Our Collection of Podcasting Resources

Podcasting

How-to-podcast guides

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podcasting definition
• http://transom.org/ Transom: a showcase and workshop for new public radio, equipment reviews and sample podcasts
• http://podcastfreeamerica.com/index.php?/features/entry/the-real-beginners-guide-to-podcasting/ Podcast Free America’s e-magazine MAKE: beginner’s guide to podcasting
• http://www.portablemediaexpo.com/podcastexpert/index.php Podcast Expert tutorial guides, latest equipment, some sample podcasts to compare quality with various equipment and settings
• http://www.engadget.com/2004/10/05/engadget-podcast-001-10-05-2004-how-to-podcasting-get/ Phillip Torrance’s how-to guide, 2004
• Daniel Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving and Presenting the Past on the Web e-book at http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/

Podcast sampler

(if you have a media player on your computer, youdon’t need to download to an iPod, just click to listen)

• http://citizen.nfb.ca/blogs/view/blog-Podcasts NFB youth action & discussion program with excellent podcasts
• http://www.cbc.ca/podcasting/ CBC radio podcasts, including Ideas series
• http://archives.cbc.ca/ or http://cbc.ca/archives TV and radio clips
• http://www.homelands.org/worlds/ Worlds of Difference started in 1990, is a US public radio podcast series on culture, religion, language and identity in many countries. Includes some hourlong documentaries with music.
• http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/[[Studs_Terkel]] and http://www.studsterkel.org/ biography, downloads of radio interviews by the best-known US oral historian, a great educational site
• http://www.tellingstories.org/index.html Telling their stories a model website by the Urban School of San Francisco: high school students’ interviews with Holocaust survivors, WW2 vets, Japanese internees
• http://www.thislife.org/ This American Life from WBEZ Chicago is probably the grand-daddy of podcasting. Known pre-1996 as Your Radio Playhouse, it consists of short segments, dramatic themes in personal and everyday life. TAL has announced a TV show for 2006.
• http://transom.org/ Transom
• http://radio.indymedia.org/ Indymedia radio broadcasts from many countries
• http://www.bibliotheque-sonore.net/ sorte d’Indymedia fran çais
• http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/331829.html Indymedia UK vlogger activists
• http://www.onf.ca/aventures/videoparadiso/excursionWeb/index.php Cinéma Paradiso (ONF 2006) vidéos par jeunesse de la rue, Montréal – using a mobile van to record and edit their own videos

Principles and applications

• http://www.tonyschwartz.org/ Tony Schwartz books The Responsive Chord (1973) and Media (1988); see the audiotapes link for discussion of his “guerilla media” concept. If I remember correctly, he produced Folkways LPs of New York taxi drivers, and the sounds of a New York city block (ca 1958-59)
• Ronald J. Grele & Studs Turkel, Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History (1985). See the Terkel sampler above
• Claude Lantzman, Shoah: a history of the Holocaust (film ca 1985)
• Michael Apted, Seven Up! (film series begun 1964, shows UK children’s lives at 7-year intervals) see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/[[Seven_Up]] ! with list of TV series it inspired in other countries
• Michael Riordan, An Unauthorized Biography of the World: Oral History on the Front Lines (2004) a Canadian covers native rights, Newfoundlanders, gay survivors of eloctroshock, genocide in Peru, environmentalism in various countries
• http://chnm.gmu.edu/ George Mason Univ. Center for History and New Media
• http://publichistory.concordia.ca/ Concordia Univ. Public History
• http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/[[Interview_with_LibriVox_founder_Hugh_McGuire]] Librivox project
• http://locationportals.net/ Michael Lenczner’s research notes on wired cities; he is one of the founders of http://www.ilesansfil.org