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March 16, 2005

Publishing a Podcast

Once you have a podcast, how do you get it on your site and publish it out to the world. Here are the steps:

  1. Brandon Fuller | MT-Enclosures: A Movable Type Plugin. If you've got Movable Type, then use MT-Enclosures.
  2. You then upload the file and put a URL reference to the MP3 in your post
  3. Edit the RSS 2.0 feed with the example from Brandon Fuller. The MT-Enclosures will then automagically search your entries and update the RSS 2.0 feed with this.
  4. This enclosure pings the world via a special Ping location called audiorpc.weblogs.com that picks up all the updates.

Now the only thing left to do is to tell the world that you have a podcast. Like websites, there are a couple of directories. You need to publish to them so that podcast clients can find you. Here are the top four according to google:"podcast directory":

  1. ipodder. This is the biggest Windows client as far as I can tell. Adam Curry is the What's New editor. Reminds me of the early days at Netscape where one person really could index the whole world. Over 4,000 podcasts right now. Last time I looked there were 1,000, so thing are growing very fast. The nice thing is that this is very tied into the client as opposed to a separate search engine.
  2. Podcast.net. I don't know who runs this site, but will find out. They are a Yahoo like directory
  3. iPodderX. This is the client for the Mac. Has the most share. Like iPodder, it has its own directory.
  4. Podcast Directory. I've actually never heard of this one, but has a good page rank.

Posted by rich at March 16, 2005 03:22 PM

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