guide2podcasting.com http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog News About Podcasting Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:34:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en Yahoo Podcast Shuts Down Today http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/yahoo-podcast-shuts-down-today/ http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/yahoo-podcast-shuts-down-today/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:34:08 +0000 Jim http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/yahoo-podcast-shuts-down-today/ Yahoo! Podcast is an example of a very full featured podcast directory. Yahoo’s beta offering presents podcasts from many professional organizations including NPR, Slate Magazine, and others. They also organize their listing by categories, offer a list of the most popular series and episodes currently available, and let users search through the entire database. Yahoo’s site is professionally done, and likely has people permanently assigned to work on it, and so it differs from many of the other podcasting directories
available. Many directories are little more than listings of amateur podcasters, but Yahoo’s site brings out a number of feeds done by mainstream organization, raising the level of quality available.

For anyone who wants to find a podcast, Yahoo is certainly a good choice. They have a slick, well done site that is easy to use. Yahoo even includes software at the site so that podcasts can be listened to from within the web browser. After logging in, Yahoo allows users to subscribe to feeds they enjoy, letting them be notified when new episodes are available. Yahoo even has a detailed walkthrough to help visitors create and begin publishing their own podcast.

Sadly, the site is now gone but you can still see a cached version of it here. The link to Yahoo Podcasts now redirects to Yahoo’s audio search page. You can still use the audio search tool to look for your favorite podcasts.

]]> http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/yahoo-podcast-shuts-down-today/feed/ This American Life Podcast http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/this-american-life-podcast/ http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/this-american-life-podcast/#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:20:03 +0000 Jim http://www.guide2podcasting.com/blog/2007/this-american-life-podcast/ The podcast for the popular NPR series This American Life allows listeners to download the the shows and listen to them whenever they want. The podcasts can be streamed for free online. However, if you are interested in downloading the podcast to your computer, the option is only available for one week beginning on the Monday after the particular episode airs. Otherwise, you can buy individual episodes and download them to your MP3 player using iTunes for $0.95 per episode.

We feel that the podcasts should be freely available for an unlimited time since NPR is supported by the public and by federal dollars. The days of free podcasts may be numbered if the rest of the podcast providers follow in This American Life’s footsteps. If podcasting is adopted by more large corporations, the face of podcasting is likely to change to one where a profit plan is required.

However, with the emergence of internet-ready phones with MP3 players such as the Apple iPhone and the Nokia N800, listeners won’t have to worry about paying to download episodes since they can directly stream them to the phones using the web browser.

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Here are a number of popular sites offering PSP podcasts:

1. Portable Gaming Revolution

2. The Podcast Network

3. GameSpy

To download and watch videocasts on your PSP, you can use the free program PSP Video 9 that converts popular video formats such as .avi and .mpeg into PSP video format. Combine this with Videora which uses peer to peer file sharing and RSS feeds, and you can have your very own videocast or PSPcast.

If you need more information about how to podcast to your PSP, check out the guide at PocketGamer.

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