How do you get started with podcasting? What works? What doesn't? That's the subject of today's podcast. As promised in the audio, here's a list of my software and equipment: (a) IBM Thinkpad X31 running Sony Soundforge 8.0a; (b) Samson Audio CO3 Multi-pattern Condenser Microphone; (c) M-Audio MobilePre USB 2-Channel breakout box; (d) Samson MDR624 Mixer. (plus cords) Here's a picture of a podcasting station (wine glass optional). Here's a screenshot of Sony Soundforge in operation. Here are the Apple extensions to RSS 2.0 to get data into the iTunes Store, and here's an application to help you write the Apple data to RSS. If you have iTunes, here's a direct link to my podcast in the iTunes directory (which includes a button to subscribe). (iPro Radio No. 40 / 15 Minutes) Header Music: "So You Want To Be A Rock-and-Roll Star" by Black Oak Arkansas.

Robert Scoble has two nice posts (one / two) on a user's view of formats, specs, code and protocols. I'm with him. It's also (sort of) the subject of today's podcast in which I'll talk a little about Apple's extensions of RSS 2.0 for the iTunes store. I don't particularly care that Apple has its own set of RSS codes for iTunes. What bothers me is that Apple provided no application that would allow users to write their RSS data in the iTunes preferred format. And Apple didn't give the developers of blogging tools a peak of what was coming so their tools could support the Apple extensions.