A couple people asked me about the technical details involved with producing this podcast. I'll try to address that question here. Unfortunately, I don't know very much about audio production, or website creation or content management, so here's the kludge I used to put this thing together.Audio production:Two parts Microphone Audacity I bought a relatively pricey (for me) Chinese microphone. It's feels pretty solid, and I paid 450 yuan for it. I probably paid way more than I ought to have. I plug the microphone into my computer, and I record using Audacity, an open-source audio editing software package. It's simple, and it's easy to use, but it isn't particularly stable.Publishing:Five parts Freewebs.com Flickr.com LiveJournal.com FeedBurner.com Ourmedia.org I used freewebs.com to host the HTML template for the site so that I'd have total control of the look and layout of the page. I'm really not sure what my bandwidth limit is, but all freewebs.com is serving is my index.htm and archive.htm pages. I used Flickr.com to host the images that I embedded in the HTML of the web page (the banner, the background, and the buttons). This reduces the bandwidth I consume on the freewebs.com account. I use LiveJournal for the blog, and the RSS feed it provides. Then I use FeedBurner to make the LiveJournal RSS feed into a Podcast feed. FeedBurner is a free service that takes any RSS feed, and gives you the option to add features to it, as well as generating some statistics on subscribers and stuff. One thing that FeedBurner can do is add enclosures to an RSS feed, turning it into a Podcast. It'll turn the first link to any audio file in an RSS post into an enclosure that Podcatching software, including iTunes 4.9, will use to download the MP3. Finally, I use Ourmedia.org to host the MP3. They'll host any media for free, with unlimited bandwidth, forever. Pretty amazing place, really.So those're the basics of what I do to podcast. Any questions?tek.

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