Reports from the Asylum

These are my links for February 4th from 08:07 to 22:00:

• ioda: independent online distribution alliance –
• Confessions of a Podcast Junkie: A Student Perspective | EDUCAUSE CONNECT –
• Mevio (formerly known as PodShow) –
• Podcamp Toronto February 21-22, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada –
• Podcamp Halifax: Alderney Gate Library, Dartmouth – January 25 –
• FileField Podcaster | drupal.org –
• My Podcast – Free Podcast Hosting & Directory –
• Panopto – Total Capture, Total Recall –
• Podcasting for Teachers & Students –
• PodTech.net –
• Vedant’s Blog : Podcasting for Enterprises –
• WildVoice – Free hosting for podcasts, blogs, photos and friends –
• Using Podcasts to Market and Educate – Marketing Maestro – Trump University –

These are my links for February 3rd from 07:37 to 07:43:

• Snapvine –
• Apple – Education – Podcasting in Education –
• Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators – Digital Gadgets & Podcasting in the Classroom – Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators –
• YouTube – Audacity Tutorial for Podcasting –
• YouTube – Integrating podcasting into your classroom –
• Selfcast | Home –
• HOW TO: Convert Your Blog Into a Podcast on iTunes for Free –
• Tutorials – Audacity Wiki –

These are my links for February 2nd from 11:49 to 16:07:

• Motivate Your Pupils… Make A Podcast! –
• Tool Box Podcasting » We Are Media –
• Hear Me Out: 3 Quick Steps to Potent Podcasting| Nonprofit Marketing: Getting Attention Blog –
• Podcast Tips: Behind the scenes of CNET podcasts | Buzz Out Loud Blog – CNET Blogs –
• Podcasting – Wiki.ucalgary.ca –
• Confessions of a Podcast Junkie: A Student Perspective | EDUCAUSE CONNECT –
• PodcastPeople – Your online podcasting studio® –
• Museum Blogs and Museum Podcasts Directory Sites –
• Podcasting Is Dead? | Paul Colligan’s The People and Business Of Podcasting and New Media –

These are my links for February 2nd from 08:08 to 08:30:

• Audio and video Podcast production – Podcast Production –
• Podblaze :: corporate podcasting, create a podcast –
• Association for Downloadable Media –
• Podcast Hosting: How to Get a Home for Your Podcast –
• Podcasting: Tips for Teachers –
• Podcasting Guide | PoducateMe –
• Podcasting Revisited « Cole Camplese: Learning and Innovation –
• 3Sharp Downloadable PKS for Microsoft Sharepoint –

Anyone who thinks podcasting is dead—and I’m not sure anyone believes that; I think they just say it to provoke blog comments—needs to take a look at social bookmarking site Delicious.com. (I know switching the name and URL to ”˜delicious.com’ was the sensible and obvious thing to do, but I put so much effort into memorizing ”˜del.icio.us’ that I now feel cheated.)

The better to put more fresh and useful information on this blog, what with actual audio postings being so rare and so time-consuming to produce, I decided to install the Postalicious plugin for WordPress about a week ago and have it suck in everything I tagged with ”˜podcasting.’

Then I realized it would make sense to set up and subscribe to a feed for everyone else’s podcasting bookmarks. I’d long since done this with some other topics: ghostwriting, because that’s my ”˜day job,’ and naming, because I do some consulting work (yes, creating names for new products) for a naming company.

If a dozen items a week get tagged with ”˜ghostwriting,’ it’s a busy week. ”˜Naming’ is a more popular tag—I get perhaps a dozen new items in the feed each day, though the great bulk of them refer to baby names, CSS (or Java, or whatever programming language) class names, or domain names, rather than to product and company names. I delete those unread.

I never expected to find a couple of dozen posts per hour in the ”˜podcasting’  feed from Delicious. It’s almost as hard to keep up with as Jeff Pulver’s Twitter stream. (Harder, actually, given that Jeff’s tweets don’t necessarily contain links I have to check to decide whether to bookmark them myself.)

Many of the sites that I can now see bookmarked in near real-time (or should that be ”˜near-real time’?) have been around for years. The download page for Audacity. The AudioShell ID3 tag editor. A ”˜podcast recipe’ seminar from Apple. Basic how-to information for beginners.

The conclusion: there are a lot of people out there who are just getting started podcasting and want to know more about it. It’s a good time to be a podcast consultant.

These are my links for February 1st from 10:48 to 13:35:

• The Infinite Dial — Podcasting Metrics: Downloads + Engagement = Brand Love –
• Podcast Metrics | CRGI (Curtis Research Group) –
• Listening to Themselves: Podcasting Takes Lessons Beyond the Classroom | Edutopia –
• From WordPress to iTunes: Publishing your Podcast using PodPress | MakeUseOf.com –
• dgrice » Podcasting –
• Directory of E-Learning Tools: Podcasting tools –
• Nonprofit Radio: How to Make Podcasts That Promote Your Brand and Engage Supporters | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network –
• Connected Flow: Appcasting –
• The Education Podcast Network | A Landmark Project –

These are my links for January 31st through February 1st:

• Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog : How We Did It: Podcasting Kit for SharePoint –
• AdLit.org: Adolescent Literacy – Creating Podcasts with Your Students –
• How to Podcast –
• Tips for Podcasting –
• Apple – Seminars Online – The Podcast Recipe. –