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Starting to get really interested in this whole podcast thing. But it's one thing to do a monologue or to record your kids with a mike. What if you want to do an interview? Seems like it would be great to simply record the phone call. I am not alone in this desire.

Here are a number of entries that outline the various (more or less complex ways) that folks have figured out how to use Skype to record a call and then post as a podcast:

• Unboundspiral was the first entry I found that called this "Skypecasting"
• Ragged Castle has a outline using Audio HiJack pro and a Mac
• Jason Calacanis asked the same question as me and got a ton of interesting, and often conflicting comments.
• Glenn Fleishman of Macdevcenter has a nice step by step walk through that used much the same equipment - with all the gotchas as well.
• And Moodle Exchange has gone one step further - Skypecasting parties

Hopefully you'll hear us give some form of this a try soon (after I - and hopefully Rich/John - wades through this).

Also, for the luddites out there some of the traditional conference calling services will send you an MP3 recording of your call for a bit more of course.