podcasting news has posted on the Sony PCM-D1 portable recorder. It’s surely a cool gadget to have, if you can swallow the US$1999.95 price tag that is.
Podcast directory list
Podcasting news actively maintains a Podcast Directory List, and the latest addition is iVideoBlast, focusing specifically on video podcasts that are iTunes compliant. Good point of reference for those seeking podcast subscriptions.
Audio books, serialised and free to listen
Podiobooks.com is offering 19 titles to listeners in serialised fashion. Best of all, it’s free for all. Here’s more information about the site taken from the FAQs:
What are “Podiobooks”?
Podiobooks is a term coined by Evo Terra of The Dragon Page and Slice of Scifi to describe serialized audio books which are made available in podcast format. Subscribers to the podcast feed for each book will receive a new chapter each and every week. Some listeners keep it on their computers, some transfer the book to CD, but most (hopefully) transfer the file on to their mp3 player so they can listen no matter where they are.
All the books you’ll find on podiobooks.com are provided by the authors to you for free. Many authors do this to get exposure for their work, others do it in the hopes you’ll buy their next work in development. Still others simply do it for the sheer joy of writing. And while it’s not required, you have the option to donate money to the author of your choice. When you consider that audio books run usually 50% more than their hardcover counterparts… we hope you’ll be generous. Authors receive one half of all the proceeds from the donations from listeners. The other half goes to the maintenance and upkeep of podiobooks.com.
Thanks for giving our site a try. We hope you find podiobooks as infectious as we have!
[source: podcasting news]
Podcast transcription service
Text can be crawled and mapped by search engines, but crawling sound files has yet to be seen. Until that day comes, you could use some service like this one to convert some of your voice into text for search engines to crawl? Or if you have some existing needs to convert your voices into text, this could really be useful. Great business idea indeed!
[source: podcasting news]
Bitscast – New Podcast Reader
BitsCast is a new audio/video podcast receiver/player, supporting Microsoft Media PlaysForSure mp3 devices as well as iPod.
The application is freeware, and is currently in beta.
[Source: podcasting news]