Odeo podcasting
Well, I’m working on podcasting technology for work, so I figured I’d better get my feet wet and learn how to do it. As such, here is a lame example of me talking into a microphone for 16 seconds (approximately):
Incidentally, this player is Google’s, as seen in Gmail. Not the prettiest, but it’s the only one I could figure out how to use with Wordpress, so far.
As podcasting hosts go, Odeo.com seems pretty good, and pretty much free. I’ve also tried Gabcast.com, which has its benefits, but I think I’m leaning towards Odeo at the moment.
In the end, I doubt I’ll be using any hosting service, though, since the goal is for the podcasts to only be available inside the firewall at work. This is just a convenient way for me to test out some ideas.
Tags: distance learning, music, podcasting, Technology, WordPressRelated posts
Tags: distance learning, music, podcasting, Technology, WordPress

January 14th, 2007 at 1:42 am
[...] A while back, I was working on some podcasting ideas for work and testing some things out here on Caddickisms. I spent a long time just trying to get an audio player to work correctly in WordPress (the software that runs this blog). The problem is that everything I found used the HTML <object> tag, which WordPress kept re-writing (and breaking) behind the scenes. I thought I had it fixed when I ran across the Gmail audio player, which uses the <iframe> tag, but apparently something gets screwed up there too, because while it works in Firefox, it’s broken in Internet Explorer (at least in version 6). [...]