I got a message in my in box last night it read: “It is with much sadness and deliberation that announce the end of Indie Radio Chattanooga. I’ve had a wonderful time and met tons of nice people, and made a bunch of friends, but my time has come. It’s just not fun anymore and…
I ran across a cool Widget to make a donation goal and asked the website owner where he got this cool widget (I had been using chipin.com). The answer? Paypal. All you have to do is go into your paypal account and in the upper right hand corner type “widgets” in the search box. Eventually…
Alec Baldwin has won awards, has been in movies, broadway, TV, and now podcasting. His first guest is Michael Douglas. The cool thing is he starts good right out of the gate. I wasn’t sure what to expect, and he told me right up front. He wants to talk to people and learn more about…
With Halloween next week, and the rest of the hholiday season upon us, you may want to add some holiday music to your podcasts. I was just informed that Footage Firm (a place for with great resources for video people) has come out with a new set of production music for the holidays (and their…
Steve, Steve, and More Steve. Twitter was just amazing tonight. It’s a shame. My mother died at 58 and that was too soon. 56 is waaay too soon. His life was very interesting. He had a vision, and persued it to the end. He was himself. He did not compromise. Music is sold completely different….
Today’s post is not really about podcasting, but I truly belive my readers will benefit from it. Oh My God I Can’t Find My Phone! Has this ever happened to you? You just looked in the FREEZER for your phone. Why? because you can’t find it, and you’ve looked everywhere. OK. I didn’t lose my…
Zoom has come out with a new version of the popular H2 portable recorder called the H2n. I loved the H2, and I’ve had a few podcasters interview me using that unit and I’m always amazed at the sound.This is one of the most versatile units. It doubles as a USB interface, records in WAV…
I have said for years, the best way to start a podcast is to use a service to host your websites (like Bluehost or Host Gator) and then get a dedicated Media Host (Like Blubrry.com or Libsyn.com). Blue host will cost you about $7 a month. You have to buy a year in advance (so…
Today I continue my experiment with Podbean. Over the weekend I had 28 downloads of my More Podcast Money podcast (so their stats seem to work) I sent an email about their “no third party advertisements” policy. Here is the conversation: I’m doing a blog series on Podbean. I see where if I want to…
I was talking to some people who were starting podcasts and the “B” word came up again. By that I mean podBean. This is a “Free” podcast hosting company. I had heard that “they hijack your feed.” I have helped people move away from them (and podomatic another free service), but when I looked at…