August 2005
Beginner
464 pages
12h 36m
English
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Blog Your Podcast
Blog your podcast with a hosted blogging service, or with software on your ISP.
By far, the most popular method for podcasting is through a blogging service or through blog software installed on your hosting provider. This hack walks you through all the different options that are available to you.
Podcast with Blogger
Blogger is a free blog service, and that’s a wonderful thing. It means you can get into podcasting with no financial commitment. The first thing to do is to set up your Blogger blog. Surf over to Blogger (http://blogger.com/) and follow the three-step process to set up your account.
After setting up your account, go to the Settings tab and the Site Feed section and select Yes in the box next to Publish Site Feed. That will set up your Atom feed.
Next, go to the Formatting section of the Preferences tab and select Yes in the box next to Show Link Field. Now you will have a place to put the URL of your MP3 podcast file.
Create a new blog entry that has a link to your podcast MP3 file, and publish it. You can’t host your MP3 files on Blogger, so you will have to find another place to put them that is accessible to the Internet [Hack #39] .
To save your sanity, check the blog home page to make sure the entry was posted. Then check the atom.xml file located at http://yourblog.blogspot.com/atom.xml just to make sure it’s reasonable and seems to have the right entries in it.
FeedBurner.
The atom.xml file is a good start, but to be a valid podcast feed it has to ...
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O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.