Podcasting - Creating your feed (Part 3)

By Donna Eyestone

After you’ve created your MP3 audio or MPEG4 video file, the next step is to syndicate your show and make it available to listeners as a podcast. You can do this for free by writing your own XML and hosting the podcast on a web server. Don't worry - with the template provided in the book you'll be able to fill in the blanks and make your podcast a reality! Then publicize it through iTunes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Donna Eyestone
• Release date: Apr 27, 2009
• ISBN: 9781452336220

Donna Eyestone

In 1989 Donna combined her interests in music and technology to complete a B.A. in Computer Music Composition from Clark University – long before there was an actual "multimedia" field. In 1991 she received an M.F.A in Electronic Music Recording from the Mills College Center for Contemporary Music and then went on to receive a second M.F.A. in Integrated Electronics Arts from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in 1996. It was then that Donna began teaching multimedia in the Bay Area. Her Digital Media Skills course has won awards for online learning from both @ONE and the U.S. Distance Learning Association.Donna has taught courses in audio production, website and graphic design, and multimedia. In 1999 she became a multimedia content developer for Apple Computer, designing online training for their iLife applications (while continuing teaching an online course for CCSF). She recently "retired" from Apple Computer to raise her daughter and continues to teach part-time. She is currently the MERLOT fellow and a CVC Scholar, evangelizing Podcasting for Educators.

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Creating your Podcast Feed

Donna Eyestone

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Create audio podcasts to help make your words and ideas come to life. After you’ve created your MP3 audio or MPEG4 video file, the next step is to syndicate your show and make it available to listeners as a podcast. This book references a file samplecode.xml which you can download and edit yourself. It is available at http://homepage.mac.com/deyestone/samplecode.xml.zip

You can subscribe to the supplemental podcast associated with this book using iTunes. In iTunes, go to the Advanced menu, choose Subscribe to podcast, and then enter the following URL.

http://homepage.mac.com/deyestone/meet/code.xml

What’s covered:

Blogging and RSS feeds

Understanding blogs and the interaction with podcasting

Writing XML code to create a podcast

Uploading files to Internet servers

Adding host specific tags

Publicizing podcasts

Hosting through various Internet sources

Keeping content up-to-date

Maintaining focused program content

Bonus Material:

Blogging and RSS

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