Shure SM58 microphone – usage tips video

Another video of yours truly this time explaining the ins and outs of the Shure SM58:

How I use Skype in my podcasts

Here’s a video I did today while I was preparing for recording part of episode 55 of the Internet Marketing podcast. Enjoy!

Transcriptions, Podpress and Feedburner’s 512KB limit

Recently I’ve been setting up some WordPress blogs for clients who have their podcasts transcribed. As I mention in the book, I believe WordPress blogs make fantastic websites to host podcast, when used with the Podpress plugin. Transcriptions can be quite long and if you’re not careful this can cause the RSS feed automatically created by Prodpress to be too large for Feedburner which has a maximum size of 512KB.

If you find yourself in this sticky situation there are a couple of setting in WordPress to take a look at under Settings > Reading:

• For each article in a feed, show: select the Summary radio button. This causes only the first few lines of the post to go into each item description of the RSS feed for both the blog AND the podcast RSS feed created by Podpress.
• Syndication feeds show the most recent: select a reasonable number, not too big. This limits the number of items in both blog and Podpress feeds.

Meanwhile the book continues apace: approx word count: 17,600.

Type Pad now accepts email and audio posts

Just learned that TypePad have introduced the Posterous-like ability to accept an email with MP3 attached, to create a post with the audio embedded in a nice player complete with RSS feed. Here’s my first attempt complete with pelling mistales and with me doing a very arrogant, Jeremy Clarkson style voice – sorry about that.

This is another useful tool for first time podcasters who want to dip their toe in the water, although, it’s limited by email’s inherent dislike of large attachments.