Seen and Heard in Edmonton

This week’s episode is Part 2 of the audio from our podcasting meetup on technology, which we held in November. This will make more sense if you listen to Part 1  first, but it can stand alone alone as long you know who the guests were:

• Adam Rozenhart started The Expats and ended The Unknown Studio in 2015;
• Scott Francis Winder started Hacked with Jordan Bloemen last year, and has garnered a pretty big audience already;
• Mack Male’s most recent podcast was Mack and Cheese but he started way back in 2004 with Blogosphere Radio.

You can also get it in iTunes, on SoundCloud or on Stitcher.

Mack, Adam, Scott and some of the audience members mentioned a lot of resources along the way. Here are some links so you can follow up if you like:

Editing and post-production

• Adobe Premiere Elements and Adobe Audition
• Audacity
• Apple Logic (i.e. “GarageBand‘s bigger brother,” as Scott put it)
• Reaper digital audio workstation

Hosting and analytics

• Mack uses Amazon S3 and Blubrry; he also mentioned Libsyn as an early entrant in the hosting space that is still around;
• Adam and Scott use Blubrry PowerPress, a WordPress plugin;
• We also heard that Squarespace now supports podcasting, which the Northern Nerd Network uses for its Nerdcast.

Miscellaneous mentions

• Mack noted that podcasts are coming soon to Google Play, which could break the iTunes stranglehold;
• Scott mentioned PocketCasts as a podcatcher that Hacked has done well on;
• Mack referred to  earbud.fm, NPR’s guide to great podcasts that includes recommendations beyond NPR’s own shows;
• A few of the podcasts mentioned in passing for the strength of their content: The Strategists, Phil Wilson’s Off Menu and Robyn Wilson’s The One;
• As we talked about the future of podcasting, Scott mentioned Gimlet Media, particularly the episode on native advertising.

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Musical credits: Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1 in F Minor, Op. 2 No. 1, played by Daniel Veesey, from freemusicarchive.com.