I was mentioned in the
OC Register!
(see article
below)
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Thinking of doing
your own Podcast?
Don't know how to get
started?
Is it really a chick thang?
WIRED
magazine checked it out and here's what they found, according to Orange
County reporter, Tamara
Chuang, The Gadgetress:
Orange
County business news in brief
Men
outpace women in podcasting
Is "podcasting" an
all-boys club? Wired
magazine noted that at last week's Portable Media Expo in Ontario, 15
percent
of the 2,000 attendees were female and that users of Yahoo's new
podcasting
directory were 85 percent male.
One theory is that "cool
mediums tend
to attract guys at first," says the president of Women in Technology
International,
who happens to be a man. David Leighton, WITI's president, said that
the
most popular podcasts focus on podcasting. When they become more
practical
and diverse, the women will follow, Leighton told Wired.
Jina Bacarr, a
Huntington Beach podcaster,
believes it's related to the imbalance of women in engineering and
other
tech jobs. "Podcasting requires knowledge of XML and RSS feeds as well
as recording and engineering capabilities," she said.
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Yeah, that's me in the
last paragraph!
Cool, huh?
So how do you get
started Podcasting?
Jina's
PodcastingTips:
1. Buying a good
microphone is
more important than buying that new pair of stilettos. You want
your
audience to hear you clearly.
2. RSS feed is not
something you
serve the man in your life for dinner. It's based on XML
(extensible
mark-up language) and saved in a .txt file. RSS means "Really
simple
syndication."
3. You may want to
hire a man
to fix your roof, but you can put up your Podcast yourself. Do
your
research! Find out how much storage space you have on your web
server,
how much bandwidth is available to you each month, how to update your
website,
and how to use an FTP (file transfer protocol) program.
4. Write out a
script and practice
it before you start recording. You don't have to write every
word,
but put together an intro and a tag and some basic idea of what you
want
to cover in your Podcast.
5. A picture is
worth a thousand
hits. Use a graphic or picture as part of your RSS feed that
reflects
your show.
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