[Speakers] Re: [KLUG Members] CMS again / podcast?

[Lunitix]

mp3 format is what most people use and its fine.  The post about images 
is a FYI that there is a wat to do a slideshow within a podcast, I think 
since iTunes already has this ability, others will follow soon.  So to 
be aware of it and it's possibility is something to consider.

Minding of Madness
Jon

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
>> 4th generation iPods with color screens, and the new iPod nano will  
>> display the pictures during playback. Since the other iPods have  
>> simple monochrome screens, they didn't bother adding that  
>> functionality. That said, a very good portion of the iPods out there  
>> are 4th generation iPods (I wouldn't say half, but still a good amount).
> 
> Would it be possible to also produce something like this in MPEG for us 
> non-iPod
> people.  My Treo can play most media formats, but I doubt anything 
> specific to
> Apple's hardware.
> 
>> As you guys may know, putting together a podcast would introduce the  
>> possibility of huge bandwidth costs to KLUG (or whomever is hosting  
>> KLUG).
> 
> Not a concern.  We have a large pipe at the chamber, we would just host 
> such a
> server there.
> 
>> If it takes off, or gets featured somewhere (which could be  likely, 
>> as we are one of the most active LUGs in the region, if not  THE most 
>> active).
> 
> I think Apache can protect us from this - mod_throttle
> 
>> Another thing that would be worth looking at is  whether or not to 
>> submit the podcast to various directories like  indiepodder.org 
>> (formerly ipodder.org), and iTunes. For iTunes, there  are some 
>> specific things necessary for making the feed work with the  iTunes 
>> Music Store podcast directory.
> 
> I'd prefer to keep it a KLUG thing,  if people come and find it great!  
> Or maybe
> even be nefarious and make people cough up information and take a survey in
> order to get access to the content.
> 
>> As for equipment, the only thing you'd need is a Linux box capable of 
>>  recording AIFF audio or recording directly to MP3, with a decent  
>> sound card. you'd probably want a mixer with a couple inputs (one for 
>>  the speaker's mic, one for the audience mic). For microphones, you'd 
>>  want a good condenser mic. For the speaker, another thing that would 
>>  work is one of the gaming microphones, as they are generally pretty  
>> good at noise-canceling, and have pretty good audio quality (these  
>> are around $50-$70 or so).
> 
> 
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