54px;\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n  <\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>can float or dock this control bar (I leave alone)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>easy to import audio and splice tracks together&nbsp;<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>like Lascivious Biddies&nbsp; http:\/\/www.biddycast.com music I<br \/>\nspliced in last week<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>mono or stereo (my voice is mono)<\/li>\n<li>good controls for mic volume for input<\/li>\n<li>Effects are extensive<\/li>\n<li>Noise removal very useful<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>10 second background noise test, then use as removal tool<\/li>\n<li>Amplify if some parts quiet (like spliced in bits)<\/li>\n<li>Fade in\/Fade out &#8211; used on Lascivious Biddies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>zoom in\/ zoom out<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;handy for precise editing<\/li>\n<li>nice graphical view of the sound<\/li>\n<li><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/NosillaCast\/NC_2005_10_23\/Audacity_waves.png\" alt=\"audacity wave picture\" style=\"width: 282px; height: 154px;\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>clearly a lot I don&#8217;t know how to use &#8211; nice to have a tool to<br \/>\ngrow into.\n  <\/li>\n<p>\nFeeder Review &#8211; $29.95 US<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reinventedsoftware.com\/\">http:\/\/www.reinventedsoftware.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>creates RSS Feed which is what makes the NosillaCast magically<br \/>\ncome into iTunes and the other podcatching clients<\/li>\n<li>creates the ID3 tags that tells players about the podcast &#8211; who<br \/>\ncreated it, when it was posted, how long it is, even shownotes can be<br \/>\nimbedded in the tags<\/li>\n<li>creates mutant iTunes tags &#8211; duplications<\/li>\n<li>stores all the separate enclosures (podcasts)<\/li>\n<li>publishes to my website<\/li>\n<li>don&#8217;t have to know xml coding at all &#8211; but I did it by hand for a<br \/>\nwhile first just so I&#8217;d understand.&nbsp; couldn&#8217;t figure out iTunes<br \/>\ntags so I went with Adam Christianson&#8217;s advice from the MacCast and<br \/>\nbought Feeder<\/li>\n<li>lets me manage more than one feed &#8211; I use one for doing demos at<br \/>\nwork on podcasting without wrecking my real feed<\/li>\n<li>scary if you click remove on a feed, it&#8217;s gone forever!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"feeder window\" src=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/NosillaCast\/NC_2005_10_23\/feeder_window.png\" style=\"width: 525px; height: 352px;\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Movie Review &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0372334\/?fr=c2l0ZT1kZnx0dD0xfGZiPXV8cG49MHxrdz0xfHE9aG91c2Ugb2YgZHxmdD0xfG14PTIwfGxtPTUwMHxjbz0xfGh0bWw9MXxubT0x;fc=5;ft=22;fm=1\">House<br \/>\nof D<\/a><\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Written &amp; directed &amp; acted by David Duchovny<\/li>\n<li>story of a 13 year old boy in New York played by Anton Yelchin,<br \/>\nmom played by Te&aacute; Leoni (Duchovny&#8217;s wife), best friend is Robin<br \/>\nWilliams who plays a retarded janitor.&nbsp; Duchovny plays the boy<br \/>\nwhen he&#8217;s grown.<\/li>\n<li>one of those films that&#8217;s really sweet and happy and interesting<br \/>\nfor the beginning third, but you know it&#8217;s going to go bad.&nbsp;<br \/>\nLuckily it doesn&#8217;t go all that bad, or at least they didn&#8217;t pull MY<br \/>\nheartstrings that much.&nbsp; then of course it&#8217;s all happy at the<br \/>\nend.&nbsp; I like movies like that!<\/li>\n<li>Anton Yelchin is an amazing young actor, he&#8217;s funny and<br \/>\ninteresting, and I hope we see him in a lot of movies in the future.<\/li>\n<li>Duchovny is ok as an actor, but his direction on this is<br \/>\ngreat.&nbsp; Te&aacute; is mildly interesting, didn&#8217;t do that much for<br \/>\nme in this movie.&nbsp; Robin Williams is interesting, but I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nreally buy him as a retarded man (they use that word throughout the<br \/>\nmovie, it&#8217;s supposed to be 1973.)<\/li>\n<li>Over all interesting and enjoyable, kept my attention, made me<br \/>\nhappy at the end, rent it and enjoy!\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Movie Review &#8211; Out of Season<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>please don&#8217;t rent this movie, even Dennis Hopper being in it<br \/>\ndidn&#8217;t save it.&nbsp; 100% waste of time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wonder how I got so good at podcasting? read a great book that taught<br \/>\nme a lot.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0764597787\/qid=1130043685\/sr=8-1\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/102-5130781-1935351?v=glance&amp;s=books&amp;n=507846\">Podcasting<br \/>\nDo-It-Yourself-Guide<\/a> $20 US\/$26 CAN\/&pound;13 UK<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\/><br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;by Todd Cochrane, creator of the podcast Geek News<br \/>\nCentral at <a href=\"http:\/\/geeknewscentral.com\">http:\/\/geeknewscentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Todd was one of the very first podcasters (he celebrated his one<br \/>\nyear anniversary last week)<\/li>\n<li>Podcasting so new &#8211; must have been hard to crank out a whole book<br \/>\non top of podcasting on top of a wife and two small children AND<br \/>\nworking!<\/li>\n<li>recommend the book highly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>very easy to read and follow, not too terribly techie<\/li>\n<li>well organized and methodical<\/li>\n<li>directions are clear and allow easy experimentation<\/li>\n<li>too tempting to get started before finishing, e.g. told about<br \/>\nhow to pick a good ISP long after I&#8217;d picked one &#8211; luckily vizaweb met<br \/>\nhis requirements<\/li>\n<li>understands everyone has a budget &#8211; gives solutions for<br \/>\nlow\/medium\/high spend<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Book takes the reader from the very basis of podcasting (what it<br \/>\nis, how to subscribe) all the way through publishing your own podcast<br \/>\nshow and even some tips on how to make money at it (I haven&#8217;t read that<br \/>\nlast chapter yet&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>After he explains what Podcasting IS, he gives alternatives for<br \/>\npodcatcher software for Windows\/Mac\/Linux<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>I like how throughout the book he is operating system agnostic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Todd teaches several ways to subscribe to podcasts<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>takes through the directories (like iPodder) and how to get the<br \/>\nfiles onto your MP3 player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Most useful part of the book was how to format your &#8216;cast<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;d lost energy, no focus\/format<\/li>\n<li>helped to organize thoughts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>He goes into a lot of detail about how to do the recording<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>talks a lot about sound cards, but since I did on the<br \/>\nPowerbook, wasn&#8217;t an issue<\/li>\n<li>microphone and headsets<\/li>\n<li>really important &#8211; I got lucky.&nbsp; I have a full description<br \/>\non &#8220;My Favorite Gadets&#8221; page of my microphone headset &#8211; USB unit came<br \/>\nwith IBM&#8217;s Via Voice &#8211; voice recognition s\/w I got when I broke my<br \/>\nhand.&nbsp; sound is pretty darn good (but I guess you&#8217;ll be the judge<br \/>\nof that, how do I sound?)<\/li>\n<li>recording software &#8211; he&#8217;s the one who turned me onto Audacity<\/li>\n<li>he went into a lot on mixers and stuff like that &#8211; I didn&#8217;t get<br \/>\ntoo much out of that part<\/li>\n<li>I found his section on the recording process itself very helpfuL<\/li>\n<li>how to configure Audacity to get good volume and reasonable<br \/>\nfile size<\/li>\n<li>reducing noise in the recording<\/li>\n<li>Naming conventions &#8211; I have completely mimicked his conventions<br \/>\n&#8211; makes it alphabetical, reads well on a small MP3-player screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Web hosting<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>excellent advice (even though I&#8217;d already picked my web host) &#8211;<br \/>\nI recommend reading this section early rather than later, too tempting<br \/>\nto get started!&nbsp; again he gives advice on different sized<br \/>\naudiences so the reader can find an appropriate host for budget and<br \/>\naudience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Podcasting with a weblog<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Next to Audacity, greatest advice was to use a blogger tool, in<br \/>\nmy case WordPress and you know how excited i&#8217;ve been about that.&nbsp;<br \/>\nmakes it really easy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Creating the RSS<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Already told you about Feeder &#8211; he recommended it after Adam<br \/>\nChristianson and then Leo LaPorte recommended!<\/li>\n<li>invaluable tool for a professional and easy to create podcast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Overall It&#8217;s a great book, very readable, well written, and above<br \/>\nall completely practical\n  <\/li>\n<p>\nthat&#8217;s it for the NosillaCast for today, thanks for listening and stay<br \/>\nsubscribed!&nbsp; As always, feedback is welcome at<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><a href=\"allison@podfeet.com\">allison@podfeet.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I discussed various improvements to podfeet.com (can you spot them?), did a review of the open source audio tool Audacity, another review on the shareware RSS Feed creation tool Feeder.com, intermission was a movie review of David Duchovny&#8217;s movie &#8220;House of D&#8221;, and provided an extensive review of Todd Cochrane&#8217;s book &#8220;Podcasting Do-it-Yourself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,173,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts","category-nosillacast","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32440,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/32440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}