thirtyonethree

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Licensing music for podcast intros

Brian Christiansen wrote about the music he uses for the UIE podcasts. Brian mentioned that he has licensed the music through ASCAP. I checked their Web site and there is information about getting a license to use music for podcast intros, etc. The minimum license fee is $288 annually and then the balance is determined [...]

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Design is in the Details

Here are some memorable points from Dan Rubin and Bryan Veloso’s talk, Design is in the Details from Webmaster Jam 2007, get MP3 of talk from RSS feed. I listened to this talk over my Christmas vacation. I listened to it again this morning. I had immediately applied several of the things they talked about [...]

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Setting up a Podcast, Take 2

Over a year and a half ago, I did a post on setting up a podcast. Essentially I just shared what I had learned in the process of setting one up myself. I had found out that it is not very complicated.
Today I got a phone call from someone asking me this question. Since my [...]

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Setting Up a Podcast

May 2007: See updated tutorial on setting up a podcast 
I successfully set up a podcast today.
Here are the steps involved:

I downloaded a freeware recording program called “Audacity“
I also downloaded from their website a plugin to convert audio to mp3 format which is what is used in podcasting. There are instructions on how to install [...]

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