How I Got Started Podcasting and Why

Rob White made a blog post a little while ago about How and Why you got started podcast and I thought, why not make a blog post about how and why I got started.

When I was about 12 I was starting to really get into the Internet and Web 2.0 stuff. Podcasting was one of them. I really remember watching a podcast awhile back and then I started listening and watching more podcasts. I thought, how could I do this and how hard would it be? I had been using a web service called meebo for awhile and they had just introduced Apps and TalkShoe happened to be one of them. I found Podcaster Training and started listening to archived episodes. Then I started getting into Participating in the shows, by this time I was 13 and I started with my original show, TechCast and I have come a long way since then.

BPN Update

I hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July Weekend. I sure did.

Friday I still did my Segment on Podcaster Training, see the notes for that on the NMP Network. Today I’d like to update you all on what is going on with all of my podcasts, as noted in Episode 31 of Podcaster Training.

Starting on Monday, August 4th, 2008, all Budde Podcasting Network podcasts will be live and recorded right on Call ID 1834, named Budde Podcasting. Check it out today!

I am getting this post out a bit later than I wanted - I wanted to have it out to you on Monday, but I didn’t get to it.

Also, due to it being pushed later - I am able to update you about the Budde Podcasting Network, v4 has been released. Check it out today! We recommend you checking it out when I am live, It’ll automatically update.

Budde Podcasting Network Segment - June 27th

Segment Name Change

I’ve changed the name of the Segment to the Budde Podcasting Network Segment. Although, we’ll bring in stuff from every show, not every show every week. But, You’ll hear content from each of my shows, except for TWTHS.

Wetpaint Update

Wetpaint was down on Wednesday for a good part of the night - They added new servers to the network because they are nearing the creation of the Millionth wiki. Along with them nearing this - They have a lot of things on the White board for future releases.

Wetpaint Contest ALERT: Wetpaint is having a contest to see if you, yes you! can either create the one millionth wiki or refer the person that creates it. If you create the one millionth wiki you will be getting a Wetpaint “Going Green” package and you will be able to give an organization a “Going Green” package. Along with the Creator, the Refer will receive a “Going Green” package as well. What is this going green package you ask? Read this below to find out:

Wetpaint will offset the approximate annual emissions of the average U.S. home (25,210 lbs. of CO2), the average U.S. vehicle (8,403 lbs. of CO2), and 50,419 lbs.of CO2 of emissions of the organization of choice of the millionth site creator and referrer, if eligible, for a total value of $500 per package. Applying offsets to be provided by Terrapass.

For more information and to read the fine print - visit the One Million Sites wiki on Wetpaint.

BPN Update

As I said last week, we’re 3 weeks behind in development.. I am getting there, not ready for testing quite yet. But, we’ll say by the end of next week we should be good to start the testing on the new design and layout. Stay tuned!

Josh’s Blog Update

UPDATED: I have disabled Disqus comments so that I would be able to enable the Comment License for the Blog and any comments that were posted during the Disqus implementation have been re-added manually by Me.

I have added a new theme to my blog along with a newly designed sidebar. We’ve kept the Disqus comments and I am working on getting two new plugins called Comment License 1.2 and Pingpress 2.1.4. Those should probably be up and running by tomorrow sometime.

TalkShoe Tip of the Week

Are you hosting a TalkShoe show (Dialed in) and your listeners are complaining that they don’t have a stream on their show? This is a streaming failure that TalkShoe is still working on getting fixed ASAP! To resolve this you will need to contact someone on the TalkShoe Support Team and they can Start your stream or restart your stream. You can contact Josh on Skype or via his phone line (585.682.2594).

Wetpaint Nation / Episode 13

Yesterday, Thursday, June 19, 2008 I interviewed Tracy from Wetpaint about her role as an Interaction Designer for Wetpaint. It was a great turn out and I’d like to thank the 13 people that had joined the Chat and the two people that called in.

Thanks to Tracy for volunteering to be on the show for Wetpaint’s Second Birthday.  Thanks for answering all of the questions that I had asked. Also, It was great that you explained the difference from Wetpaint’s UI and what sets it apart from Wikia or PBWiki’s UI.

Attached is the Audio file of Episode 13 from Wetpaint Nation, which was recorded live yesterday on TalkShoe ID: 10200.

If you have any questions, comments or anything regarding Wetpaint, Podcrasher Note or just TalkShoe in general.. Shoot me an email to podcast [at] buddes [dot] net.

TalkShoe Releases *8 (*T)

New Web and Pro Client Look - Now that we’re allowing hosts to allow Guest Participation / Block Guest Participation, We’ve added a new look to the clients to make it easier to work with the Hosting Process.

Screen Shots: Web Client | Pro Client

Request to Talk using the Phone - Are you just on the phone and have joined a TalkShoe Call? Dial *8 (*T) if you are muted and the host will unmute you at some point, if they wish.

Number of Participants - If you’ve seen some shows live on TalkShoe, you’ve probably realized it is telling you how many participants that show has On the Homepage and on the Live Now page.

Screen Shots: Homepage | Live Now Page

As Dave said in the blog post on TalkShoe, this is the most stable release on TalkShoe, yet.

This week’s new release has been our most stable ever (still not quite perfect - there are occasional streaming failures that we’re working to resolve)

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