Wheeeee... This is funky...
This should be a podcast of Chris Huhne's experience in business, journalism, Westminster and Europe. It's very funky and one of a set of 5. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem too happy to run 'on the blog'. It's running in a separate window. Anyone know how to get it to get it to run in the blog itself.
Next question - how do you make a podcast?
posted by Femme de Resistance @ 12:56 pm
3 Comments:
At 2:15 pm ,
Anonymous said...
Doesn't seem to work for me either. Ah well, the perils of cutting-edge technology.
The clip itself appears to be a video and, at the risk of sounding like a dreadful pedant, "podcast" normally refers to audio clips. Not that the confusion is your fault; I blame the people who seem to think that "pod/vid/blog/screen/whatevercast" sounds funkier than an accurate description like "video clip" or "audio clip" - the Nathan Barley tendency (whoever came up with "blogvidcast" should be shot as a matter of urgency).
Anyhow, an audio clip can be recorded using any standard PC microphone and some audio editing software. Windows comes with a basic sound recorder, but there are plenty of better ones out there. WavePad is pretty good and has a noise reduction feature which can eliminate background noise that will occur unless you're using a professional studio.
After that, save it as an mp3 and upload it somewhere - any standard web space will do, though there are probably sites that offer dedicated audio hosting and additional features.
Hosting video clips is a bit more complicated. You can put whole clips up for download, but for anything longer than a minute you'd probably want a "streaming" system, which just downloads a few seconds at a time.
At 12:47 am ,
Richard H said...
I was reliably infomed this is a vidblogcast, but I bow to Rob's terminology!
At 2:33 pm ,
Simon said...
Ahhhhggh.
I work on the technical side of the broadcasting industry and this attempt to make terminology shiny is making me dizzy.
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