Dann Sheridan and I have decided to try out a “collaboration” podcast over the next week. It will be technology focused that looks deeper into what information technology (IT) analysts are saying and how that matches or mis-matches with the leaders in the blog community.

Also … I am working on my second personal podcast. I think the production quaility is going to get a little better and I’m going to add some music that I was able to dig out of the archives (one digital, one record, and one tape).

One of the interesting things is some of the production lessons I learned a long time ago in video production class at Oakmont High School in Roseville, CA and my one semester of radio broadcasting at SDSU’s KCR are really coming back to me.

I created a prototype podcast that I am considering doing on a regular basis. Right now it is pretty raw and needs technical production help. It is also missing a key ingredient like a conversation between two or more people instead of a monolog. Feedback is greatly appreciated.

It it tentatively called "Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO)" and the basis for the show is that I read a lot of technology magazines and rip out articles that look interesting to pass on to others at work.  So, this podcast is a verbalization of those tear outs. 

Target audience would probably be information technology (IT) professionals and some home technology power users. The things discussed in this version (from these sources: Federal Computer Week, Network World, Mobile Enterprise, Information Week, PC Magazine, PC World):

• Traveling Wi-Fi
• Smart Phones
• Media Center
• GPS Watch
• Blinkx
• Apple Xserver cluster
• Dell Ultralight
• Eizo and HP LCDs
• Client Firewall/IDS/Policy software
• Hughes’ satellite VPN
• Microsoft & Polycom collaboration
• New storage products (Cisco, Network Appliance, Microsoft, & Overland Data)
• Army looking for Microsoft professionals
• XenoVision

I think I created a good ipodder subscription XML link: http://sholden.typepad.com/weblog/audio.xml. I used Audacity to record the audio and build the MP3.  I am a Windows user, so I am interested in any potentially better tools (Nero?).

UPDATE: This file has been archived offline.  Send me email if you want it.

“Jake Ludington takes you through setting up iPodder with Windows Media Player and mp3 players other than the iPod.” [VIA: Adam Curry]

I Love Radio .org: My CBC Radio report about Podcasting this is a great report by Tod Maffin. Highly recommended. I listened to it today on my run along with a Leo Laporte podcast from his radio program.

This article points to a new professional portable audio recorder that will do MP3s. It hasn’t been released yet. Soon …

John Robb doesn’t think iPodder is for him because he doesn’t have an iPOD. I have to disagree, I don’t have an iPOD either (I am still mad at Apple about the Newton) but I use it to hear podcasts on my TabletPC or my Muvo. iPodder does a good job of getting the files to my system for me to do with as I please.

I couldn’t stand not being part of this trend. So, I downloaded Audacity (‘simple’ Windows audio recorder) and hooked up my Plantronics headset on my system at home and did my first podcast. No fancy music intros or mixing – just plain audio voice.

It is for work so it isn’t publically releasable. I publish a series of internal Technology and Information Assurance (IA) newsletters, and I just commented on (5-MB MP3) on the latest IA alerts.

So far the feedback has been very positive.

I switch my podcast grabbing tool to the iPodder v1.0 instead of Newsgator. So far it is a good move. While I didn’t have any major problems with big MP3s in Outlook via Newsgator, I find having the MP3s stored locally in the file system just smoother.

BTW … iPodder stores the MP3s in a Download folder in the iPodder Programs File directory on the C: drive as a default.

Dann Sheridan echo’s my feelings about how creative the podcast area is. There are a ton of possibilities here.

I have been tossing around some ideas related to my kids: made up stories; reading books; and school material.

There is also some obvious technical topics. One thing I do a lot of is reading technical journals. I tear out a lot of information that I think is good to pass on to others. I could just summarize those in audio format once a week and post the results.