Podcasting again - a podcast by Peter Zimmerman

Now, let's say you've got your podcasts recorded. They're sitting on your computer and you want to get them out there.

Well I'm not the big advertising guru (yet) but I do know how to get things on iTunes. Some things.

A couple of things-
First, you'll want to create a blog on your favorite blog site. I'm going to say, just start a blog here onBlogger.combecause it's easy and it's been around forever.

Once you've posted a bit, go toFeedburner.comand set everything up there. I'm not going to walk step by step through it, because feedburner does a pretty good job of that.

One of the trickier (and possibly pricey parts) of podcasting is finding where the heck to put your files.

You need to have your mp3s or movie files on the web somewhere in order for iTunes to grab them and give them to people.

I've used the site that my school gave me, which is meager, but it's cheap, and as I've said before, I'mpoor, so it works for me.

On feedburner you'll have an RSS feed. Go to iTunes and click on the "store" portion. Click on "podcasts" and scroll down. You'll see the "upload a podcast" button on the bottom left of the page.

It'll ask you for your url for the podcast. Use the RSS feed url from feedburner. It's not just the regular blogger website.

Now, if you have an iTunes account and you've purchased music from them before, everthing will go smoothly.

However, if you're like me, and DON'T have an iTunes account, you might be a little surprised as I was. I had to give iTunes my billing information in order to justuploadmy podcast to them.

Well, I had a bit of an incentive to do so because it was part of my class to have my podcast going, but still, it came as a bit of a surprise.

So if you're wondering, "Do I need to give my credit card info to iTunes to start my own podcast and have it listed on iTunes?" The answer, for now, is unequivocally, "Yes you sure do."

Problems I'm still having with podcasting:
I'm able to get the iTunes store to recognize my podcast and it picks up my audio episodes, which I post on my blog as links. I learned that in the html code you have to include this little bit when you're posting the link to where your actual mp3 is located at:

Sample code: a href="http://myschoolthing.edu/PDZ/examplepodcastthing.mp3"rel="enclosure"

The part at the end in italics is the part I had to add in order for iTunes to see that I had something for it to grab onto.

HOWEVER-
I'm still having troubles making iTunes recognize that I have a movie episode ready to post. They're simply not showing up on my subscription feed. So either I'm still doing somethign wrong, or the tech gods and goddesses have set me up for aGreek Tragedy.


So if anyone has any ideas about why iTunes can't seem to grab my movie, then please morse code or psychically contact me somehow.

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